The establishment Dems didn’t support Mandami, but he still won in the primaries. You know why? Because people showed up to vote.

The story of American Independence is one of fighting the foot soldiers of one’s oppressor while doing nothing to actually deal with him.

And that’s actually history in general. Hitler didn’t have to answer to the world, and neither will Trump. He’s old and senile. He won. I’ve resigned myself to that.

But what we absolutely need in the aftermath of this insanity is a new round of Nuremberg trials. The world needs to see his minions held to account.

And we need to be harsh. None of this bullshit where low-level thugs are let off. Every ICE agent who participated in illegal raids and assaults should be imprisoned. Every service member who took part in the bombing of schools or sinking of civilian ships should he court-martialed.

And for the most extreme cases - we should be merciless. Officers who took part in the murder of the shipwrecked (literally the example of following an illegal order in the Law of War manuals) should be executed for war crimes.

All you have to do to defeat that is to fucking vote. Bernie lost the Presidential primaries in 2016 ans 2020 because more people voted for Clinton and Biden.

Yeah, there was talk about them rigging the 2016 primary for Clinton with the superdelegates if Bernie was ahead, but it never reached that point because Clinton secured the nomination before the convention.

I teach at a university and I had a ton of students praising Bernie who couldn’t be assed to change their registration to a local address or drive home for a day to vote for him. And then they refused to vote in the general because they were protesting that the person they couldn’t be bothered to vote for didn’t win the nomination.

With Mandami, people voted in the primary, selected a progressive, and then he won in the general election.

Vote in the primaries. That’s the whole trick.

That’s how taxation works, but it doesn’t solve government finance by itself.

The US government has always paid interest on the debt. It’s never missed a payment. That makes it a very stable investment, and until recently it was considered the most stable, predictable investment that could be made.

That also means the US could have stupidly-low interest on its debts. And because the investment is so safe, it also creates a bottom for interest rates. No other investment is safer, so any time the fed rate goes up, all other loan rates go up as well - otherwise investors would just put their money in the US instead of on a home or business loan.

That and other factors result in inflation generally being higher than the interest on loans made to the US, which results in a situation where paying cash up front is actually more expensive than getting a loan and paying with future tax revenue, because future tax revenue grows with inflation that outpaces the interest on the loan.

Federal government deficit spending works because interest is often higher than return on federal bonds, so it’s literally cheaper for the government to go into debt and pay over a long period than to pay cash.

Local government can’t do that, but they do have other tools. The one I deal with the most often is Public Improvement Districts where we’ll cut a deal to waive municipal property tax or the city’s sales tax for like 20 years on a big development in return for the developers building the public infrastructure required to support that development, then transferring it to the City. For really big projects, we may even redirect the tax to the developer, which we actually kinda prefer when that 20-year clock times out and you don’t have business owners and residents suddenly getting new taxes they aren’t used to and freaking ALL the way out.

It’s a deal for the developer because they need that infrastructure anyway, and the only “extra” cost to them is oversizing stuff like wastewater lines beyond what they need, and it’s a deal for the city because those road, water, sidewalk, and wastewater extensions they install with the project end up serving more than just that development.

Yes, but if each district has an executive that can also fire judges it still removes any independence from the judicial branch - completely negating its purpose.

The judicial branhlch’s primary function at a national scale is to protect against the tyranny of the majority, and they can only achieve that if they are not subject to the wrath of elected officials who are upset with rulings they make after appointment.

That changes judges into representatives and completely defeats the entire purpose of the judicial branch and removes judicial independence.

It also changes the country into a confederation. We tried that in 1776 and it didn’t work AT ALL, and then part of the country tried it again in the 1860s, and it lead to a war that resulted in more US deaths than all other US wars combined.

If became effective immediately, by the end of his term Trump would have installed 8 of the 9 justices on the Court, as Sotamayor and Kagan were both first-term Obama appointees.

The last time this was discussed, the idea was to cycle them out every 2 years, starting with the longest-serving (Thomas) through the newest (Jackson).

That would result in no change to the current partisan makeup during Trump’s term. If it were to take effect on January 1, he would get to change out Thomas and Roberts, with the next President getting Alito and Sotamayor in their first term, and Kagan and Gorsuch in their second.

It would actually be ideal to wait until the next President (hopefully a Dem) if the goal was to restore balance, since the first 3 replacements seats were all Republican-appointed.

Though what would actually happen is the Thomas, Alito, and Roberts would all resign and be replaced by new Republicans right before the law took effect so that the longest-remaining terms were all Republican-appointed when the law takes effect.

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18 years is the correct length. It’ the shortest term that prevents a single 2-term President from being able to replace the majority of the Court.

But if Harris had won, Israel would have continued committing genocide!

They traded their independence from the feds in exchange for free used equipment.

Yes, but there also is a legitimate issue related to staffing.

Everyone should be in unions, but unions ARE going to fight this level of automation to the bitter, as it will result in job cuts. In this particular instance, I think if you cut the CRO compensation to 0 they’d still be in trouble against some of these factories that automate almost the entire process.

This is the kind of “machines coming for your jobs” that’s realistic. AI may be a bunch of vaporware, but this stuff is different.

It was a DPMS A-15. He could gave bought a nicer barrel than what comes stock, but I doubt it.

Nobody is a good enough shooter with a cheapo AR to reliably hit an ear at that range. It’s probably a 2-3MOA barrel at 100 meters, so you’re looking at like a 2.5-4" spread with the world’s best marksman and match-grade ammo.

120 meters is easy against a paper target with low stress. Someone making a speech moves their head more than you think.

That being said, I think the poster is saying that it’s an impossible shot f they were aiming for the ear.

However, faking the ear injury would be easy, and shooting a bystander in the audience is a bonus.

He had nephew he had been the legal guardian of he cut contact with when was 19 and Harlan Crowe stopped paying for his tuition.

He’s literally an Uncle Tom.

Honestly, I’d be somewhat relieved if there were a supernatural explanation for how they were tricked into supporting Trump. Because Christ made a very clear list on how people would be judged in Matthew 25 31-46 (“The Judgement of the Nations”)

1. Treatment of the poor

2. Treatment of the sick

3.Treatment of the foreigner

4. Treatment of the imprisoned

This nation isn’t doing great by that measurement.

The antichrist is supposed to trick Christians into supporting him, so that tracks.

He’s also supposed to survive an assassination attempt with a headwound.