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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Must-Read: Catherine Rampell: The economy was a no-show at GOP debate
…talking about the economy…. It’s hard to run against the economy these days…. Despite nearly seven years of stewardship by a supposedly crypto-socialist president, the U.S. economy is looking — dare I say it? — pretty good. For all the alarmist predictions about job-killing Obamacare; job-killing Environmental Protection Agency regulations; job-killing tax hikes; the unaffordable gas prices that would arise from blocking the Keystone XL pipeline; and the runaway hyperinflation crisis that would follow zero interest rates and quantitative easing, the metrics on all these issues are better than almost anyone expected…. The United States looks healthier than just about every other major economy…
Calling someone an extremist and them actually being an extremist are very different things. If I call the FBI on my neighbor claiming he's a radical anti-government extremist because he doesn't like Obama, then they should slap be upside the head for being stupid. If I call the FBI on my neighbor claiming he's an anti-government extremist because I he's always ranting about how the government is evil and is building a bomb in his backyard, I sure hope they come busting down doors.
@Skycobra: Let's put it this way: folks like the Oath Keepers have made it clear that it is their agenda to incite and provoke government retaliation in order to justify their insurrection. Those groups want to preserve American Freedom by threatening to shoot anyone who disagrees with them. That is not how democracy works. They are, in fact, the enemies of our democracy and should be put down like rabid dogs if they do so much as put a finger on the trigger of their weapons.
Garden variety racists like that Trump supporter should be ridiculed and otherwise ignored; there's no point in throwing them in jail. If it came down to it, though, I'd happily swap them for everyone who's imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses.
edited 18th Sep '15 1:24:25 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They actually accepted Global Warming as a reality during the debate, it was weird, they've shifted from denying it to insisting that it's a global thing and as such the US can't do anything alone and should thus be expected to do nothing. That and they insisted the the Democrats want to destroy the economy in the name of preventing global warming, while they would tackle climate change by other means.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranList of extremists attacks
in the US since 9/11, divided between Islamic extremists on one side, and right wing extremists on the other.
List of right wing attacks
and conspiracies to commit attacks from 1995 to now. So, yes, you can be arrested if they catch you planning to commit an attack.
Of course, the problem is "since 9/11". If you include 9/11, the Jihadists 'win' hands down.
One attack does not equal hundreds. If you are talking purely in terms of numbers killed, then sure, but then do you count the hundreds of thousands of retaliatory deaths we inflicted in Iraq and Afghanistan?
And we had our own little war over slavery, in which insurgents killed way more than any foreign attacker could ever dream of.
edited 18th Sep '15 2:09:28 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hey. Rabid dogs are actually pitiable. What a rude remark.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesAdd every LGBT individual beaten or killed for their sexual or gender identity.
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I do pity them. They've lost the idea of what it means to be an American, or, indeed, a human being, in their pathetic, fear-filled existence. Doesn't mean we can let them run around free, though, if they threaten people.
edited 18th Sep '15 2:34:47 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Here's a mind screw for you: The Texas State Department of Public Safety is suing
Attorney General Ken Paxton to stop the release of information over spending for border patrol stuff. Sounds like routine inter-agency scuffle right? Check at the bottom for who is representing the DPS: Attorney General Ken Paxton. what
Democracy, why you ackin' so democray-cray?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Does that really matter to anyone who would vote for a shutdown?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Many of these extremists have already openly threatened to overthrow the lawful U.S. government and institute a new one. Isn't that insurrection?
edited 18th Sep '15 1:14:33 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"