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6 hours ago, GETTOTHE50 said:
ryan is a dudes name
One of my biggest crushes in college was a girl named Ryan.
Although tbf, she was kind of a dick... so maybe you're on to something 😅 -
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58 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Thus it wasn't the DC NG being made available for J6. They were brought in from across the nation.
Kash Patel, who was at DOD, has testified to these facts under oath to both the J6 committee and in the CO 14th ammendment case.
Forget all this for a moment and imagine if Trump actually did mobilize the NG...
He was being encouraged to do so when the Federal Court house in Portland was under nightly attack for months. Remember Pelosi's storm troopers BS?
He's either forgetting that there are numerous exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), or blatantly lying about it. Both Title 32 and Title 10 provide for those exceptions in addition to state active duty being excluded.
He's also forgetting (or lying about) the mayor of DC or Capitol police as being required to request the assistance. In DC, it's the POTUS that has this local authority.
There are 3 avenues for NG activation:
1. state governors (or, in the case of DC, the POTUS) can activate them locally during a declared state of emergency;
2. state governors (or, in the case of DC, the POTUS) can request the NG to be funded/supported federally under Title 32, pending POTUS/SECDEF approval and gubernatorial consent;
3. NG units can be federalized under Title 10 in cases of war or national emergencies declared by either Congress, POTUS, or SECDEF.
NG units do not have domestic law enforcement powers under Title 10 unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, and presidential discretion is quite broad on this point.
Use of Militia and Armed Forces to Enforce Federal Authority.
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, assemblages, or rebellion make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any state or territory, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any state. This is a statutory exception to the PCA.
Interference with State and Federal law.
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a state, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.
Air and Army National Guard.
Air and Army National Guard can specifically be called into Federal service in case of invasion, rebellion, or inability to execute Federal law with active forces.
So, Trump could have used the first avenue unilaterally for the DC NG, then used Title 32 unilaterally to give them unlimited federal funding/support by approving his own request. Or he could have used Title 10 by unilaterally declaring a national emergency, invoking the Insurrection Act, and using as many NG units from other states as he wished.
This idea that the other lesser officials noted in the tweet effectively blocked deployment of the NG is patently false. -
6 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
For the 1000th time Trump, or any POTUS, does not have the authority TO DEPLOY THE ***** NATIONAL GUARD UNILATERALLY.
He can only authorize it, which he did. In order to deploy the NG, LOCAL AUTHORITIES have to make an official request.
That's not entirely true. The POTUS may mobilize the NG for domestic law enforcement purposes under Title 10 via powers granted in the Insurrection Act. For example, this was done during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
In addition, the DC NG is a special exception to this. The POTUS or the Commanding General has the discretion to deploy them locally; the POTUS is the DC equivalent of the governor of a state. The mayor of DC does not possess this authority, and hence does not have the ability to prevent the activation of the DC NG simply by foregoing a formal request.
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Which National Guard units would have been deployed to the Capitol?
EDIT: Nm, it would've been the DC National Guard, which is under direct control of the POTUS. -
3 minutes ago, mrags said:
Sounds like someone is just upset they are a millennial
I remember reading a YouTube comment on some song from the 60s where a younger person lamented that they were born too late.
Someone else had the perfect response that always stuck with me. "One can never be born too late. When you are born, it is your time; so make the best of it." -
2 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:
It just annoys me. I'm almost 40 as a Millennial, the oldest Millennials are now 43 years old but they still get blamed for stupid things and have stuff said about them like "it's hard to interpret a Millennials tweets" like we are still 25 years old lol.
I know exactly who Gene Wilder is because again, Millennials are either near 40 or over 40. But you still think they are 25 years old lol
I'm pretty sure people are just having a good laugh with you and not being serious.-
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23 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:
personal tax cuts should come back. people spending creates less bubbles. Massive federal spending ends up at the top and the donors' pockets.
Remove tax exempt from PACs and let the rich pay their fair share vs donating to PACS that then promote politicians and wedge topics that promote the system/spending that ends up right back in their pockets. the left talks of removing tax exempt from churches and doesn't want to cut cost. that would raise revenue.
Many hear corporate, and they automatically go to the fortune 500. but 95% of corporations are small. like the coffee shop and mechanic on the corner. The global ones can avoid those cost by offshoring and moving HQ to places like Ireland and Panama. the mom and pop (majority), not so much.
probably collect more revenue if the largest jump in our progressive tax quintiles was not right at the median household income level. Why does federal receipts jump from 12% to 22% right at median household income level? and was it always like this?
https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets
Tax rate on taxable income from minimum income up to the top.
10% $0$11,000
12% $11,001$44,725
22% $44,726$95,375
24% $95,376$182,100
32% $182,101$231,250
35% $231,251$578,125
37% $578,126And up
The median household income is $74,580.
The rich pay the majority of federal receipts. the middle gets squeezed.
The poor, homeless, fixed income are just trying to survive with the dollar being worth less every day.
Removing the cap on the debt back in 2023 was a horrible Idea.
Oh my bad dude. Here I am preaching to the choir and we are already on the same page more than we are not. I didn't read this until just now (tbh when I first saw it, it looked like a copy/paste from a bot? Or at least that's the excuse I'm rolling with lol).
Specifically in response to your corporate vs fortune 500 comparison, I initially included a bit about applying a progressive tax bracket to corporate taxes since a flat corporate tax rate hurts the smaller corporations' competitiveness disproportionately more than it does larger ones but dropped it for brevity. Busting up the big trusts and conglomerates becomes easier when there's a tax incentive for staying below the mega-threshold that can start to have negative effects on economies.
The middle class absolutely does not need to be carrying any more of the burden than they already do. A thriving middle class is the hallmark for economic growth, and that can be achieved by both relieving pressure on the current middle class AND raising up others into the middle class.-
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4 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:
When people have money to spend, the economy moves naturally ..
In a consumption-driven economy, the economy does best when the greatest number of consumers have enough money to consume. A household of 4 that earns $1mil/year does not consume at a proportionally equivalent rate as a household of 4 that earns $100k/year. They do not eat 10x as many meals, or own 10x as many cars, or drive 10x as many miles, or utilize 10x as much electricity, or own 10x as many houses.
The excess wealth from this difference in consumption is often invested, but we have seen more and more lately that the elites use that money to invest in themselves and maintaining their own positions. Corporations use more and more of their profits for stock buybacks to increase share prices and less in new training, technology, and innovation.
Alternatively, the government can tax some of that excess wealth and use it to invest in things that help the greatest number of individual persons, including things that the private sector would be reluctant to invest in due to a combination of low returns, high risk, and lack of current demand. Infrastructure and government services (especially in rural areas) are probably the classic examples of that.
The notion that unregulated markets are inherently infallible and always suffer when government gets involved is absurd. Those regulations came into existence because of the damage that unregulated markets wrought on economies.
And likewise with regards to progressive income tax brackets, the reason why they are so important is the time value of money. Simply put, any money in excess of that required for basic consumption makes acquiring more money exponentially easier per unit of labor. Money already has a natural tendency to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands over time, which is why the redistribution of income from progressive taxation is not only fair, it is essential to economic stability.-
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15 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:
This seems sustainable.
Dems represent special interest, globalist and the will of the fortune 7.
Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans inevitably lower revenues and increase yearly deficits. The capitalist economy did not collapse into socialism when we had much higher effective tax rates; businesses and wealthy people did not vanish due to financial ruin. In fact, we were able to do some pretty amazing things as a society before 1980.
Cutting spending alone will not fix this problem. Obviously there is graft in the budget with the pork and patronage that can always be reduced, but taxes on the wealthy and highest earners must go up either directly or via the strategic elimination of loopholes in the tax code.
The US still gets a remarkable deal when it comes to borrowing money. And don't forget that Americans own much of that debt already. The Social Security Administration is the single largest investor in Treasury securities. A lot of the payouts from Treasuries go right back into our pockets anyway.
It's not like there will be a time in the foreseeable future when the federal government is debt free and ceases issuing Treasuries any longer. The world financial markets and US Treasuries are deeply intertwined. Their function as the safest investment in the world serves the dual purpose of allowing us to borrow money at the lowest rates anywhere whilst providing a hedge for riskier investments and thereby stabilizing the entire global financial system. -
9 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
They used a picture of propane tanks for a story about gasoline reserves? lol-
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8 hours ago, boyst said:
They're the second worst posters here on PPP and why the most knowledgeable posters went to TNP.
TNP?-
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19 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
You do you.
You have people here who live under a perpetual green sky.
Trump colluded with Putin to steal 2016. False, yet still true to them
Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation. .False, yet still true to them
Trump telling people to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol means he told them to stage an insurrection False, yet true to them
Trump called neo nazis and white nationalists very fine people. False, yet true to them.
Men can become women and participate in sports against real women. It's also fair to real women. False, yet true to them.
Parents demand that schools not have books depicting anal/oral on library shelves is book banning. False, yet true to them.
The current POTUS by all accounts speaks better today than he did decades ago. False, yet true to them.
And on and on...
It's like starting a discussion about water chemistry with people who tell you that water is anything other than H2O.
You may call refusing to participate in discussions with people like that weak.
I call it refusing to participate in an exercise in futility.
Additionally it annoys the crap out of them. I enjoy annoying commies. So I got that going, which is nice.
As much as I disagree with numerous claims in your post, I still value your contributions insomuch as they make me think twice.
A person who automatically discounts the information brought forth by political opponents does not have that same opportunity.
A strong mind can handle discomforting opposing arguments with ease, and a weak mind cannot.-
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2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
I ignore you JFR. I ignore the other leftist commies like you.
You're a ***** moron sure, but I ignore you unless someone quotes your idiotic ramblings.
In 25 years of posting on message boards, I've never once utilized an ignore feature.
That just seems... weak.-
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I'm amazed not one person responded to this.
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15 minutes ago, billieve420 said:
McDermott is not going to fire himself. He has made coaching changes including taking over play calling this season in an attempt to get team over the hump. End of the day it will come down to Pegula deciding whether he thinks McDermott can lead team to a championship or not. We just have to hope that they don't waste Allen's prime playing years figuring things out.
If I had the choice, I think I'd opt to fire myself rather than resign. -
Receivers used to be mugged regularly as well. Nowadays a receiver might trip over his own feet and the DB can get flagged.
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6 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
control of what?
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23 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Beyond the FBI....have the CHP officers responsible for that area of the Capitol grounds been reprimanded for allowing an unauthorized structure to remain undisturbed all day on J6?
From sun up to sun down.
Who was still in control on January 6?-
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Timestamped at the point where the offer is made.-
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6 hours ago, US Egg said:
Nothing scary about this:
Hey Lefties, can’t think of what to buy for your kids and grandkids for birthday and Xmas?
Literally 2 minutes of research yielded information explicitly refuting this. The ironic part is that the information came from a conservative research foundation: https://www.newyorkfamilies.org/scholastic-sells-objectionable-books-to-students/
The fact that you don't even pause for a moment to double-check an accusation of this magnitude says a lot about how deeply entrenched your biases are. -
1 hour ago, US Egg said:
Same sick fux bashing Trump on religion are forcing gay porn on elementary children.
Lol what?-
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2 minutes ago, jkeerie said:
Nothing is obvious on this board, Capco. The opinions by some are so extreme most especially when it comes to the Chiefs vs Bills.
Well, they say a good troll attempt is one that isn't obvious, so I'll take that as a compliment! 😅
Two things to keep in mind, imo. 1) fan is short for fanatic, and fanaticism is basically an irrational, emotionally driven state of mind. 2) most people are fairly dumb anyway lol.-
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@jkeerie I was being sarcastic and mocking the whole "sky is falling" theme that is dominating this thread. I thought that was obvious.
Hip drop tackle officially banned
in The Stadium Wall
Posted
I've been taken down from behind before without being hip-drop tackled.
And no... it was not a cop. It was a cornerback lol. I swear!