My family was Republican as well during that time. Northern big cities had Democratic political machines allied with the mob. The Southern Democrats were hard core racists and segregationists.
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The folks my dad did not like were the Japanese because of his war experiences. I brought a Japanese grad student of mine to my dad’s farm. The occasion was a science meeting in Cincinnati near the farm. That visit broke thru decades of hatred and my dad and that student parted as good friends. They kept exchanging letters afterward. It made me proud of both of them.
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I personally have an 86-45 T-Shirt from Trump’s first term. The numbers are in Roman Numerals so that the MAGA’s can’t figure out what it says.
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“More judges” ultimately comes down to 5 out of 9, and that does not bode well for our side.
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Great idea!
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Because a bunch of perverted strong-daddy-craving right-wing-dictator-worshiping unitary-executive-heads have been whining for decades that the only way for the U.S. president to be “energetic” enough for our needs is to put him in charge of everything! He must have no constraints on his presidential powers! ( He must be able to do “anything he wants,” in the words of Donald John Trump describing what these fools have fed him about “his” Article II!)
As malicious idiot Bill Barr has put it – America’s founders did not rebel against “monarchical tyranny” but against a tyrannical legislature, the British Parliament, and therefore the Constitution’s framers never envisioned their nation headed by a president subject to other branches’ checking and balancing. In fact, to ensure “energy, consistency and decisiveness” in American leadership, the framers created a presidency “independent of the divided counsels of the Legislative branch” and free of what, in our time, has become a Judiciary “engaged directly in usurping presidential decision making for themselves.”
Why these annoying dumb-asses believe this obvious nonsense is unknown. But I think it must be some kind of psychological craving or fetish. Maybe if they spent more time in leather bars or played Triumph of the Will on a continuous loop for a few months at a time it would eventually cure their jonesing for this.
But who knows…and they’ve made up a large and dangerous force among big-shot Republican lawyers for decades…with the lousy results we now see. I mean, don’t you just love the energy and consistency and decisiveness we’re seeing? Our long national nightmare of checks and balances is now over, I’m sure Bill Barr is saying these days.
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Because as you correctly stated in your intro, they are a bunch of perverted strong-daddy-craving right-wing-dictator-worshiping unitary-executive-heads.
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Yeah, I put that badly. What I was trying to say is that nobody seems to be sure what makes people into right-wing-strong-daddy-cravers…Is it nature? nurture? a 50=50 combination of both? And what kind of nurture – just evangelical child raising…or something else? …Or is it personal greed for power of their own? Or what? . It seems it’s important to pin down some answers at that leve, seems to me … …
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Moody’s downgraded the US credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, so no longer on par with Germany, Canada or Sweden. Moody’s qualified its rating, however:
Underpinning the rating is our assumption that the US’ institutions and governance will not materially weaken, even if they are tested at times. In particular, we assume that the long-standing checks and balances between the three branches of government and respect for the rule of law will remain broadly unchanged. In addition, we assess that the US has capacity to adjust its fiscal trajectory, even as policy decision-making evolves from one administration to the next.
Moody’s comment implies that the majority of people in Congress are serious people, and that the judiciary will continue to protect established property rights and entitlements. Not looking good when the Big Beautiful Bill which promises to hold the additional debt to under $4 trillion over the next 10 years (not counting the current $2.1 trillion a year in federal revenue underperformance) showcases a repeal on taxation of gun silencers.
MIT’s great economist Rudi Dornbusch noted that "in economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.”
If Moody’s assumptions don’t hold, I suspect we could see a surprisingly rapid unraveling.
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It is really quite simple. Founding Father Thomas Paine said in an autocracy, the King is sovereign and his word is the law. In a democracy, the People are sovereign, the Law is King, and the Executive serves the People.
Any Executive who subverts this democracy by deceiving the People to gain office, threatens the Constitution while in office and disrespects the sovereignty of the People should be held fully accountable.
Holding an unfaithful Executive accountable for his corrupt behavior is critical to the long term survivability of the Republic.
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Ruthlessness, maliciousness, unscrupulousness, lawlessness, greed, ignorance and incompetence are proportional to the need for personal, direct, and total control of the government.
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If we needed some better way to wreck the economy, then allowing the orango-tan moron to control the Federal Reserve would be perfect. He’s done so well so far with tariffs.
And suddenly the MAGA interpretation of the 2d Amendment comes into sharp focus.
Because the economic tsunami would wipe out everything the bottom 95% owns.
By design.
Exactly. This not a partisan issue, this Americans for the Constitution and the Rule of Law, and those who oppose the Rule of Law and our Inalienable Rights.
That is not Left or Right, Woke or Reactionary Status Quo.
This is simply Law or Anarchy.
You decide.
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