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calimary's JournalThis damn Texas law was doomed - Senate obstruction OR NOT!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
5-3! Even if scalia had been there, and we know how that Neanderthal would have ruled, it would still have failed.
Fair enough, but SHEESH, I'd hope that they at least looked over the issues
before they cast their vote. Rather than "going on their gut" or "following their heart" - look what a mess has resulted! Especially when you have, what? Some three million UK voters petitioning for a do-over by now, because they realized too late what they voted for?
That must be the "Leap Before You Look" crowd...
I'm sorry, JSup, but I don't have much respect, or patience, or sympathy for people who vote with their knee jerks, leaving facts and fact-finding behind until the morning after. Google is everybody's friend. I actually hope they DO get another go at it, although as I understand it, this vote was non-binding. That could be a very wide loophole to drive one of those double-decker buses through.
Welcome to DU, Doodley.
You're right, we CANNOT take anything for granted, even while it's nice to see Hillary's numbers rise above 50% (one of those metrics the media takes more seriously).
But I doubt many of his loyal followers will start doubting him, no matter who in the CON "Establishment" runs away from him. They're angry, loud, and in-yer-face. I'd expect that'd make them cling to him even harder. Just for spite. Cuz they wanna make America whiteIMEANGREAT again. Remember these types? They're the ruffians with anger issues who get themselves riled up at Trump rallies with their "lord and savior" at the microphone, egging them on and yelling "get 'im outta here!" when some objector speaks out. And some of them tend to like to be armed.
There are some truly scary, menacing people over on the Trump side. We've seen plenty of examples already.
Looks like it's supposed to be marketed to the Pentagon.
I mean, who even talks like this in civilian life - "mission-adaptable weapon system" - who says "mission-adaptable" in ordinary life? You hear that at the grocery store? Does the principal at your kids' school (or yours) describe programs that way? Do other commercials for anything from Cialis to toilet paper with the cartoon bears with no butt holes - do they talk that way? This is meant for the military. Including the lingo. No EARTHLY reason why this should be available or viewable in a civilian market. I'm sorry - when I buy anything with attachments, whether it's a screwdriver set or vacuum cleaner, do I even think "oh, I need this - it's 'mission-adaptable'!"? And it's not even marketed with those words. This is MILITARY. It has NO PLACE in the civilian market.
This gun is meant for warfare. For the Seal Team 6 types, operating in hot war zones.
This gun is absolutely positively NOT meant for civilian use!!! CRIMINY - even one of the model's designers has said so! So why can civilians see this? Besides to plant seeds and create a need or desire for it. Playing to the emotions of the gullible and already-paranoid.
That kind of thing will NEVER end well.
Good question, Duckhunter935.
VERY good question.
Sounds like a great idea to me.
I just discovered projectchildsafe.org, myself. I hope various kinds of gun-curbings or gun-mitigation become trends.
This is such a fabulous piece!
I've read it and reread it. It's long, but tremendously well worth it. Sure speaks for me.
Where do you find these?
I went to @realDonaldTrump and all I see are tweets by him.
I have several people who don't do much online - hanging on every "spoon" and "fucknugget"!
Actually, NorthCarolina, many of us did.
I don't claim to speak for anyone other than myself, although I've seen enough anecdotal evidence in my own reading and studying to support this particular reply title, and rather strongly.
I used to enjoy listening to "Brunch with Bernie," every Friday, back when Thom Hartmann's show aired here in L.A., years ago. Thought he was a good egg. But the more I learned about him during this campaign, the more troubled I became.
For me, no one spoke to me, or my concerns - with real meat in the sandwich about HOW actually and realistically to get some of this accomplished - better and louder and more forcefully than Hillary did. I kept thinking about the proverbial "wish sandwich" that the Blues Brothers riffed about, where you have two pieces of bread, and you WISH you had some meat. FOR ME, I found that Bernie's campaign fitted that definition.
I've been a Hillary supporter ever since I first learned about her in 1992. And rather ardently, too. She had me at "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies." Nothing she's done since has deflated that. Quite the contrary - the more I see, hear, read, and learn about her, since then, and throughout this campaign has only reinforced my original instincts about her.
"Vote-rage."
My husband just came up with a new term. Riffing off "road rage" (and "poutrage", too).
Sure describes what happened in Britain, and why Trump & Co. has the following it does.
You vote your rage. Without thinking. Without studying the issues. Without reading anything beforehand. Without bothering to know what you're voting for. All you know is you're mad as hell and wanna lash out. And those manufactured slogans about righteous indignation, that say nothing but sound good, really speak to you.
In other words, you leap before you look. Even though it's long been proven that look-before-you-leap is so much smarter and makes a boatload more sense...
Whaddya think?
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