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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[oilcan]

People sometimes forget what the word "amendment" means.   For example,  we the peep amended in 1919, then rescinded in 1933.  If we can toss an amendment after only 14 years,  then how applicable is an amendment, highly specific to its era,   likely to be after 229 years?

Sometimes when something needs endless reinterpreting that's a sign it needs to be rewritten in clearer and more relevant terms.    For one thing,  it doesn't need the subtext of slaveholding that propelled it in the first place.   For another,  we now have a professional army that renders neighborhood peashooter brigades largely irrelevant and usually terrifying.   For another,  we're no longer a mostly rural population.   For another,  the founders in 1790 were unfamiliar with assault weapons and mass shootings. 

A lot of the primitive psychological subtext is still angry Negroes at my door....   Fuck that stupid amendment and all this pretentious constitutional high horse shit.   Nothing says irrational mob rule quite like a bunch of gun nuts.   

[facilitatorn]

Meanwhile trump shows how far he stand under the banner of absolute corruption by offering a blanket pardon for all the passengers of the Lolita Express, especially ones with 3rd grade vocabularies, a stable of ex-wives, stubby fingers, and spray tans.

End the mobbed up executive now.

[josh]

https://imgur.com/gallery/uNUKz3D?fbclid=IwAR2iE18KA5z3DzfvOmfcOKv-JBam688Euhpj7ws1n5quiaixnmd9yj5W06s

Joe Walsh's explanation about how he (belatedly) concluded that the 2020 GOP is a cult, not a political party.

[LarryBnDC]

https://imgur.com/gallery/uNUKz3D?fbclid=IwAR2iE18KA5z3DzfvOmfcOKv-JBam688Euhpj7ws1n5quiaixnmd9yj5W06s

Joe Walsh's explanation about how he (belatedly) concluded that the 2020 GOP is a cult, not a political party.

Achtung, y’all.

[bankshot1]

https://imgur.com/gallery/uNUKz3D?fbclid=IwAR2iE18KA5z3DzfvOmfcOKv-JBam688Euhpj7ws1n5quiaixnmd9yj5W06s

Joe Walsh's explanation about how he (belatedly) concluded that the 2020 GOP is a cult, not a political party.

Achtung, y’all.

Unfortunately Trump's increasing willingness to flaunt his authoritarian excesses are enabling most Repubs to openly express their long repressed inner-Nazi.

if it wasn't so dangerous, it would be pitiable.

[josh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Murguia

Judge Murgula has resigned and none-to-soon.

We need to get these kinds of public officials out of office, regardless of their political party. Having them serve as judges, as congressmen, or as officials in an administration just sets up more women to be mistreated.

[bambu.]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/squeegee-men-mark-the-return-of-new-yorks-dark-days/news-story/9cdffdb2eb7c4d0f3b5ab26f474a2898

Squeegee men mark the return of New York’s dark days

Seven years into New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term, the once safe streets of the city look to be going back to the bad old days thanks to the return of the squeegee men, writes Miranda Devine.

Back in the bad old days in New York City in the 1980s and ‘90s, the emblem of all that was rotten in the Big Apple was the squeegee man.
You couldn’t stop at a traffic light without being harassed by windscreen washers with dirty pails of water and a grubby squeegee, demanding money for their unwanted services and often getting aggressive if they were denied.

One of the first “quality of life” decisions Mayor Rudy Giuliani made when he cleaned up New York was to crack down on the squeegee men, because he said they represented the lawlessness of the city.
But now they’re back, along with subway graffiti and turnstile jumpers.

They’ve been spotted menacing motorists in midtown Manhattan, and near the entrance to the Holland tunnel. The “scourge of the 90s,” the New York Post described them on its front page on Monday.
There’s no surer sign that New York is fast plunging into the crime and squalor of the pre-Giuliani era.

The unbearably woke current New York mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has done his best to reverse those reforms, neuter the NYPD, empty out the prisons and create a sanctuary city where illegal immigrants who commit crimes are protected from federal law.

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Oh dear.

[facilitatorn]

 It’s a particularly nefarious state of ignorance that the telegraph is impregnating you with.

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/squeegee-men-mark-the-return-of-new-yorks-dark-days/news-story/9cdffdb2eb7c4d0f3b5ab26f474a2898

Squeegee men mark the return of New York’s dark days

Seven years into New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term, the once safe streets of the city look to be going back to the bad old days thanks to the return of the squeegee men, writes Miranda Devine.

Back in the bad old days in New York City in the 1980s and ‘90s, the emblem of all that was rotten in the Big Apple was the squeegee man.
You couldn’t stop at a traffic light without being harassed by windscreen washers with dirty pails of water and a grubby squeegee, demanding money for their unwanted services and often getting aggressive if they were denied.

One of the first “quality of life” decisions Mayor Rudy Giuliani made when he cleaned up New York was to crack down on the squeegee men, because he said they represented the lawlessness of the city.
But now they’re back, along with subway graffiti and turnstile jumpers.

They’ve been spotted menacing motorists in midtown Manhattan, and near the entrance to the Holland tunnel. The “scourge of the 90s,” the New York Post described them on its front page on Monday.
There’s no surer sign that New York is fast plunging into the crime and squalor of the pre-Giuliani era.

The unbearably woke current New York mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has done his best to reverse those reforms, neuter the NYPD, empty out the prisons and create a sanctuary city where illegal immigrants who commit crimes are protected from federal law.

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Oh dear.

If Trump wasn’t Fred Trumps kid he’d be a squeegee guy at the off ramp of the Queensborough Bridge

[FlyingVProd]

The President is in town, I told him to go to Oki Dog...

http://www.oki-dog.com/

Oh, and no wall, and no more children in cages.

We need new trade deals, on that I agree, but we do not need walls.

We need to be allies with Canada and with Mexico, and no walls are needed.

Salute,

Tony V.

[josh]

"I am a crook."
~Donald J. Trump

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-calls-for-all-cases-stemming-from-mueller-probe-to-be-thrown-out-idUSKBN20C1RG?fbclid=IwAR082TUDIsuGsu6y-f2QxJSf7PObmqkL9SdUR5YkJkSu3MNq_i3A3WTc77E

[barton]

I'm actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country.

(watch the pathetic cultists fall all over themselves to tell us that was just "a joke. ")

[Hairy Lime]

Susan Collins appears stupider and stupider with each passing day.

[barton]

Well,  she was right,  in a way...

Trump HAS learned a lesson.   Lesson being that his "exoneration" means he can now do and say anything that he wants to.   

[FlyingVProd]

Trump heads to Central Valley after slamming California on immigration, homelessness

By Colleen Shalby, Jaclyn Cosgrove and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times

5 hrs ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-heads-to-central-valley-after-slamming-california-on-immigration-homelessness/ar-BB10apMc

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President Trump is going to Bakersfield today, we will see how they like him.

Bakersfield was the home of Buck Owens, he ruled Bakersfield.

My Mother lived in Bakersfield for awhile, her parents did business there, and they owned an auction and stuff, Buck Owens used to come to their auctions. She said Buck Owens was a good guy.

I saw Buck Owens at the Orange Show in San Bernardino as a kid, he played with Roy Clark, and Johnny Cash.

It will be interesting to see how Trump does in Bakersfield.

Oh, and Bakersfield is a good place for new immigrants, land is cheap, and there are some agriculture jobs. Some people really love Bakersfield.

Salute,

Tony V.