Which The Patriot Act violates.
Well if it violates anything it's the 4th amendment...not due process. Still, I'm fairly certain that some processes are followed in the procurement of warrants.
When there is a war, it is voted on by Congress and it is against a specific country. We haven't declared war on American citizens.
We have a war on terror that runs 24/7/365 bud.
I would prefer a justice system in which the amount of money one has or their race is not a factor in the dispensation of justice.
I would too...but like many things in life, you get what you pay for.
You know what made me feel better about it? The Depp/Heard case. Watching those undoubtedly extremely expensive lawyers Mrs. Heard hired do so poorly that it was laughable to watch made me realize that it's not just someone who can't afford a good lawyer who gets destroyed by the justice system...often, someone who can afford a good lawyer gets destroyed too.
Also many "detainees" aren't terrorists, they just have an Arabic name.
I'm not sure how you would know that.
By Trump praising the work of dictators, it would seem that he would attempt to implement their tactics in the USA.
By that logic, Biden dismissing genocide in China as a cultural norm would seem that he's willing to dismiss genocide here in the US as a cultural norm.
Or you can just accept that as politicians, sometimes the job requires pretending to like someone you don't like.
Maybe it wan't incitement. It was instruction. He told them to storm the capital and they did.
Do you have a quote?
How can he accomplish that with the Civil Rights Act? Could it be that he is working to give others an opportunity who are not white males?
Well the Civil Rights Act prevents discrimination based on race.
Since equality under the law protects me as well as you, discrimination against "white males" because they are white or male is fundamentally a deprivation of civil rights.
How can someone's actual lif be destroyed by comments on social media? It's words. Mostly it's people who make racist, sexist, or homophobic comments that get a backlash on social media.
I wish people would stop pretending that cancel culture isn't a real thing.
Consider this...
An AI that was programmed to try and be funny was canceled for "transphobic jokes". Fortunately comedians with considerable clout and privilege like Dave Chappelle are much harder to cancel...
But the idea that a computer program that was designed to be funny was removed from the internet for trying to be funny is possibly the most insane example of cancel culture that I can think of.
Just be honest...if you support people going after the jobs of other people they disagree with, because of an opinion they said, just explain why? I'm genuinely curious why anyone would support this to the point of excusing it and pretending it's not happening.
citation? Joe Biden personally handing over children to human traffickers seems a bit conspiracy theory IMO.
I can link you the testimony of the whistleblower for HHS, the department that places these children, and she cites a vast amount of both 1st person experience and statistical data.
The fact these children have ended up illegally employed by the thousands should be evidence enough that it's happening though.
Only cartels dig tunnels?
Along the US Mexico border? Yes. They employ thousands of murderers to extort and ransom these unsuspecting migrants. They fight over small sections of the border that are particularly lucrative. If you think some "3rd party" is willing to cross the sinaloa cartel for example....to build a tunnel and push illegals through...they you aren't aware of the tactics of fear and intimidation these cartels use. They dip people in acid, alive. They dismember opponents completely and leave their body parts in neat little piles.
There's few people in the Mexico government willing to cross the cartels.
A wall is completely ineffective when it comes to bringing people or products into the United States.
A mentally unstable man tried to rush the white house under Biden and failed because of the physical barriers that stopped his van and the armed guards who apprehended him.
I'm not sure why the concept of walls is a struggle for you. Surely your home has walls. Without them, your family and possessions would be extremely difficult to protect. Do they stop a determined intruder entirely? Of course not. The idea that they don't aid in preventing that intruder's entry though is silly.
Especially considering most contraband passes through borders through corrupt officials.
Do you have a citation for that?
Logically, there wouldn't be any need for tunnels if bribing officials were so easy.
I'm sure there's some corrupt officials. Any sufficiently large group will inevitably have them. I've seen nothing to indicate they are responsible for the majority of contraband entering the US though...and I doubt you have either.
I've never heard Joe Biden openly support the work of dictators.
I quoted Biden excusing genocide in China as a cultural norm.
I don't know about that but I'm pretty sure the President doesn't order the assassinations of free members of the press.
The president of China 100% punishes members of the press that are critical of the Chinese government....and they have so for years. Even billionaires aren't safe from being "disappeared" in China. In China, even the average citizen who is in any way critical of the government is subject to severe punishment and as a result, social isolation and ostracization.
It's similar to cancel culture...except it's done directly by the government and not through intermediaries like social media or traditional media.
Did he excuse it or explain why they do it?
He excused it....as a cultural norm.
I don't know what sort of distinction you're trying to draw here. If Trump excused throwing members of the press out of windows in Russia as a cultural norm....I don't think you'd be asking me if he "excused it or explained it."
And from what you've shown...Trump hasn't said anything so egregious.
He simply said things like "I like Putin". Do you have him stating that he approves of throwing members of the press out of windows?
Trump ended the funding of our Troops. Biden actually called the troops home.
No...the deal brokered with the Taliban to exit Afghanistan was done under Trump.
"The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership."
I don't know what sources you're reading, but you're just wrong about this one. Trump made the deal...and while he was in office, the withdrawal went smoothly. When Biden took over, he failed to listen to both advisors who said he couldn't delay the process....which he did anyway....and failed to hold up to the withdrawal agreement. This led to the embarrassing retreat from Afghanistan.
Those are the facts.
I didn't "swallow" anything, I stood up for their right to protest.
Oh come on...we've all seen the fruits of their efforts.
They started off protesting the shooting of unarmed black men by white cops...then shootings by all cops regardless of race....then their narrative that the white cops were racist changed to all cops are implicitly racist, and when that fell apart....the even more vague claim of "systemic racism" in policing. All to keep the donations flowing in...all to keep selling t-shirts....all to cash in on the ginned up outrage over a handful of shootings by police. In the end, they were proposing the complete abolishing of police as a solution....and lots of suckers didn't just support this, they demanded it.
They raised 92 million dollars, bought themselves some mansions, and retired having successfully scammed about half the country with the help of a complicit media and gullible political left. The Democrats won the presidential election and suddenly....you don't hear about black men gunned down by police anymore do you?
It's not like it's stopped....it's not even as if it's slowed down. Stats indicate it's about the same as ever. Democrats did nothing to solve or even help this "problem" because any solutions proposed backfired immediately and were no longer popular. Did they take those first two years when they controlled both the House and Senate and do anything for black people?
The sad thing is no. And why would they? They got your vote. They moved millions of illegals into poor neighborhoods in Chicago and NYC that are largely black...and put them up in hotels. They gave these people who arrived here yesterday food and housing....while homeless black people are on the streets.
This sad scene played out last week and it perfectly explains the situation.
The migrant crisis is impacting the Thanksgiving holiday of one Queens neighborhood. New York City Housing Authority's Queensbridge Houses residents look forward to weekly mobile food pantries, but over 8,000 migrants have moved in over the past year, straining the resources meant for New Yorkers.
www.fairus.org
Free Thanksgiving meals meant for poor, and largely black, NY residents got eaten by illegals first....leaving many black US citizens hungry.
You voted these people in and they put you dead last. They gave total strangers who cut and run whenever things get tough in their nations food, housing, and now they want to get them jobs. They're doing it in the same neighborhoods where black people have been struggling for years....where black people are homeless on the streets.
I don't have to convince you that you've been played. If the fact that you've been shorn like a sheep doesn't show you what they think of you...then there's clearly nothing I can say that would convince you.
After all, I'm just a white man whose opinion doesn't matter, right?
Was it even proven he was cheated out of anything in the multiple court cases he initiated all over the country?
No...not that I recall.
Did he not attempt to get the Electoral College to vote against the results of a legitimate election?
I don't know if those decisions were made by him or by his supporters without his knowledge.
Did he not turn against the Vice President for ratifying the legal results of the public vote and the vote of the Electoral College?
I vaguely recall him saying some unkind things about Pence.
Oh wait, he FELT LIKE he was cheated.
Right. It's something that happens quite a lot in our elections. Stacy Abrams fought the results of her election loss for years despite a total lack of evidence she was cheated.
A reasonable person might see this as an indication that our election process needs updated in a manner that increases confidence in the results by implementing some kind of uniform standards for voting in state and federal elections.
Does that give him the right to stay President when he was voted out?
Well technically he's president for multiple weeks after an election loss....the new president doesn't take office immediately after the election.
Surely you knew that?
If he were to be made President in that case, isn't that pretty much the definition of dictatorship?
No. We have this thing called the "separation of powers". A dictator would have to also take over the House, Senate, and Supreme Court of the United States to be dictator. I would also point out he would need the backing of the entire military, since they are obligated to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
I can genuinely understand why you might have concerns about a Trump dictatorship. The left wing media has been beating that drum since the last election. It's propaganda...nothing more. They know that they haven't done anything for the black community despite so many promises....and rationally, there's no read to believe a second Biden term will be any better. I watch left wing political pundits....I've heard the rhetoric.
The reality is that there wasn't any threat of a Trump dictatorship in 2020....and there isn't any such threat now. They've thrown every charge they could dream up at this man to smear his name and prevent him from running. Remember where this started....they claimed that he was a Russian plant. That Putin had some embarrassing dirt on him and he was in Putin’s pocket. It turned out to be all lies. Now? Now they claim that his condo in NY is only worth 150 million dollars despite him claiming its worth 190 million. Who's the victim here? Some huge bank that gave him a loan?
Perhaps they have some actual evidence of wrongdoing that they can justify Trump's prosecution on....but if so, they should have focused on that instead of this strategy of throwing every accusation at the wall and seeing what sticks. It stinks of political persecution. The kind of tactic employed by dictators....and something completely disgraceful in a democracy.
I don't know that any of this is true. I think cutting off energy resources to a nation is fundamental in war.
If you want evidence that selling, providing, or using cluster bombs is a war crime I can link you evidence.
But don't ask if you aren't going to read it.
How could we have prevented the war in the Ukraine? It sounds like a typical right-winger attempt to blame Biden for everything we don't like.
We didn't have to get involved. We were war free for almost a whole year. The Democrats seem determined to flush taxpayer dollars down the toilet in losing wars. Biden's current stance, if you aren't aware, is that the Ukraine should negotiate a peace....implying this administration no longer believes in victory. That won't get us back all the money wasted....and worse for the Ukrainians....lives lost.
Makes one wonder why we did this at all....you know, aside from jumping on the opportunity to make the military-industrial complex vast amounts of profits.
