King Heffy Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1 minute ago, The Lock said: You have to understand there's a lot more crime that happens in the states. I've basically heard if you have a motorhome or anything in the states with a Canadian license plate and don't have a gun, you're seriously at risk of getting robbed because they know we don't have that 2nd amendment. Whether that crimes because of guns or not, it's still the situation down there. Removing the 2nd amendment isn't going to fix the problem. It's not going to magically make people without guns. Compounding the problem, many minorities are afraid to call for the cops in an emergency due to the threat that the police pose to their safety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1 minute ago, Sharpshooter said: I want to comment a bunch, but I want you all to figure it out. Good luck! Ooops. Back to hockey threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1 minute ago, King Heffy said: Compounding the problem, many minorities are afraid to call for the cops in an emergency due to the threat that the police pose to their safety. That's absolutely another issue down there, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 40 minutes ago, Alflives said: Who uses firearms to defend their family? This isn’t 1868 Wyoming. No citizen (unless for work or hunting) needs a firearm. The US gun laws (their second amendment) is stupidly archaic. People that live in high crime areas use guns to protect their families. Canada doesn’t have high crime rates, so you really can’t relate to the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Sabrefan1 said: God made all men, Colt made them equal. nvm Edited June 18 by Curmudgeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coho8888 Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 11 hours ago, Alflives said: Hahaha. Cougars in modern downtown cities? How about lock the doors and call 911? The US gun laws are beyond stupid. well if it’s this species of cougar, I guess I would rather surrender 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Warhippy Posted June 18 Popular Post Share Posted June 18 2 hours ago, coho8888 said: well if it’s this species of cougar, I guess I would rather surrender True story. Lost my virginity to a cougar. Everyone at the zoo was horrified 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob Long Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 1 hour ago, SilentSam said: Yea Soros would say that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sabrefan1 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 I've been wondering off and on for a year or so if the Republican party, if they win both Congress and the White House, will do what the Democrats have either tried or threatened to do but couldn't get the party votes to do. Get rid of the Senate filibuster and expand the Supreme Court to 12 justices (one for each region). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spur1 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 20 minutes ago, Sabrefan1 said: I've been wondering off and on for a year or so if the Republican party, if they win both Congress and the White House, will do what the Democrats have either tried or threatened to do but couldn't get the party votes to do. Get rid of the Senate filibuster and expand the Supreme Court to 12 justices (one for each region). Give your head a shake. They might expand the court to 12 but only to stack it more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrefan1 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 2 hours ago, Spur1 said: Give your head a shake. They might expand the court to 12 but only to stack it more. I can shake my head until it falls off, but that won't change the very real possibilities that it very well could happen. That was what a fair number of Democrats were going to do. They didn't like that they slowly lost control of the SCOTUS so they seriously floated the idea of packing the court with their own choices. Now that they've greased the skids and seriously presented the idea, there's a possibility that the Republicans will beat them to it. A 9-3 conservative lean would make the SCOTUS conservative for decades to come. The Democrats were stupid to float both ideas so publicly and darn near even hold a filibuster vote. The only thing that stopped them from changing the filibuster was Manchin and Sinema. There's a reason why judicial nominees these days only need a majority now to be nominated to the bench. There was a time when both parties had to agree on who sat on the bench. The Democrats changed that and then regretted that they changed the rule when they lost control of the Congress and Republicans then proceeded to put a bunch of judges on the bench. I very much doubt that the Republicans will get both houses of Congress and the White House to be able to make the changes to SCOTUS, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSVII Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 (edited) 11 hours ago, Sabrefan1 said: I've been wondering off and on for a year or so if the Republican party, if they win both Congress and the White House, will do what the Democrats have either tried or threatened to do but couldn't get the party votes to do. Get rid of the Senate filibuster and expand the Supreme Court to 12 justices (one for each region). The Republicans will have to be pretty damn confident they won't lose the chamber again to get rid of the filibuster. Stacking the justices though, a bit more iffy. But the Democrats have been shown to back down when it comes to using Republican tactics against them. So I don't doubt the Republicans feel emboldened to do it. Edited June 19 by DSVII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupertKBD Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Solid burn by Peter Strzok on Steve Bannon..... Quote "This is my favorite part on 'Cleanup on Aisle 45,'" Strzok confessed. "When we get to go to a new federal correctional institution that one of the people surrounding [Donald] Trump has been incarcerated at and do a select-reading of the products available. In this case, Danbury FCI, which is where Steve Bannon is headed." First, Strzok found it "shocking" that there was such a "broad and exhaustive list of hair and skin care products" at the prison commissary. "But he hasn't used them up until this point in his life. Why start now? Why start in jail?" he asked. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/steve-bannon-laughed-at-by-legal-experts-listing-items-he-can-buy-in-prison/ar-BB1owER9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0bf7425716704dc089f7ce80dcc1cb3b&ei=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arrogant Worms Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ten-commandments-displayed-classrooms-571a2447906f7bbd5a166d53db005a62 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupertKBD Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Kevin D. Williamson of the Dispatch with some real talk, in regards to Trump's love of tariffs and the idiots/liars who parrot his lies ..... https://thedispatch.com/article/who-pays/ Quote If Donald Trump has a superpower, it is being so brazen and insistent in his stupidity and dishonesty that his lackeys, sycophants, and credulous marks have no choice but to adopt his stupidity and dishonesty as their own. This has happened to Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, to the whole of Fox News, and to countless little old church ladies who want to explain to me how January 6 was a false-flag operation. As heuristics go, that’s a time-saving line in the sand: Either people actually believe it when they repeat Trump’s baloney, in which case they are too stupid for further conversation to be of any value, or they don’t believe it, in which case they are dishonest—and there’s never any point talking to a dishonest person. Meet today’s contestant in “Stupid Or Dishonest?”—Republic National Committee spokeswoman Anna Kelly, who claimed: “The notion that tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers is a lie pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party.” As a specimen of Trumpist baloney, that is just about perfect: It is a lie, it is easily disproved, and it contains a preemptive strike accusing the people who are going to point out that it is a stupid, easily disproved lie of operating in bad faith. Why this nonsense from the RNC right now? Donald Trump has put forward the idiotic suggestion that we should replace the entire federal revenue system with tariffs, which would necessitate tripling the cost (very likely, more than tripling the cost) of imported goods—meaning gasoline, diesel, crude oil, pharmaceuticals, and other leading imports—and inflating the price of domestically produced alternatives to boot. That would mean, for example, that the $320 billion a year or so we spend on imported oil and gas ends up costing U.S. consumers nearly $1 trillion, and our $170 billion annual tab for imported pharmaceuticals would go to a little more than a half-trillion dollars. It is an imbecilic idea, and there’s no particular reason to believe that Trump would seriously pursue it—given that he has rarely seriously pursued substantive policy ideas that would require persuading Congress to act. (You don’t have to work very hard to get a Republican Congress to pass tax cuts.) Recall that Trump accomplished precisely nothing on immigration when his party controlled both houses of Congress, and that’s one of the few issues on which he has been relatively active and ideologically consistent. But while Trump seethes when he sees an illegal immigrant who isn’t working at one of his hotels, tariffs are his great love, a blunt instrument he has admired dating back to the 1980s. Who pays tariffs? Despite what the RNC claims, tariffs are paid directly by U.S. firms and U.S. persons—they are a tax imposed on importers domiciled in the United States, not a tax imposed on foreign manufacturers. “Tax incidence”—the question of who really pays a tax in an economic sense—is a complicated thing in economics. The textbook example is the so-called employer’s share of the payroll tax, which, in most cases, seems to mainly be borne by employees in the form of lower wages. Sales taxes are, in theory, a tax on sellers and not a tax on consumers—but retailers and restaurants and such do you the favor of itemizing the expense on your receipts, lest there be any question of who really pays. Click the link for the full story. The author pulls no punches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4petesake Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Regarding the “Biden appears to freeze” and “Biden appears to wander away” posts in this thread- https://popular.info?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=webbut Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden's mental fitness JUDD LEGUM JUN 17, 2024 This month, Sinclair Broadcast Group has flooded a vast network of local news websites with misleading articles suggesting that President Biden is mentally unfit for office. The articles are based on specious social media posts by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which are then repackaged to resemble news reports. The thinly disguised political attacks are then syndicated to dozens of local news websites owned by Sinclair, where they are given the imprimatur of mainstream media brands, including NBC, ABC, and CBS. For example, on June 10, Biden attended an event on the White House lawn celebrating Juneteenth. The event included a musical performance, and Biden listened with a broad smile but did not dance. The RNC's "research" team posted a clip of Biden on X with the caption, "Why isn't Biden moving?" Hours later, the RNC's post was embedded into an article published by Sinclair's National Desk, with the headline, "Biden appears to freeze, slur words during White House Juneteenth event." On June 13, Sinclair's National Desk published an article headlined, "Biden appears to wander away during G7 summit, escorted back by Italian PM." The article links to a social media post by right-wing polemicist Collin Rugg, who commented on a video clip by RNC Research. Rugg says Biden "appears to start wandering off at the G7 summit and has to be handled back in," describing it as a "clown show." The Trump campaign claimed Biden was "wandering around like a brain-dead zombie." Sinclair, echoing the Trump campaign's political attack, described it as one of "a string of strange incidents for Biden." There was nothing strange about the incident. The G7 leaders watched a skydiving demonstration, with each parachuter carrying a flag for each nation. Biden briefly walks away from the group to give another parachuter a thumbs up. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Biden "was being very polite and went over to talk to all of them individually." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arrogant Worms Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Tennessee city in turmoil after assistant police chief exposed as QAnon believer https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-cop/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arrogant Worms Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Trump VP Hopeful Declares, ‘Under Joe Biden, We’re Actually Living Under a Dictatorship’ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-vp-hopeful-declares-under-joe-biden-were-actually-living-under-a-dictatorship/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Opinion of former Supreme Court law clerk and current law professor: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/something-s-rotten-ex-supreme-court-clerk-goes-public-with-criticism-of-justices/ar-BB1owOnU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=5999046290bb47898c34126bfe181469&ei=15 " Aformer U.S. Supreme Court clerk cast suspicion on the lengthy delay by justices in rendering a decision in Donald Trump's immunity case. The justices agreed Feb. 28 to hear his appeal and scheduled oral arguments for late April, which is a fairly short interval for most cases but considerably longer than it took for the court to hear and then decide his challenge of a Colorado ruling removing him from the presidential primary ballot, which took less than a month, noted law professor Leah Litman in a column for the New York Times. ----------------------------- 7 more paragraphs at link. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupertKBD Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 48 minutes ago, 4petesake said: Regarding the “Biden appears to freeze” and “Biden appears to wander away” posts in this thread- https://popular.info?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=webbut Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden's mental fitness JUDD LEGUM JUN 17, 2024 This month, Sinclair Broadcast Group has flooded a vast network of local news websites with misleading articles suggesting that President Biden is mentally unfit for office. The articles are based on specious social media posts by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which are then repackaged to resemble news reports. The thinly disguised political attacks are then syndicated to dozens of local news websites owned by Sinclair, where they are given the imprimatur of mainstream media brands, including NBC, ABC, and CBS. For example, on June 10, Biden attended an event on the White House lawn celebrating Juneteenth. The event included a musical performance, and Biden listened with a broad smile but did not dance. The RNC's "research" team posted a clip of Biden on X with the caption, "Why isn't Biden moving?" Hours later, the RNC's post was embedded into an article published by Sinclair's National Desk, with the headline, "Biden appears to freeze, slur words during White House Juneteenth event." On June 13, Sinclair's National Desk published an article headlined, "Biden appears to wander away during G7 summit, escorted back by Italian PM." The article links to a social media post by right-wing polemicist Collin Rugg, who commented on a video clip by RNC Research. Rugg says Biden "appears to start wandering off at the G7 summit and has to be handled back in," describing it as a "clown show." The Trump campaign claimed Biden was "wandering around like a brain-dead zombie." Sinclair, echoing the Trump campaign's political attack, described it as one of "a string of strange incidents for Biden." There was nothing strange about the incident. The G7 leaders watched a skydiving demonstration, with each parachuter carrying a flag for each nation. Biden briefly walks away from the group to give another parachuter a thumbs up. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Biden "was being very polite and went over to talk to all of them individually." It's funny, because if you listen to Trump and his cronies, he's "way ahead" in the polls.... Yet they still feel the need to lie and post fake videos.....doesn't strike me as a group with a lot of confidence in their boy..... 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupertKBD Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 12 minutes ago, Gurn said: Opinion of former Supreme Court law clerk and current law professor: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/something-s-rotten-ex-supreme-court-clerk-goes-public-with-criticism-of-justices/ar-BB1owOnU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=5999046290bb47898c34126bfe181469&ei=15 " Aformer U.S. Supreme Court clerk cast suspicion on the lengthy delay by justices in rendering a decision in Donald Trump's immunity case. The justices agreed Feb. 28 to hear his appeal and scheduled oral arguments for late April, which is a fairly short interval for most cases but considerably longer than it took for the court to hear and then decide his challenge of a Colorado ruling removing him from the presidential primary ballot, which took less than a month, noted law professor Leah Litman in a column for the New York Times. ----------------------------- 7 more paragraphs at link. I think it's pretty obvious that certain segments of the US Judiciary have been (and currently are) running interference for Trump, ever since he left office. (Bear in mind that Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to rule on the Trump immunity claim months ago and was refused) Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch will always carry Trump's water. We can only hope that Roberts, ACB and Keg Boy actually GAF about the court's reputation and spike this ridiculous claim.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken. Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 What are the odds the 1st presidential debate actually happens in 8 days?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RupertKBD Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 1 minute ago, Chicken. said: What are the odds the 1st presidential debate actually happens in 8 days?? Depends on whether Obama can catch Sleepy Joe before he wanders off into the woods.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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