[rjnwmill]

Let’s all promise to vote for more Soros funded prosecutors!

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Hmmm, if the same standard was applied universally, you must annually file a tax return, would there be anyone left in Portland for the peaceful protests?

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[rjnwmill]

I know nothing about the constitutional framework regarding the census nor how that framework integrates with the electoral college or legislative apportionment.

That doesn’t stop me from having an opinion. If the argument is made that they should be counted and their numbers should be reflected in legislative apportionment and electoral processes what rule is driving the argument for inclusion?

Should anyone anywhere in the world be eligible to be counted in the US census?  Is it instead driven by residency?  If residency, what constitutes residency?  A hotel room taken for a night to facilitate the completion of the census form?  If not one night in each ten year cycle at the local Four Seasons, how many nights make someone eligible to participate in the census?  Would nights in ICE detention facilities meet the standard?  How about criminal incarceration?

The rights and privileges of citizenship seem as though they should accrue to citizens?  The voting franchise, participation in our representative democracy and the voting process designs accommodate citizens living overseas while deliberately excluding the citizens of the host country. How is that appropriate if census participation is driven by some vague residency standard?  Why do our overseas nationals get to participate?

When the nation was formed we didn’t allow British nationals to participate in, or influence our elections.  Nor the Germans. The fact we were at war and they were on the other side is an obvious basis for the restriction. Similarly, the French were excluded even though they fought with us.  All three were in the country fighting and dying.  So how can one justify making simple residency the controlling standard for eligibility now?

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That must make Officer Jackson the second clean, articulate African American man?

Joe, Joe, Joe; can you comment on this when you’re down in basement?  Can your thoughtful and empathetic response be displayed on the teleprompter?

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[rjnwmill]

Thanks for the link. Begs the question Lex, are you still persuaded that the Feds should be hands off?

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Too bad this will get nowhere in the news cycle. We’ll deal with the temporary and ephemeral instead.

No meaningful policy discussion here…in spite of Rubio’s, the Orange One’s and Pompeo’s best efforts.

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[rjnwmill]

TC, I’m done with this thread. I’m sorry I touched a nerve. This election year has been tough on you.

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• “you are providing psychological help to a few followers of Reactionism who are apparently lost in a world of imminent fear of the Apocalypse.”

That’s rich. Am I mistaken?  Weren’t you the one with a heat on for shelter in place?  For keeping the doors closed on all manor of businesses?  Defending the tyranny of unelected local health officers? Tyranny that led to the recently elevated infection rates by the way.  Of masks 24×7?

TC, you’re amusing. There must be an absence of mirrors in your Marin casa?

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This surprises me Roscoe. With your occasional posts with detail As to your dietary practices, I’m surprised you’d let a staff dedicated to minimizing shrinkage in the produce department choose your fruits and vegetables for you.

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I don’t find the revenue share rate proposal to be ridiculous. I may be wrong, but isn’t this near to “market rates”?  Doesn’t the NFLPA get 50%-60% of the total revenue? The schools could reasonably expect some offset for the marginal costs of the tuition, room & board, no?

This is purely speculation on my part, but with the higher broadcast, licensing and merchandise revenues generated by the NFL, I suspect the college coaching staffs are among the most overpaid employees relative to market.

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[rjnwmill]

If Biden goes with Warren, how long will the news cycle question the absence of color as opposed to the Warren resume/qualifications.

Is Geraldine Ferraro part deux exciting?

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Thanks for the link Rocky. Is Barr up to the task?  The record, or lack thereof in the Durham investigation is troubling.

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[quote quote=1392]Bob, I was simply responding to a statement about polarization.[/quote]

So was I Lex.

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Lex, your list seems to be focused on process, on third parties, on communications channels and indirectly to voters.

“Landslide districts, ideological segregation, 24/7 news stations with agendas, the ability to choose “news” through websites that   simply feed your bias.  Social media. Talk radio.   The rise of opinion  journalism.”

My friend, that makes you a significant part of the problem. In my view, the only people responsible for the inefficiency/ineffectiveness/outright criminality/conflict of interest seen in our politics are the practitioners themselves.  A Portland mayor who blames folks who have been in his city for a week for a problem he has failed to address for six months?  A Chicago mayor who uses racist language to dismiss a fact based critique of her absolute failure in limiting gun violence and murder in her impoverished communities…while wearing cowboy hats to pimp for the census?  A NY mayor who paints the streets when criminality/street crime in his city is metastasizing more rapidly than RBG’s cancer?  A chair of the House Intel Committee who has spent three years claiming there was evidence of collusion in plain view.   This is the same fellow who KNEW, from first hand under oath testimony in front of his committee, that no one in the intel infrastructure had any such first hand knowledge.  An idiot Minnesota AG who tries to pull a Shakespeare and suggest the obviously weak political language, “defund the police” be changed to “refund communities”.  Same stupid policy though.

The “root causes” you cite in your effort to explain why our politics are failing are nothing but the tools employed by our professional practitioners.  And I’ll add here, our self enriching practitioners.  Why won’t you blame them?  See Representative Omar’s campaign financing strategies using her hubby as a principal vendor?  You are familiar with the term “skim”?  {Lex, isn’t this a simpler more straight forward explanation for why our politics are broken? Division, animosity and fear drive the money…too easily.}  You have the Senators making portfolio allocation decisions based on DC virus briefings?  All cleared by the Senate, yea, right.  Then there is Hunter Biden clearing a $100k a month…after his old man was specifically and personally briefed about the inappropriateness of Hunter’s activities in Ukraine.  The DoS informed our VP that his son’s activities represent a Houston we have a problem moment, so Joe now claims ignorance.  The kid’s raising money from China as they seek to undermine the competitive advantage of our economy?

And of course businesses are all too quick to play along.  BofA donating a billion to BLM?  Other donations by Walmart, Target, FaceBook?  What is the world does the BLM agenda have to do with underwriting loans or running retail supply chains?

I’ll leave you with a simple question; in the 2020 election cycle, who is the outsider, who is more likely to expose this bs to the disinfecting light of day; Biden or the Orange One?  Start at the top and destroy downward.

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[rjnwmill]

Lex, the source of the polls is less important. I chose that link for one principle reason. The Rasmussen poll is a rolling three day average and that graph presented data from 6+ weeks. Lex, look at the trend over the last several weeks. Does it matter so much whether the Orange One has gone from -13 to -2 as opposed to -16 to -8?

My point remains the same. The narrative linking the Biden candidacy to lawlessness, the destruction of public property, the attacks on historic accomplishments, a closed economy with stagnating unemployment, anarchy and the death of children on the street seems to be taking hold…for now.  Voters can see it for themselves. The trend is obvious to me; they don’t like it much.

Señor Orange has at least one more big bet pushed out on the table…the billions he’s thrown at prefunding the manufacture and distribution of a vaccine.  An absolute game changer attributable exclusively to the Orange administration. No guarantees however. Possibly Solyndra, cash for clunkers, shovel ready jobs; or maybe just what closes the deal in October?

It’s still July though.

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