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Bernardo de La Paz

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Lived most of my adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Left a piece of my heart there.

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Investing in education is investing in people. THAT'S how you run government like a business. . . nt

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Mon Oct 14, 2019, 09:33 AM (1 replies)

Barr gave speech day/2 ago claiming less christianism cause of mental illness & drug abuse

Barr said that secular militants, including “so-called progressives,” are mobilized in an “organized destruction” of religion. He vowed that his Justice Department will fight for the “most cherished of all our American liberties: the freedom to live according to our faith.”

Because of the decreasing influence of Judeo-Christian traditions, Barr insisted, “along with the wreckage of the family, we are seeing record levels of depression and mental illness, dispirited young people, soaring suicide rates, increasing numbers of angry and alienated young males, an increase in senseless violence and a deadly drug epidemic.”

(Violent crime has decreased significantly over the past quarter century, according to statistics collected by the federal government.)

The deadly drug epidemic was caused by Republicon-enabled greedy Big Pharma.

Soaring suicide rates are due to intolerable stress put on employees by Republicon-enabled greedy companies: part-time only jobs just under the 30 hour bar, no benefits, wages squeezed, tips taken, and so many tactics.

Young people are dispirited because of Republicon-enabled climate inaction.

The increasing number of angry young males is due to Republicon-oriented talk radio, social media bots, and Faux news.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Sat Oct 12, 2019, 12:27 PM (3 replies)

If every Democrat mentioned by tRump wrote the same reply it would eat at him, Plus it would

Plus it would be exactly the repetitive type of counter-propaganda needed. And it has to be repetitive to get the media and the trumpanzees and everybody mentioning it. The propaganda is repetitive so the counter-propaganda has to be repeated too. Often. Again and again. Redundantly repetitively redundant.

Counter-propaganda works when it is:

* fast
* clear
* true
* targeted at the audience the propaganda targeted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpropaganda

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Wed Oct 9, 2019, 04:36 PM (1 replies)

Yup keep laying facts out as often as they go with fiction. You can't fool all people all the time

The essence of Trump-Republicon propaganda is to repeat thousand of smears against someone. Death by a thousand cuts (they hope).

Eventually people don't like the name but are unable to tell you why.

But facts win out in the end. Be sure they get written just as repeatedly.

Factual stories have bones and hang together.

Lies are self-contradictory.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Sat Oct 5, 2019, 06:36 PM (0 replies)

His base can't tell, they are dumber than a basket of rocks

This is called in “your face.... i’m prez...... you dont scare me”
2 posted on 10/3/2019, 11:02:10 AM by kjam22

“Trump’s comments are likely to further fuel Democratic calls for impeachment.”
Because Democrats are above the law.
3 posted on 10/3/2019, 11:02:19 AM by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

Hahahahaha ... he is driving them to a frenzy. Massive mistakes have alrady been made by the DEMs, and even bigger ones are coming. This is delicious.
4 posted on 10/3/2019, 11:02:59 AM by Cboldt

LOL. What a brass set POTUS has. Brilliant.
5 posted on 10/3/2019, 11:03:09 AM by lodi90

You know damn well there’s a treasure trove of info the WH has where obama was calling on other countries to investigate Republicans, which i’m sure will be released soon.
6 posted on 10/3/2019, 11:03:31 AM by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Thu Oct 3, 2019, 11:43 AM (2 replies)

Sigh. But there WOULD BE a VP. There will not be simultaneous vacancies.

The line of succession is only when everyone above the current designee is out by reason of death, resignation, conviction in the Senate, or incapacity.

There will not be simultaneous vacancies. The Republicon Senate will ensure the timing such that when one position is in peril, the other is securely filled even if that security is only temporary. They will ensure that their party retains control of the office. They will say "But the { sh electoral college sh } voters elected a Republican!"

And tRump and Pence never fly on the same plane.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Thu Oct 3, 2019, 10:05 AM (0 replies)

Mueller was forbidden by Barr from indicting tRump. Fact. Period.

His biggest conclusion, ignored by so many even here, is that tRump could not be cleared of obstruction. To go further would have been against the law which gives people like Barr the ability to set indictment rules. He went right up to the line and very clearly said that was as far as he could legally go and that it is Congress who have the responsibility to take it further (impeachment).

The reason he could not go farther is that if an official of the DoJ (Mueller) states conclusions that a named person can't fight in a court of law (by reason of not being indicted), then the official has violated the rights of that person.

That's why we have a Constitution.

Rights for people we loathe so that our own rights are protected.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Tue Oct 1, 2019, 12:25 PM (2 replies)

Yes. Especially hearings. But take too long and tRump might actually resign.

In some ways tRump needs to be the one rushed. He is more likely to actually be impeached and face trial in the Senate, wherein the Republicon majority can be forced on record. tRump doesn't want to resign, ever. But even he might decide that is better than actually being impeached.

Much depends on the exact evidence and how convincing it is to the American public. After all the spin. tRump has a habit of trying to spin first and very early.

I trust Pelosi and the Democratic Caucus as a whole on the political calculus.

Peril to the Republic seems to urge expedited hearings, but I have long ago decided to be mostly agnostic about what timings to choose for things in L'Affaire Drumpf.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Thu Sep 26, 2019, 12:24 AM (2 replies)

As to your point in the papers you cite, that is NOT the point. Nice straw man.

0) Advocates for legalization readily agree that cannabis is not for developing brains under the age of 18.

1) Realists realize that Prohibition has FAILed to keep pot out of the hands of children.

2) The current laws also FAIL to keep pot out of the hands of adults.

On the other hand, advocates of Continued & Increased Prohibition can point to the terrible demise of Canada as it is foundering in a miasma of Legal Cannabis that is sapping the vital energy of the people, nosediving the economy, with rampant sex in the streets and drugged out zombies breaking into homes just for the thrill of it.

Or not.

Canada had the second highest rate of cannabis consumption before legalization but Canada did not elect tRump or allow him to steal the Electoral College.

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Sat Aug 24, 2019, 06:07 PM (1 replies)

"no human being", he tweeted. So he thinks Cummings & people of color are SUBHUMAN. . . . nt

Posted by Bernardo de La Paz | Sat Jul 27, 2019, 09:56 AM (2 replies)

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