Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

  1. ​ @LONE_SKUM_DOGE  By "working hard and innovating," you mean buying into a rising company and taking all the credit when it gets big, and then using government subsidies to get rich while trying to take that away from everyone else? What a great role model!
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  2. ​ @backpackerraden6268  Wilson actually had accomplishments. Mr. Beat put it best when he said that he was both a very great and very bad President. Personally, I think that the worst will be Trump or Buchanan, and a lot of that depends on when his influence fades to see just how much damage he will end up causing.
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  3. ​ @lanceb7556  I wouldn't say that he "wasn't any better." True that he was largely ineffective in office, but he didn't actively encourage the nonsense of supply-side economics that has damaged out country for nearly half a century, stop enforcing antitrust laws, let companies buy back stocks, and refuse to invest in infrastructure.
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  4. It never ceases to amaze me how many things started going on the wrong path in the early 1980s.
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  5. And to top it off about how cynical this ploy was, here is how OJ thought of race. When he was a college player, he was at an awards banquet, and someone said to him, "You're not like these other Ns." A friend who was with him thought that OJ would be offended. However, he saw it as proof that he had transcended his race, and would regularly say, "I'm not black, I'm OJ."
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  6. Based on the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits partisan electioneering from the pulpit, it's not supposed to be. Churches have lost tax exempt status, but the real problem is that it isn't strictly enforced.
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  7. ​ @mechengr1731 Both, probably
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  8. ​ @Meng776  Two things are possible at the same time: 1) the police mishandled evidence and the verdict was the correct one, 2) the man who wrote If I Did It was confessing after the fact when he knew nothing could be done about it.
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  9.  @west221b  Agreed that there are systemic issues, but the point that I was making is that there are plenty of Christians who oppose those systems and plenty who support them. You could argue that it's a question of how seriously people take the book that they claim to revere, but that's a question for another day.
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  10. ​ @LONE_SKUM_DOGE  Most billionaires are right wing because they want to keep their money and power, and the right is more likely to get them do it. That doesn't really help your argument.
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  11. OJ also knew ahead of time that Darden was going to do it, so he didn't take hos arthritis medication for several days before trying on the gloves. A few days later, Darden tried to find a replica glove, but that was basically closing the barn door after the cows had already gotten out.
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  12.  @KeesBoons  I'm making an Arrested Development reference to the username of the person I replied to.
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  13. I don't think that it was jury nullification so much as it was prosecutors and police doing a bad job.
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  14. If you hit 14 of 14 traits on a checklist of fascist tendencies, you're a fascist. The fact that so many of his supporters want to complain about the Eco list rather than actually refute any of the examples shows that they're probably fascists, too.
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  15.  @michaelcap9550  What specific indicator has been worse? Not "everything sucks," but which specific measurable example? It's not unemployment.
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  16.  @LarryInNM  Indeed. Who would have ever thought that cutting taxes for the rich and social programs for everyone else would cause such problems?
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  17. ​ @anonymoose116  Indeed. I represented myself in the dissolution of property and custody agreements because I didn't have the money to pay a lawyer (but I used a membership plan to get contract review) and we already agreed to pretty much everything I wanted except for some minor, technical points. When my ex-wife tried to change the custody agreement and move my daughter halfway across the country, you'd better believe I paid for a lawyer for that one.
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  18. Founders: We don't want a king. Modern Right Wingers: Actually, they meant that all executive power should abide in one person.
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  19.  @freebobafett  Actually, all a republic really means is that there is no monarch. There are democracies that are republics (such as France and Germany) and dictatorships that are republics (such as China). When people use "republic, not a democracy," the unspoken is that they want the latter, but it's just as ridiculous a statement as "It's not a grape! It's purple."
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  20. I get why you would want to keep judges out of electoral politics, but if you're going to do that, there should be a limit, say 20 years, on a federal judge/justice's tenure. That will also prevent the temptation of nominating a 43-year-old to the bench with the cynical goal of keeping that person there for 40 or 50 years.
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  21.  @backpackerraden6268  Even if you're right, that is still not the case for the contenders for worst ever, either. They were pretty much a relentless barrage of awful for their whole time in office.
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  22.  @Jeph629  Yeah, who needs home ownership when you have big screen TVs?
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  23.  @grahamjones5400  The corruption problem, no, but it will help with constituent services.
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  24. ​ @bobloblaw9679  You're quite a mouthful!
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  25.  @west221b  It's not about the religion as a whole, but people. For example, just as there was a Conforming Church that looked the other way at the worst atrocities of WWII, there was also the Confessing Church opposing them. There has been good and evil, those who care about justice and those who care about prosperity. It's like every large group of people.
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  26.  @dl2839  The Administration is the executive branch. Are you going to pretend that the very people who were in the room negotiating what the Constitution was going to look like really meant for all executive power to be with the Presidency and then a year and a half later approved a Cabinet? Or is the more likely answer that they meant it in the same sense that they used the word "Congress"?
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  27. Anybody can "be pure" if you're not even trying to get elected and only want 5% so you can get that sweet, sweet matching funds. If you are trying to win a majority, by definition you have to build a coalition, which means involving people who ideas you don't necessarily like.
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  28. @icantcomeupwithnames469  And the "pure" candidate is fine with it in Ukraine, so there goes your high horse.
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  29.  @sw-fast  Because this is a video critical of Stein, and you are defending purity in the face of someone who literally wants to destroy democracy. But, yeah, people will get their chance the next time with the election that either won't happen or will be just for show.
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  30. ​ @mjvajda  You know, that flaw can be changed, right?
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  31. ​ @yourleftisttesticle  Prosecution can't appeal. Because of the double jeopardy protections in the Fifth Amendment, as soon as the jury says Not Guilty, that is the answer now and forevermore. He was later found Liable in the wrongful death lawsuit, but that wasn't a criminal trial, but a civil trial.
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  32. @_Historia_Magistra_Vitae  The communist dictatorships didn't rely on a mythic past or misogyny in their aims. Several are about dictatorships in general, but many are about right-wing dictatorships in particular.
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  33. 10:43 Yes, because Russia is so well known for its great treatment of whistle blowers and love of transparency. Something's fishy here.
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  34.  @dl2839  The administrative state is there to enforce the laws that are already in place. Are you trying to say that you'd rather go back to the spoils system, or did you forget why we got rid of it in the first place?
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  35.  @MylesKillis  It's a lot harder to check someone who has just been declared immune, genius.
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  36.  @MylesKillis  And you clearly missed the allusion to why we got rid of it in the first place. James Garfield was assassinated by a man upset that he didn't get a postmaster job. Do you want to go back to that? I don't.
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  37. "It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't care. I can move some extra product, and I won't make another dime, all so Lumbergh's stock options can go up another quarter of a point." Peter Gibbons, Office Space
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  38. ​​ @corujariousa n 1974, it took knowing that the tape existed forced.the dam to break. We've heard an actual Trunp confession on tape, and they still rally behind him. Not to mention the fact that they stood behind him when he sent goons to kill them.
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  39. We already have term limits. They're called elections. Term limits are one thing for unelected judges (although I'd prefer a rotation instead), but it's not like voters won't pick spmeone just like the person who termed out.
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  40. To me, the biggest insult on the Court was picking Thomas. I'm 44, which means that I'm older than he was when he got appointed. He is now 75. I don't know the ideal solution, but that is obscene.
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  41. ​ @gw7817  Indeed. That's when you know someone got carried away... even though gay marriage has been legal everywhere for eight years.
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  42. Companies aren't a voting entity. They can give money, but if I look up the Philadelphia voter rolls, I'm not finding Comcast on the list.
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  43.  @dougm4160  Then, the OP should have said that, but the OP didn't.
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  44.  @seeleunit2000  My thinly-veiled bigotry? I supported making it legal. And my post was in response to the notion that if we were a democracy, gay marriage would be legal. It is, as it should be. If you want to talk about pure democracy, as the OP seems to he wanting to do, same-sex marriage performed horribly at the ballot box until just a few years before it became legal everywhere. You could make the argument that strategically placed ballot initiatives gave Bush four more years.
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  45.  @aboucard93  [citation needed]
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  46.  @freebobafett  Constitutional monarchy is also a thing. Admittedly, in those systems they usually don't do much, but they do exist. As far as a "single ruler," all but the most ardent dictators get some help.
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  47.  @ErutaniaRose  Again, corporations don't vote directly. Gay marriage has also been legal in every state since 2015.
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  48.  @ErutaniaRose  "A voting entity equal to a person" certainly implies that. I would love to get rid of personhood, but that is very different than a voting bloc. Political influence, you are correct.
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  49. ​ @JinMeowsoon  The woman he married did. Once he confessed, she quietly divorced him and lived in seclusion as much as possible.
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  50. ​ @bartdoo5757  You clearly miss the point that people having to work 12-hour shifts is a big part of the problem. I guess you see that whole "eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours of leisure" as some sort of commie utopia talk.
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