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Recall an ES poster once commenting that there are few environments more Darwinian than combat. The things that we're doing? Other people are going to learn from. (Anybody think China isn't studying what's going on?)
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Recall my dad telling me that occasionally the folks who lived outside the bases in Minessota would get irate about all the airmen everywhere, then the base would have a payday where everybody got paid in $2 bills. Not their entire pay. But every serviceman got at least 10 or so of them. The idea was that for the next two weeks, every business in town would see those $2 bills in their cash drawer. And know that they came from the Air Force base.
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While there's certainly validity to the "few bad apples" defense, in some cases I think there's an argument to judging an entire group based on the extremists. My #1 example would be to point out the things that Republicans actually legislate. And which they legislate in every circumstance where they can.
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Although I do also have to say that there's some validity to the argument of "If you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"
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I never said anything remotely close to the horse**** you're trying to attribute to me. What I've done, is to respond to the positions that you have chosen to state. They should be ignored. Because * College students tend to be young. * And "they" (meaning, you have seen cases where at least one person at one of the protests, so lets slap that label on their entire protest) have used a symbol you think they shouldn't. Well, he is Bernie Sanders. I tend not to take him seriously, even when he agrees with me.
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Says the poster who's position is that every protester who's position he doesn't like should be ignored, until he can no longer find reports of one single person at the protest doing something.
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Pretty sure that very few people in here would accuse me of being in the Federalist Society. And the first vote I ever cast, was for Gerald Ford for President. And his pardon of Nixon was one of the reasons why I voted for him. You see, I believe that once Nixon left office, there was a division in the country. With political vengeance seeking. I felt that after years of Congressional investigations, and leaks, and tapes, that the man had been dragged through the public square enough. Yes. I believed that he should have been impeached. And convicted. I believed that his resignation was kind of a "plea bargain". Resign, to avoid an impeachment which he figured he was going to lose. And no, I do not for a minute believe that Nixon appointed Ford with a promise of a future pardon. For one thing, because Nixon would have known that he has no way to hold Ford to such a promise. And because he knew that if he explicitly makes such an offer, it will likely get leaked. I think Ford did it because he believed that ending the circus would allow the country to move on. And I believe that Ford took that action, knowing that it would hurt him. He might have believed that it wouldn't hurt him enough. But he had to know it would come with a political cost. In short, to me, Ford pardoning Nixon is one of the rare cases (that I'm aware of) of a President taking an action for the good of the country, knowing that it will cost him.
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I'm thinking that Joe Biden needs to issue orders. Unclassified orders. Directing Seal Team Six to begin drawing up plans to assassinate Donald Trump, and every single justice on the Supreme Court, on May 15. If, by that date, SCOTUS has not clearly and unambiguously ruled that yes, laws apply to POTUS. Even if said POTUS is using a constitutional power. (For example, the power of "Commander in Chief".)
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Let me guess. The "justification" behind this is that the government should not interfere in labor negotiations between a child, and an employer who has the power to buy the state legislature? You know, the "free market"?
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WP: Trump Media co-founders sue company, alleging a scheme to dilute shares
Larry replied to China's topic in The Tailgate
CNBC: DJT stock plunges 8% as Trump qualifies for 36 million bonus shares -
"Dear Lord, could you please end the Universe, so we can end the thing I voted for, which I've participated in for years, and which I and a few others could have ended at any time simply by voting to do so?"
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WP: Trump Media co-founders sue company, alleging a scheme to dilute shares
Larry replied to China's topic in The Tailgate
He's probably a former FBI agent, and a Navy SEAL, too.