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Old 10-22-2018, 04:57 AM   #1
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"At a time when the entire world is aghast at President Trump’s delay in condemning the Saudi murder of a Washington Post journalist and horrified at his praise in Montana on Thursday of the unprovoked assault on a US journalist by congressman Greg Gianforte, a lawsuit has been filed alleging that president has been acting unconstitutionally in using powers of the federal government to intimidate and stifle the freedom of the press. The lawsuit claims Trump’s actions:
'stifle exercise of the constitutional protections of free speech and a free press. Through retaliatory directives to officials in his Administration and credible public threats to use his government powers against news organizations and journalists… the President has violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.'"
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Old 10-22-2018, 05:10 AM   #2
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"At a time when the entire world is aghast at President Trump’s delay in condemning the Saudi murder of a Washington Post journalist and horrified at his praise in Montana on Thursday of the unprovoked assault on a US journalist by congressman Greg Gianforte, a lawsuit has been filed alleging that president has been acting unconstitutionally in using powers of the federal government to intimidate and stifle the freedom of the press. The lawsuit claims Trump’s actions:
'stifle exercise of the constitutional protections of free speech and a free press. Through retaliatory directives to officials in his Administration and credible public threats to use his government powers against news organizations and journalists… the President has violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.'"
At a time when the entire world is aghast?

I was at two neighborhood parties the other day, and not one person even knew about it.

zeek: definition, "a perpetrator of the sensational and the fake side of news; synonym: a carnival barker."
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Old 10-22-2018, 09:44 AM   #3
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At a time when the entire world is aghast?

I was at two neighborhood parties the other day, and not one person even knew about it.

zeek: definition, "a perpetrator of the sensational and the fake side of news; synonym: a carnival barker."
Pot Kettle. Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! -- Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall! ... sounds like carnival barkers to me.
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Old 10-22-2018, 02:44 PM   #4
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25% of students say they were traumatized by the 2016 election, study says

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Old 10-22-2018, 03:12 PM   #5
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I realized recently that the Dredd Scott decision by the Supreme court is very similar to the Roe v Wade decision.

Both were political attempts by the Supreme court to do an end run around the constitution and legislate laws saying that the Constitution legalized Slavery in every state or legalized abortion in every state. The idea in both cases was to attempt to paper over a divisive issue involving righteousness.

The Dredd Scott decision was probably the fork in the road where the Civil war was inevitable.

Interesting that we are now equally turbulent as then.
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Old 10-22-2018, 08:24 PM   #6
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This will perhaps be more to your liking :

Christian author: Trump is under attack from ‘multidimensional Luciferian advanced beings:

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Old 10-22-2018, 08:46 PM   #7
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I realized recently that the Dredd Scott decision by the Supreme court is very similar to the Roe v Wade decision.

Both were political attempts by the Supreme court to do an end run around the constitution and legislate laws saying that the Constitution legalized Slavery in every state or legalized abortion in every state. The idea in both cases was to attempt to paper over a divisive issue involving righteousness.

The Dredd Scott decision was probably the fork in the road where the Civil war was inevitable.

Interesting that we are now equally turbulent as then.
Excellent point. And judicial activism on the high court is perhaps the single most important consideration for constitutional conservatives.
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Old 10-23-2018, 07:12 AM   #8
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Excellent point. And judicial activism on the high court is perhaps the single most important consideration for constitutional conservatives.
And there will be plenty of it, now that conservatives have majority.
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Old 10-26-2018, 12:10 PM   #9
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Interesting that we are now equally turbulent as then.
Yes, that is exactly where we are. And there is a Kitchen Aid mixer whipping it to a frenzy . . . . the Tweeter-in-chief himself. The official Divider of the United States.

We got what we wanted. Someone who fight for our "god-given rights" at any cost. (I say liitle "g" god because we gave them to ourselves. God wasn't covenentally responsible for giving them.)

And look at what it has cost.

For the first time in my voting life, I am NOT voting a straight GOP ticket. I almost did it in 2016, but did a write-in instead. I might not like everything about the politics of some of the people I will vote for, but I do like their humanity. And some opposition to the direction that the Twit in Chief is taking us.

Several years back, the movie (a comedy) My Fellow Americans followed two ex-presidents. At one point they traded their own lyrics for "Hail to the Chief." They went something like this:
Hail to the Chief
He's the Chief and he needs hailing
I am the Chief
So you better watch your step, you . . . . .
and
Hail to the Chief
If you don't I'l have to kill you
But now there needs to be a new one:
Jail to the Chief
He's a thief and he needs jailing
I know this is not popular with some, but Trump is so absolutely unfit for the job and should be fired at the first possible point in time.

Thanks for the opportunity to rant.
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Old 10-26-2018, 12:24 PM   #10
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Yes, that is exactly where we are. And there is a Kitchen Aid mixer whipping it to a frenzy . . . . the Tweeter-in-chief himself. The official Divider of the United States.
We got what we wanted. Someone who fight for our "god-given rights" at any cost. (I say liitle "g" god because we gave them to ourselves. God wasn't covenentally responsible for giving them.)

And look at what it has cost.

For the first time in my voting life, I am NOT voting a straight GOP ticket. I almost did it in 2016, but did a write-in instead. I might not like everything about the politics of some of the people I will vote for, but I do like their humanity. And some opposition to the direction that the Twit in Chief is taking us.

Several years back, the movie (a comedy) My Fellow Americans followed two ex-presidents. At one point they traded their own lyrics for "Hail to the Chief." They went something like this:
Hail to the Chief
He's the Chief and he needs hailing
I am the Chief
So you better watch your step, you . . . . .
and
Hail to the Chief
If you don't I'l have to kill you
But now there needs to be a new one:
Jail to the Chief
He's a thief and he needs jailing
I know this is not popular with some, but Trump is so absolutely unfit for the job and should be fired at the first possible point in time.

Thanks for the opportunity to rant.
Yo, OBW, just like John McCain, if you wanted some "love" in your life, you did the right thing -- just hate the Trump, and the Lefty's here will love you.

Oh, and do take some time and tell us about that terrible Ted Cruz.
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Old 10-26-2018, 12:41 PM   #11
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Yes, that is exactly where we are. And there is a Kitchen Aid mixer whipping it to a frenzy . . . . the Tweeter-in-chief himself.
Correction : Stoker-in-chief.
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