There seems to be a presumption that any vote for a SCOTUS appointee will fall strictly along party lines. Maybe it will, but if so, it is an example of the normalized deviancy of polarized partisanship, which has not historically been the case with appointees, contrary to what McConnell's nostalgic...

See the post in the other sub-forum about Ray Dalio and P/E's don't matter. There is a part in the interview where they talk about the decoupling as it were, between asset (stock) prices and earnings. If we are in a world where debt and equity asset prices and debt and equity markets in general are ...

You've asked an honest question, and here's one person's honest answer: I think it's important to remain cognizant that in the US we have the right to an opinion and the right to disagree. In a healthy society, the disagreement between two parties should be civil and tolerated. As radical as it migh...

Of course it would require massive amounts of dirty tricks but that's about the only thing the Democrats are good at: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/opinions/election-day-decision-disputes-garber/index.html If I interpreted that analysis properly, there is an even more bizarre potential outcome. A ...

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:40 pmCapture.JPG

How does one measure enthusiasm?

No, only absentee ballots. The only way to make sure your vote is counted is to go physically to the polling place. Since they open at 6am, I can get that done well before the mayhem starts. I just figure there will be a lot of hanky-panky with the mail-in ballots, e.g. throwing out ballots from Re...

I was thinking along those lines earlier today. Go to the polls and vote first thing in the morning while the rioters are still in bed, then get out of the city to wait out the worst of it. Hopefully my mom's house in NJ will be safe enough. Is there no early voting in NY? We always vote here as so...

If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide from anybody. Including tax returns How about all your medical records and all your private correspondence with everyone you've ever known? Want to publish them here? Does it make a difference that I'm not running for public office...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 4:34 pm If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide from anybody.

Including tax returns

Alexander Hamilton laid out several arguments against term limits in the Federalist Papers. Among them, lame duck risk if there is no incentive for a President to earn re-election. Also, the risk of a forced break in continuity in a time of crisis. Possibly most importantly, depriving the people of ...

By rights he should get a third term but he knows that's impossible, just as everyone else does. He just likes to wind up the Marxist media and all the other fools who can't tell when he's joking. By what rights should he get a third term? Note: Disregard the question if you were only joking. I was...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 4:01 pm

By rights he should get a third term but he knows that's impossible, just as everyone else does.
He just likes to wind up the Marxist media and all the other fools who can't tell when he's joking.

By what rights should he get a third term?

Note: Disregard the question if you were only joking.

They are telling us what they are going to do if Trump wins: commit treason. Or try to. I think the patriots have them outnumbered and outgunned. The traitors may start the war, but the patriots will end it. If you're right,I just hope to not find myself in the crossfire. I've wondered if Oct/Nov m...

Facebook and Twitter have already announced that they won't allow Trump to claim victory on election night. Axios just put out an interview with Zuckerberg and he talked at some length about the likelihood of delayed results. There was also concern about a possible mirage victory either way (where ...

This is a topic because the Democrats and their narrative engineers in the media have already started prepping the battlefield so that people will be less surprised at the chaos that will ensue after an apparent Trump win on election night. We can probably expect to see the various social media pla...

Plus Gordon Lightfoot is a proud Canadian from rural Ontario. He wouldn't be mixed up in American politics for sure. If only it were the case that people from other countries wouldn't get mixed up in American politics. Unfortunately that is far from true, e.g., Neil Young. Tech, If you can give me ...

Yes, Pelosi and Schumer are obnoxious. And Schiff, and Nadler, and Aunt Maxine, and Newsom, and Whitmer, and Wheeler, and Kate Brown, and Inslee, and Pritzker and Lightfoot and...... That latter comment better be about Lori and not Gordon. Or we're taking this fight onto the Carefree Highway..... a...

Yes, Pelosi and Schumer are obnoxious. And Schiff, and Nadler, and Aunt Maxine, and Newsom, and Whitmer, and Wheeler, and Kate Brown, and Inslee, and Pritzker and Lightfoot and...... That latter comment better be about Lori and not Gordon. Or we're taking this fight onto the Carefree Highway..... a...

Yes, Pelosi and Schumer are obnoxious. And Schiff, and Nadler, and Aunt Maxine, and Newsom, and Whitmer, and Wheeler, and Kate Brown, and Inslee, and Pritzker and Lightfoot and...... That latter comment better be about Lori and not Gordon. Or we're taking this fight onto the Carefree Highway..... a...

Bush vs. Gore in 2000 was an example of delayed election result. Florida recount controversy, hanging chads, etc. However, other than that one, I cannot recall another delayed election result in my adult life. Plus the country is a different place today than it was in 2000. I have heard speculation ...

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:44 pm

requires 2/3rds. 38 states.

Correction, I looked it up.
2/3rds majority of House and Senate, ratification of 3/4ths of states, but yes 38 is the correct number (3/4ths of 50 states).

You would think a medical clearance would be a pre-requisite to being a presidential candidate. Or at the very least a binding disclosure. After all, the vast responsibility and consequences of the position are such that a medical issue ought not be withheld from the voting public. Especially one t...

You would think a medical clearance would be a pre-requisite to being a presidential candidate. Or at the very least a binding disclosure. After all, the vast responsibility and consequences of the position are such that a medical issue ought not be withheld from the voting public. Especially one th...

Okay, got it. I didn't realize it was a joke. Mea culpa. I heard him say numerous times that he doesn't tell jokes. But now I'm thinking those might have been jokes. In other words he was kidding about not telling jokes. I just can't tell the difference between jokes, aspirational comments, alternat...

At a speech in Wisconsin on August 17th, Trump suggested that after four more years, he will go for another four years, on the basis that they spied on his campaign and therefore his administration should get a re-do of four years. I did not learn this from the mainstream media, I refer to a verbati...