What about a requirement for passing a civics test to ensure voting at 18 like Vivek suggests?
It would make people lift themselves up and expect more of themselves young. It could offer older people money! in the market, they could be popular private tutors for the young.
What would happen if 100 million more of us awakened today with a backbone and some courage? We might begin to see some tremendous change for the better in this nation. I’m just saying, it doesn’t have to be this way.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are potentially the most propagandized war crimes in US history.
It is imperative to the US empire to justify the mass incineration of civilians by some of the most horrifically destructive weapons ever used in the world.
Pointing out that this was an atrocity is invariably met with a multitude of justifications, typically able to be broken down into two general categories, moral & strategic.
The moral claim is that the Japanese killed in the bombings deserved it due to Nanking, Unit 731, Pearl Harbor, and other Japanese military actions during the war. This is collective guilt nonsense. Babies and schoolchildren vaporized in nuclear fire had zero involvement in any of Japan's war actions. It is not justified to murder civilians as retribution for the crimes of the government which rules over them.
Americans especially should take care not to go down this argumentation path, as this leads to justifying 9/11 and other terrorist acts done in retribution for US imperialism crimes.
The strategic claim is that the only alternative to mass incineration of civilians was a full invasion of Japan in which even more people would have died, especially US servicemen. This claim, assuming the asserted counterfactual numbers are accurate, is a false dichotomy based on false history which was refuted by many military & political leaders of the time.
It was known to Truman by May of 1945 that Japan was willing to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito not be dethroned and prosecuted for war crimes. This condition became the reality after the war, and yet Truman refused to give said condition in negotiations during the war, opting to instead follow FDR in demanding unconditional surrender.
There is grounds to believe this was done to push the Japanese to keep fighting in order to justify using the bombs as a real-world test & to signal to the Soviets that the US had said weapons. Speaking of, records show the Japanese command were pushed to surrender by the recent Soviet invasion as opposed to the bombs.
As libertarians, one of the most abhorrent things to us is the mass murder of innocent people since it is the gravest violation of liberty. Governments are the biggest perpetrators of mass murder, and they usually have some historical narrative propaganda justifying their past atrocities.
Libertarians especially must be able to pierce through the propaganda veil and expose the true evil nature of the State, undercutting its ability to manufacture consent for future atrocities.
Jacob Luria is running for City Council, District 1 in Golden, Colorado to combat rising property taxes, increase transparency, and to be an advocate for small businesses.
@davenewworld_2 Here's a reminder that the average cop has received about 28 weeks of training. In rural areas, it's usually much less. Most hairdressers receive 2 years of training to be licensed to use scissors near your face.
Demand better.
Is it really so bad for him to be governor? Then states rights can head the charge to cleanse corruption. The Federal government is full of snakes and snares and I wish CO could be reformed exactly this way.
NEW OFFER > The @FloridaGOP will pay the moving costs for Soros-backed Radicals Monique Worrell & Andrew Warren to relocate to any other state. Both can pick any of the other 49 states.
The moving costs are nothing compared to the increased public safety our state would receive!
A trans-identified male in Michigan has filed a legal claim against his ex-boyfriend demanding the return of his preserved amputated testicles.
Brianna Kingsley, also known as Zahrah Bri-Zee Muharib, reportedly stole his ex-partner's dogs in retaliation.
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@gatewaypundit What a “coincidence” that just 3 hours after hundreds of thousands of ballots were dropped off in Detroit without any GOP poll watchers, Biden got a mathematically impossible vote spike and took the lead in Michigan
🚨BREAKING: Proof of rigged Michigan election - Democrat operatives caught in October 2020 turning in up to 10,000 fraudulent voter registrations *per day*, many with same handwriting & fake addresses
Police investigated (report attached) and found guns w/silencers, burner phones, rental cars, and warehouses where ballots & registrations stored all funded by Democrat strategy firm
Ballots would be mailed to fake addresses, intercepted, and put in dropboxes by mules
Video from Detroit vote count center shows 3AM drop of estimated 100,000+ ballots w/out GOP supervisors by *rental car* from out of state
Biden got unexplained vote spike a few hours later and stole MI from Trump
Michigan AG & FBI brought in to investigate & they shut it down - @gatewaypundit Twitter account banned for posting video of ballot drops
Instead AG Nessel charged Michigan electors for sending alternate ballots to DC
Huge props to @gatewaypundit for putting together all these pieces
Michigan was RIGGED
Shortly after Covid started, in July of 2020, my father died.
Before I ended the call with my stepmom, who called me when my my father collapsed, my girlfriend already had the car packed.
She knew what to do, and I didn’t need to say anything.
By the time I hung up the phone, he was gone.
We immediately drove up to Washington.
Not for the funeral, but for whatever it was that we did during Covid when a loved one died.
I got to say goodbye to him in an empty room full of empty chairs, with one occupied casket.
It was unfitting for how good of a Man my father was.
And poof,
just like that,
He was gone,
and then we drove home.
It never really hits you until later, and it’s usually when you’re not expecting it.
But that’s another story for another time.
One of the more memorable things from our trip was stopping to get gas on our way through Oregon.
Forgetting that you’re not allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon, I began to get out of the car.
With half of my body hanging out the door, the attendant quickly ran up to me and asked what I was doing.
At that point, I said sorry, I forgot you’re not allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon, all while trying to force through a smile, not realizing he’s angry.
From beneath his annoyed masked face, he asked me “Oh, so you’re not from Oregon, why are you traveling out of state during a Global pandemic?”, with his liberal Oregon condescending accent.
He continued to demand I get back in my car, but not before taking my credit card, after being face-to-face with me, and no further than 2 1/2 feet away.
Covid brought the authoritarian out of so many people.
He wasn’t scared of Covid. He wanted to assert some sort of dominance.
Here we are at a gas station in Eugene Oregon, and the gas station attendant feels he has the authority to question where I’m traveling, why I’m doing it, and demands I get back in the car.
He didn’t do this out of fear. If he was scared, he wouldn’t have approached me at all.
He would’ve been very careful to keep his distance.
He did this because he was given the smallest amount of authority, and it made him cruel.
This is how people behaved before vaccines became available.
This is how people behaved before they were calling for doctors, nurses, and hospital staff to be fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
This is how they behaved before they were calling for forced COVID-19 vaccinations within the military.
This is how they behaved before the president of the United States of America tried to take the livelihood of every American that refused the COVID-19 vaccine, that worked for a company with 100 employees or more.
It was never about science, it was never about your health, it was never about your safety.
IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT YOUR COMPLIANCE.
We can never forget how people behaved during Covid.
But more importantly, we can never let people forget how they behaved during Covid, or they will do it again.
I am here to remind everyone, and I will continue telling my story.
You should tell your story too.
People would love to hear it.
I know I would.
Thanks for reading.
Photo by Mike Oxford Sr. (My Father)
Bob Weir and The Grateful Dead
Shoreline Amphitheater
Mountain View, Ca
May of 1991
@MollyJongFast@DaisyDeadhead Democrats dismissive attitudes reveal their duplicity. Asking for assertions in Constitution of why Trump could dispute it, it reveals that the states should have more say in choosing. All these court case dismissals were on precedence, not evidence.
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No, Mikey, you are wrong. Gaslighting will never justify your treachery. Your duty was never "to overturn the election", your duty was to "certify" an election free from fraud.
You mention "law and the history". Election fraud like 2020 happened once before in US history. In 1876 acting VP Thomas W. Ferry did exactly the job you refused to do: he refused to certify the fraudulent presidential election.
Had you done your job it would have been up to Congress to investigate the rampant election fraud in 2020, work out a compromise and possibly appoint the next President.
The Constitution specifically delegates certification of the presidential election to the President of the Senate (VPOTUS). You were the stop-gap to make certain that election fraud does not screw up an election. You shirked your duty. Either you were blinded by greed, blinded by narcissism & hate or you were too weak to withstand criticism from lying progressive Democrat press.
In 1876 Democrats cheated: they denied blacks the right to vote, stuffed ballot boxes, and Republicans caught them. Election results in South Carolina, Florida & Louisiana were disputed. Sound familiar? Both parties claimed victory in those states.
After VP Ferry refused to certify the Electoral College results, Congress took until March 2, 1876 to negotiate a compromise and resolve the election. Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes became president, even though he received fewer electoral votes than Democrat Sam Tilden at the outset. Everybody (even Tilden) knew the Democrat election results were fraudulent. The same sort of deliberation should have happened in 2020, but you betrayed your own oath and sh your duty.
Specifically, the relevant text of the Constitution reads:
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted.
Why did the founders include the Vice President in the process to certify presidential election results? Why not just dictate a method for counting results and leave it at that? They delegated this important job to the VP specifically for him to verify the results and rule out election fraud. When the Constitution was drafted the VP was likely from the opposing party of the President, so his review of the election results was part of the checks and balances our founders revered.
When irregularities began turning up in 2020 and alternate electors approached you with disputed results, you were the stop-gap to prevent a fraudulent president from taking office. VP's don't have much responsibility to begin with: you had ONE thing you were supposed to do, and you failed.
It was NEVER your job to decide whether or not you had the power to deny certification of the election. Serious allegations of election fraud demanded you withhold certification. Any question regarding the power of the President of the Senate to withhold that certification was the purview of SCOTUS. If you truly believe @JoeBiden got 81 Million votes you are delusional, in addition to being a traitor & a coward.
You will undoubtedly cite S.4573 - Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, passed in the wake of your treachery to codify the treasonous actions you took on Jan. 6, in an attempt to buttress Joe Biden's illegitimate presidency. If your actions were correct Democrats had no reason to enact this law. The law is blatantly unconstitutional. Congress lacks the authority to take away power that the Constitution guarantees to the President or the Vice President. Unless by Amendment, only SCOTUS has that power.
Rumors say large Never-Trump donors promised to finance your misled 2024 campaign if you certified the election for Joe Biden. Is this why you lack grass roots donors to qualify you for the debate stage? Like Judas, did you take the silver & screw over our entire nation? If during the course of your discussions and deliberations over what to do, if donors offered you money to run in 2024 as a quid-pro-quo, then you should be tried for Treason and dealt with accordingly. If you sold out the American people for personal greed you definitely deserve the ultimate penalty.
You, sir, will go down in history as the weakest of all VPs, lacking any moral fiber to fulfill such a basic, basic responsibility. Maybe 100 years from now, the third time Democrats again try to steal an election, ignore the law passed in your honor, and a stronger VP will do his job and SCOTUS will back him up.
Are you indeed a traitor to this country, influenced by large donors who offered to back you in a 2024 race? Are you a narcissist Trump-hater who was so easily persuaded that you could do a better job than the President you swore an oath to support? Or are you just a yellow-bellied milquetoast, petrified of the shellacking you would take in the Democrat press, causing you to betray your oath and abandon your duty out of cowardice?
Unfortunately, we will never know, primarily because Republicans are loathe to hold bad actors culpable, less they themselves be discovered guilty of all the fraud and self-enrichment so rampant in Washington DC today. You should be impeached for your actions on January 6, 2020. You should be denied the ability to ever hold public office again. Then again @POTUS@JoeBiden should also be impeached, so you are in good (vile) company. Lucky for you @SpeakerMcCarthy is afraid of his own shadow.
Political snakes twist together. The American public, like Laocoon and his sons, are the victims of your treachery.
JUST IN: Donald Trump vows to completely overhaul the Department of ‘Justice’ if elected after getting arrested in Washington D.C earlier this week.
He looks fired up 🔥
“I will direct a completely very, very powerful overhaul of the DOJ. We're not gonna have cowards… We’re not going to have cowards like Bill Barr.”
@SillaViben Like many things this should absolutely be free. Including a free retake every year until a person is 25. Then they can vote. Unless you think they should have to pass? I admit, I’m not sure just giving it to 25 works
What about a requirement for passing a civics test to ensure voting at 18 like Vivek suggests?
It would make people lift themselves up and expect more of themselves young. It could offer older people money! in the market, they could be popular private tutors for the young.
@Michou2433 @gareuben@TheManDarren@Dramatica68 @Travis_in_Flint Their healthcare consists of assisted suicide and months long delays for surgeries. America’s is a gouging fascist hellscape that happens because the left keeps voting for more gov centralized control.