Now now now.......we've forgotten about Gitmo holding enemy combatants without due process, waterboarding, Abu Ghraib, unauthorized wiretaps, etc???.......it was the wild wild west, No concern for the rule of law, etc.

This is not good. I'm glad a member of congress grabbing a microphone and helping this journalist.

"it was trolling comprised of strawman garbage"

I know but snoofy is snoofy. He's like 14 years old.

My point is that he used the word "now" when referring to republicans and ignoring the rule of law.

Do you agree with him? It's "now"?

I used those examples to illustrate that it's not "now". And I'll bet your posts from that era were saying the same thing.

I remember over and over and over posts like this....."The US is dead. We are finished, etc." over that stuff.

We're still here.....and we're still electing people like Trump.

-Imagine an Iranian woman saying "Iran is dead" after the Islamic Revolution.

okay but it would be insane to compare waterboarding to the Islamic Revolution.

You're a desperate moron. You're Zed's twin. Dying for attention.

well, I gave you a little.

Now go get a juice box and feel good about yourself

-So apparently you didn't understand what that meant.

America will always break your little heart, snoof.

You're weak. You have no constitution. No stomach.

I'm fine with the well deserved criticism of jailing this journalist. That's not the point.

It's the rants about how this country is finished over it.

the country is strong.

you're not.

-We have met the enemy and it is us.

Don't be so hard on yourself...and snoofy.

-Hugging a flag does not change any of it

agreed. burning it doesn't help either. just sayin....

-And a house divided against itself cannot stand.

you poor thing....

a "house divided" is the hand you've been dealt your entire life.

I realize many of you suffer from amnesia and time starts over when presidents take office....but the world doesn't really work that way.

Even if your little world says otherwise....

"The only person who said any of that stuff in this thread is Eberly."

I'm just reminding of you of your past pants ------- rants.

and Donner shows up right on cue to prove it.

-And a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Perhaps there are some historical events that your public school failed to teach you about....

The civil war? ring a bell?
Vietnam? no?
civil rights?
Prohibition?
Multiple world wars that stretched this country very thin and we made some awful choices?
slavery?

dropping atomic bombs on civilians.....and putting US citizens in internment camps who were from that same country.......learn about that did you?

Oh well....maybe you can research those events and realize how divided our house has been for the past 165 years or so......

But we jailed a US citizen unlawfully.....which is bad and I am firmly against.

But you'll have to forgive my laughing in your pathetic little face over your declaration that America is finished.....

"how bad liberals made you feel that one time?"

you know I didn't feel bad.

Liberals don't make me feel bad....I AM a liberal on most issues. I agree with the liberal position on most issues.

This isn't an argument about liberal vs conservative.

This is about hysterics from children, such as yourself and donner...and zed.

-I don't even go on those kinds of rants.

So, they are rants?

I'm not making them up. You acknowledge they occurred, and they are "rants"?

okay...

-it's Republicans ignoring the law

yep

we've been here before. Hopefully this will be addressed.

"Hurt Feelings Report"

we can call it that if you like.......

"Republicans never believed in the rule of law and now they're not afraid to admit it."

I only disagree with the use of the word "now". It's not now...it's been this way for a long time.

that's it.......

nobody thinks I'm flustered. especially you.

you're just throwing spitwads cause you got nothing else.

You know I'm right. 100% right.

This issue with the journalist is NOT an indication that the GOP NOW doesn't care about admitting their disregard for the rule of law. It's not "now". It's just what the GOP is doing today. They'll do something tomorrow and you'll type "now" again...then again....then again......

You desperately tried to turn that into a defense of it.

wrong. It's an affirmation that I disagree with this action. It's not a defense.

But you're right....time to change my tampon.

And that tampon is YOU.

I'll gladly change it.

"Teetering on the edge" does not mean "finished".

Fair enough. Characterizing those historical events as "teetering on the edge" is 1 way of explaining them, however.

Another is to view it as not teetering on the edge.

I don't want to split hairs over every historical event and how close this country came to ending with each event.

but in the context of those events.......how shaken are you about this journalist being jailed?

are we "teetering on the edge" with it?

-When the President is above the law (or even thinks he is above the law) then there is no law.

reminds me of Watergate, which I didn't include on my list.

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Of course that's the larger point.

But also consider that constitutionally protected rights are violated every single day in this country by law enforcement and the criminal justice system in general.

And it doesn't stop when a democrat occupies the white house.

That's not to minimize what's happened here and I'm glad this is getting the attention it deserves.

-You make it sound like an excuse, instead of a call for reform.

I don't care about a call for reform.

I'd prefer actual reform.