Who is President?

And this is why the Electoral College is an impediment for liberals.

Did you miss, or just ignore the part where I sad as long as they follow thr law. Assassination is not legal.

The point is there is no law that isn’t broken in a coup. They may be peaceful, but I’ve never heard of a lawful coup.

Ew.

Yea, I agree with you there. I tend to think that women who sport Charles Manson eyes are on the psycho side of things.

I actually heard about that and was dismayed and surprised (yes, the story was carried in the “mainstream liberal media”).  Dismayed that the students resorted to violence, and surprised that they would.  The UC system is very selective, I would have thought their students clever enough to know better.

Oh come on doctor. You can’t be this naive. The behavior of the students comes about through implicit and direct permission and acquiescence and support from the faculty and leadership at those schools. When you have an army of privates and corporals willing to take the fight to the enemy on your behalf, you support them. That’s what is happening on many college campuses today.

If you think this is bullshit, tell me why schools haven’t cracked down and expelled students for preventing conservative speakers from speaking on campus, for violently attacking college republicans, and for other unlawful activities undertaken right on their own campuses under their own noses.

Back to the OT of the thread: Bernie's age doesn't bother me. Yes it's a liability, statistically speaking, but statistics don't address the individual. He has always seemed sharp and I've seen nothing in his recent public appearances to suggest cognitive decline. My problem with Bernie is his policies (Medicare for all would be a disaster in this time of $22 trillion debt), his narrow focus on economic inequality (he lives in a left-wing populist world where the common man is good and big business the epitome of evil), and the fact that he can't discuss international affairs intelligently to save his life, my main takeaway from the Clinton-Sanders debates in 2016.

So far there hasn't been an announced dem candidate I could vote for. They're mostly left-wing extremists pushing Sanders-style "democratic socialism", not a real centrist in the bunch. Sad. I'm still very lukewarm to Trump and much of what he does scares the crap out of me, but he has grown into the job more than I expected, and I'd have to hold my nose and punch his number on the ballot if the alternative were any of the current crop of Dems.

My long-shot hope is that a moderate Republican (maybe someone like Kasich - definitely NOT Weld) successfully challenges Trump in the primaries. I realize it isn't likely to happen unless Trump does something REALLY disastrous, but I'm afraid our next President is going to be a socialist if it doesn't. Heck, I strongly suspect that if the Dems had gone for Bernie, we would have a socialist in the WH now.

Primarying a first term president is the best way to elect the opposition party.  Too much money, resources, volunteers, and strategy is wasted beating your primary opponents before you ever step foot into the general.

Any GOP primary candidate knows this, and if they get into the game, you will know they’re playing for the other team.

I agree with you about not using my tax money to fund other people’s religious symbols. I also don’t want to fund their pet (fake) environmental projects, their abortions, their college loan, their cell phones and food stamps, hell 90% of my money is funding crap I disagree with. But I don’t mind funding a war memorial for dead vets, this thing isn’t pushing religion, it’s honoring our dead warriors.

But is it your position that you’re triggered when you see a cross?  To you it represents the whole history of persecution of Jews?  If so how do you go around town seeing churches? How do you watch vampire movies? Holding a cross up to a vampire isn’t symbolizing persecution of Jews; it’s symbolizing triumph of good over evil. Likewise that memorial isn’t symbolizing persecution of Jews any more than the local church steeple is; it’s symbolizing honor for our war dead - specifically those 49. And that’s all it means.

In one respect I do agree with you completely and that is we do need to be on guard about religious groups inserting themselves into governing bodies. The current threat is the push to implement sharia law - in places here in the states! These atheist groups need to pick their battles, and that is one I could get behind.

But they won’t, Rush. You will not see the Freedom From Religion Foundation or any leftist group to touch a Muslim issue.  It’s popular and accepted in today’s society to persecute Catholics and Christians; not so much with Muslims, despite their clear unwillingness to integrate into American society.

Baloney. The first has been interpreted as a wall between Chirch and State since the time of Jefferson. Tons of precedent. Learn something about your own Republic.

Hey dipshit. I’ve obviously read more about it than you.

What Jefferson wrote about separation of church and state was not authoritative. It was his opinion. Yet the mental midgets cling to it like grim death.

Madison Wisconsin is the home to the Freedom FROM Religion Foundation, the group of twerps who keep suing around the country to get religious symbols removed from the public and often private square.

Most towns and municipalities don’t have the money to fight such lawsuits, so they fold to the pressure.

By the way, most precedent has happened in the late 20th century and is full of misinterpretation of the very thing that you have done. It’s about time for the originality intent of the First Amendment to come back in vogue.