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[quote quote=1356]I am sorry but the third question is simply uneducated claptrap. If the framers had wanted pure majority democracy we’d have it. some of them believed in it, hell, its a reasonable thing to believe in. They decided on what we have for obvious reasons. Now had the framers known that we would have an election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump its safe to say we would probably all be singing hail to the king.[/quote]
The question is “Uneducated claptrap” eh?
You sling the high hard one when you don’t even understand the question. If someone is questioning the electoral college, they are usually advocating for direct democracy, which isn’t what the framers built or intended to build. So, My friend, why would posing that question be “uneducated claptrap?”
It usually smokes out the ignorance in the room.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1357]is it ok to be more insulting than that and refer to him the douche bag in chief? who cares.[/quote]
What if I care you insensitive lout?
What does everybody have against douche bags?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1348]
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Do you believe that, if California had 99 percent of the country’s population, that California should be able to make laws for the rest of the country?
Of course, because effectively there would be no “rest of the country”. Dirt doesn’t get a vote. All those maps showing some huge swath of red states are highly misleading.[/quote]
Dirt doesn’t get a vote, I agree.
But states do. And a state isn’t its population.
The framers were smart.
Should we abolish statehood?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Maybe people are actually waking up. I doubt it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1322]Obama likes it. Strip club capital of the world. Can’t pump your own gas. I’ve only known one person from Portland and she murdered her husband. She was really nice when I knew her. I did know a guy who moved to Portland and I’m told he went insane. I don’t want anything to do with anyone from Portland.[/quote]
Well, that sorts it for me!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1316]Ps: Lex, did you catch DiBlasios’s recent “solution” yesterday? The good people of BedSty must and will “take back the street corners”? Tell me, are you partial to vigilante justice…let’s the Mayor redirect that billion to his wife’s visions; or how about an asymmetrical response on the street corner; only the bad guys are armed[/quote]
Let the good mayor go stand on the street corner. This is a guy whose security detail could rival that of the president.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)If the SEC delays football, it will be the most significant sign of the apocalypse.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I hope that the documentaries start hitting the streaming world right around October showing all the city damage done by these peaceful protesters.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s a lot of not sure ones. I bet trump gets those.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1287]If That Man(Sorry Sir Winston) could have saved only one life by wearing a mask early it would have been worth it. Perhaps that life was the one of my SI classmate who passed away last week. How tough is it to wear a mask?[/quote]
The old “if it saves one life” trope. Careful with where that logic leads. It can get really nasty really quick.
If it saves one life to Terry stop every car in Oakland once a month, would it be worth it?
Imagine how many lives trump has saved by tamping down illegal border crossings. Those coyotes just leave their dead behind, don’t they???
Oh; you are saying that trump only needs to take a token action to save lives with his mask? Ok then. Obama was (is?) a smoker. How many people did he kill?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Buy guns when nobody else is. Guns rarely depreciate much unless you wear them out or store them poorly. Ammo can last decades or longer if you don’t do anything stupid like leave it out in the rain. And, both are relatively liquid, and especially so during times like today.
In other words, you probably get about the same yield on stored guns and ammo as you get on your savings account these days, and you have optionality.
I suspect that some of the panic buying is because Biden is likely to win the presidency. Obama sold more guns than any president in history, and the left claims he didn’t intend to do anything to gun rights.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1282]
I Try not to criticize when a politician does the right thing,.. he also wore a mask this week end. Let’s give him shit about that.
When a child makes pee pee in the toilet for the first time everyone cheers. So yeah, I guess better late than never. But it would have been nice if he had done it before 135,000 Americans died. And I’d bet money he will soon revert to his usual behavior. I suspect someone just finally told him he couldn’t come in without a mask. I guess we’ll find out at his next super-spreader event (rally).[/quote]
Your post drifted a bit, but it begs the question: Do you really believe that Trump is somehow “responsible” for 135,000 people dying? Put in other words, do you believe that Trump has enabled the deaths of 135,000 people? Your post implies it, and you aren’t alone.
Trump is the flea on the elephant, just like Fauci and pretty much any expert. The only thing Trump has to deal with is the burden of leadership, which doesn’t seem to apply to his Democrat brethren at the state level, even when far, far more egregious POLICY decisions have directly resulted in deaths.
Instead, Trump isn’t “saying” the right things. What else is new?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Joe Biden has the easiest track to presidential election since Washington.
Trump tried to have it both ways on DACA and sorely misplayed it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1227]The movie to which I had been most looking forward. On Apple TV exclusively today. I actually bought a Firestick to see it. We’ll see.[/quote]
Silly side question: Does Amazon Fire Stick allow access to Apple TV?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Policy for data collection would be nice.
I have noticed that the case monitoring sites often adjust for these kinds of updates, though. So I don’t think all is lost.
The data issue requires a longer attention span than our twitter generation can handle. You have to be able to understand the Data limitations due to collection styles and also due to testing rates, etc. a case today is nothing like a case in March. It’s apples and oranges.
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