In the future, copy the URL for the article that you cannot read and paste it into https://12ft.io/ and presto, no more paywall. Try it now. It’s actually easier than whining about paywalls. Then you too will be able to meaningfully participate in the debate.

If you can teach them to make money by doing so then you might be on to something.

*smacks self in forehead*

Duh, that’s exactly what he’s trying to do here, isn’t it?

Gym has a lot of free time. Are there no rapists to cover up for?

Ah, playground bullies flexing the only way they know how. Yes, I’ve been a victim of such shenanigans over the years.

I’m not entirely sure why you’re being so heavily down-voted. It’s clear that women in the USA do not have a guaranteed right to govern their own bodies. A constitutional amendment guaranteeing such a right to everyone is very much needed, not only due to the abortion issue, but also situations like the one in Colorado where a man died because the cops told an EMT to inject him with ketamine against his will.

Secondly, you are absolutely right about slavery. Slavers IS still legal in the USA under the 13th Amendment which says, in part:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Likely enough, I’m afraid. For good or ill, many on the left have learned their lesson and armed themselves. If the 2024 election isn’t a blow out for the Democrats, and the Red-hats decide on violence again, it could be a bloodbath.

Not to mention the ones that just lie. No one will ever know so they do it just to throw a wrench in the machine. Someone said the other day, “We are all just poltergeists in meat suits.”

Yeah, they really do think it’s great.

Call and write your state legislatures. Try to get friends and family to do the same. If you know anyone in local TV, radio, or print media, you can try to get them to report on it. You could also write a letter to the editor of local papers. Join local social media groups and post about.

Since it’s a modified Bible that includes “copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of the famous Greenwood song,” maybe it’s this one.

“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.” (Deut. 4:2.)

Yep, that’s right, Dishonest Don is hawking blasphemous Bibles to the rubes.

There are plenty, including myself, that feel the Electoral College is indeed the problem. Proportional allocation would be a step in the right direction, true, but it doesn’t address the larger issue that the number of electoral votes a state gets is not equally proportional to its population. This is a big problem.

In 2016, Wyoming cast 255,849 popular votes and California cast 14,181,595. Wyoming has three electoral votes and California has fifty-five votes, meaning Wyoming cast one electoral vote for every 85,283 voters while California cast one electoral vote for every 257,847 voters. In other words, a voter in Wyoming is over three times more influential than a voter in California. It’s worth noting that this statistic considers actual votes cast in 2016, rather than all registered voters. Many voters in large states such as California are dissuaded from voting, as the Electoral College dilutes their votes.

By the way, not all states are winner take all. Maine and Nebraska use systems of allocation that can split their electoral votes between candidates.

Edit to add: Here is the real solution to the Electoral College issue. The Interstate National Vote Compact Agreement. Once enough states have passed this law to add up to 270 Electoral votes, then all of those states will allocate all their votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

Under the National Popular Vote law, no voter will have their vote cancelled out at the state-level because their choice differed from majority sentiment in their state. Instead, every voter’s vote will be added directly into the national count for the candidate of their choice. This will ensure that every voter, in every state, will be politically relevant in every presidential election—regardless of where they live.

The National Popular Vote law is a constitutionally conservative, state-based approach that retains the power of the states to control how the President is elected and retains the Electoral College. National Popular Vote has been enacted by 16 states and the District of Columbia, including 4 small states (DE, HI, RI, VT), 9 medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, MN, NJ, NM, OR, WA), and 3 big states (CA, IL, NY). These jurisdictions have 205 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the law.

The bill has also passed one legislative chamber in 8 states with 78 electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, NC, NV, OK, VA), including the Republican-controlled Arizona House and Oklahoma Senate. It has passed both houses of Maine and Nevada at various times, and is endorsed by 3,705 state legislators.

Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier this month, released a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible,” which is inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic ballad.

Huh, I thought Xtians believed it was inspired by the word of God. I wonder if this version still has Jesus spouting all that woke liberal crap about turning the other cheek and taking care of the poor.

The amusement I feel over the fact that the Texas AG is being sentenced to 15 hours of Legal Ethics training in no way dilutes the rage I feel at this slap on the wrist plea agreement. It just further proves that when you are wealthy and connected, you can drag this stuff out so long that the law basically gives up and lets you plead away any serious charges.

I don’t think the poster was suggesting it was still happening now. I read it as she was still voting on bills while being rolled around and having no awareness of her surroundings or recent history.

Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that in recent years Feinstein’s office had an on-call system — unbeknownst to Feinstein herself — to prevent the senator from ever walking around the Capitol on her own. At any given moment there was a staff member ready to jump up and stroll alongside the senator if she left her office, worried about what she’d say to reporters if left unsupervised. The system has been in place for years.

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Feinstein once notably seemed to forget she had relinquished her role as third in line to the presidency. As the longest-serving member of the Senate majority, she would traditionally serve as president pro tempore, behind only the vice president and speaker of the House in the line of succession. Feinstein announced last October via a written statement she would voluntarily give up the title. But when asked about it three weeks later she told a reporter she was still considering what to do. The staffer quickly corrected the Senator.

He called himself “Honest Don” on Truth Social. Biden should just play on that and go with Dishonest Don.

After careful consideration of their debate style, I’ve come to the conclusion that they cannot vote because they are, in all likelihood, about 12-15 years old.

I don’t care what anyone says. I don’t care if they say Biden has in in the bag or is doomed to lose. Don’t get comfortable. Don’t get scared. Vote. Vote. Vote.

It’ll be nothing. He’s serving his time in a Miami prison dormitory reserved for older (and no doubt whiter) prisoners. He’ll have clean, running water, air conditioning, and probably have TV and internet too. In short, he’ll be more comfortable than many poor, free Americans are every day.

It’s still just a baby step. Police, corporations, and non-adversary nations will still be able to buy all the information they want about you from these data brokers. We need laws that make our information ours, and not the property of anyone who is able to skim it off the net or phone apps.