This is why the genius of the U.S. Constitution is to assert outright that people are evil
Excepting that whole "innocent until proven guilty" bit, of course. But you don't like that statement so you can ignore it, right?
and set up checks and balances to minimize the effects.
Impeachment is supposed to include an actual trial with actual presentations of actual fact, not a show trial heard by an angry mob.
Your assertion of the orthogonality of socialism and fascism is akin to saying that your C++ source code is crash-free--of course it is: until you compile it, execute it, and blame the ensuing stack trace on conservatives.
The rest of the world - including those who have actually experienced (or at least read meaningful documents on) socialism and/or communism - acknowledges the validity of the two-dimensional political spectrum. Your insistence on a one-dimensional continuum of "good" and "evil" is as logical as claiming the world to be flat.
It is certainly true that I have long since discarded the idea of taking you seriously
Which leaves the question then of why you bother reading (parts of) my comments and "replying" to them.
around the time you tried to accuse me of calling for assassination.
When you show complete disregard for the law in the name of politics you should not pretend that you are somehow capable of preventing such an outcome. If you go back and actually read the comments you'll see I never accused you of directly calling for assassination but rather pointed out that once you remove all protections of the law that are intended to protect everyone you should be aware of the likely outcome.
If someone called for illegally deporting the Koch Brothers, Rand Paul, or any other Tea Party heroes you would be leveling the same concern.
turning the absurdity up to 11, just because I dared challenge you to learn something
Your assertions that (a) you hold knowledge, (b) I lack such, and (c) I'm not even trying to learn, are really kind of insulting, don't you think?
They would be if they were only assertions based on nothing. Being as they are observations based on words that you and I have actually written, no. You have shown repeatedly:
So in this case it is not insulting. Similarly if the Koch Brothers were to write a "Tea Party Manifesto" that described why they formed the Tea Party and what their aspirations were for it, I would read it before trying to tell people what it is about.
For that matter right now she isn't an elected member of anything, so her opinion on it is not any more valuable than yours, mine, or my dog's.
I don't know--depends upon the cash flow for the channel.
So then are you saying that between citizen A and citizen B, the opinion of A is more valuable because it has more money behind it? That has been a key mantra of the GOP (for several decades at least) and its tea party (since its inception).
Nobody is forcing you to read what I write. If you don't like it and don't want to talk about it then feel free to go read someone else's JE. You can allege "judge first" all you want, but you should be aware of the judgment you yourself are casting when you do that.
The difference being that I'm here to entertain myself.
There is no shortage of ego in the stance you are taking in regards to my posts. If you don't want to read what I write, then don't. With the arrogance you are showing currently towards them you don't seem to be enjoying them.
I am absolutely not a liar
The only way that those previous statements are not lies coming from you is if you are indeed so blissfully ignorant and intentionally repeatedly ignoring my writings that you have no clue whatsoever of what you are replying to. Under any other set of circumstances you would know that the allegations in your previous comment were total bullshit that are completely and utterly refuted by the comments that I have written here.
where on earth can you find an example of non-fiat money that is in common use and has an agreed-upon value?
While 'value' is an ebb-and-flow sort of thing, precious metals remain relatively more stable than the current regime of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, supporting the U.S. exporting its inflation abroad.
Again, I ask you; where can you use such a currency? You can't buy much of anything with gold in most countries; you have to convert it to local currency in order to make an actual transaction. Few people have any idea of what its worth, and for that matter many people can't readily distinguish gold from pyrite so they would be better off rejecting both (analogous statements can be made for silver, platinum, etc).
I am not aware of a country that uses a non-fiat currency today. I have asked you directly if you know of any and you danced around the question, which suggests that you also do not know of any.
Oh Progressive moral superior
pissing in the wind
taking place or proposed here, but it isn't the parts you are alleging to be as such.
I agree, more investigation is warranted.
I expect though that since it involves a gun the results of the investigation will be buried on page 937 of the local paper (which will be print-only and only circulated to local libraries).
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.