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7 hours ago, NM11046 said:
Sorry to hear you had some health scares GBR - wondering if I might ask, what area of the country do you live in? Have you always voted along party lines? If you had your choice from the R's (or others) on the primary ballot who were you supporting?
I appreciate your contributions here, we need more like you to participate in these discussions - while I may not agree with your views I appreciate you sharing them and helping me better understand the "whys'. Nothing will get better in this country if we don't listen to each other.
Thank you. All turned out well with the health stuff. I actually do live in Nebraska. I generally vote ideas over people, because people are woefully imperfect. That being said, I have mostly voted along party lines. I would consider voting libertarian over republican if the candidate was right, but I really could never vote Democrat. I’m sure I’ll catch a lot of flack for this, but there’s no way I could vote for a party that’s generally pro-abortion, pro higher taxes and bigger government, and a party that actually booed God....that’s just me though.
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2 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:
Is there such thing as corporate overreach? Is it ok for corporations to leverage life and death situations into a higher demand for products and using that demand to vastly overcharge for said products? Is that freedom? Apparently it is overreach to implement guidelines to prevent this style of business and protect the majority of people, but not overreach to make the guidelines in such a way it allows corporations to take advantage of a person choosing between life or death, which at some point is nearly every citizen of our country.
It is freedom. People can choose whether or not to work for these corporations and people can choose whether or not to support these corporations. Let the market decide and keep the government out of it. That’s how you get cronyism.
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2 hours ago, RedDenver said:
Saying it's government overreach is just an opinion - and saying "massive" makes it hyperbole as well. And the idea that having to pay for something collectively is somehow against freedom is silly. Is the fact we all have to pay for the roads overreach since not everyone drives on them? And there are tons of other things our taxes go to that we might individually not want to pay for: military, police, post office, etc.
Taxes for military and police are fine, the Post Office....not so much. How is the government forcing its citizens to purchase a service not overreach?
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One major thing that I haven’t seen discussed here is how the ACA is massive government overreach. Making it illegal for US citizens to not purchase a service is appalling for a country that is supposed to be free.
Also, while the ACA is really helpful to some people, it royally screws other people. The 1 and only year I used “Obamacare,” I had to go in for some tests. Long story short, if I would’ve paid for these tests out of pocket, I would’ve saved right around $3500 that year. I realize this is how Insurance works. You’re betting the insurance company you will get sick and they’re betting you won’t, but for the government to force me to purchase something that directly took that money out of my pocket, that’s pretty much tyranny in my book. Also, my premiums nearly doubled the next year so I didn’t renew.
Oh, and since I waited until March to get insurance, I was fined $400 out of my already meager tax return. Thanks US government!
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Just now, deedsker said:
People rioting after an election. Seems American, not anti-fascist protest.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27738018/ns/us_news-life/t/obama-election-spurs-race-threats-crimes/
Yeah, there are creepy people in the world.... Still doesn’t excuse actual rioting.
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On 11/30/2017 at 9:56 PM, QMany said:
It’s great they voted “NO.” That’s government overreach. This is supposed to be a free country. The government doesn’t own these cooperations, the people who took all the risk to start the company or the shareholders who invested their personal wealth own them.
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11 minutes ago, deedsker said:
Guess I’ll switch to this one
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/11/11/us/oregon-protest-riot/index.html
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On 11/27/2017 at 9:39 AM, Nebfanatic said:
Hillary no doubt. Hillary isn't a great candidate but she would at least act like a president should act. She wouldn't be attacking the first amendment and giving cabinet positions to all of her crony friends who would use these positions to pay themselves and their families massive sums from the government for work they are not capable of doing. I promise she would have done better in Puerto Rico, which doesn't get talked about enough. Trump has thrown Puerto Ricans and to the wayside, that place is in shambles. There are so many areas she would so better it's astounding. I'm not a huge Hillary fan but Trump has been that bad
This is classic lol.
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1 minute ago, RedDenver said:
So no. Since that's a purely opinion piece that doesn't even mention impeachment.
It listed accomplishments...
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2 minutes ago, zoogs said:
Bull. We had the option to have a government that would try to do much the opposite of so many things that have been and are being attempted since January. We failed to make that choice. That people don’t see the paths as starkly divergent, when it was as plain and obvious as EVER has been, is exactly why we find ourselves at this sad pass.
“A government that would try to do much the opposite of so many things that have been and are being attempted since January,” is this you saying you felt the Bern?
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4 minutes ago, RedDenver said:
Can you defend Trump without having to resort to blaming other people?
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1 minute ago, NM11046 said:
Whataboutism.
And I don't care about it to be honest. Your question was what has he done to sidestep the constitution in an impeachable manner. I answered, gave you sourced info from experts that come from both sides of the aisle.
I'd love to have a discussion about the topic, but I'm not open to being dragged into a circular, trolling debate.
I’m not really trying to have a “circular, trolling debate.” I’m just pointing out that we had no really good options this last election. It was an indictment on this country that Hillary Clinton and Trump were our choices.
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4 minutes ago, RedDenver said:
You realize the guy who says stupid things is against the 1st Amendment, not just shaky on it?
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16 minutes ago, RedDenver said:
Are you talking about the Republicans with Obama?
Not saying you’re totally wrong, but no way the republicans were even half as bad with Obama, as the left is with Trump.
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17 minutes ago, NM11046 said:
I'll let you take a listen/gander at the link below where the ethics lawyers from the past two administrations weigh in. It's a good overview and there are a number of specific examples - it was what made it all make sense for me.
So is this better?
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8 minutes ago, NM11046 said:
GBR - out of curiosity, have you felt his administration has done good things that you've benefitted from or supported? Are you concerned about anything that's happened? Do the former outweigh the later? I'd love to better understand, I am really struggling to appreciate how there are still people believing in him and defending his daily actions. And it goes beyond the tweets.
Trump saying stupid things is disconcerting, but not nearly as dangerous as people who don’t like him seem to believe. I think an uptick in the economy helps everyone. I can deal with a guy who says stupid things over a corrupt career politician who is shaky on the first and second amendments, and an actual socialist who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union.
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7 minutes ago, NM11046 said:
These he hasnt' actually been able to get laws changed, but he's laid groundwork and attempted:
2. Suggestions to shut down the Freedom of Press (ongoing in the US but recently pushed his agenda on this across international lines). First Amendment.
3. Attempts to violate the Free Exercise Clause when he targets mosques to be shut down. First Amendment (religious liberty)
4. Use of Cruel & Unusual Punishment. Eighth Amendment. Waterboarding, killing terrorists' families, sending people to Guantanomo.
5. His muslim ban hits a lot of Amendments.
6. His ongoing attempts to lesson the checks and balances of our governing powers by hiring, firing, controlling, lying etc.
And now I'm with Zoogs. If you like all the typical free market stuff of the GOP fine, but you can't honestly tell me that this is the guy that you've signed up for and that you're happy with where he has gotten the US during his short tenure. He is a dangerous man.
2. That’s laughable. Him joking about how dishonest the media is is hardly him actually trying to shut down the free press.
3. If certain mosques want to implement sharia, I have no problem with this. Governments job is to protect its citizens.
4. See my response to #3. Also while I don’t support torture, constitutional rights only apply to Americans.
5. See my response to #s 3 and 4.
6. Didn’t Obama regularly do these things....like using the IRS to target conservatives. Not saying it’s okay for Trump to do these things, but I didnt hear anyone on the left complaining about Obama.
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8 minutes ago, RedDenver said:
Here's a few different times Trump has criminally obstructed:
- Asking Mueller to stop the investigation into Flynn
- Firing Mueller for investigating the Trump campaign
- Saying that he wouldn't have made Sessions AG if he'd known Session would recuse himself from same investigation
- Asking multiple members of Congress to end the same investigation
Asking....Saying....Asking
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People who virtue signal about how great of people they are because of their political views and are so in love with democracy, want to get rid of someone who was duly elected because they don’t like him....
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37 minutes ago, NM11046 said:
1. Flagrant, ongoing violation of the Emouluments Clause. Article 1 of the Constitution.
Examples? Not saying you’re incorrect, just wondering.
16 minutes ago, zoogs said:"and the norms of American governance?"
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Not really an answer.
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On 11/27/2017 at 11:05 AM, NM11046 said:
Who is rioting?
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5 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:
Are there really no longer posters on Huskerboard defending the President or his party?
Not a huge fan of Trump, the person, but I am a fan of government de-regulation and a rising gdp. This is not an original question, but what has Trump done that violates constitutional rule of law and the norms of American governance?
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17 hours ago, ZRod said:
Are you being sarcastic? There were at least 5 spills this year over 80,000 gallons. One over 600,000 gallons in Louisiana.
We maybe be able to clean up most oil spills, but there is also the issue of who is paying for that cleanup. There is a whole other unique situation in the case of the sandhills and Ogallala aquifer. A spill could seep through the soil like a sieve and once it's in the aquifer you're not scrubbing that out.
I guess you have to weigh pros and cons and decide what you think is best. IMO the benefits of having an abundance of oil outweighs having to clean up a few spills a year, which we are perfectly capable of cleaning. As of right now, pipelines are the most efficient way to handle the oil so we have to do our best to mitigate possible damage until we have other Cheap and Efficient forms of energy to power this modern society in which we live.
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18 hours ago, funhusker said:
Ummm........
The reason we're having this conversation is because some of that 72,000 miles failed. And humans with their ingenuity are forced to clean it up....
Humans and their ingenuity are forced to clean up your garbage... Are you going to stop throwing things away or know this is how modern life works and trust it to be dealt with?
I guess we wouldn’t be having this conversation if there were no pipelines. Is that what you want?
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