I'm a lawyer. I'm trained to cast speculative opinions as fact.
I wasn't trying to.
I didn't say within 50 years, although that wouldn't surprise me.
I hear you. You got a better prognosis?
Yup.
Gotcha.
OK. I just think you're an example of how far right the country has moved the last few decades. You and Aloha are talismans. Aloha is being accused here of being a liberal.
Perhaps you're right and I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. I just call them as I see them.
That's cool. Rock was an iconoclast of the left. He was here not too long ago - June 9, 2023 per my search.
I don't know what's going to happen in this country and that scares me. Before 2016, I never had these worries. Maybe I'm being too dramatic. But that's even more reason I don't want what I think of as bad ideas to float around without being challenged by people in the same party/ideology. Because then, they could gain real currency.
Why aren’t these radical professors being called out and censored?
Me either.
A lawyer? Dramatic? No way.
Agreed.
*shudder*.
Oh, it's Rockfish. Sorry, I was imagining a guy with The Rock as an avatar (which would be cool). I only had one interaction with him.
I don't know . . . First Amendment perhaps?
They should be called out. Censored? Because we are lucky enough to have the First Amendment.
I just don't see people up and moving. Sure, I could. But my parents couldn't. They are in their late 70s and have lived where they've lived their whole lives.
Sorry . . . an old habit. Yes, Rockfish. Nope, no The Rock here so far as I know. I'd be surprised if you turned out to be farther left than either Rock or me. I'm a holdover from the New Deal types. Socialist, some say. (I don't think so, but here we are.) I've been to Snow's Corner . . . it's on the way to where my cousin used to live.
The first amendment was shattered for college professors who disagreed with Lord Fauci.
I’m a firm believer that you should never put anyone on ignore via tech. It’s a sign of your own weakness.
I don't think he's advertising it, largely for employment purposes. I was told (by a reliable source familiar with this board) that he was told "no political activities", which I guess he interpreted as participation on this board.
Even if that's true, two wrongs don't make a right. I think I should put that in my signature at this point, if I knew how to do such high-tech wizardry.
They are way more radical, organized, funded, and calculated. People are waking up to the fact that current university model is a scam for the most part unless you have money to burn for a drunk day care program, so all is not lost.
Yea, nutty professors and colleges are why we’re hellbent on the government forgiving student loans.
Right now the wrongs on one side are winning the day. If the other side don’t start fighting back, what a screwed up country we’re going to have.
Can't help you there. I'm an "IND" after being a registered Republican for many years when it was still a great party.
The first amendment was shattered when desantis went after disney.
Why should Disney be able to have their own State within a State?
Get back to the kids table junior
Are you insane? You just provoke retread arguments that you’ve had a million times.
And people question whether we'll have a civil war?Dems, please rein in your radicals:
Tyranny of the minority: Liberal law profs urge Biden to defy the courts and the public
They are calling for Biden to declare himself the final arbiter of what the Constitution means and to exercise unilateral executive power without congressional approval. In other words, they want a…thehill.com
In a recent open letter, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin called upon President Joe Biden to defy rulings of the Supreme Court that he considers “mistaken” in the name of “popular constitutionalism.” Thus, in light of the court’s bar on the use of race in college admissions, they argue that Biden should just continue to follow his own constitutional interpretation.
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Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks was celebrated for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country.
MSNBC commentator Elie Mystal called the U.S. Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has questioned the need for a Supreme Court.
In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the Constitution to be “radically altered” to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
So the danger is now “constitutionalism,” as opposed to what Tushnet and Belkin call “popular constitutionalism.”
Many have called for the court to be packed with liberal appointees to bring it back to what Biden views as “normal.” Some of these calls before Biden’s Supreme Court commission echoed the same views as Tushnet and Belkin. Indeed, they cite Harvard professor Nikolas Bowie, who rejected the notion that “the constitutional interpretation held by a majority of Supreme Court justices should be ‘superior’ to the interpretations held by majorities of the other branches.”
Local legend has it that the local Cherokee word for the trail of tears is said to be "E-tow-ah". That's how Hightower Trail Middle School supposedly got its name.
Why? He's entitled to an opinion, same as you.
He's too much entertainment. And no one takes him seriously anyway.
How does a civil war break down exactly? Do you know which state has the most registered Republicans in the country? California.
Regional governments? You would effectively end state governments. That just ain't gonna happen, unless all states agree to give up their borders and become Regions.
Not necessarily. And yes becoming regions would be possible in theory. Unlike most/some I actually live this divide. Saint Louis City doesn’t have a county. Saint Louis county borders it and is comprised of a ton of municipalities. There has been talk for as many years as I can remember about merging Saint Louis city and county. The consequences of the separation range from serious to trivial. A little thing like MLS wanting to be downtown meant that 30,000 people in the city who came out to vote determined whether 3 million in the metro got a team.
That's not how a civil war works. If the Constitution is ignored, law will break down (much as it is now) and eventually there will be anarchy. At that point, it's isn't Conservatives or Liberals - it's survival.
Why should The Villages? Why should the other 1800+ special districts in Florida?
