…Republican Lincoln freed the slaves…nuff said.
(I don’t want anyone to say that his original intention was not to free the slaves…GOT IT?)
That is not uncommon. I have good friends who are gun owners, think “hate crimes” are stupid, want lower taxes, and rail against big government- yet they are staunch democrats.
I think it has to do with upbringing, at least in part.
Jewbacca, where have you been? I didn’t see you here in the run-up to the election at all. Hope everything’s going well with you and yours.
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As the one right winger in a family of lefties I feel your pain. I was defending Thatcher to my miner Grandfather. Jesus, that was a fun Christmas.
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The “state’s rights” defence is one of the worst pieces of revisionism imaginable. It is the US version of the “stabbed in the back” theory.
Can anyone with knowledge of US jurisprudential experience on this issue tell me if this has any legs? It strikes me as bullshit, but I really don’t know enough about the constitutional case history in this area to know for sure.
It’s called being all butt hurt because this is the second time in 16 years that the dems have won the popular vote and lost the only vote that matters, the electoral college. Article 2 section 1 clause 3…the electoral college is not going anywhere.
The person pushing for the change was quoted as saying:
“boo hoo sniff sniff Hillary lost…I want to change the rules.”
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Oh it reeks of butthurt, but I just want to know if there is precedent to argue the case.
@thunderbolt23 would be the guy for actual jurisprudence but as far as I know there are absolutely zero legs on this. You can’t claim something is unconstitutional if it is explicitly written into the actual constitution such that it takes up an entire article of said founding document.
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His original intention was to free the slaves. He did not want to go to war over it. But he did not back down on the slavery issue. So in the end the civil war was about slavery as slavery was the issue that made the south try to secede from the union
You don’t need to know case history on issues that are clearly written. The electoral college is the method our Constitution says we will use. There is no argument against that.
It’s a Hail Mary pass, that’s all it is. People are pulling all sorts of shit out of their ass to remedy Trump winning the election.
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Au contraire, it’s unprofitable because it employs the brainless.
This week alone the usps failed to deliver three parcels. Their reason, undeliverable as addressed, they were all addressed correctly. And to make matters worse the counter person could give a shit.
Seven parcels, three from fedx and four from ups were waiting at my gate!
I’d bet my bottom dollar that fedx or ups could still make a tidy profit even with serving rural areas.
And imagine the joy of no fricking junk mail, you know the the crap that keeps the usps in business.
Well it is “one person, one vote,” in your state. We don’t have national elections, we have 50 state elections.
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I think a lot of people are like that, just based on your friends and where you get information like news everyone seems to fall to one side of the spectrum. This is purely based on the above two things and not what you actually think. Its like asking why someone is a fan of some sports team rather than one of the others.
I guess it depends. Where I am at FedEx refuses to deliver to our place of business. UPS deliveries the neighbors packages to us and vice versa on the regular. Twice this year the truck has broke down on the property. Don’t even get me discussing dispute resolution. Never once had a problem w/USPS. Even Amazon has started using USPS to complete some deliveries now. I’ve never waited more than 10 minutes at the Post Office and the people are conscientious and polite.
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…if there were only two major league teams in each sport.
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I wonder if we’ll see a stronger, more active SEC under the Trump administration.
…blamed the financial crisis and subsequent recession on the “greed” of his fellow bankers and expressed anger at the fact that no bank executives faced criminal prosecution.
the people who ran the banks and ran the hedge funds have never really been held accountable for what they did, has fueled much of the anger in the tea party movement in the United States.”
“And they’ve never been held accountable today,” Bannon said. “Trust me — they are going to be held accountable.”
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Exactly my point above.