Posts Made By: James Brown

Another excellent meme, James!

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Still down.....have seen 30 min to an hour before but not pushing on 5 hours before.....they have major issues on the net and even internally....seems employees badges aren't even working to get them in the doors......

This outage might cause the collective IQ of the United States citizenry to bump up a couple of points!    

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Wow.....he is falling like a rock in the polls. 38% approval rating as of yesterday on the latest Quinnipiac poll.

I predict it will keep falling

Hi Greg:

38% approval is pretty low and I doubt Biden will fall much lower.  There is a "floor" of hard-core supporters who will approve of Biden no matter what he does.  Trump enjoyed this floor of hard-core support too - at about 38% approval.   A different 38% of course!  

If you have not looked at 538's interactive comparison graphs, they are pretty cool.  538 averages out poll results over time, so Biden is currently shown at about 44% approval.  The trend line is certainly there.   Love or hate 538's politics, they sure know how to do cool graphics.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

Scroll down a bit to get to the interactive comparisons between presidents.

Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I'm sure this is about the time that Jim Brown steps in here to excuse the DOJ for their THUG and intimidation tactics.

You'd be wrong about that of course.  I read the memo and thought about it for a while.  While I am not in favor of anyone threatening the school board, school administrators, teachers and so on, and I am not in favor actual violence against anyone, my thoughts after reading the memo and reflecting on it are:

1.  This is not something where the Federal Government needs to become involved at all.  Actual threats against the school board, a teacher, etc. or any real violence must be handled by the state and local police investigators and the state and local courts.  I am not sure any federal crime can even be committed under these circumstances.  Yes, the memo mentions the FBI and DOJ meeting with the local agencies and so on, but why is that necessary?   Any crimes directed against a school board member or teacher are within the jurisdiction of the State and local agencies.  The Feds should mind their own business and let the state and local agencies mind theirs.

2.  I too believe that this sort of memo is threatening to those who disagree with school boards or teachers in a vocal but legal and reasonable manner.  It is far too easy for a school board member or teacher to feel "threatened" by an angry parent and be emboldened by a memo like this and to call in law enforcement, specifically or unintentionally to stifle debate.  

3.  Whether intentional or not, this memo comes across as a prior restraint on free speech and it is easy to see that the predominately D teachers and school boards* are the beneficiaries and the predominately R "angry parents" are those being restrained.  This makes the memo appear to be politically motivated, even if Garland was truly motivated by the safety of the school boards across the nation.  *(At least in my community of Denver, the school board and teaching community is monolithically D.  In Colorado Springs and other R communities there might be R dominated boards.  I don't know.  Rich might.) 

Jim

The memo:  https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Under Merrick Garland, a totalitarian son of a bitch, who it appears would have been the worst, most Partisan hack the Supreme Court would have ever seen.

This DOJ Is in uncharted Territory  and they have NO authority to intervene.

Thanks to Mark Levin who brought this to the attention of his listeners today.

This Democrat Administration is utterly out of control. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/10/05/hawley-torches-doj-assault-on-american-parents-n2596972

You won't get the joke Rich, you never do, but my first thought after reading the memo and considering who started this thread was a snide reply along the lines of:

"So Rich, I guess you are in favor of threats and actual violence against school boards, teachers, and administrators then?"

Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I just think that you're so apathetic on everything that the Dems can do pretty much whatever they, before you'll ever even take notice of it, or even glance at it.

That's what happens when the state takes over, by the time the back benchers even know what's going on, it is too late, because there is no turning back.

I'm glad at Least I was able to bring this move by the Justice Dep't to your attention.  

If I hadn't, 3 weeks down the road when you read (past tense) stories that the FBI (2 weeks prior to your knowledge of it) came to a parent's house to intimidate them and threaten them with jail, you might be totally in the dark.

Just trying to keep you up to date, that's all.  

Apathetic?  I was a delegate to the local R convention in '96.  I always vote and I keep myself apprised of current events.  I'll admit, I don't spend all of my spare time posting unhinged political screeds on a tiny hobbyist bulletin board,  but who does?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Quinnipiac is an outlier?

Really, and then you put up other polls that nobody has ever heard of to counter it? 

I just have to ask, do you actually believe your own bullshit?  

LOL

Seriously, you've never heard of the IBD/TIPP poll?  They are very highly regarded.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

So then Quinnipiac is an Outlier Pollster group according to you?   

No, Quinnipiac is a very highly regarded polling company.  What the heck is your point?  Do you still think that it is ok to threaten and assault school board members?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

We are no longer living in a free republic.  We are living under totalitarian Biden administration rule.

This is the dumbest post I've seen in a long while.  If the above were true Rich, you'd be in a federal prison camp by now, toiling away on a work gang.  Or maybe dead, killed by the jack-booted DOJ thugs.

You know what really bugs me - I too disagree with the thinking behind Garland's memo, as I detailed yesterday in the other thread.  

https://astromart.com/forums/commentary-careful-read-the-terms-of-service/politics/the-leftist-democrat-party-weaponizing-the-fbi-and-the-justice-dept?page=1   Post #6

You and I appear to agree that the memo was a bad idea and politically biased.   But you so ridiculously overstate the scope of the government's potential overreach that you absolutely lose the argument with any rational being.  "Totalitarian..."  Geez, way to to just torpedo any actual reasons why Garland should not have released that memo.  Idiot.


Jim  

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Firearms kill far more people than knives and that's a fact. Don't belittle that fact with your nonsense of a it's a rifle and not a gun HS...

PS (on edit).  I just re-read the whole thread and see that Rod was talking about guns, not rifles when Rich switched him.  The following post is still true, in my opinion, but I no longer think Rod is missing a point.  Rich merely tricked him and I missed that when I jumped in to the middle of a thread.

Hi Rod:

I think you are missing a point here.  The point is that handguns, not rifles kill so many people.  Yet the gun law crowd wants to ban a specific rifle style.  There is a logical disconnect that is important.  Since rifles are used so infrequently in crimes, why ban them?

Here are some possible replies I've seen to that question:

1.  Even though rifles are infrequently used in murders, they are often used in mass shootings like Las Vegas.

2.  Rifles like the AR-15 and similar platforms are not used for defense or hunting, which are the two reasons behind Heller.  (This one is BS since people do hunt with so-called "assault weapons" and tons of people use them for home defense.)  Even so, I have seen this bad reason thrown into the conversation.

Personally, I am pretty sure that the gun law crowd goes after the "assault weapon" style of rifle because of the way they look, not for any legally compelling reason.  They would go after all guns, but the 2nd Amendment as interpreted in Heller prohibits it.

Jim