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Why are we ignoring the war of 1812? They literally walked into Washington DC and burned down the White House.
Mainly because it didn't consist of Canada trying to conquer the United States, and because it was a war the U.S. declared to push the U.K. out of their waters. No one was coming to mainland USA to topple the government. I am assuming through this that the contention is that the state militias were deemed necessary to defend against mainland invasion by a foreign power. I've not heard anyone say yet that there was some expectation that state militias would be used aggressively outside of U.S. borders.
The point *I* was making is that Snowden made the information public despite the risk and costs to his own life.
I understand perfectly what you are trying to say. I can assuage you by assuring you that if Trump gets indicted he will probably try to flee to Russia as well, just like Snowden, so that both you and Lambert can wax lyrically about how they both did what they did despite the consequences, with great moral courage.
Correction: a lot easier.
Cayman Islands are an overseas territory like Bermuda so they've a lot more to lose if they separate.
The monarch in Canada is mostly about decorating choices and iconography. It's changing the constitution and coming up with a replacement that would be difficult.
They will change over to Charles as they replace bills. I do not think they have to turn in money and get new bills, but the place that prints new bills is probably printing new bills with Charles image now.
If you think living in Russia is not suffering...
Trump seems really upset that he is backing Dr Oz in PA. Mitch is correct that when the Reps take a beating in the Senate this fall it will be due to a lack of good candidates running., The Dems are holding on to a slim (and misrepresented) majority - but they are a minority.
Trump supporters can maybe win the primary but they will lose in the general. Or at least in most states.
This is just laughable. The only reason conservatives still have a voice in government is down to two reasons. One, gerrymandering. Two, the fact Wyoming with it's half a million people has the same amount of Senators as California with it's 40 million. I can appreciate the reasons behind the Senate, but please don't pretend that conservatives and Republicans aren't outnumbered. That they only still hold what power they have through gerrymandering and outdated political rules.
I guess if you are a Democrat apologist that it is easier to denigrate truth-tellers than it is to reconsider your incorrect dogma.
I suspect that if you dig a little you will find A home site that provides the talking points for the day. The speed of which these talking points get disseminated is scary impressive. That they are taken as fact without question and passed along by those that are useful.
Watched a documentary on the Philippines's, amazing to watch as the majority of the population work so hard against there best interests and values.
Trump seems really upset that he is backing Dr Oz in PA. Mitch is correct that when the Reps take a beating in the Senate this fall it will be due to a lack of good candidates running.I really, truly, hope you are correct. I just have this horrible feeling that come results day most of us here are going to be standing back going "how did that happen?" (and no, I don't believe it will have been successfully rigged by the GOP though they will of course try).
Trump supporters can maybe win the primary but they will lose in the general. Or at least in most states.
Wow, what an absolutely *censored*ty piece of reporting that is. They don't even provide the actual quote of what the guy said. I assume you drilled down and found out what he actually said before you decided he was a terrorist right? How about sharing it with us?
Well what some radio station on the radio said was that the same guy who approved the warrant had in another Trump case recused himself and that much was true as I linked a story confirming it. The rest that they went on about with speculation concerning judge shopping is just conjecture. I didn't recognize the talk show host but in any case the judge considers himself too biased to give a fair shake to Trump, or at least he did before. Maybe since then he's come around to hating Trump less. Nobody else has though so that's hard to believe. To be fair, I can see how granting a warrant and presiding over a case are two completely different animals so this could very well be another nothing burger. It all depends on whether or not that warrant would have been granted regardless of the judge.
Okay, to be fair again maybe animosity toward Trump had nothing to do with the recusal as you pointed out. That we don't know. The radio guy either implied it did or said as much, that this judge or magistrate or whatever was an outspoken Trump hater. If that isn't true then I heard some fake news.
Nah, the idea was he quite regularly used to sometimes go out and "trick people." Eh. Don't ask me.Ah, I see the "post a whole lot" resemblance at least (I do seem to suffer periodic extreme splurges here), though nothing whatsoever else. Certainly not the racism or the "attacking trannies" (indeed I'm forced the rather tsk at the use of "trannies" therein, which is a ladder even Caitlin Moran had to climb down a while ago).
Anyway, he last did it with that weird name attacking trannies. He also tended to post a whole lot. So. If it's not you, my sincere apologies. If it is, I get a cookie.
In case my initial comment seemed in any way like a non-denial denial, I've never used "Pete at Home" as a username anywhere, nor have I been on any version of this forum under any other username prior to this one.
QuoteI've never heard this notion of a Macron coup.
Can't find the original citation, but it was his opponents basically using the "Big Lie/Steal" playbook same as the Trumpians. Meanwhile, there is of course rumbling about French generals threating a coup, which is why I couldn't find the specific quote I had read earlier.
So if it comes down to the better poster child for Democracy between the UK and the US... I don't know enough about UK politics to make a judgement. Structurally the representative structure is more proportionally matched to the population. All of the US greatest hits seem to show up there, though. Voter roll purges, as you mentioned.
Maybe the most important measure is the confidence that the population has in their democracy.
26 % of Britons say Democracy is not working well. 38% said the voting system is fair, 40% said no.
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He makes clear by God that he means the 'all powerful and all knowing' being as typical of the Christian view of God.Yes, but that appears not as the Theistic Entity he claims to have demonstrated to necessarily exist by means of the cosmological argument. That's not to this point allegedly necessitated by that to be the Christian god, or even (say) the Neoplatonists' The One. It might just be the Deity -- I was tempted to say the Jeffersonian Deity, but that'd be a bluff-your-way-in-deism guess on my part, and one I might well be called on, so I'd better not. The promised second lemma will presumably be intended to get us into that latter sort of area.
100% not scared. I stopped giving credence to anecdotal observations (I know a guy) a year ago after stories about "otherwise healthy young people" dying from covid started becoming a narrative. You either believe macro data on who's really at risk or you don't. Mandates and policies should be driven based on broad stats, not I know a guy.
The Herman Cain award stuff, apart from being an unintentional self-own, is a push to revel in schadenfreude that is a disturbing phenomenon.
Pretty much, anecdotally, nothing in my etended social network is sounding alarms for the under 50 crowd that is otherwise healthy, even the meta-data has those cases as extreme outliers. It just happens that a 1 in 50,000+ chance turns into a lot of sad stories when you're talking about millions of infected.
I still also suspect there is a genetic component in play, and so far as has been experienced in my extended family, rather than the social network in general. It looks like one where my family cleared the genetic lottery on the worst of it.
I've done a lot of self-reflection around masks, trying to determine the "why" I objected to much of it. Initially, I was certain that 99% of my personal objections were based on simply chafing at the idea of being told what to place over my face and the other authoritarian aspects of mask policies.
As I read all the conflicting studies and the stream of misinformation by our experts, I became more skeptical.
The director of the CDC (Walensky) recently said that "the evidence is clear" that masks reduce your risk of infection by "more than 80 percent". Such a risk reduction would be higher than what the vaccines themselves provide. People have since asked for the source of this 80% figure, but no source has been provided. Propaganda vs wise counsel.
This was also clear way back when Fauci lied (for our own good) about masks being useless. One can debate motivations, but it's clear the folks at the CDC are fine fabricating facts if they believe it's for the greater good, and so skepticism around masks seems fairly well placed.
I also believe these two things can be simultaneously true: 1. Masks when properly used can prevent droplets and reduce individual viral transmission in enclosed environments. 2. Broad mask mandates for a variety of reasons do not appear to have direct and reliable benefits with regards to macro case trends.
If the Democrats got all of the tax increases that they have ever dreamed of having, I doubt there's anyone in the world who seriously believes the result would be the national debt getting reduced by even a penny. Any money gained, assuming any is gained, would be spent down to the last dollar and the some. Manchin sees this quite clearly. All Republicans have been aware of this for decades. It is known.
And on this in particular, totally. 10-20k years ago the common cold killed a whole bunch of people, and us lucky people are the descendents of those who were resistant. The point is we'll resist (vaccines) and the virus will mutate to be less deadly and more transmissible and a hundred years from now it'll be "just" the flu.
I'd be highly surprised if it persists past 2024 as an issue in the borders of the US. In some respects, I think it'll be a mostly dead issue for much of the electorate in the US by November 2022. Even if people are still dying by the hundreds per week across the nation by that point. (For comparison on average, 694 people died from car accidents in the US during every week of 2019; at present we're doing good to have that as the 7 day running average for daily deaths) For that matter, we've had years where the flu outpaced deaths from car accidents, and the Flu itself has been practically absent in the US since the Covid restrictions were put in place. It isn't just that the testing rates have dropped, the positivity rates for those being tested is extremely low.
