Social media really changed the playing field. It is much easier to inundate people with messaging and such that will fool a much greater part of the population. Yet the system hasn’t adjusted.

I agree that “wisdom cannot flourish when we indulge foolishness.” So we need to change the system so that it does not indulge foolishness.

Very right wing of you to have no sympathy for people born less intelligent than you. Fools should not be blamed. A system that allows fools to be swayed and to be the deciding factor is where the blame should go.

My understanding is that the washington law has an exemption for troops activated by the president or something. So it is mostly toothless. But it is symbolic. And in this case that is worth something.

I duuno. Washington passed that bill making it illegal for troops ftom other states to enter washington. The intent there is pretty clear. Noone got arrested.

And it isn’t about the reality of the number of guns. It’s about the news that the state did the thing. Maybe it only results in 5 more guns being bought. But if the perception is that the civilians are armed and intend to defend, that acts as the deterrent.

Yes, this is. Real example of bad regulations that shouldn’t exist.

They aren’t really trying to hide their failings with anything more than words. They don’t really care what anyone thinks of their performance. And most believe any mistakes are the cost of progress. Besides, if they could orchestrate a crisis that doesn’t obviously come from their own actions, they wouldn’t be failing as much.

I bet John Stewart will.

He does know what he is doing. He just doesn’t care about anyone else. And he is basing his opinion that what he is doing will work out simply because everything else he has done has “worked out” to get him where he is. In the narrow scope of just him, his thought process is almost rational. But the world is bigger than him, even if he doesn’t want to believe it.

While I was inclined to disagree, this legal thingy seems to support that. https://govt.westlaw.com/wciji/Document/Iefa67921e10d11daade1ae871d9b2cbe?originationContext=document&transitionType=StatuteNavigator&needToInjectTerms=False&viewType=FullText&contextData=(sc.Default)

I think premeditated in the legal sense means planned. So they would probably have to prove he intentionally went to the protest vs happened to be going that way. And they would probably have to prove he doesn’t drive around with that weapon all the time. But I am not a lawyer.

Okay, so the line about them being well known behind the bar seems odd to me if this was a holiday getaway. Is that implying that they vacationed there very often or something? In the US a comment like that would be reserved for people who live there.

My thought are that the US is alienating more and more countries everyday. And maybe other countries may become less willing to aid US persecution of it’s own people, and less afraid of US sanctions if the US is already making trading with the US pointless. So my thinking was maybe international investment companies might have some amount of insulation. But I don’t really know a lot about how the money works behind the scenes.

Yeah, I don’t intend to flee easily. But my family is special… if they start targeting people like us, I may feel I have to flee to keep my kids safe. I wouldn’t want to cash out of the market, just maybe change who is managing it to protect it from the US gov if they come after us.

Maybe the pentegon inspector general is just looking to get fired so he can sue the gov next administration for a big payday.

More than free, easily accessible. I would argue access is probably more important. And with better access to getting an id should be better access to government assistance for people who need it. But I know… I must be a dirty socialist or something. Cause empathy is our greatest weakness.

Doesn’t matter what you do, Republicans will claim some BS and their voters will believe it. Let’s just do things because it is the right thing to do.

Yes and no. The issue is really with the difficulty and time it takes to get these ids. Not to mention the expense. The poorer a person is, the less likely they are to have the correct id. And make no mistake, the Republicans know this, and they know that poor people favor democrats. Same with mail in voters. So their effort to make this rule is not one of common sense, but stratrgic value. They are just trying to put up obstacles that making voting hardrr for people who don’t vote from them.

And really, what should be addressed is the difficulty of getting id. But noone wants to pay for that. This causes some people to have to travel significant distances on our meager public transit system which can take many hours to go 15 miles. And again, the poorer a person is, the less likely they are to have a car to drive, or the money to uber, or the time away from work to get to these places and even attempt to get the id.

https://www.voteriders.org/analysis-millions-lack-voter-id/

This may be our time.

People keep saying his administration ignores the courts completely. But this is another case where they chose not to openly defy the courts. They push the line as much as they can, but they seem unwilling to blatantly cross it.