Deficit spending has historically worked out well because the US has been able to borrow at a rate lower than inflation, making it actually cheaper to borrow money and pay it off later. The national debt isn’t much of a concern unless we tank our credit and reputation.

So it’s a huge fucking concern.

ReadID verifies identity, not citizenship

It’s almost like incidents without video filmed from multiple people and widely shared online don’t get as much attention as nurses telling a story they were told about an incident we don’t have video of.

It’s really bad, but it’s also entirely understandable that it gets less attention.

Why should I care about someone’s equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?

My car doesn’t become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It’s a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.

Have you listened to the lyrics of “Born in the USA?”

I used to be a gun salesman at a huge destination store. I remember us selling hundreds of guns a day when Clinton was running for President. I’m also a leftist, which was very unusual for a gun salesman.

One time, we had a trans woman come in, and some of the other salesmen started snickering, but I went right up to her. We started talking about what she was looking for, and it turned out she was pretty knowledgeable, as she’d served in the Marines pre-transition. She was looking for a target pistol, and I found a used CZ-75 Shadow in the back and she was super happy with it. We were talking during the background check and checkout process, and she opened up that people had treated her like an outcast at the range and at her church, and I told her about a place I would shoot that was less-Republican, and I even talked to her about the university church I used to work for that had trans people on staff and hosted the annual transgender day of remembrance and told her that there were kind people out there.

Some of the other sales guys spent the whole time snickering, but I didn’t care. My managers were thrilled because I was selling to someone that everyone else was ignoring.

The next week she came in with a few trans friends. They were looking for me because they were interested in getting into shooting but didn’t want to feel judged. There were a few “Chilie’s got some more girlfriends” jokes, but I sold a few more guns.l to people who would end up getting more into the hobby.

Over time, more and more queer people would come in, but I wasn’t always there, or I’d be with another customer, so the other salespeople would end up having to help them, and it started to click that they were just people. Eventually, I got promoted away from the department, and I eventually left the store for a real career, but I got to watch the store become a kind of destination shop for queer folk looking for guns. And more remarkably, I saw some pretty hard-core right wing people open their minds a bit.

I’m not going to claim miracles, but the department probably went from 90% anti-trans to like 40%, which isn’t amazing, but is a huge improvement. I’m still a little proud that I was able to help start that trend, and I still have left-leaning friends ask me gun advice, or ask me to teach them and their kids about firearm safety even if they hate guns.

California’s gun-control culture started with a 1967 law (Mulford Act) designed to outlaw carrying loaded guns. It was specifically written to keep the Black Panthers from patroling their neighborhoods with loaded firearms.

It was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.

She seems like a crazy person that’s also a true believer.

She went to Washington wanting to expose, among other things, a secret child-sex abuse ring involving people at the highest levels of government and society. And lo and behold, there was one, but it was being protected by the people in her own party.

The Negros are and will remain Negros, a nascent human form from the tropics, rudimentary organs on the body of white society. Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.

Yowza

I truly don’t understand that line of reasoning. At all.

Putting aside ideological stances on economic and social structures, how does someone reason that the country being broke makes socialism more achievable?

States arresting all federal authorities for being in the state would be an insurrection, even if it was in response to a bunch of illegal shit from the feds.

That sounds nice, but Trump would (correctly) declare that an insurrection and it would trigger an actual civil war.

I’m not “concerned” or “alarmed” that he may be in poor health.

I’m cautiously hopeful that he may be in poor health.

It’s also worth noting that being in the country illegally is not actually a crime in the US. It’s a civil issue.

The criminal system seeks pnlunishment for a crime against society. The civil system seeks relief from famages, and can take many more forms.

If someone is convicted of a crime and pays a fine or serves their prison sentence, they’ve paid their debt to society and the matter is closed.

If you want to compel someone to do something or cease doing something, you need the civil system. For instance, if someone builds a fence over your property line, you need a civil ruling to force them to remove it.

The same thing goes for the government. Illegal immigration is a civil issue because it’s the only way for the ruling to compel the person to leave.

In a criminal case, a judge can only overturn a guilty verdict.

But a President cannot pardon impeachment cases.

Jury nullification is the real reasons juries exist. Pass all the corrupt laws and appoint all the corrupt justices you want. As long as we still have trial by jury we have a check on power from the citizens.

More specifically, they’re just directives to federal employees. It’s the equivalent of your boss telling you how to do your job.

Voting for a candidate that can’t win is worse than not voting. Third-parties actively harmed the process and used resources that could have been spent preventing this bullshit.

We live in a 2-party system. If you aren’t happy with the Dems, make that displeasure known in the primaries, then vote against the fascists in the general election no matter what. It’s not that fucking complicated.

The people who will be hurt by the release of the Epstein files are people we need to hurt.