We could stop letting the heirs of rich people take control of such vast fortunes which they did not earn. And we could stop letting people accumulate that much relative (to the rest of us) wealth in the first place. You know: tax them properly.
It’s official: The White House basement is flooding.
Some of the responses are so good!
Oh, I see, by “dynasty” you mean “family that perpetuates its wealth by inheritance” rather than an actual hereditary succession of rulers.
Yes; I’m sorry for not being more explicit seeing as how the two are potentially conflated with a few families, including the Trumps. It just didn’t occur to me when I wrote the other post.
This is concerning:
Pompeo setting up a group to decide, “You know, what rights are really ‘rights’, ya know?”
I find it unlikely that they’ll land on, “If it only offends the sensibilities of others then it is an inalienable right.”
Because half the country thinks that it’s fair to punish people for breaking the law and don’t view that as evil.
I don’t know where to put this, so here:
Duterte of the Philippines says, if the United States declares war on China, he will, too.
Seems президент Trump is willing to do anything to get that darned census question added, including letting it slip out his hopes that it will help re-districting.:smack:
I’m getting so fucking sick of his desperate boondoggle to stick it to those no good brown types. Even more infuriating is that his stupidly blurting shit out like that (“I was going to fire Comey anyway”) will have abso-fucking-lutely nada effect on anything.
Well, this would not be the first time he flat out lied to the federal courts, especially to the Supreme Court, regarding the justification for his policies. See: Muslim ban.
It really doesn’t matter if he gets the citizenship question on the census, as there’s enough confusion about the issue that people will be afraid of participating in the census.
It matters whether he prints the census with the the citizenship question in open defiance of the Court’s ruling. It’s quite possibly the beginning of the end of three separate but co-equal branches of government, and it’s also quite possibly the beginning of a major political crisis that could go on for years. Make no mistake about it: this is serious shit.
The only thing ‘certain’ people are afraid of is the citizenship question, so, if it’s not in the census, there will be absolutely nada confusion nor fear.
I’m going to guess that the 2020 census is already screwed. The orange dumb fuck and the America hating republican ass kissers supporting him, have so politicized this census that it is going to take some major education to get people to write anything on it beside “Fuck Trump”.
Will there be a box for that, steatopygia, or should I just scrawl it across every page in fluorescent highlighter? 
I live in a republican majority state. Do I make the census political by trying to avoid being counted so that there are fewer representatives from my state? Why not if we are going to make this about politics and not people?
I would avoid the highlighter. That stuff doesn’t photocopy well and sometimes fades.
I seriously doubt that. KGO-810 out of San Francisco used to have one talking head who would encourage people to answer none of the questions other than name and residence, IIRC, because “the purpose of the census is only to count, not to gather any other information”.
Then there are those who are already convinced that putting their name on it, even if they are legally in the country, will be used against them when they do go for naturalization.
At first I thought that sounded a little anecdotal and was going to request a cite, but decided to rummage around the net and came across this article about a “denaturalization task force”
So, sure, there’s that, I’ll concede.
Individual 1 tweeted a photo of him shaking hands with Ronald Reagan, with a debunked quote claiming that Reagan said, “I felt I was the one shaking hands with a President.”