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Rule of Law is not demanding Laws on the Books not be enforced.

Rule of Law is not declaring that police using tasers on aggressive drunks is deadly force, then a few days later declaring that the police weren't justified in using deadly force on an aggressive drunk using a deadly force taser on them.

Rule of Law is not declaring the Electoral College invalid because the winner didn't also get the popular vote, which is not how Presidential Elections have ever been run since 1792.

Rule of Law is not letting illegal aliens go for traffic and business violations, knowing they won't show up, while throwing the book at American Citizens for maximum revenue.

When a Party consistently elbows out the Majority view, when it consistently interprets the law according to the Elite Intersectional Views of a minority, disregarding both the current popular understanding AND the lawmaker's intent when written, that's not Rule of Law.

When rioters and looters are called peaceful protesters, and claims to disorder are dismissed with mentions of fire insurance, by the mainstream press, that is antithetical to the rule of Law. And when those same organs that excuse riots of tens of thousands while protesting people using parks or attending a political rally, it's even worse.

The problem with the Left is that they always Overplay their hand.

Trump is doing the right thing by letting them do it.

NEVER interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake.

So many are being redpilled daily by the actions of the rioters and the COVID hypocrisy. I hope the Left creates more chaos in Hipster/Yuppie downtowns and cities like Seattle. The assholes who enabled it suffer the most.

The public will know who to blame, especially when it's their own ass and money on the line and they have to pay attention. When their tire store burns down, their home gets windows broken, their car gets smashed by angry mostly Leftwing White Trust Fund Babies citing Red Diaper Babies and 70s Black Panthers, they'll know who is at fault.

Everyday the disorder continues, thousands of ordinary Americans, and even some Hipster Yuppie Trust Fund Babies, are converted from Intersectional Fascism.

It's all fun and games, until Sarah Silverstein and Martin Lethbridge-von Pfliffen IV come down from their $800k condo to witness their Beamer a complete wreck.

NoCoupForYou says

Rule of Law is not demanding Laws on the Books not be enforced.

Rule of Law is not declaring that police using tasers on aggressive drunks is deadly force, then a few days later declaring that the police weren't justified in using deadly force on an aggressive drunk using a deadly force taser on them.

Right the law is written out clearly and there's not much room for interpretation. Contracts are there to be upheld and not tossed aside for people's feelings, grievances or hate. If you come here you must do so legally otherwise you're a criminal breaking the law. You can be sympathetic towards those but you can't change their definition or consequences as intended by the law. You must change the law first. I consider the US currently a moderately lawless nation. If they can't get a grip on this it will no doubt hurt the nation badly.

DILLIGAF says

https://aeon.co/essays/carl-schmitts-legal-theory-legitimises-the-rule-of-the-strongman

I need to point something out - notice there's no place in there to make a comment on the article?

That's a big red flag to not even bother to read it.

When you have one person speaking that is so fragile that they cannot accept feedback, you're reading propaganda. You are ALWAYS reading propaganda when you are not allowed to provide feedback today.

The reason our propaganda "news" took away commenting is people like me pointed out they were lying through their teeth. Now I don't know a ton about law, so I can't really comment much on the article, but there are people who do - who also can't comment on the article. Ignore bullshit opinions when the pussies can't accept a critique. This is universal. If you see a video on youtube that has comments turned off - ignore it. Same with any "news" article - ignore it.

ignoreme says

I think at a certain level Tim and all the other libs on this site are questioning themselves now. Almost 4 years of Trump and none of their predictions have come true. Yet now they get to watch their side stir up race wars and enact draconian lockdowns all to win an election for a rapist. The cognitive dissonance must give them migraines.

Yep it’s gotta be hard to be the last one Left...

Patrick says

they only used a net to capture the animal and transport it away from the area.

They should do the same to the smelly bums.

So what's the alt-left?

Mountain Lions around my neighborhood in Tri Valley. Wife and I were walking dog and we saw the llon peering at us from a bush coming around a corner couple of years ago.
That was our first sighting. We were both scared shitless, and walked away very fast.

We are gone half the week, so one lion must have decided to use our bushes as a domicile. I heard him right outside my study window twice growling and chirping. It left scats on our front door area.

After the last four point temblor, the next evening, we were walking down the path dividing the development. I saw a bunch of eyes bobbing and presumed them to be deer, but they weren't acting like deer. Then, i thought coyotes and shone my light over and saw the haunches and long tail. There were four of them gamboling like they were having fun, presumably a mom and her nearly grown pups. Scared shitless again, and one of them when we looked back stared at us as we went down the path. I reported that one, but I don't think they believed me. If you don't have pix, they think it is too improbable. However, around Santa Cruz, security cameras have been picking up lions in people's driveways.

Then, again a couple of weeks later, when walking in the dark, We saw a lion in the headlights of a car going by run right by our house running from the arroyo into the neighborhood. When we went up our walkway, another cat was headed for us, a bobcat, and turned and high tailed it away from us when it saw us. I think the big cat (mountain lion) had been chasing the bobcat and the bobcat made a stage left right toward us. Anyway, scared shitless a third time. Wife won't walk in the dark any more.

They say that mountain lions need a very large area per cat, but I don't believe it. They are very stealthy, and are clearly around a lot more than they say. Hippie guy who rides his bike early in the morning at 5:30 AM says he has seen lions in the arroyo, as well as wild pigs, coyotes etc. We can see where the pigs have dug things up, but have never seen them yet.

Nature is staging a comeback.

Was it a black panther? BPLM!

jazz_music says

joshuatrio says

What you would consider the hard left?

Yeah, why not post study that finds the hard left to be a bunch of hateful low lifes with a major obsession on vengeance for their supposed victimhood? Like Clinton voters?

And what about those emails?

One wouldn’t expect a member of the hard left to form a coherent response.

Fact is leftist mayors and governors are allowing the far left to run amock and commit violent crimes left and right. No such situation exists on the right nor are supremecists being funded in any appreciable manner.

Meanwhile the four squad members are steering the Deomocrat party and a freaking communist almost got their nomination for president twice.

Lol@Vox.

Sorry, I just have to respond to this. You Lefties are out of your mind:

100K+ dead in COVID. - this is Trump's fault lol? You'll be blaming Trump next for your wife cheating.

No North Korea treaty - huh? There never has been a treaty with NK. The fact that Trump had been meeting with their leader is historic.

No China treaty - they've been stealing our IP and want to destroy us, and you're upset we don't have a treaty with China? Seems like you'd gladly cut off your balls and hand them to China or BLM protestors in solidarity.

13% unemployment - COVID maybe? Oh yea...it's all Trump's fault.

Institutions getting dismantled - not sure what the hell this means, but good idea throwing it in there to try and support your foundationless point.

Tim Aurora says

100K+ dead in COVID. No North Korea treaty, No China treaty. 13% unemployment. Institutions getting dismantled,

Yeah, you are right, it is much worse than I predicted.

ignoreme says

I think at a certain level Tim and all the other libs on this site are questioning themselves now. Almost 4 years of Trump and none of their predictions have come true. Yet now they get to watch their side stir up race wars and enact draconian lockdowns all to win an election for a rapist. The cognitive dissonance must give them migraines.

This is a batshit insane interpretation of events.

Baby eats marble...”omg fucking horrible baby”!!!

Tim Aurora says

So far, all the killings are being done by Alt-right.

mell says

Lol the alt right is peaceful while the retarded left is burning down the cities. Whatchou talking about?!

Wat?!!’! Multiple people died in the protests and riots, including police. Are you just blind to the slew of videos showing that?

I'm an independent with right leanings and some left. Let's say 60R/40L. Can any of the left leaning people explain what Alt-right is and what portion of the population it makes up? Tim, Jazz, Marcus, etc..

If you're talking about white supremacy, racism, KKK types, you do know it's only like 1% of the entire population at best. Likely substantially lower. I don't like those people, but it's literally not a problem in the US. Hasn't been for decades. I don't know of one person claiming to be like this in my personal sphere. So I'd really love to know the definition of alt-right.

I'm friends with a ton of people that are liberal, leftist and downright wanting socialism. Quite a few actually, well a ton, lol. They rant and rant and rant about shit they don't understand. You know why they don't understand? They're jealous. Their arguments are based on pure fiction. So they throw a hissy fit because they don't have what others have. It's sad.

Tim Aurora says

Late response and bugling to the extreme

porkchopexpress says

100K+ dead in COVID. - this is Trump's fault lol? You'll be blaming Trump next for your wife cheating.

https://patrick.net/post/1333124/2020-06-18-the-covid-19-smoking-gun

Watch it. Whole way through. Let me know if it's Trump's fault. Could the video be bullshit, sure. But it seems legit. If shit like this is/was going on, COVID has zilch to do with Trump. Nada. Nothing. He could have responded in December and the deaths according to this video, would have still happened in March.

I know multiple nurses and a couple of doctors. You need to talk to people on the ground level. Not news stories. COVID is nothing. I have the data direct from hospitals in the Chicago Metro region including parts of WI and IN. COVID is not what you think it is and what you're being told. It also has absolutely nothing to do with Trump. If anything he's botched the response by going too far with suggesting shut downs and the like. He basically destroying the economy for Grandma. He got bad advice or made a bad decision on his own. Yet you're somehow trying to peg the deaths on him? The logic is backward.

Explain the existence of police in Commie states then, you two fucking geniuses.

WookieMan says

The logic is backward

It's Timmy you're arguing with. The guy who made this "clever" joke:

Tim Aurora says

I think Donald forgot the "." in D.rain the Swamp. BTW, D stands for Donald, so it is Donald rain the Swamp

Cut him some slack.

DILLIGAF says

Does this line of thinking also apply to listening / hearing propaganda like when Potus and or the press secretary cannot accept feedback or storm off the stage because they did not like the question(s)

"Mr. Trump, Are you still a rapist who molests women?"

DILLIGAF says

Other than Shaman who figured out what the essay was about, anyone else who commented not catch the parts in the essay in the OP it was not all about the U.S. ?

The article was bullshit equating Trump to strongman dictators.

DILLIGAF says

You knew a duck too ? I remember one from the Groucho Marx show reruns along with Daffy, Donald etc.

No. This duck was fatter and would never admit he was wrong. And he was smart. Arrogant and confused on some issues, but smart. Last I heard he was producing antifemenist movies.

And just like that the left fell in love with Bolton. The same Bolton they were sure was The Devil himself just couple of years ago.

Bush, Romney and now Bolton.

Bolton is a warmonger who was ignored then fired for not agreeing with the man who hired him.

This happens a thousand times per day and it’s not big news.

Bolton, like others, wants to make money from his brief association with Trump.

I could have warned Trump about Bolton; never trust a guy with weird facial hair proclivities.

thomasdong1776 says

Here is a man who was a firsthand witness to clearly impeachable offenses and a president obviously, utterly unable to perform even the most basic functions of his job. He was a witness, among other things, to [Bush's] inability to distinguish between the interests of [neoconservative hawks] and the interests of his country.

So close! Bolton made excuses for the Bush presidency, and entered us into a war on false pretexts. That's "elite sickness." But the fairytale with Trump and Russia? You've got to be kidding.

The Revolution must purge the jobs of relatives of EVIL WHITE OPPRESSORS!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/stepmother-of-atlanta-cop-in-rayshard-brooks-shooting-fired-from-job

Socialism Good!
Socialism Good!
White Males embody the Capitalist Roader!
Strike the Whites, Empower the Oppressed!
The Wokeness of the Democratic Party is the Only Way Forward!

Wasn't Jeffrey Dahmer Bolton's publicity agent? Trump's crime was exposing Bolton's consumptive, psychopathic war mongering mental illness. Bolton is reverting to form with the fake news parade to show he was always a crook. No ethics, no pride, no standards, no integrity, no morals, he makes a worthy Democrat.

thomasdong1776 says

Bolton clearly didn’t have the balls to testify against his party’s cult leader, and face the almighty wrath of the base and the Fox News/talk-radio machine. And if he’d spilled the beans to the Democrats, he wouldn’t have had any leverage in his negotiations for a big book deal. When elites put tribalism and their own wealth first, and their public duty last, they erode the foundations of liberal democracy. Trump’s extraordinary levels of corruption and willingness to tear this country apart for short-term political advantage have done much of the damage. But I see no real difference between his contempt for our system of government and Bolton’s.

Lol but for Bolton Trump would have been removed from office! So many lulz!!!!

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Was it a black panther? BPLM!

They were orange tan. Trump supporters?

jazz_music says

FuckCCP89 says

Explain the existence of police in Commie states then, you two fucking geniuses.

What part of "news links and civil debate" don't you understand?

Ok, I retract the word "fucking". And "geniuses", of course.

Now, explain.

jazz_music says

I do not have knowledge of what is going on in Russia,

Russia? You mean USSR? It's dead. But they did have police despite the absense of Capitalism.

So, no explanation? Figures.

PWNED.

Well if you love John Bolton so much then why don't you marry him?

Tenpoundbass says

Well if you love John Bolton so much then why don't you marry him?

Since nobody in this thread has expressed love for Bolton, who is this even directed at?

jazz_music says

Even so, Bolton's sure not the darling of Fox any more

Give Bolton a CHAIR! for dragging us into Iraq war that killed hundreds of thousands.
My gripe with tRUMP here is how come he appointed a well-known liar and warmonger to his cabinet (does not look like a trillion-dimensional chess). Now he got what was deserved - Bolton stabbed tRUMP in back, like he usually does.

DILLIGAF says

[In the 1800s] the police increasingly presented themselves as a thin blue line protecting civilization, by which they meant bourgeois civilization, from the disorder of the working class.

Thanks for the Marxist jive talk!

jazz_music says

Ever thought of hiring a personal assistant?

Nobody would hire you for anything, buddy, that's for sure.

jazz_music says

essence of the right wing mind set.

And what is that essence? No one has yet to explain it from their perspective. I've yet to see a cogent explanation on what alt right is. I'll keep waiting as usual. The link above is an opinion piece. Almost everything on the internet is opinion, with no basis in actual facts. Journalism died a decade or two ago. Probably longer. Hence why I asked what users here think alt right stands for. A label was created with no solid definition. Define it.

FuckCCP89 says

WookieMan says

The logic is backward

It's Timmy you're arguing with. The guy who made this "clever" joke:

He got Guam right in 2016 though, so have to give credit where it's due.

Portland wakes up to see what antifa did overnight. A century old statue of George Washington was toppled & set on fire with an American flag. “White fragility,” “Damn white men” & other messages are written on the moment. On the ground nearby: “Defund white men.” pic.twitter.com/zjrsZHJC9o— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2020

Totally not racism.

NoCoupForYou says

Portland wakes up to see what antifa did overnight. A century old statue of George Washington was toppled & set on fire with an American flag. “White fragility,” “Damn white men” & other messages are written on the moment. On the ground nearby: “Defund white men.” pic.twitter.com/zjrsZHJC9o— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2020

Totally not racism.

Well that actions are being done by white beta males who are self loathing. Ehhhh, that feels gross just writing it.

There's a reason Fauci and Bolton were brought close - to keep an eye on them.

Bolton and Fauci would have been used against Trump from Outside the Admin if they weren't brought on board.

Trump's one Sun Tsu son of a bitch. The evidence is that everybody thinks he's nuts and unpredictable, which is exactly what Sun Tsu says a leader should be. Formless.