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(His most disgusting news conference to date): Trump scolded Puerto Rico for busting his budget

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 3:49pm

Please excuse the source but there is an actual video on the Crooks & Liars website of this jackass actually saying the following:

Trump said, " Nick Mulvaney is here. And Nick is in charge of a thing called "budget."

He continued, "Now I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’re throwing our budget a little out of whack, because we’ve spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that’s fine, we’ve saved a lot of lives.”

On Constitutions which use the word "indivisible": An observation.

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 2:20pm

This will be a really short Essay, but I think it's a question which needs to be answered.

Has anyone else around here noticed that every time the clause "The State is Indivisible" or equivalent appears in any country's Constitution, that country has a chunk of its land and people who emphatically do NOT want to be part of it?

Is Colin Kaepernick's "take a knee" the start of a peaceful revolution?

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 2:05pm

An object lesson in the differing world views of large segments of society is offered in the responses to former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Exercising considerable bravery, CK knelt during the playing of the national anthem at the beginning of a football game. He is intelligent and certainly was aware of the possible repercussions of this act, which, in fact, were realized.

Do we have any clear, rational view on secession policy?

Submitted by Craig234 on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 1:06pm

We have a general idea of support for 'self-determination'. See the colonies declaring independence from Britain in 1776.

Then it gets fuzzier. We left it pretty ambiguous after that, until the south tried to exercise a
right to secede in 1861, and we said no, you don't have that right.

So if there is any principle around the issue, it seems to suggest that people who don't have the power of democracy have a right to secede, but people who have democracy, don't.

The Dark History of The Second Amendment

Submitted by Meteor Man on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 1:01pm

The original intent of America's founding fathers on The Second Amendment, from Alternet:

So Few Americans Understand What the Second Amendment Is Really About—or Its Dark History:
The Second Amendment is an anachronism that's no longer relevant today.

So, if the Second Amendment wasn’t originally about protecting gun rights, why is it in the U.S. Constitution? What were the Founders thinking?

Climate change mitigation again: California this time

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 12:55pm

The climate disasters are coming, and there probably won't be a lot of traction for the next four years because the Democrats all got behind Clinton (who wasn't going to do anything besides propose an overelaborated and useless sop to the fossil fuel companies anyway).

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