Wisconsin and Michigan have newly installed Democrats in the Governor's position, which will end the shenanigans that put Trump in the White House.

Because honey badger don't give a shit, Balthy; it just takes what it wants. :)

Primary function is irrelevant..

Wrong. Wrong because the vast majority of people own/travel in automobiles while it is a disproportionately smaller number who own/use firearms yet the numbers are similar.

Dead is dead, whether by gun or by car..

Excluding suicides, 3 times as many people are killed by cars than by guns every year..

"Dead is dead" is what you just said so why exclude suicides? You shouldn't exclude them. The number of people killed by firearms is growing annually while automobile deaths are decreasing and more people travel in them.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/11/18135976/gun-deaths-us-2017-suicide

I am sure the people who have lost loved ones DON'T say to themselves, "If only they had died by a murderer with a car... I would feel SO much better about that..."

That's a stupid thing to say. I'm just saying.

Lovely Arizona. Where else can one go in America and take a stroll over London Bridge? I wouldn't bet against the astronaut either. :)

He could have saved himself the trouble and simply asked..

Of COURSE President Trump is a bigot..

Just like everyone here.. Just like I am..

We're all bigots in one form or another..

For the record, i -believe- based on the body of evidence, he certainly is.

Case in point.. :D

Based on the FACTS I put forth in the newest commentary, it's clear that President Trump is not a racist..

But, as long as you are in the realm of opinion only, that cannot be argued with..

We have gone thru this before.. Me asking you for facts that "prove" President Trump is a racist.

Ya'all gave me the same old BS and I refuted it and ya'all ended up admitting, "OK he is not a racist!! But he IS a bigot!!"

Remember that??

Democrats just love to throw the accusation RACIST around so much, it has become meaningless...

Yea.. You said that in 2016..

How did THAT work out, eh? :D

Just wanted ya to know I wasn’t ignoring your questions. If CW doesn’t have it, i’ll re-type my replies from my computer.

Thanx for the heads up, Russ...

Yea, the NNL filters can be picky.. One of the most common things that trip them is a url that has review DOT com..

I'll be patient and wait.. No need to retype.. :D

Nice try. Sorta like saying Japanese is a nationality. But if you criticize Japanese people for 'being japanese', you're a racist.

Nice try.. Mexican is not a race.. Japanese is not a race..

If Trump had said hispanics or orientals, then you might have a claim to racism..

Even without that bullshit, President Trump was talking about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS, not mexicans..

Did he say that about any non-colored congressmen or women? No. Racist bastard.

So, it's ONLY because of their skin color that it's racist??

So, if you call a black person a moron and you have never called anyone else a moron, does that mean you are racist??

So, your basing your entire argument on the color of a person's skin..

Hmmmm Yunno.. That sounds kinda racist..

Context: he was calling out Cummings at the time.

So??? President Trump calls out a LOT of Congress Critters..

But, because Cummings is black, it HAS to be racist??

So, in other words, just because President Trump says something factually accurate about Cummings (his shithole district) it must be racism because Cummings is black?

In other words, it is you belief that any time someone says ANYTHING negative about a black person, it's racism..

Even if it is factually accurate??

Does that apply BOTH to Democrats AND Republicans??

Or just Republicans???

Silly question.. Of course it's just Republicans..

I did respond to these posts, and hopefully CW has it. I swear It’s always the posts that I really invest time into answering that get snagged. Personally, I suspect that Siri is getting too big for her britches and deleting anything she does not like!

Just wanted ya to know I wasn’t ignoring your questions. If CW doesn’t have it, i’ll re-type my replies from my computer.

-R

Did one of my posts get pulled? Hit “Submit” and it just disappeared.

So, if the guy who posts the gun massacre fantasy convinces law enforcement he was just kidding, or setting the stage for a horror novel, then you would be ok with him owning and/or carrying a gun??

My being OK with it or not being OK with it doesn’t matter or play any part in it...if we are aware that someone is saying or posting things that are red flags for potential acts of violence, we must act or we are negligent when those acts of violence become a reality. If there are no psychological or legal reasons that prevent him from owning a gun, then he can buy one if he wants one.

We're talking about FUTURE crimes...

No! We are talking about trying to prevent FUTURE crimes!

So, you feel that Beto O'Rourke should release his mental health records???

No. If he is cleared by mental health professionals and is not an on going problem, what reason do you have for making private records public?

Those are passages from Beto's online comments when he was part of a hacker group...

1. You didn’t post the comments you are referencing here.

2. Honestly, I am sick of people working as hard as they can to uncover things said 10, 15, 20, 30, 50 years ago and treating those past words —often without benefit of the context in which they were said, as if they were just stated this very minute. How much more dishonest can one be to ignore everything in that person’s life that occurred after those words were said, but instead to act as if those words, and those words alone, define the person’s entire life and who they are?

What's your opinion of Democrats who want to vote for Beto, what with these violent fantasies that Beto put online for posterity....

If the reason they chose to vote for Beto was because he wrote those “violent fantasies”, then I think that is majorly fugged up! But I personally have never met anyone who based their decision on who they will vote for solely on something said or done by the candidate decades earlier.

Thank you for the clarification! I appreciate it.

"the founders intentially(sic)and knowingly set it up to operate exactly as it operated in 2016"

I think you should amend your statement.

Do you really think the Founders agreed on everything that went into original Constitution? If so, why did they squabble so much?* Did they figure circumstances would never change? If so, why did the framers put in provisions to change it.

"If God had meant us to fly, he would have given us tickets."

Even the one where the republicant attorney cited the photo ID law for winning? That one was good.

I don't think that you even looked.

That's okay. We're gonna beat you anyway.

Nice try. Sorta like saying Japanese is a nationality. But if you criticize Japanese people for 'being japanese', you're a racist.

How is that racist when the color of their skin was not relevant?

Did he say that about any non-colored congressmen or women? No. Racist bastard.

calling Baltimore a 'rat infested shithole'

Context: he was calling out Cummings at the time. Ironically, Kushner owns a number of properties there that were specifically cited for being rat infested shitholes, so he gets a double back racist flip for that.

But there have been many other utterances that beat even these. Why do you excuse them? Why not do as the Daily Stormer has done, and just admit that he's a racist? Is it for us?

We don't care.

Funny.. Not a SINGLE one of them panned out...

Funny how that is, eh? :D

I like you, Balthy.. You always make me look good.. :D

Even if Trump did say that (which he didn't) mexican is a nationality, NOT a race..

Ergo, NOT racism..

saying that Congresswomen of color should 'go back to where they came from',

How is that racist when the color of their skin was not relevant?? It's their America hate that was the defining point..

Again.. NOT racism..

and that calling Baltimore a 'rat infested shithole',

Is it not factually accurate??

It's what Bernie Sanders and Elijah Cummings themselves had said..

Again.. NOT racism..

But thank you for proving my point..

There are NO FACTS to support the racism claim so Democrats, being the good little Goebbels followers they are, just keep repeating the lie over and over till it becomes their Truth..

And, as Joe Biden said, "We care for Truth, not FACTS"

In other words, nothing but spin, rumor and innuendo..

And they just fell asleep on the job in 2018??

You can spin it all you like.. Blame phantom Russians and mystical voter suppression..

Anything to avoid acknowledging the FACT that you Democrats put forth a shitty candidate who ran a shitty campaign....

I can't wait til Nov 2020 when it happens ALL over again and ya'all spend the NEXT 4 years crying and whining and stamping yer feet.. :D

Then, you're saying that calling Mexicans rapists and murderers, that saying that Congresswomen of color should 'go back to where they came from', and that calling Baltimore a 'rat infested shithole', and many, many more statements are just the way that he ingratiates himself to those communities?

Strange man...

Compiled from the internet. The source for the Wisconsin attorney that attributed the win for Trump to the new voter ID law is: https://apnews.com/87fabc13bf724009ae68972dce79d189

Look, any way that you spin the numbers for an election, you have to include a big thumb on the scale for local officials. Voter suppression is the way that the right wins. Own it!

Your source for these claims??

Then you have unimpeachable FACTS that have NO OTHER possible conclusion but the 'racist' conclusion...???

"I am all ears.."
-Ross Perot

But there is no Goebbels at work. Only people with their ears open.

*The Detroit News found voting scanning machines at 248 of the city’s 662 precincts — 37 percent — tabulated more ballots than the number of actual voters counted in the poll books.

*In Wisconsin, Ms Clinton received 7 per cent fewer votes in counties that depended on electronic-voting machines compared to countries that used optical scanners and paper ballots, and consequently Ms Clinton may have lost up to 30,000 votes. She lost Wisconsin by 27,000 votes.

*Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel suggested President Donald Trump wouldn’t have won Wisconsin and GOP Sen. Ron Johnson wouldn’t have won re-election in 2016 without the state’s voter ID law.

*In Milwaukee County, which has a large African-American population, sixty thousand fewer votes were cast in 2016 than in 2012. To put it another way, Clinton received forty-three thousand fewer votes in that county than Barack Obama did—a number that is nearly double Trump’s margin of victory in all of Wisconsin.

*Trump won those states by 0.2, 0.7 and 0.8 percentage points, respectively. Those three wins gave him 46 electoral votes.

What are the odds of Trump repeating what Bannon called 'drawing to an inside straight'? Very, very slim. What are the odds of more Russian interference? Somewhat high.

It'll be an interesting election, to be sure.

I have already debunked the claim that President Trump is a racist..

You have not a SINGLE fact that proves your claim..

From the editorial posted at [26] by Mike.

The trouble is, that Hugh Hewitt isn't listening. Trump's racism was always there, from the first time that he came down the escalator. And Hewitt may not see a White Supremacist when he looks at Trump, but plenty of them see themselves reflected in him. Bobby was a long time ago, but Trump is now.

It's simple..

No one on the Left cared when Odumbo didn't promote or help democracy in Iran..

So, why should the Left care when Trump is allegedly doing the same thing in Hong Kong??

Could it be because of the -R after President Trump's name vs the -D after Odumbo's name??

I am not surprised you didn't get it.. One of those inconvenient FACTS you continue to ignore.. :D

Peace Out... :D

a republic is a KIND of democracy, just like a human is a kind of mammal. calling you a mammal isn't incorrect, it's just less specific.

JL

What "shenanigans" would those be??

You mean appealing to more Americans in the state???

JL

Awwwwwwwwwwww righty then.."
-Ace Ventura

In a nutshell...

yes, that is correct.

JL

FoxNews.com alleges there is more to come: "Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender's infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the 'Lolita Express' — even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights...

Clinton's presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including 'Tatiana.' The tricked-out jet earned its Nabokov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls."

Maybe because Clinton's connections to Epstein is 20x that of anyone else..

HEWITT: The party of Robert F. Kennedy is gone

Nevertheless, Kennedy’s speech was a heartfelt, deeply moving appeal for healing and love among fellow citizens. Kennedy, who himself was killed two months later, saw all that had occurred, all that loomed and tried to stop it. Read his speech from that night in Indianapolis. Better yet, listen to it.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hewitt-the-party-of-robert-f-kennedy-is-gone

Sorry not to have written more clearly. My second para, with reference to 'painful stuff' and 'stories like this', etc., is an expansion on my first para. There I say I prefer, in contrast to Chris' optimistic thoughts about a blue wave in purplish states, the very depressing series of articles that came out about two weeks ago in the political press. They laid out a scenario of a Trump electoral college win despite a 5% plurality for the Democratic candidate. That is the writing that I assumed we had to take seriously because it had not been laughed at by any later analysts.
So my comments made no reference to Chris' reportage at all - in effect, I changed the subject. I apologize again for the confusion I may have caused!

Wisconsin and Michigan have newly installed Democrats in the Governor's position, which will end the shenanigans that put Trump in the White House.

Interesting that you didn't mention it...

So far, Trump hasn't even promoted democracy in this country, much less others. Are you setting the bar too high?

"The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-dems-deliver-stunning-warning-to-supreme-court-heal-or-face-restructuring

WOW.. Democrats VS SCOTUS....

Another battle that Democrats will lose and lose BIG....

The president regularly thrashes China over trade policy but has been mostly silent on the growing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/trump-china-hong-kong-protests-1452624

Obama.... Iran..... 'nuff said...

And so it begins.....

What just chaps my ass is that the Left's positions are so situational..

If illegal immigrant criminals voted en mass for the GOP, then Democrats would be making the exact same illegal immigrant criminal arguments that the GOP makes.

If Democrats lost the Vanity Vote but won the election, they would be screaming how awesome the Electoral system is and how wondrous it was that the founding fathers were so prescient..

It's why no one can take anything the Left says at face value...

Because it's SOLELY dependent on the Party agenda..

And remind the few...
When ill of us they speak..
That we are all that stands between..
The monsters and the weak..

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13839e8d10b9303c8d9aee50576e15b15f4844be91d15073a21097a85b780c50.jpg

Where the hell is "Ct"? If it's part of the U.S.A., and you're over 5 yrs old, you should be aware that you don't live in a "democracy".

This country is a REPUBLIC, and the founders intentially and knowingly set it up to operate exactly as it operated in 2016, and I'm betting it ain't real likely to change in the near future.

That fact does not insure that no idiot ever becomes president, but it's the system we're stuck with.

Primary function is irrelevant..

Dead is dead, whether by gun or by car..

Excluding suicides, 3 times as many people are killed by cars than by guns every year..

I am sure the people who have lost loved ones DON'T say to themselves, "If only they had died by a murderer with a car... I would feel SO much better about that..."

I'm just sayin'...

Until we focus on the PERSON who commits these heinous acts and NOT on the tool they chose to use...

Crowd Based Mass Shootings will continue to happen..

The person should be involuntarily committed if they insist that they intend to carry out this sort of fantasy when questioned by law enforcement.

So, if the guy who posts the gun massacre fantasy convinces law enforcement he was just kidding, or setting the stage for a horror novel, then you would be ok with him owning and/or carrying a gun??

A car’s primary function is as a transportation device, not as a weapon. While a court may decide the person should not be allowed to operate or have access to a vehicle, that usually only happens after the person has caused injuries.

Or death..

But we're not talking about closing the barn door after the horse escapes..

We're talking about FUTURE crimes...

They may have their license revoked as an initial precaution. It really all depends on the person’s state of mind. How this all plays out is up to the psychiatrists and psychologists treating this person to determine.

So, you feel that Beto O'Rourke should release his mental health records???

Those are passages from Beto's online comments when he was part of a hacker group...

What's your opinion of Democrats who want to vote for Beto, what with these violent fantasies that Beto put online for posterity...

This one's for you..

The problem is, all of the racially tinged accusations against Officer Wilson were likely false, according to the final analysis by President Obama’s Department of Justice. The report, issued in 2015, found that Officer Wilson’s accounts were corroborated. He’d acted in self-defense. Brown, the report said, had reached into the police vehicle and grabbed Officer Wilson by the neck. And Brown appeared to be lunging toward Officer Wilson when Officer Wilson shot him in self-defense.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/457049-time-to-retire-ferguson-narrative

The problem for Warren is that Biden’s strongest groups are typically the ones who determine the winner of Democratic presidential primaries. Most nominees forge an establishment-friendly coalition of black voters and working-class whites to win. Barack Obama was the exception to the rule, winning Iowa with strong support from college-educated whites, which gave him enormous credibility in the black community to prevail in South Carolina and beyond.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/680785?unlock=V7S6FAQWMVQVAOEO

That doesn't bode well.. :D

Just so we're clear on our wager..

If Biden wins the Dem primary, you and I will both vote for Biden in the General election..

If anyone but Biden wins the Dem primary, you and I will vote for President Trump in the General election...

Do I have that factually accurate??

Sounds like conspiracy-theorizing but it's not. White nationalists have infiltrated lots of places.

And yet,

"Honest to goodness real white nationalists racists in this country? Actually, I think it's not a large number."

The person should be involuntarily committed if they insist that they intend to carry out this sort of fantasy when questioned by law enforcement. This is how our mental healthcare system and our judicial system have chosen to address incidents like the one you have offered.

A car’s primary function is as a transportation device, not as a weapon. While a court may decide the person should not be allowed to operate or have access to a vehicle, that usually only happens after the person has caused injuries. They may have their license revoked as an initial precaution. It really all depends on the person’s state of mind. How this all plays out is up to the psychiatrists and psychologists treating this person to determine.

The rest of the candidates were hopeless. Joe Biden was foggy, Cory Booker was shouty, Kamala Harris was fake, Bill de Blasio was his usual putzy self, Elizabeth Warren was dogmatic, Marianne Williamson was flaky, though stylish, Amy Klobuchar was whiny, Beto O’Rourke wasn’t even there and he was annoying. Just a very unimpressive mob.

Gotta give credit to Beto... He is annoying even when he isn't around!! :D

For Trump haters, the means justify the ends, and everyone knows that removing the president from public life is the only end worth pursuing, no matter how foul the means.

All this from the Party of "love" and "peace" and "respect" and "tolerance"...

:eyeroll:

The president’s detractors have tried for almost three years to break him. Russia didn’t work, Stormy didn’t work. Impeachment won’t work.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/democrats-have-demonized-every-trump-voter-as-a-deplorable/

Personally, I would have liked to have seen THE HUNT.. From what I understand, the "deplorables" fight back and end up massacring all the liberals.. :D

I am sure the movie will be released in some format.. :D

Until then, I have the Schlichter PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC books to fulfill my whimsical thoughts about the Left getting their most well-deserved come-uppence... :D

Changing to a straight popular vote won't democratize the presidency..

It will simply mean that the majority will be able to victimize the minority...

Putting it into a football analogy (since pre-season play has started) it would be as if a team who ALWAYS loses wants to change the rules so that the most running yards wins the game..

Games would always be ZERO-ZERO because no one will worry about scoring. And there won't be any passes because running is the goal.. No need to draft receivers or defensive backs... Players would be drafted soley based on their size.. It would totally change the dynamics of the game..

Would also make the gave very very boring..

We have the system we have, not the system we would want... And, if Democrats started losing the Vanity Vote, all of the sudden they would have the EXACT same arguments the Right has vis a vis the Electoral College.

Funny how that is, eh? :D

Trump's Approval numbers are very Obama-esque.. :D

Yesterday, we were discussing how someone who makes disturbing comments or writings should not be allowed to own a gun..

“As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two … I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third birthday.”

I asked about a person who made comments like this owning a car.

Your thoughts??

I prefer reading painful stuff like this to remind me over and over again: the fact that stories like this could be written, without being laughed off the media stage, shows that our presidential election system is basically broken.

I have read and reread this line trying to determine if you are simply being critical of our electoral system or if you are also being critical of Chris’s writings. What makes this story painful for you to read? Is it the content or is it the construction?

“the fact that stories like this could be written, without being laughed off the media stage,” sounds like a slam against CW’s abilities as a journalist, which I feel is unwarranted — if that was, in fact, how you wanted your words to be taken.

Clarification would be appreciated, thanks!

Not because I want him to win. I prefer reading painful stuff like this to remind me over and over again: the fact that stories like this could be written, without being laughed off the media stage, shows that our presidential election system is basically broken. And the same broken system more or less guarantees that a constitutional amendment to democratize the presidency is impossible.

I sometimes wonder, given America's fundamentally democratic nature, just how large a majority of citizens needs to realize its vote doesn't count before it basically takes to the streets to demand reform of the federal constitution to reflect the urban-suburban realities of present-day political borders and districts, in the face of a Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court that are structurally opposed to any such reform.