Unfortunately, there's no constitutional remedy for "one branch refuses to do its job"...

Kick [6] -

Great LBJ quote. Hadn't heard that one in a while, and it's a good one to remember. Just had to say that.

Kick, neilm [7, 8] -

And please remember, that'll only be the first of his trials. Wonder how prison life is treating him? Even in a country club prison, it's got to be a shock from where he was previously...

LizM [9] -

Nope. Anything is possible in US politics, even a Trump second term. But we're way too far away to even think about it yet...

Michale [12] -

Dunno what you're complaining about, that's the view of SCOTUS and the Constitution I've always maintained. It is whatever 5 of them say it is, period. At least for the time being...

As for that McConnell bit you quoted, I think you missed a point. The first nuke I spoke of was Harry Reid getting rid of the filibuster on federal judges. At the time, McConnell decried it to the skies as (as you put it) "horrendously bad" but then when he took control of the Senate, it wasn't just peachy with him, but he went a step further (in other words, doing exactly what you just denounced Dems for doing). The whole Merrick Garland thing happened a lot later... you're mixing your arguments...

I won't say dick if the Dems take the Senate (a BIG if in the here and now) and try the same trick

Hoo boy, I gotta bookmark this comment, so I can remind you of it later!

:-)

C. R. Stucki [18] -

BWAH hah hah! Now THAT was funny!

Plus, I loves me some pedantry about punctuation...

:-)

Don Harris [19] -

Let's reword that a bit:

Really, DH?

Is this what we can expect for the rest of eternity- repeating the same old bullshit with another plug-your-obsession article that you have not probably but definitely written many times over the years?

Your message will only convince those you've already convinced. It ignores the very people that you need to convince- you know those of us that don't believe in one man's monomania.

There! Much better!

ListenWhenYouHear [78] -

Amen.

:-)

Michale [115] -

I've conceded nothing of the sort. The Senate will be an uphill climb, that's for sure, but it's not out of the question. Anything can happen in 4 months, please remember...

Michale [136] -

Sometimes I get unlucky, and the news obliterates the article I just posted. Sometimes, however, I get lucky and the news just makes it all more important.

Got lucky this time around, but certainly can't claim any foresight of what was going to happen...

LizM [168] -

Surely not "beyond hope"! You would indeed be missed if you left, by me at any rate...

:-)

[174] -

Even so, you'd be missed in the comments...

Paula [182] -

I totally get your point about this not being fun. It's serious stuff, no doubt. And it provokes an emotional reaction. I didn't have any problem with your original comment -- scorn and disgrace is not the same thing as violence, which is where I personally draw the line...

"Are we having fun yet?"
-Zippy The Pinhead

LizM [189] -

You're welcome! The meaning changed so much, it was a worthy correction to make...

OK, that's it... I'm gonna go watch Colbert now...

-CW

Liz is right, Paula is completely out of control and you are running a close second..

Pot-kettle :)

What you call "censorship" is nothing more than a plea for some common decency..

She is constantly hounding Paula about language while ignoring your posts where you routinely refer to others as "scumbags."

Pot-kettle :)

Liz may be more vocal than most, but at least she does threaten to DOX commenters and commenters' families..

Freudian slip? Pot-kettle. Do as I say, not as I do. No one has to "dox" your family nor ever claimed they would and would never have need of that; you've taken care of that quite nicely and on multiple occasions ad nauseam. You want to whine to somebody about it? Check your mirror.

It's funny..

When Kennedy makes a decision that you ignorant Democrats (ya'all know who you are) don't like then he is vilified and demonized and attacked and even his manhood is questioned..

Now, now... "common decency." You're hurling out personal insults against posters that go against the rules you invented so you could have people silenced off the board; people will think you're a hypocrite and really don't mind personal insults.

You obviously haven't got a clue what "demonized" means, and I made a joke about Kennedy's hands so obviously you must blow that out of proportion because gaslighting is what you do here.

It's scumbags like those who are the problem here in Weigantia... They should really just leave because they serve no purpose here other than to cause strife..

Yes, Michale... it is totally transparent and everyone "gets it" that your aim is to have posters banned from the board. That ploy is obvious. Get over yourself. Would you like some more cheese with your whine?

Please keep hurling out the personal insults toward other posters and prattling on and on incessantly about hypocrisy while whining endlessly about other posters' lack of "common decency" and promulgating rules for everyone else while you carry on with your regular name calling and obvious gaslighting and trolling BS as usual. :)

When Kennedy was ruling the way Demcorats wanted him to rule, he was the cat's meow.. He was a Dem hero..

When Kennedy makes a decision that you ignorant Democrats (ya'all know who you are) don't like then he is vilified and demonized and attacked and even his manhood is questioned..

It's scumbags like those who are the problem here in Weigantia... They should really just leave because they serve no purpose here other than to cause strife..

yes.. Let there be more political discussion and less gross and perverse attacks..

Liz is right, Paula is completely out of control and you are running a close second..

Weigantia has always been a spirited and lively place..

You and Paula and your kind has made it mean and nasty..

What you call "censorship" is nothing more than a plea for some common decency..

Liz may be more vocal than most, but at least she doesn't threaten to DOX commenters and commenters' families..

[Editor's note: The above comment has been edited by request of the original poster. "Does" was changed to "doesn't" (in bold, above) which changes the meaning of the entire sentence.]

Yep!

Kick: Thanks for all the kind remarks!

You're welcome.

As for Justice Kennedy? Gloves.Are.Off.

I would wager that Mr. Kennedy has very tiny hands. Of course, I am joking.

My country is under siege and that bastard said to the Nazis coming over the border: "Let me help you".

Yes, ma'am... as well as the communists who as we speak endeavor to destroy our democracy.

And, you know? Sometimes for people in key places, one act of treachery overwhelms everything else they've ever done. That's the price you pay when you hold positions of great power and take actions that have immense consequences. That's why people (Americans anyway) have heard of Benedict Arnold.

Yes, ma'am, and it's for an equally heinous reason that I have and will always refer to Donald J. Trump as "Benedict Donald." Stay tuned.

She can easily skip your posts rather than constantly and incessantly attempt to censor you. Michale goads and gaslights her to censor the posters he doesn't like, and she obliges him and enables his gaslighting and attempts to control the dialogue. He doesn't really wish to discuss issues; he wishes to gaslight and troll the entire board as well as individual posters. Is it any wonder people leave this board on a regular basis when Michale won't allow them to dialogue? It's an issue of "control;" otherwise there wouldn't be the constant prattling on and on about having the "upper hand" and "letting them win."

It's not a contest; it's a political chat board. Let there be more political speech and less gaslighting and attempts to thwart everyone's attempts at political dialogue. Sheesh!

Just my 2 cents... okay, maybe 2-1/2 cents. :)

It appears from my perspective that Liz is not suggesting censorship, but is suggesting self-censorship, self-control or something that is a little of both.

Censorship, self-censorship... you're making my point, Don.

It could be that the tone of Paula's comments are tiring for Liz.

I would wager that if Liz is able to read the contents of a post she is equally able to read the name of the poster that is conveniently located in the top left-hand corner of every comment box and move on.

If she is unable to restrain her eyes, then there is always the Tamper Monkey device of Charles Brown Esquire that will easily perform the task for her and... le voila... problem solved.

Of course, she is also free to continue her attempts at censorship regarding political issues, but I obviously wish she would cease in her constant and repetitive attempts to censor Paula's views in that regard because I enjoy them immensely. :)

Liz: Buy more smelling salts. Block me if it makes you feel better - my life is definitely better since I re-blocked the M-troll.

Or whatever. But your tut tutting to me is exactly as effective as your pleas to the M-Troll to play nice.

As for making this a more fun place -- I get it. But I'm watching my country descend into fascism and it isn't FUN. Bring that up again AFTER the criminal-in-chief is gone - if we survive until then. Then we can have a courteous discussion about "common decency" - which has been abandoned by the GOP and DT and their barbaric followers.

As for Justice Kennedy? Gloves.Are.Off. My country is under siege and that bastard said to the Nazis coming over the border: "Let me help you". And, you know? Sometimes for people in key places, one act of treachery overwhelms everything else they've ever done. That's the price you pay when you hold positions of great power and take actions that have immense consequences. That's why people (Americans anyway) have heard of Benedict Arnold.

GOOD GOD KICK - IT WAS PAULA WHO SAID THAT ABOUT JUSTICE KENNEDY!!!

Of course it was, but then you repeated it multiple times... and repeated it and repeated it and repeated it... thus making it a hard sell if you wished to convey that you had a problem with using it.

As an aside... there's really no need to shout your responses because "common decency."

Did you miss my point that if "muscular debate" was actually your issue, that rather than trying to censor her for the 1000th time, you could have chosen to respond to her issue in the manner that Russ did?

I'M DONE WITH YOU.

Oh, good. Could you possibly extend that same courtesy to Paula and cease and desist in your repeated efforts to censor her? She is correct that it's tiring. Allow yourself to stop doing it, please.

I hope you can recognize common human decency when you see it ... and when you don't.

I'M DONE WITH YOU.

Let me spell it out ... referring to a supreme court justice - or, anyone for that matter - when wishing scorn on the rest of his disgraceful life is the opposite of human decency.

So you wish to expunge comments regarding a United States Supreme Court Justice that do not meet with your definition of "human decency"?

Well then I rest my case... your issue is censorship. :)

One can voice their concerns about the actions of Justice Kennedy without wishing him scorn for the rest of his disgraceful life.

I'm not sure I would agree with your characterization above that Mr. Kennedy's life has been "disgraceful" so I have two choices. I can either attempt to censor your language or have a muscular debate regarding your comment like Russ chose to do.

So which one is it that you prefer to do and have chosen to do so unabated for years wherein Paula is concerned?

Comments like that don't belong anywhere but, certainly not here.

So I will say again, you wish to censor Paula's comments, while I enjoy them immensely and wish you to stop trying to censor her. Case closed.

One can voice their concerns about the actions of Justice Kennedy without wishing him scorn for the rest of his disgraceful life.

Comments like that don't belong anywhere but, certainly not here.

Do you understand what I mean when I say common decency?

Did you understand what I meant when I said your posts are not really all that complicated?

I don't mean move on from this thought-provoking blog and Chris's excellent pieces, just from most of the comments.

Can't get rid of me that easily. :)

Not censorship, Kick ... just common decency.

Is it common decency, though, Elizabeth?

UNLESS HE's DYING: Anthony Kennedy deserts America - hands it off to the traitors. May he go down in ignominy; may he be scorned for what's left of his disgraceful life.

Although I certainly have no intentions of revealing my identity, I will happily divulge that I am not Anthony Kennedy, and I would wager that there is no other poster here who is... in fact... Anthony Kennedy.

So how would that not be censorship to allow Paula to post regarding the aforementioned Mr. Kennedy? May he rest in peace... oh, wait... he's not dead... he only retired. :)

Don't do that, Liz..

Don't let them win...

I am trying to make this a fun and better place to be - for an intelligent exchange of ideas and for a muscular debate on the issues.

Censorship regarding opinions that pertain to extremely current events is a surefire way to discourage muscular debate on this issues. For instance, Russ saw what Paula wrote and replied back with his opinion. I enjoyed it.

All of which can happen without asinine name-calling or calling a supreme court justice's life disgraceful.

If you believe a supreme court justice's life is disgraceful, then voicing that opinion can lead to muscular debate... could it not? You must allow people to vent and move on.

Why don't the both of you try to work with me on this?

I cannot speak for Paula, but I will say I enjoy reading her posts regarding political issues and do not wish to see her posts constantly censored by you. She has a unique way with words that I would not wish to see expunged and/or censored in order to appeal and/or cater to the tender sensibilities of others. :)

You are as much part of the problem here as any of us and you seem to relish in trying to make things harder than they need to be. :(

You have your opinion that you do not miss the point, I have my opinion that you often do.

Well, I'll let you in on a little secret, Don (and this one really is a secret... up until now). I actually agree with about 90% of what you post. Seriously. You and I just have a slight difference of opinion on your way of going about what you're doing and/or trying to do.

This is as case of different people drawing different conclusions from looking at the same thing.

Probably less than you know.

But anyone can go back and look at the archives and draw their own conclusion. I am confident that any objective observer would agree with me that you often miss the point, though it may often be just a ploy to avoid addressing the point and not total lack of comprehension.

I am tricky that way, Don. Comes from years of training. :)

Oh!!! Oh!!! I know!!! I know!!!

Because they hate... And they want to ensure that everyone hates as much as they do..

They want to insure that Weigantia is a nothing more than another Left Winger bastion of hate and intolerance and bigotry....

But we won't let that happen... :D

As I suspect is the case with the majority of posters on this board, I don't click on any of your links. Enjoy hunting them up and posting them, though. :)

As usual, you completely miss the point.. It has to be willful with you...

I am not constrained to point out that the only one who misses the points you believe you are making is probably yourself. :)

I am trying to make this a fun and better place to be - for an intelligent exchange of ideas and for a muscular debate on the issues. All of which can happen without asinine name-calling or calling a supreme court justice's life disgraceful.

Why don't the both of you try to work with me on this?

As usual, you completely miss the point.. It has to be willful with you...

https://youtu.be/U_A8bFsBKTs

"Ya gonna cry??? Ya gonna squirt some?? Yea, yea.. yer gonna cry.. Thought so..."

Oh, most definitely..

The way things USED to be in here prior to your arrival...

These boards are archived in their entirety. If you miss the "way things USED to be in here," you are free to go read the archives... you and everyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection. :)

Democrats have been vilified and castigated for advocating and committing acts of violence and harassment against Trump supporters...

Democrats lost in the Texas Gerrymandering case..

Democrats lost in the California abortion cases..

Democrats lost in the Travel Ban case..

Democrats lost in the Union/Dues case...

Seems to me that Democrats have been bitch-slapped to hell and back.. :D

Scratch that.. They HAVEN'T come back yet..

Because President Trump gets ANOTHER SCOTUS pick.... :D

What a beautiful week this has been!!! :D

While you try to deny them to those you disagree with..

More projection from Michale... shocker! :)

Now who was it who promulgated rules for the entire board wherein posters would be banned according to his wishes and then set out to recruit his enabler to come to his aid to enact his list of demands?

Pity the gaslighting and goading not working so much for you around here anymore, iddn't it? :)

When someone is good at something they stick with it!
(Just exercising my first amendment rights) :D

So Don is under the mistaken impression that people are missing his simple little point too?

***** Spew alert. *****

I can't stop laughing. :)

Oh, most definitely..

The way things USED to be in here prior to your arrival...

While you try to deny them to those you disagree with..

She makes me tired.

I suspect she makes a lot of other posters tired also... redundancy will do that; although I for the life of me cannot fathom why she believes it is her duty to police the board. Is there something I missed?

Thanks for missing the point, Kick.

You sure do post that comment a lot, particularly when a poster disagrees with anything you have to say, but I'll let you in on a little secret... and by "little secret," I mean something that's overwhelmingly obvious: The majority of your comments are not generally the least bit complicated.

No offense, but approximately 90% of your posts are seeking to censor other posters, while the other approximately 10% are of the condescending and enabling variety so not at all that difficult to comprehend. :)

Roe V. Wade will go down and a whole bunch of other things they have cued up.

Kennedy was the deciding conservative vote on several things that will be seen, later, as bad. But not always. The next guy will be a 100% Scalia-scumbag.

They will probably overturn elections so that DT can be dictator-for-life. But they'll be "civil" about it and that's what counts.

Kennedy's tombstone will read: He Handed the Country to Traitors.

There are many places across the internet(s) where a disgraceful comment like [97] but, CW.com is most decidedly not one of them.

Well obviously it is because you just read it here.

First Amendment rights, Elizabeth. We are using them while we still have them.

Since the Democrat "Rock Star" has called for violence and harassment against Trump supporters..

How far with Dems go to block GOP Senators from traveling to the Senate to approve Kennedy's replacement???

And BTW, I expect to have to fund my own pension and a large part of my healthcare because your generation ran up huge deficits that me and my kids, and most of the people around here are going to have to pay off.

Amen, brother. DOBA :)

I know!!! I know!!!

Ya'all can start spewage about Russian Collusion!!! :D

THAT will make ya'all feel better.. :D

BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

"Khan... I am laughing at the superior intellect.."
-Admiral James T Kirk

:D

More gaslighting and goading from the trolling wing of Weigantia.

Russ: Oh how cute, you think I consider you an “opponent”! Bless your heart!

I agree with Russ, and I would add that a gaslighting troll is never an "opponent," since they are just looking to gaslight and troll... hence the name "gaslighting troll."

And my comment was that I hoped Karma treated your grandchild better than what you were wishing on immigrant children seeking asylum. If that’s an attack on your grandchild, then quit being a hate-filled bigot. Show kindness, karma pays you back in kindness.

Everyone knows you didn't attack his grandchild, Russ, including the "gaslighting troll." He's just hoping that if he repeats this bullshit enough times that people will believe it. It's a form of gaslighting wherein you play the perpetually aggrieved victim and hope that everyone buys into the bullshit... very much like the Trumpian manta of "fake news" and "no collusion."

While that bullshit might work for Trump with those of lesser minds, obviously, it's not going to work for the trolling types here who have made the incorrect conclusion that the majority on this board shares their level of intellect. :)

https://youtu.be/bohVV_KlSHw

:D

Hi, this is Weigantia-2018...

Welcome...

I said it above and I'll say it again..

When you get PRESCIENT, you don't fool around!!! :D

Republican leaders signaled they would move rapidly to seize the opportunity to create the most conservative court in generations. But with the swing vote on the court at stake and fresh memories of Republicans’ election-year blockade of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Democratic leaders indicated they would resist.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/trump-says-search-for-kennedy-replacement-to-begin-immediately

Yea.. What are they gonna do?? Throw temper tantrums.. :D

CRS - who is going to pay for the deficit that Trump is running up to give tax breaks to the wealthy and companies?

Oh, oh... I know. The guy living in Podunk, Idaho, whining about the price of honey at his local supermarket who doesn't believe in global warming because where he lives he hasn't seen any weather changes in nigh on a decade. *grin*

What do I win for getting this correct?

So cut the BS that this is "their" money - when we are not spending billions on unnecessary planes and tanks and subsidizing big Ag and a whole lot of other industries you can moan about them being taxed to pay for the needs of our country.

Yes, sir, exactly right, and although I would be the first one to extol the virtues of our modern day armory because I never met a tank that I didn't like, those big fancy war toys are decidedly a drain on the budget of America.

Libertarians are so juvenile - they are so smug but have yet to understand even the basics about economics. Go back and join your local High School "Ayn Rand Glee Club for Smug Republicans".

I would wager he doesn't believe those clubs even exist anywhere in the world since there wasn't one at the Podunk, Idaho high school where he graduated somewhere around the mid century mark. :) *grin*

Word is the "Wise Latina" Sotomayer may also retire due to poor health...

That gives President Trump FOUR picks for the SCOTUS!!!

A 7-2 split in favor of the GOP is a very real possibility in President Trump's second term...

I am just giddy with excitement over that. :D

Same logic, Michale.

Not even close.. The onus is on who PICKS the Justice, not on how advises and consents.

And, as I pointed out, there ain't a snowball's chance in hell that the Dems will take the Senate..

So, there is absolutely NO LOGICAL reason to wait..

The new Justice will be sworn in by September...

But, there is a good chance for a rainbow ...

That is addressed in comment #125

Isn't today a GLORIOUS day!?? :D

Well this is very, very important midterm election and the new senate should decide to confirm or not.

Same logic, Michale.

Russ
You just LOVE putting words in people's mouths don't you..

Translation: The poster who regularly invents fake quotes is whining about someone commenting about something he actually posted.

Boo hoo.

Stop confusing me, Michale!

Because THAT was a Presidential Election year and McConnell felt that the NEW President should pick the Justice..

There was NO WAY that McConnell could have predicted that Trump would win, so there is NO WAY you can ascribe nefarious intentions to McConnell...

He honestly believed that the new POTUS should pick the Justice and he fully expected that it would be Hillary..

The fact that it wasn't was a stroke of sheer luck. Nothing more..

I am SURE that, when Trump won, McConnell was like, "I'll be dipped in shit!!!" :D

You confusing me..

The current President WILL pick the SCOTUS nominee...

Very well said.

Thank you for that bit of self-introspection and admission on your part. I suppose it was only a matter of time before you finally opened your eyes and realized the fact that it was Your Orange Worship who was regularly and repeatedly sending mixed messages to the American people and you "clued in" to your reality. :)

Gotta disagree with you there. Kennedy has no obligation to stay on the court any longer than he feels up to doing the job. He was put on the court by Reagan, and has been very conservative in decisions on campaign finance and cases involving corporations. His views on LGBQT issues are actually based on strong conservative values that today’s “conservatives” choose to ignore if it doesn’t effect them directly.

His majority opinion in the Citizen’s United case ignored historical evidence that clearly showed that allowing unlimited money in elections results in wide-spread corruption. Heck, the first law that Citizen’s United overturned was law that was created in direct response to the corruption caused by mine owners buying off every level of Montana’s state government from the early 1900’s!

I thank Kennedy for his many decades of service to our country. While I didn’t agree with him always, I could appreciate the logic in his opinions...except for Citizen’s United!

When he gets prescient, he doesn't fool around!! :D

I haven't seen this much depression since 9 Nov 2016... :D

Your question is not relevant.. McConnell held off on Obama's pick so the Next President could pick the Justice...

If McConnell holds off until after the election, NOTHING will change.. President Trump will pick the nominee and a GOP Senate will advise and consent..

There is absolutely no reason not to advise and consent immediately...

If the Dems had a snowball's chance in hell of taking the Senate, there might be logic to your request..

But the Senate is firmly in GOP hands for the mid-terms. Even CW has conceded as much..

So there is no reason to wait and very good reasons NOT to wait..

My question did not concern who gets to pick a nominee. Of course, the president picks the nominees.

I will await your answer to my question.

Because the Senate doesn't PICK the SCOTUS nominee, the POTUS does...

The POTUS pick won't change...

ustice Kennedy's retirement has just made the midterms this year every bit as important as any presidential election.

True, it's gonna be a real horse race now.. :D

Considering all the divisions and the hatred that is dragging the Dem Party down, the GOP is still going to prevail..

Why shouldn't Mitch McConnell hold off on confirming the next justice of the Supreme Court until after the people have spoken in four months;

Justice Kennedy's retirement has just made the midterms this year every bit as important as any presidential election.

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For starters, abortion rights are more imperiled now than at any time since Roe v. Wade. And there is no reason to think there won't be a rollback of gay rights, either, with Kennedy gone.

Can't argue with this guy's logic...

There are many places across the internet(s) where a disgraceful comment like [97] but, CW.com is most decidedly not one of them.

Think before commenting.

I think, next to 9 Nov 2016, this has been the best day of my civilian life in the last few decades.. :D

How would it not be better if those that would not vote in 2018 participated in One Demand in 2018 instead of wasting their vote by not voting?

What harm would it cause if the citizens that would not vote in 2018 participated in One Demand instead of wasting their vote by not voting?

Well, if they are supposed to vote for only One Demand candidates, it would not be much different. What does One Demand offer that would entice a person who wasn’t motivated to vote in the past to suddenly see the value in casting their vote? Why would any candidate risk their campaign by signing up with One Demand?

You cannot say that something won't succeed because it hasn't succeeded yet if it hasn't been tried yet. It just doesn't make sense, especially when many trends point in the direction of something like this being able to succeed.

You don’t have ANY success. Hell, FAILURES would be a step up from having NOTHING to show. You want attention given to your idea in order to get people involved. You might as well claim that everyone who wrote themselves in as a write-in candidate was actually an One Demand voter... they just didn’t realize they were part of a movement.

What is your tax ID number? Do you have any minutes from your board’s meetings? If I were only to have one demand of a candidate in order for them to gain my support, that they only accept small donations is not going to be that demand! A candidate who is pro-choice, supportive of civil rights for all, and supports focusing on updating our infrastructure, but has a couple of large donors supporting them and won’t sign on with One Demand isn’t going to lose my vote to a candidate that signs up with One Demand but opposes all of those issues I support. That is what you are asking people to do.

You really think the Republicans are going to give you little people what you vote for?

They will keep you in suspense on abortion, and gin up your emotions on brown-skinned people because that is what gets you to trot out and vote for tax cuts for the rich.

Overturning Roe vs. Wade will bring back horror stories from ER and the morgue and be the biggest vote generator for Democrats in decades, while demoralizing the dim fairly quickly when they see their sisters, aunts, daughters and mothers dying from dangerous procedures.

Aren't you the one that goes on and on about how you can't legislate human behavior?

Mind boggling...

We measure inflation using the CPI. Try to keep up.

Your definition moans on about money supply - but we just had three rounds of Q.E. and guess what? No inflation.

You'd think even libertarians could learn a simple lesson like that, but like communists, they have fixed ideas and a bizarre set of expectations about human behavior that we expect from the Glee Club crowd in High School, but is just sad in grown adults.

Really tough week for NeverTrumpers..

And it's only Weds....

Didn't you say that Kennedy/RBG will hold off til AFTER the midterms??? :D

Looks like ya scroo'ed the pooch on THAT prediction..

President Trump get's ANOTHER SCOTUS pick.. :D

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people...

Ahhhh The sweet sound of tolerance, love and respect..

And then Paula bleats out her hatred, intolerance and bigotry...

VACANCY AT SUPREME COURT
KENNEDY STEPS ASIDE
CONTENTIOUS FIGHT LOOMS
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/anthony-kennedy-retiring-from-supreme-court.html

The Democrat Party is TOAST!!!

Say goodbye to Roe v Wade

WOOT!!!!!

Libertarians "have yet to understand even the basics of economics", says the savant who defines the phenomenon of 'inflation' as "rising prices", and then says the cause of the phenomenon is - yep - "rising prices"!!!

But do NOT despair!! You finally got something right when you answered your own question about "Who's gonna pay for the deficit that Trump is running up?"

Based on previous discussions of economic principles, I was seriously worried that you were going to say 'the tooth fairy', but in tthe end you came through with 'The U.S. Taxpayer." Congrats!!!

Oh bullshit...

You only say that when the Democrats have the majority of the blame..

When the Right is at fault, you are ALL about R v D...

Stop being silly Michale - this had nothing to do with D or R - this was about generations - can you grasp that some things are party independent?

Yea, Democrats had NOTHING to do with that, right??

This is exactly why it's impossible to take ANYTHING you say seriously..

Because it's ALL based on NOTHING but Party slavery...

He's concerned that people are insulting Hitler by comparing him to Donald Trump.

;)

The government gives me a lot of things - roads, schools and education for American kids, research grants that keep our technology ahead of the competition, a safety net for the desperate, protection from aggressors, pensions and medical care for seniors, to name just a few. They also spend more money than they take in so, whether any of us like it or not.

I'm guessing you are the recipient of a lot of my tax dollars in the form of social security and medicare - am I right?

Let's see how fast you become a raging democrat if a Libertarian/Republican government decide to keep paying for a bloated military, keep giving subsidies to well connected industries, but know 50% off your pension and put you in subsidence level health care. Who is the real hypocrite here?

And BTW, I expect to have to fund my own pension and a large part of my healthcare because your generation ran up huge deficits that me and my kids, and most of the people around here are going to have to pay off.

Oh how cute, you think I consider you an “opponent”! Bless your heart!

And my comment was that I hoped Karma treated your grandchild better than what you were wishing on immigrant children seeking asylum. If that’s an attack on your grandchild, then quit being a hate-filled bigot. Show kindness, karma pays you back in kindness.

CRS - who is going to pay for the deficit that Trump is running up to give tax breaks to the wealthy and companies?

The U.S. taxpayer - that is who.

So cut the BS that this is "their" money - when we are not spending billions on unnecessary planes and tanks and subsidizing big Ag and a whole lot of other industries you can moan about them being taxed to pay for the needs of our country.

Libertarians are so juvenile - they are so smug but have yet to understand even the basics about economics. Go back and join your local High School "Ayn Rand Glee Club for Smug Republicans".

Re Trump "giving away money", in the form of tax reduction.

Only in Dem/Lib-speak is failing to confiscate part of what a company produces/earns described as "giving them money"!!!

The government does not take 100% of what you earn, but I'm willing to wager serious money that you don't consider the part you are allowed to keep to be a case of "the gov't giving you money", have I got that right?

Well, hard as it may be for you to fathom, those are identical situations. The only difference is your double standard.

You just LOVE putting words in people's mouths don't you..

At least when you are not attacking political opponent's grandchildren...

You obviously took Mad Maxine's words to heart when she said to "push" Trump supporters..

Doesn't say much for your character... Or in this case, lack thereof... :^/