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"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
~John Adams (Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 1780)
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Saving to read later.
Yes it is subjective.
But if it’s consistently applied then it is still interesting.
BREAKING: The Constitutionality Index has now scored every law in the history of the United States. 48,000 laws dating back to 1789.
So far as I'm aware, I'm the first one to ever attempt such a thing.
And we've now ranked every president based on the percentage of laws they enacted were constitutional. The results largely track the overall historical trend: As we move from the founding to the modern era, the percentage of unconstitutional legislation increases.
In fact, 1937 is the tipping point. Pre-FDR's New Deal, every president — Federalist, Whig, Republican, Democrat — scores 98 to 100%. After the New Deal, the average percentage of constitutional laws (by page) drops to 31 percent.
As a result, presidents of the last few decades find themselves at the bottom of the rankings. @JoeBiden is officially the least constitutional president, although Trump isn't far behind. Only Thomas Jefferson scored a perfect 100 percent.
I've also scored congresses, & @SpeakerJohnson's current Congress is, from the perspective of the Constitution, the worst Congress in American history. Constitutional legislation stands at 56.3 by total count, & just 4.3% by total legislative pages.
Another important finding: The largest laws in American history are, every one of them, unconstitutional.
Check it out & let me know what you think. (Links below)
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Agreed.
This is what I’m saying also.
FYI..it’s taken me a long time to come around to this. 5 years ago I’d probably be arguing the other side
Letting people fail is part of life. Designing a financial product specifically to keep them trapped in compounding debt so you can harvest their interest isn't "tough love" it's usury.
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Companies like Walmart and Safeway are multibillion dollar companies because of repetition and the shear number of stores operating.
People would be shocked to find out how little each individual store profits, and how many stores are actually in the negative but the company maintains just because it wants to maintain a brand/presence in that area.
They can go negative for the quarter with one workplace injury stocking shelves.
Let's use Walmart as an example.
Its CEO received $29.24 million in total compensation, while Walmart employs approximately 2.1 million people.
Confiscate every penny of that compensation and redistribute it equally, and each employee gets a whopping $13.92 a year, or less than one cent an hour.
Now explain how eliminating the CEO's compensation makes paying everyone $25 an hour economically feasible.
This is what happens when envy substitutes for arithmetic.
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I’ve never understood the argument that banks would rather zero profits then be demoted from 24% down to 10%.
They want to make money, even if it’s less
Capping unsecured credit card rates at 10% is pure performance. This will never happen.
You cannot profitably lend money with no collateral when charge-offs run 4%+, and fraud + operating costs eat the rest.
Banks will simply stop issuing cards to anyone who isn’t already low-risk and high-income. Result: millions lose access to credit entirely and get pushed into worse alternatives.
Classic “help the poor” policy that does the opposite.
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Even in silverdale, Wa it’s dropped 40cents at Costco since the election.
I just don’t know what incentive the oil companies would have to put anti oil people in charge? Or is the price per barrel getting too low?
@BrandiKruse
I would like to thank all the oil companies that wanted Republicans out of office.
You did a great job manipulating the price of gas before the election and it worked spectacularly.
It was $4.50 on Tuesday and now it's $3.01 on Saturday.
I'm no economist, but this is a massive reduction in price in 4 days.
President Trump did say it was going to drop like a rock after the election and it sure looks like he was right about that.
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I love @RepThomasMassie but all this would do is split the GOP vote. Run as GOP and win the primaries
BREAKING: Anti-Trump conservatives are reportedly pushing for Thomas Massie to launch a 2028 presidential bid as a Libertarian. — Axios
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All this
Charlie was murdered in the middle of a debate with people who hate him while wearing a shirt that said "freedom." He died defending Chappelle's right to be offensive. And Chappelle thanks him by reveling in his death.
But as offensive as that is, none of us who knew and loved Charlie want Chappelle to suffer the same fate. We don't want Chappelle dead, and we wouldn't "feel better" if someone murdered him. That's not how we respond to speech that offends us because we're not bloodthirsty lunatics.
If you're laughing about Charlie's murder, or feeling good about Charlie's murder, you're acting within your rights. You're free to be sadistic. But that's exactly what you are. Your soul is sick. The only thing I wish for you is that you'd come to realize it — before it's too late — and beg for God's forgiveness.
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Facts….
@elonmusk
Oh yes I understand how the initiative process works in WA state…
1. Citizens file initiative, ensure it adheres to state law, get certification from state officials, secure funding, promote it, volunteer, collect signatures
2. Bad people harass, threaten, and physically assault signature gatherers
3. More bad people steal and destroy signature sheets
4. Citizens submit signature sheets for authentication - yay accepted!
5. State officials intentionally mislead voters by wording the initiative as confusing as possible on the ballot
6. State officials launch massive campaign to smear initiative supporters as ‘hateful’
7. State officials and local media lie about the initiative - repeatedly
8. State officials, local media, and initiative opponents continue to demonize supporters
9. Voter votes YES or NO on the ballot
10. YES wins yay! <<< WE ARE HERE
COMING SOON >>>
11. State officials challenge the initiative in court
12. The governor’s loyal Supreme Court ignores the will of voters and pretends it’s not legal and throws it out
13. State officials say ‘well actually we had to ignore the will of voters in order to save democracy!’
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They won’t get the funding from the GOP.
You forget that we actually live in a constitutional oligarchy. Yes we get to vote, but we only get to vote for the people the parties fund to put on the ballot.
Dear libertarians, I am throwing no shade at you by saying this. Politically I am closer to libertarians than anything.
Having said that, please stop running as libertarians and start running in the republican primary.
You will never win running as a libertarian and you accomplish nothing but getting Democrats elected.
Stop virtue signaling.
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This is my hope. two years of DNC congress just fighting with Trump and a red wave in 2028 when all the liberarians realize they can't just not vote
This is a good time to remind everyone that Ronald Reagan lost 8 Senate seats in 1986.... then George H.W. Bush won over 400 electoral votes two years later. Is what it is. Dooming is and always has been retarded. 🤷♂️
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I've personally experianced more hate from the anti-hate crowd then any extreme conservative, and i've activly argued points with both.
I'm not a Trump fan. But i've never been kicked out of a MAGA forum for critizing his choices. I've been kicked out of many left comunity forums for daring to have a different opinion.
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exactly....that's why we don't have to expend any engergy at all keeping astronaughts warm. their own body heat is fully insulated by the vaccum of space...
*insert massive eyeroll*
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
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