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The Thriller said:
Why would the FBI need to find documents on a hoax they already created? I don’t get this
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The first half of the Mueller Report did find the FBI created a hoax, but the second half was about possible obstruction of the hoax. The team leading the raid into Mar-o-Lago is the same team who worked on the Mueller Report. After being exposed as political operators with badges, they are trying to go in after the fact to find anything they can to vindicate their earlier work and they don't care if they have to burn down the entire country in the process.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
The team leading the raid into Mar-o-Lago is the same team who worked on the Mueller Report.
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If you know this is true, you would be able to list the names in both efforts. I doubt you can.

Al-O-Meter said:
After being exposed as political operators with badges, ...
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YAWN. Conservative were pretty happy in the days on COINTELPRO. Now that they are the ones forming violent, subversive groups they've suddenly gone anti-FBI (despite the FBI still being one of the most conservative government organizations). It's too convenient for me to feel much sympathy for you.

www.politico.com

The FBI looks like Trump's America

With 67 percent white male agents, the bureau doesn't resemble America. Did its conservative culture play a role in Comey's surprise decision to reveal the Clinton email probe?
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theintercept.com

The FBI’s Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism

A new report documents the FBI’s history of violating the civil rights of political dissidents.
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I thought this was thought provoking

“the people” in 1789 or 1868 versus today, the most fundamental problem is the tyranny of the past over the present. If today’s Americans could freely decide that the Second Amendment’s “right of the People to keep and bear arms” should remain our fundamental law today, it wouldn’t really matter that the language was, in a sense, proposed to us by members of a very different, long-ago society. The real scandal of the Constitution is that it gives the living people no real choice in the matter. Past generations dictate our fundamental law.
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www.theatlantic.com

The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy

The Constitution doesn’t have to be something we merely inherit; it could be something we can change ourselves—starting with rewriting the too-stringent rules for making such changes.
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The Thriller said:
I thought this was thought provoking
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I highly doubt that.

The quote that so perfectly summarizes the article they essentially use it twice.
the Constitution is too fundamentally antidemocratic a document to serve democratic purposes reliably.
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Oh noes, the founders made a republic.

Bill of Rights Amendment 1: the democratic majority isn't allowed to use their majority to force the minority to believe in their god or silence them no matter how overwhelming the majority.

Bill of Rights Amendment 2: the minority is allowed to defend itself with effective weapons.

Bill of Rights Amendment 3: the minority can't be forced to provide service to the majority no matter how overwhelming the majority.

Bill of Rights Amendment 4: the majority cannot use the power of their majority to take stuff from the minority.

Bill of Rights Amendment 5, 6, 7, and 8: the majority cannot use the power of their majority to create a double standard in the way they prosecute the minority versus how they prosecute the majority.

The Constitution is seriously antidemocratic, with its protection from democracy for the Supreme Court, the election of the President via the electoral college, the process for amending the constitution, and even the election of the Senate before the 17th Amendment was passed.

You have spent your career ignoring evidence to make the kids entrusted to you dumber. There is no way an article online made you think anything other than "This affirms my belief. I'm right. The United States is a democracy and we need to change the government's founding document to make it into a democracy because it is already a democracy."
 

View: https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1565491137984565248


I listened to the address. That’s not what he said. He zeroed in on an anti-democratic right wing populist movement referred to as MAGA, which revolves around a cult of personality, featuring an authoritarian Donald Trump. It’s true that many Americans would be happy with a more authoritarian executive, but this right wing populist movement, which Biden has called “semi-fascism” is anti-democratic and has no place in our country. Biden did not declare war on conservatives overall, at all. We know which political party is currently under the sway of an anti-democratic right wing populism. It belongs in the dust bin of history.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
Bill of Rights Amendment 2: the minority is allowed to defend itself with effective weapons.
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You must live in a different country. In this one, the majority is allowed to defend itself with slightly effective weapons, while minorities are routinely killed while carrying them.

Al-O-Meter said:
Bill of Rights Amendment 3: the minority can't be forced to provide service to the majority no matter how overwhelming the majority.
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Soldiers are the majority of the population?

Al-O-Meter said:
You have spent your career ignoring evidence to make the kids entrusted to you dumber.
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Fortunately, you only teach swimming, so there is little opportunity for you to make kids dumber.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
You have spent your career ignoring evidence to make the kids entrusted to you dumber. There is no way an article online made you think anything other than "This affirms my belief. I'm right. The United States is a democracy and we need to change the government's founding document to make it into a democracy because it is already a democracy."
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I too found it thought provoking, and you actually claimed yesterday that you thought I was someone capable of introspection(gee, thanks, lol). I shared that article after reading it, specifically because I found it thoughtful.

On another front, I’ve read many of @The Thriller’s posts where he provides background information on American history, and trends in American history. As someone who also taught history for a spell, I find he does an outstanding job, IMO, in those particular posts.
 
Red said:
I listened to the address. That’s not what he said. He zeroed in on an anti-democratic right wing populist movement referred to as MAGA
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You might have been listening but you weren't hearing it if that is the impression you came away with. He declared ALL republicans to be enemies of the United States. He blamed "MAGA Republicans" for turning all republicans into threats, but it is ALL republicans who his government now considers to be a clear and present danger. Here is an actual line from his speech:

“There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
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The threat is "the Republican Party today". Last night, Biden labeled a hundred million Americans as terrorists, and threatened unity to him or else.
 
One Brow said:
Soldiers are the majority of the population?
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In a democracy, yes. Soldiers are an instrument commanded by the majority. Because governments typically have a monopoly on violence, democracies often veer into genocide. I'd like the checks on majority opinion to stay in place, thank you.
 
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