GannonFan wrote:You know, for a POTUS who has been riddled with inaccuracies and just flat out dreamt up stuff, he does have the penchant from time to time to pull the curtain back on the truth of politics and politicians that you would never hear a seasoned politician ever admit to. You could drop the name of any politician into that quote and have a pretty good chance of being accurate.Skjellyfetti wrote:
Our glorious POTUS! Actual quote.
Well someone (probably dback) once tried to make him feel bad for calling someone a "slit" or "ape", and he' still trying to get over it. Repression!Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:How big a fucking snowflake do you have to be to think we got it tough here Alf?ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:He cant fuck this country up anymore than it already is.
Yeah it's just terrible around here!
His humor is often over the top and taken incorrectly. I can see why but trust me, it is a lot of times.Brock Landers wrote:Well someone (probably dback) once tried to make him feel bad for calling someone a "slit" or "ape", and he' still trying to get over it. Repression!Ursus A. Horribilis wrote: How big a fucking snowflake do you have to be to think we got it tough here Alf?
Yeah it's just terrible around here!
...though after visiting Billings this weekend I'd be on board with him if I had to live there. What a depressing hole. That sums up my white MT person problems
And if you think I'm being too harsh, check this out:The root of the problem is that, as the result of widespread and pervasive civic, political and historical ignorance, the aspirations of the polity to participate in governance vastly exceeds its capacity to do so responsibly.
Check out the chart below. Notice that lightly populated States tend to have higher suicide rates. I'm not going to take the time to do the math but hopefully you can take one look at that chart and see that there's going to be a correlation such that suicide rate generally goes up as population density goes down. Kind of weird because I personally don't like too high a population density. But it is what it is.Brock Landers wrote:I have no idea where he lives. I was just trying o imagine being unhappy in MT
Or...ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:Suicide rates are higher here because we have to listen to people from over populated states and their arrogance and uneducated blather make a bullet a welcome thing.
For North Dakota Suicides, American Indians account for a majority of the suicides. 41.5 per 100,000, while the next group, males occur 15.7 per 100,000.JohnStOnge wrote:Check out the chart below. Notice that lightly populated States tend to have higher suicide rates. I'm not going to take the time to do the math but hopefully you can take one look at that chart and see that there's going to be a correlation such that suicide rate generally goes up as population density goes down. Kind of weird because I personally don't like too high a population density. But it is what it is.Brock Landers wrote:I have no idea where he lives. I was just trying o imagine being unhappy in MT
QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§ — United States, 2012
Weekly
November 14, 2014 / 63(45);1041-1041 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm)
Racist, those Indians are noble and proud. Keep your left wing bigotry in SeattleChizzang wrote:Or...ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:Suicide rates are higher here because we have to listen to people from over populated states and their arrogance and uneducated blather make a bullet a welcome thing.
Rampant alcoholism and drug abuse
These tests already exists...it begins and ends with people being too incompetent to properly get the required ID to vote in advance of election day. It kinda works itself out...Skjellyfetti wrote:But, how do you decide who is "informed" enough to vote?
These kind of tests could be worded by a Democratic SoS to black Republican demographics from voting and by a Republican SoS to block typically Democratic voters.
I don't see how there would be any way of implementing some sort of test it would just be abused like "congressional apportionment" turning into gerrymandering.
Good point and the entrenched bureaucracy apparently transcends party.SDHornet wrote:These tests already exists...it begins and ends with people being too incompetent to properly get the required ID to vote in advance of election day. It kinda works itself out...Skjellyfetti wrote:But, how do you decide who is "informed" enough to vote?
These kind of tests could be worded by a Democratic SoS to black Republican demographics from voting and by a Republican SoS to block typically Democratic voters.
I don't see how there would be any way of implementing some sort of test it would just be abused like "congressional apportionment" turning into gerrymandering.
By the way what happened to Trump claiming to drain the swamp, why were all these "leakers" not shit canned on day 1? As a supposed change agent, did he seriously not see this "deep state" (entrenched bureaucracy is more accurate) mentality coming?
The high percentage of suicide rates for Native Americans should be alarming. Below is a link to possible reasons this is happening.Gil Dobie wrote:For North Dakota Suicides, American Indians account for a majority of the suicides. 41.5 per 100,000, while the next group, males occur 15.7 per 100,000.JohnStOnge wrote:
Check out the chart below. Notice that lightly populated States tend to have higher suicide rates. I'm not going to take the time to do the math but hopefully you can take one look at that chart and see that there's going to be a correlation such that suicide rate generally goes up as population density goes down. Kind of weird because I personally don't like too high a population density. But it is what it is.
QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§ — United States, 2012
Weekly
November 14, 2014 / 63(45);1041-1041 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm)
SDHornet wrote:These tests already exists...it begins and ends with people being too incompetent to properly get the required ID to vote in advance of election day. It kinda works itself out...Skjellyfetti wrote:But, how do you decide who is "informed" enough to vote?
These kind of tests could be worded by a Democratic SoS to black Republican demographics from voting and by a Republican SoS to block typically Democratic voters.
I don't see how there would be any way of implementing some sort of test it would just be abused like "congressional apportionment" turning into gerrymandering.
You tell 'em.Chizzang wrote:If you're white and male and living in AmericaUrsus A. Horribilis wrote: How big a fucking snowflake do you have to be to think we got it tough here Alf?
Yeah it's just terrible around here!
and you can't find work or think it sucks here
YOU are your own biggest problem I guarantee that
without question (period, the end)
JohnStOnge wrote:Check out the chart below. Notice that lightly populated States tend to have higher suicide rates. I'm not going to take the time to do the math but hopefully you can take one look at that chart and see that there's going to be a correlation such that suicide rate generally goes up as population density goes down. Kind of weird because I personally don't like too high a population density. But it is what it is.Brock Landers wrote:I have no idea where he lives. I was just trying o imagine being unhappy in MT
QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§ — United States, 2012
Weekly
November 14, 2014 / 63(45);1041-1041 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm)
Wait. This one may be true. There are a lot of men with extremely low standards.Cluck U wrote: If you are a woman, and you can't get laid, Chizz guarantees YOU are your own biggest problem.
Isolation is major factor in suicide, and it's probably harder to feel isolated when you can't get more than 10 feet from the next person. It is what it is.JohnStOnge wrote:Check out the chart below. Notice that lightly populated States tend to have higher suicide rates. I'm not going to take the time to do the math but hopefully you can take one look at that chart and see that there's going to be a correlation such that suicide rate generally goes up as population density goes down. Kind of weird because I personally don't like too high a population density. But it is what it is.Brock Landers wrote:I have no idea where he lives. I was just trying o imagine being unhappy in MT
QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§ — United States, 2012
Weekly
November 14, 2014 / 63(45);1041-1041 (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm)
I have to snicker at all the Trumpies getting their panties in a bunch over "The Deep State""Authority is power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it"
(for all you Max Weber fans)
First of all, you used the words "pablum" and "conflated" in that post. Are you sure you didn't lift this post from an unacknowledged source? Just saying. I had to look up pablum and while I certainly knew conflated, I gotta say, it doesn't come up a lot. Vocab is fun though.Aho Old Guy wrote:I have to snicker at all the Trumpies getting their panties in a bunch over "The Deep State""Authority is power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it"
(for all you Max Weber fans)
The USA is a modern rational state based upon a legal structure of authority which is built upon a bureaucratic administrative structure. Get over it. Our Govt is made of laws, not populist pablum.
In the Dick Cheney White House the push was made to expand the Office of the President into a "strong(er) unitary executive" (which interestingly enough, the term "unitary executive branch" first appeared during the Reagan Administration in which The Dick was SecDef). The "expansion" of the concept has consistently grown since Reagan (not a surprise). What is also not a surprise is that our Presidents typically use their powers as Commander-in-Chief to expand the unitary executive power because it stands the best chance to pass Constitutional muster (NATIONAL SECURITY, dontyahknow ...).
Trump has conflated his populist 'charismatic' election (Is that diplomatic, or what?) with some convoluted vested legal authority fantasy which does not exist of a 'strong unitary executive' --- hence, the Federal Courts have already spanked his arse.
AND, if you want to see who really pumps The Deep State, go to Open Secrets. The looters of the US Treasury and their special interest lawyers are well represented there ...
The idea was discussed in depth even going all the way back to the Constitutional Convention, and was the topic of a lot of debate and the unitary executive was the feature of the Virginia Plan that was ultimately accepted (not all of the Plan was of course) and it comes up in the Federalist Papers as well. It was the opposite theory/option to a multiple-person Executive branch which was on the table during that time as well. But rest assured, we've had a "unitary executive branch" since the first state ratified the Constitution, your bastardizing of the term notwithstanding.Damn...rarely do I get disappointed by one of your posts. Pablum...pretty easy. And, "conflated" is the dime store vocabulary word that has been all the rage in the main stream news recently.GannonFan wrote:First of all, you used the words "pablum" and "conflated" in that post. Are you sure you didn't lift this post from an unacknowledged source? Just saying. I had to look up pablum and while I certainly knew conflated, I gotta say, it doesn't come up a lot. Vocab is fun though.Aho Old Guy wrote:
I have to snicker at all the Trumpies getting their panties in a bunch over "The Deep State"
The USA is a modern rational state based upon a legal structure of authority which is built upon a bureaucratic administrative structure. Get over it. Our Govt is made of laws, not populist pablum.
In the Dick Cheney White House the push was made to expand the Office of the President into a "strong(er) unitary executive" (which interestingly enough, the term "unitary executive branch" first appeared during the Reagan Administration in which The Dick was SecDef). The "expansion" of the concept has consistently grown since Reagan (not a surprise). What is also not a surprise is that our Presidents typically use their powers as Commander-in-Chief to expand the unitary executive power because it stands the best chance to pass Constitutional muster (NATIONAL SECURITY, dontyahknow ...).
Trump has conflated his populist 'charismatic' election (Is that diplomatic, or what?) with some convoluted vested legal authority fantasy which does not exist of a 'strong unitary executive' --- hence, the Federal Courts have already spanked his arse.
AND, if you want to see who really pumps The Deep State, go to Open Secrets. The looters of the US Treasury and their special interest lawyers are well represented there ...
Second, the term "unitary executive branch" didn't originate with Reagan. Again, education of our own history comes up short yet again.
