Recent content by spat

But, the federal government doesn't *need* to balance a budget. In fact they *never* balance a budget. There is zero reason for them to be able to pass a law without also funding it at the same time. And that would eliminate all this bullshit where they manage to hold one vote on the whole...

They need a constitutional ammendment to end this bullshit. Every bill should have to authorize all of it's own spending. Not separate votes for a budget to pay for things that they already voted to happen. Vote for a new whisawhatsit for the poor people in wherethehellistan ? Then that bill...

From what I read all he gave them was a promise to vote on the subsidies at a later time. Which is kind of silly, this whole shutdown has been a vote on the subsidies. If they had the votes for them, there wouldn't have been a shutdown.

I'm sure your tour of Martha's Vineyard would be similar. But, actually *living* in London, you'd be lucky not to be a young native woman. 24 rapes a day in London. 730 for a year in NYC, 8800 for London. But, I'm sure Mandami will work hard for equality there.

We could be as close as 5 to 10 years from where they are. 2 bad election cycles and we are cooked. We *are* that close.

The same reason white people fought to end slavery. Because it's the right thing to do, regardless of whether it's in your best interests. Integrity isn't doing the right thing because it helps you out. Integrity is doing the right thing even though it *isn't* in your best interest. Also...

Any place they draw the line is going to be arbitrary. Wheels were a modern discovery for half the world just a few hundred years ago. And we went from horse and buggy to airplanes within just a couple decades a bit over 100 years ago, so a lot of their technology is already more advanced than...

Liberals want to make the lives of the poor as easy as possible. Conservatives want to make as many of the poor into middle class as possible. That's because liberals see the poor as pets to be cared for, because liberals are elitist snobs, even if they themselves are barely middle class. And...

They've got a playbook, and they've been running it like clockwork for decades. It's not hidden, they're quite open about it. Long march through the institutions - Wikipedia Long march through the institutions - Wikipedia

Divide and conquer. Without the engineered divides we would have thrown the bums out a long time ago.

A justice system should be deterministic. The same facts should always lead to the same conclusion. Now, that's an ideal system the real world can never measure up to, but that should be the goal. When the result depends heavily on which judges, prosecutors, and lawyers are involved, then you...

Judges following the law don't need to be held accountable, they just need to be given better laws. But there *are* many judges that are twisting the law to serve their personal prejudices. There are plenty of Boasberg and Merchans out there. There's also a lot of prosecutors that need to be...

They need something more extreme. Those places either went down hill slowly, or have been a shithole so long that people just think "that's just the way it is". Sort of like the border. The democrats kept saying "this is as secure as it can reasonably get" until Trump dropped illegal...

Republicans should work hard to help him enact his policies. It's going to suck what happens to NYC, but a fresh example needs to be made.