I was there 47 years ago on the USS Midway. I've detested Iran and considered this unfinished business since. I guess I've been an "Israeli troll" since then.
#73 | Posted by rf4b

But just Imagine.
Imagine how different things would have been for you if you had been on the USS Liberty!

P.S. you still support Republicans even after Reagan sold arms to the Ayatollah. That shows you're not really clear on what's going on. But at least you acknowledge you didn't get here via a logical thought process. As you said, you were there 47 years ago, and it's still the emotions talking, 47 years later.

And rightly so, they were never supposed to verify the voting registration, simply record the ones who registered at the DMV and pass that along to the proper county/state offices.
A very weak argument for NJ to use.

#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds

I agree it's weak. Sounds like more of a State of New Jersey process error than a computer error. I think NJ is saying, the screens should have been in other languages, and the people clicked the wrong thing because their English isn't very good. But that doesn't address how they got registered to vote.

Best thing for the State would be if the vendor was supposed to be determining eligibility status. The State Department can outsource that function, as Florida famously did in 2009 to a Georgia company, to avoid discovery under Florida law.

"when I see photos of the current kitch festooning the Oval Office"

Those are absolutely amazing. Real horrorshow. The Oval Office is completely unrecognizable, as is most of the rest of the White House.
Republicans like it this way.
I will never be able to understand it.

I can explain to myself that it's racism, but I just can't put my mind in a place where racism would matter that much to me. Cutting 25% of government workers because they're blacks and women causes bigger problems than it fixes. Except it doesn't to them. They'll pay 0.5% to 1% in lost GDP to fire a bunch of black women, and make black people die by ending USAID.

It's hard to understand hating a group of people that much and not just nuking them or creating a genetic weapon or something.

I'm saying, for 1% of GDP we could actually be engineering a Final Solution right now.

But equating it to "slavery" is a tough sell
#235 | Posted by eberly

Privately owned slaves aren't equal to state leased slaves, is that what you mean? Equating is a bit of a leap, when slavery is slavery. We're entering Field Workers vs House Slaves territory, and those weren't equal either. Some got taken to France!

Slavery is legal for prisoners. Do you think nothing would change in prisons if we passed a Constitutional Amendment banning all slavery?

The only reason that's a tough sell is because of you. You don't have an appreciation for the pervasive racism in American society. You'd rather watch Frazier reruns.

"couldn't be held accountable"

He technically could have been held accountable, but the President gets an extremely wide berth for actions taken in furtherance of the Office of the President, like bringing some files home for work.

I mean seriously, what are you suggesting is an appropriate penalty here?

But hasn't the Supreme Court since legislated this from the bench? I thought a President couldn't be held accountable for this now. At least that's what Trump's lawyers argued.

How are your own politics not personal to you?

I don't see how that's possible.

The Trust Fund Kid can't explain why he doesn't want America spending $1 to make $1.50.

"the agency's goal is to obtain millions of Americans' medical records from emergency room visits"

That's not a goal.
That's a means to achieve a goal.
The goal is to identify gender crimes, and other thought crimes against the State, like not having your papers in order.

The news here is that Hunter Biden has joined Heritage Foundation!

Wait, it wasn't Hunter Biden allegedly leaving drugs in the White House this time?

One wonders how Matthew Christopher Wingate will be sentenced for possessing drugs which disqualify his possession of a firearm...

TACO Time.

Are you arguing that what he signed didn't hurt the middle class?
#52 | Posted by lfthndthrds

That was thirty years ago.
Are you arguing Trump is fixing any of this harm?
Because you should be able to tell that Trump is making it worse.

That's the same as living on a credit card.
#50 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Not at all. Unless it's a prepaid credit card or a debit card. like the Bank of America card that got my unemployment money during COVID.
What it's like is like living off Social Security checks.

"The Federal money has to come from somewhere -it sure as hell doesn't grow on trees."

Correct. It comes from taxpayers.
And then, it gets given to taxpayers in exchange for goods.
That Federal money is an economic stimulus. It creates jobs and grows the economy.

"Borrow, take money out of one pocket and put it in the other pocket. wash rinse and repeat"

Money doesn't buy money. It doesn't just go from one pocket to the other. Money buys food, and a whole lot of middlemen have to get paid along the way for that to happen.

I mean, just read any economic website you prefer. Or maybe you'd rather remain ignorant, because they'll all tell you that you're wrong. SNAP generates more money than it costs.

The only meaningful example in this economy of
"people simply take and don't give back"
Is the oligarch class.