American democracy health thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by superdave, Mar 11, 2018.

  1. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Cascarino's Pizzeria BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Maybe you don't consider 4th estate failures as part of a failing democracy. I do.
     
  2. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, we have a media bias thread AND a tweet thread, so….
     
  3. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh well.....Please proceed MTG. Let's call it the Greene New Deal, while we are at it.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for a ‘national divorce’ between red and blue states amid the escalating standoff over migration at the Texas border,” Business Insiderreports.

    Said Greene: “When I said we need a National Divorce this is exactly what I’m talking about and a serious example as to why.”
     
    Cascarino's Pizzeria repped this.
  4. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    I really hope Biden and federal law enforcement are taking this seriously (I am ok with them not reacting overtly…but this could spiral into J6 x 100. They better be prepared for this)

    With that said…I do wonder how long these chuckle********s think their precious gun rights are going to last in their new independent republic…particularly when there is a well armed insurgency of half their population that didn’t want to leave the union. How is the independent state of Texas going to differentiate good guys with guns from bad guys with guns?

    Furthermore…it’s gonna be awesome when the Republic of Texas is invaded by its much larger neighbor with 5x its population and a desire to reclaim historical lands lost…particularly when the remaining states in the Union support the big guy instead of the little guy in that hypothetical exchange.
     
    luftmensch and charlie15 repped this.
  5. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Some were asking how tag will implement his fascist takeover..... Here is one of the tools.



    Trump’s Secret Plan to Expand Presidential Immunity

    Rolling Stone: “According to two sources who have discussed the topic with the ex-president since last year, Trump and people close to him intend to expand a Nixon-era memo from the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel that has effectively prohibited the department from prosecuting sitting presidents for decades. Some Trump advisers and others familiar with these discussions say they plan to have a thoroughly Trumpified OLC issue a new memo, which would advise that the department should prohibit the prosecution of presidents even after they leave office. (The existing Department of Justice memo is generally interpreted as applying to presidents only when they are in power.)”

    “These ideas have been briefed to Trump by a handful of right-wing lawyers and longtime associates over the past several months, the two people with direct knowledge of the situation say.”
     
  6. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Cascarino's Pizzeria BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Soooo more evidence that the pardoning of Nixon was a YUUUGE mistake 50 yrs ago. Still having ramifications.
     
    rslfanboy, Mike03 and American Brummie repped this.
  7. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    I suppose the idea is that they will make living in the new Confederate States so unappealing that migrants won't want to go there anymore.
     
    Cascarino's Pizzeria repped this.
  8. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    It worked for me.
     
    Mike03 and Sounders78 repped this.
  9. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Cascarino's Pizzeria BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Think how desperate migrants have to be to want to cross into Texass :ROFLMAO:
     
  10. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Isn’t that the whole point of the current crisis, that Central American states are in terrible shape? Rampant gangs and crime etc.? Not sure what the joke is here.
     
  11. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey
    I’m not sure revolutions work when the revolutionaries are afraid of getting into trouble.

     
    Mike03 and charlie15 repped this.
  12. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    Bump!

     
    fatbastard, xtomx, SetPeace and 2 others repped this.
  13. NietzscheIsDead

    NietzscheIsDead BigSoccer Yellow Card

    NO WAR
    United States
    May 31, 2019
    NO WAR
    What will you all do when Trump wins in a landslide?
     
  14. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    Leave the USA for good.
     
    xtomx, PJ234 and Funkfoot repped this.
  15. luftmensch

    luftmensch Member+

    .
    United States
    May 4, 2006
    Petaluma
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Storm the Capitol, duh.
     
    soccernutter, MattR, xtomx and 10 others repped this.
  16. cliche_guevara

    Jun 1, 2004
    San Francisco, CA
    Don't give them the answer they want.
     
  17. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Build a wall on our Texas border...
     
  18. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
  19. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    SetPeace repped this.
  20. NietzscheIsDead

    NietzscheIsDead BigSoccer Yellow Card

    NO WAR
    United States
    May 31, 2019
    NO WAR
    That’s a really strange direction to take that in. You do you.

    People talk to other humans like this but consider themselves moral and/or on the good guys team?
     
  21. NietzscheIsDead

    NietzscheIsDead BigSoccer Yellow Card

    NO WAR
    United States
    May 31, 2019
    NO WAR
    What would be the point?
     
  22. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Why should he assume you’re a human when you post like a troll-bot?
     
  23. PJ234

    PJ234 Member

    DC united
    United States
    Oct 17, 2021
  24. superdave

    superdave BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You’re the guy allying himself with fascism, not me.
     
  25. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    It will be much safer for an atheist gay man who teaches evolution. We tend not to do well in fascist countries.
     
    soccernutter, xtomx and SetPeace repped this.

Share This Page