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Region: Libertatem
I think we'd be able to figure out if said identity was Condy, mostly because every post would be a wall of text large enough to accomplish Trump's goal.
Narland, Rateria, Jadentopian Order
Post by Highway Eighty-Eight suppressed by a moderator.
No- Hyder did as well.
The funny thing is that 99% of Antifa are either skinny chicken-necked white boys or obese purple-haired white women
Narland, Muh Roads, Skaveria
One the daughters of a friend (blonde 14 or so ) came to church with edge tinged purple locks. I complimented her on how skillfully done it was. I also mentioned that a female friend in the 80s had a similar style, but more punk. I thought hers (the girl at church) looked much better. For some reason she got a very sad look on her face. :/ Kids these days.
Auxorii, Rateria, Luxemborglo
You tried
Rateria
They're not sending their best
Pevvania, Narland, Auxorii
Man, that made me chuckle. The last thing a rebelious teen wants is to be approved of by authority.
Narland, Auxorii
New poll in Zentari. Come and vote!
Who will be the eventual Nominee for the U.S. Democratic Party?
Rateria
No option for Hillary swooping in like a vulture at the convention?
You telling me Jeb is not going to become dictator for life in 2020?
Zurkerx, Auxorii, Rateria
Please salute
Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
The establishment was robbed of a Jeb Bush vs Hilary Clintion election in 2016. How ever are they going to continue the Two-Party Dynasty, er... em... System, if the rabble keeps throwing monkey wrenches in their machinery?
The GOP Establishment makes empty promises; they do the same as before; things get worse; and "the masses" resolve to vote Democrat next time.
The Democrat Establishment makes empty promises; they do the same as before; things get worse; and "the masses" resolve to vote GOP next time.
Rinse and Repeat.
The cycle continues to the benefit the Two-Party DC Establishment, and all the people are satiated with more bread (welfare state) and more circuses (entertainments).
What could go wrong?
People like Trump are their worst nightmare.
Auxorii
Oh darn, that would have been a good option to add. Didn't think about it. Then again, it's not worth giving her the attention so...
Narland, Rateria
Biden is a creep.
Look at his face. It screams, "I like little girls."
Rateria, Jadentopian Order
Considering that he calls video game developers "little creeps who want to teach kids how to kill", yeah. I agree.
Biden is intersectional. He like little girls of color
I would like to think that my My George Foreman little grill is intersectional but the grooves are all in parallel (they don't intersect).
Rateria
Reminds me of myself in a way lol I've kept my hair long since I was younger and I used to always get a kick out of my relatives telling me to cut it off. I went to a family gathering somewhat recently with my hair down past my shoulders and a few of my older relatives were finally like, "Oh Jaden you grew your hair out more, it looks great that length" and I had to laugh at myself cause I was little disappointed they didn't call me a hippie and tell me I needed haircut! Guess all those years of it finally wore them down.
I love that the Democratic party is so incompetent that they're likely picking Biden. Polls have consistently shown he loses to Trump, but they gotta pick the guy with dementia. They're going to get wrecked so hard with Joe.
Narland, Auxorii, Rateria
I find it utterly hilarious that the Democrats are going to blow their best shot to get rid of trump with the economy crashing and Corona virus panic by sending a clearly demented Biden at Trump
Rateria
You can even go back and find clips from the debates of all the others that endorsed him trashing him. It's like they're scared to win
Auxorii, Rateria
Post by Highway Eighty-Eight suppressed by a moderator.
Biden's been "leading" Trump in the polls for a while, but that lead will probably collapse once the head-to-head campaign starts, assuming Biden is the nominee. There's probably a lot of oppo research left to be dumped on him (the same way the juiciest bits about Hillary were saved until late in the campaign), and he's simply an awful campaigner. Yes he can raise money for other candidates down ballot and has establishment support, but when people are genuinely concerned for your mental health, that's not a good look to have for a potential commander in chief.
Rateria
My only fear is that the coronavirus will tank the US economy. The media loves to fearmonger about things so I'm cautiously optimistic this won't happen, but if it does that would tarnish Trump's most popular policy. At that point he'd have to get creative, but it wouldn't help.
Rateria, Luxemborglo
biden becoming more like the crazy guy who may or may not be your uncle but still shows up to thanksgiving dinner every year
Narland, Rateria, Jadentopian Order, Miri Islands
biden is becoming more like the crazy guy who may or may not be your uncle but still shows up to thanksgiving dinner every year
It wasn't anything personal. It was the 80s and an unregulated technology. Those entrepreneurs were out of the Establishment duopoly reach. They had to be domesticated (made to play their special interest groupie games) or at least put in their place (over-abundantly-regulated). The quickest way to do that is to make it a crises and then sell the answer as smothering legislation.
Rateria
Just got done with a full day of canvassing for my college Libertarian Party affiliate. I met Spike Cohen, Supreme's running-mate! He actually came down and helped us canvass and do on the ground work. Dude is hilarious and awsome to work with.
Narland, Rateria
I am genuinely rooting for Vermin to win the nomination, his twitter is great
Auxorii, Rateria
Vermin Supreme 2020, Vermin Supreme forever
Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
I know I've been very anti-Supreme even very recently, but after listening to him speak and actually meeting Spike, he's in my top two picks. Either him or Jacob Hornberger. I'll be listening to him at the state convention soon so I'll be able to make up my mind then.
Narland, Rateria
I feel very sorry for Biden. Someone should care about him enough to not let him proceed. He needs to strengthen his stamina and acuity, not further debilitate himself on a campaign trail. He is being dangled like an expired grocery carrot in the hot sun at a rabbit warren.
Auxorii, Rateria
It's probably a but late for a Bernie comeback, but I genuinely feel bad for him and his legacy in the coming months. Bernie is going to tear him apart in 1 on 1 debates. Tulsi would too if she was debating.
Narland, Rateria
Bernie is useful to the DC Establishment to keep the radical element docile. The last thing they intend is for the hogs to take over the farmhouse (ala Animal Farm). They will use every trick in the book to keep him a perpetual underdog but never a primary winner.
Gabbard has "bad ideas" like ending perpetual wars, curbing the military industrial complex and total government/bureaucrat transparency. (The only ideas I agree with btw.) The DNC is going to fight like crazy to not let her near a microphone/camera that they juice.
Pevvania, Rateria
I don't know about Bernie. I don't think he's getting the nomination, but I think the movement he's brought up is going past his presidency. Local and state elections are going to be the next focus for the progressives, and they're a hell of a lot easier to win once you primary successfully. I kind of feel like he knew this would happen, and that he just wanted to bring his ideas to the forefront. He's built a very efficient campaign infrastructure, and I don't think it's just going to evaporate.
Narland, Rateria
The Bernie Sanders Town Hall meeting is... something.
Berine: Is $15 / hr ... a radical idea?
Bernie Bros in the audience: No!
Peops sitting in my living room: Yes! It puts low skilled labor out work, making them dependent on tax-payer funded govt hand-outs.
Bernie: Is making public colleges and universities free... a radical idea?
Bernie Bros in the audience: No!
Peops sitting in my living room: Yes! Letting people earn their keep stops it from being a normal societal expectation that people should sponge off of others.
Bernie: Is passing a 'medicare for all single payer system a radical idea?
Bernie Bros in the audience: No!
Peops sitting in my living room: Yes! Taxing $40 Trillion to put everyone into a system worse than the VA is a radical idea.
One of the peops sitting in my living room: Yes it is Bernie, and if we had had SPMC4A, after your stroke you would have been put out to pasture and left to die.
Pevvania, Rateria
I agree.
The New Left of the 60s (the radical progressivists of their time) had become the establishment and are now loosing grip. Funny thing how once they come to power, how reticent they are to further the march to full blown Socialism cum Marxism for themselves, but it is okay to instigate it on everyone else. It is as if they never truly believed. They embraced a monster hoping to control it to their own ends, but it has outgrown its need for them and is spreading beyond their control though American Society.
Yay! Bernie Sanders Town Hall is over. I lost count of the lies, but now I can go back to doing something constructive.
I agree with Sen. Sanders that we have to overturn Citizens United and have publicly funded elections. Get money out of politics.
Jadentopian Order
I partially agree. Citizens United was a horrible decision.
No corporation, foundation, creature of the state, or artificial persons of any kind should ever supplant a natural human being (and that human being's person) in his/her own political self-determination, period.
Money on the other hand, I have less of a problem so long as each of the contenders all have their say and their say is tallied fairly -- unlike what happened to Ron Paul 2012, Bernie Sanders 2016, and is happening to Tulsi Gabbard 2020. It isn't a money issue as much as it is a power/control issue.
Rateria, Jadentopian Order
It looks like FISA may expire do to Congressional ineptitude. Never thought I would say, "Huzzah for ineptitude!" Call your Congressman and thank him/her.
On second thought, don't. They may make a concerted effort reinstate it. Nobody's life, liberty and property are safe when Congress is in session.
Rateria
I can't think of a single European country, even the UK with its own broken healthcare system, that bans private insurance. Bernie's plan does, which is a ridiculous and anti-American idea that goes against the very nature of people as free independent human beings. Even Obama was never that extreme (publicly). And why do people like Medicare so much? For putting the US trillions of dollars in debt?
Narland, Rateria
This is why the Libertarian Party has no credibility
Aglonia
I'm optimistic, we have till November for it to blow over
Pevvania
The Libertarian Party had a great shot in 2016, but they blew it by nominating a joke candidate. Bill Weld had some credibility at the time, but his horrible messaging on assault weapons, Hillary Clinton and more really handicapped their campaign and probably hurt them on election day. Plus their convention was very hard to watch. Not ready from primetime, unfortunately.
Aglonia
I'm not a libertarian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vermin Supreme is the only serious candidate.
Rateria
Galaxy brain levels of woke
Lol I wasn't bashing you, I was just responding to the fact that Vermin Supreme is a top contender for the LP nomination
petition to call covid19 wuhan virus
Petition to call covid19 Kung flu
Auxorii
Petition to call Covid-19 "Escaped Biological Weapon from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences -- a wholly owned subsidiary of The People's Communist Party of China" or EBWWIVCASPCPC for short. We wouldn't want people to panic.
Rateria
Decisions...
Should I stay or should I vote? If I vote should it be GOP, Constitution, or Libertarian?
Trump has the nom in the bag for GOP;
Ah, Libertarians are caucusing this round.. bummer.
Constitution Party needs some help in a British understated sort of way... :(
The best thing about self-government is elections
The worst thing about self-government is elections
Pevvania, Rateria, Aglonia
Vote LP; we need all hands on deck to get to five percent. Once we do that, we'll get federal funding. Not only that, but whoever loses will blame us. Especially if Trump wins again. We'll get the entire media focused on us. We'll get the Trump effect and it'll be game over. Legitimate party
Narland, Rateria
I would like to but they didn't present a ballot for Presidential primary 2020 State of Idaho. I left a message with the local Libertarian group. Most Libertarians are also factions in the local Republican parties. In Boise, one can run locally as a Libertarian and get 10-15% of the vote easily. The hard part of course getting the majority of votes.
Rateria
I love this so much. Vote LP so we can get federal Welfare, so we can state that federal welfare is a bad thing.
Its really the only way to win elections
Rateria
Make sure the vote counting machines are made by corporations loyal to your ideology. Its the Diebold way. :)
Vote Trump. We need a conservative Supreme Court.
Pevvania, Miri Islands
It would be great if Justin Amash would just join and run with the LP. He's basically burned all ties with the Republicans anyway.
Have the justices appoint replacements by unanimous decision. End the democratic reign over the Supreme Court!
How is it a democratic reign? Its literally an appointee of the President who is not democratically elected.
Also the term democratic reign is stupid and its hilarious that you used it unironically.
Instead why don't they just appoint themselves? After all thats what your government would call for
The Justices....are appointing their own replacements though, what?
I responded too, you know
If Ginsburg was replaced by a conservative, that would be absolutely huge. 6-3 conservative majority.
Auxorii, Miri Islands
But Ginsburg is far, far past her prime anyway. Like Biden, she is clearly too old to do her job well, and needs to gracefully retire and spend time with her family.
She just needs to wait till after the election to kick the bucket
I'd be willing to risk gay rights for an overwhelmingly conservative court
I dont think gay rights are at risk at all anymore; I think that matter is settled now.
Miri Islands
Basically this. I don't understand it when LGBT says gay rights are under attack. Are miscegenation rights under attack? No, because people don't care anymore even conservatives have moved on to fighting transgender radicalism
Pevvania
The only thing I dont want a conservative ruling on are things concerning campaign finance.
Jadentopian Order
The money is secondary, the primary function of getting it is gaining traction as a real party. Once you take some government money, the gov will start getting you attacked by the forth collum. Once they do that, especially if they're pissed because they think you caused their candidate to lose, they'll all focus on you. The coverage will be negative, that's fine. We'll get the Trump effect. We'll be so hated, but they'll say our name so often that it'll be billions of dollars of free advertising. Once we lock in some representatives in maybe 2022 or 2024 it'll be game over.
Trump 20!
Pevvania
I was typing and I guess left the page.
So, we currently make our justice system part of our electoral system by having the President appoint the judges. The justices should be the ones in charge of appointing replacement justices.
Then they would be literally unaccountable. Having the president appoint them makes them at least somewhat accountable to the people
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Rateria
The Justice is only meant to be accountable to the Constitution. I would say that perhaps congress may have the power or the states have the power to remove a bad Justice, but they aren't meant to be accountable to the people.
Hello, Im new here
Narland, Rateria
Leave
Ok, sorry
Your system would make them MORE accountable and judges would be subject to political whims of Congress. Any power to remove would be exploited
Nah, stay, we're mostly nice
Rateria
Check out his flag, mate
He's just an edgy boi
Auxorii, Skaveria
There are literally Fascists and Communists in this region, half of us non-ironically support a boogaloo. He's probably just a memey boi, but even if he is a jihadist or something, he's no more radical than a lot of us.
Miencraft, Rateria, Kongeriget Island, Aglonia
Hmmm I guess that is fair.
I think the current system works fine enough, though Supreme Court appointments are an unmistakeably political process, and I don't know why people pretend it's just about finding the best candidate for the job. Presidents have appointed justices that fit their worldview since Washington, and in the 20th Century the Democratic Party and liberal actvists were very successful in shifting the judiciary to the left. It's just that the accepted convention in the Senate until recently was to accept the president's nominee if their personal conduct was relatively clean.
This is an issue the right has only taken seriously in modern times. Republican-appointed justices from Eisenhower to Ford were all pretty unconcerned with ideology, and as it turned out most of them ended up being moderate to liberal. A concerted effort to shift the judiciary to the right occurred during the 1980s, and I really do think we have the Federalist Society to thank for that. Reagan and Bush Jr. deserve a lot of credit for taking their advice and appointing (mostly) good conservatives or Constitutionalists to the benches. Right now, we're on the verge of shifting the balance of the 9th Circuit, the worst bastion of far-left judicial activism in the country.
Narland
Im back, and Ill change my flag, alright mate?
Jihadism is definitely worse than communism and fascism in my opinion.
Also, it doesnt matter whether you support the boogaloo or not. It is inevitable.
Right, mate
The Justice isnt held accountable to the Constitution; the Justices are there in order to interpret the Constitution and whether laws are constitutional. Everyone is held accountable to the Constitution, but there is a system of checks and balances in place. The Judicial, Executive and Legislative all act to check each other so that power is separated amongst the State instead of centralized in a single entity- and in the current system, SCOTUS is already a bit imbalanced when it comes to power. They should have terms.
For you to say that maybe the congress can impeach a Justice- or maybe the States could is the people deciding it. We live in a representative Republic.
Narland, Kongeriget Island
K
Hey so uhm.
Europe though, amirite?
As long as Holmesian/Progressivist Judges subvert the Law by legislating from the bench instead of impartially adjudicating justice, they need to be treated like any other petty legislator -- elected every two years by the People affected within their jurisdictional boundaries.
***Narland opens his closet to peruse the Judge Dredd tm Comic Book Collection and wonders if it just might work. :) ***
Welcome
I want neither Rightist Conservatives nor Leftist Liberals on the the Supreme Court and certainly not anyone espousing any anti-Liberty ideology. I would like all of the judges to be Objective Realist Classical Liberal Constitutional Reformers at the most and Libertarian Objectivists at the least. The damage from the changes that Socialism (from both the right and the left, both overtly and covertly) has done to our justice system in the 20th Century alone is going to be formidable to fix. Federalist Society Judges and Constitutionalist Judges can halt the breakage but not fix it.
Once the wheels of justice in the justice system break to a halt, the Bernie Sanders in our midst are ready to offer the Marxist cure to the Socialist poison their forerunners have infected our Judiciary with.
Pevvania
I would rather local Independent Grand Juries (those that are still independent of the Prosecutor's Office) select the Judges than Justices appointing judges. That smacks of nepotism and sycophancy. The Judicial System is so far away from how our Framers intended that any return to justice (npi) is going to be a fight.
Another egregious assault to our liberties that should be fixed is returning to justices of the peace and removal of magistrate courts modeled on Courts of Admiralty.
I do think that States should have a say in Federal Court appointees. This was the case before the 17 amendment destroyed the balance in our Representative Republic into a more easy to graft & bribe democracy. Either repeal 17 or allow the State Legislatures to have a say in Federal Judge appointee.
As an American whose Citizenship resides in Idaho, there is nothing more infuriating to be told that I must contort my life to the expectations of some effete Californian Judge who is so out of touch with reality that their decisions could not be worse than if the USSR had occupied us.
Auxorii, Rateria
Thanks
I hope you enjoy Libertatem. I did not see your previous flag, but as an unassuming cowboy, the Aussie flag suits me fine.
Rateria
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