Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "ABC News"
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CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
Even 'if' the Democratically controlled Congress passed a bill with wall funding in it, AND the Republican controlled Senate passed that bill, AND President Trump even signed that bill into law, that still does not automatically open the government back up. Which shows that Trump and Trump alone shut this government down and Trump and Trump alone can open this government back up, with or without wall funding. No one else can open the government back up except for Trump. Trump owns this shutdown, of which he even said in public that he would own it, and he does own it. The longest shutdown in US history.
Trump and Trump's supporters said they wanted to make America 'great again' (of which America never stopped being great), but Trump and Trump's supporters are actually making America 'less great'. By having all these vital agencies shut down, agencies who help keep America safe, and those who are working are doing so without pay, and some if not many might find other employment that pays a living wage, and thus would also cause a huge 'brain drain' from the government.
Trump owns this shutdown and Trump and Trump's supporters, including the Republicans in the Senate, are making America 'less safe' and 'less great'. The facts bear this out.
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@demon1864 CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
Even 'if' the Democratically controlled Congress passed a bill with wall funding in it, AND the Republican controlled Senate passed that bill, AND President Trump even signed that bill into law, that still does not automatically open the government back up. Which shows that Trump and Trump alone shut this government down and Trump and Trump alone can open this government back up, with or without wall funding. No one else can open the government back up except for Trump. Trump owns this shutdown, of which he even said in public that he would own it, and he does own it. The longest shutdown in US history.
Trump and Trump's supporters said they wanted to make America 'great again' (of which America never stopped being great), but Trump and Trump's supporters are actually making America 'less great'. By having all these vital agencies shut down, agencies who help keep America safe, and those who are working are doing so without pay, and some if not many might find other employment that pays a living wage, and thus would also cause a huge 'brain drain' from the government.
Trump owns this shutdown and Trump and Trump's supporters, including the Republicans in the Senate, are making America 'less safe' and 'less great'. The facts bear this out.
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ECONOMIC INFLATION:
The way I see it is that regardless of the currency utilized (gold, silver, fiat, crypto, etc), economic inflation is still economic inflation. ANY economic inflation over previous economic inflation, overtime, eventually becomes exponential economic inflation. If an entities' wages, benefits and investments do not keep up with the true cost of inflation, then the entity falls behind in buying power and becomes poorer. A nation will eventually fail as will a global economy will eventually fail with ever increasing economic inflation because most people do not have wages, benefits and investments that keep up with the true cost of inflation. Math is still math.
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FAITH AND RELIGION: Per the US Constitution, First Amendment, (in part): "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;....."
So "YES" American citizens can believe whatever they want to believe, including in a magical sky daddy or a female rainbow unicorn in another dimension, or .......as being the creator of this universe and all in it OR IN NO GOD AT ALL.
BUT:
a. What about the real absolute truth to reality itself?
(The analysis would indicate that God does not actually exist except for as a concept alone.)
b. Why should people receive exemptions from laws that everybody else has to follow?
(If a person believes in a God that allows them exemption from ALL laws, rules and regulations, should they be allowed to do so? And if some people can be exempt from a nation's laws, why cannot others be exempt from laws as well, including all laws?) In other words, where are all of my legal religious exemptions of the nation's laws due to my beliefs?
c. Why should people who are not dealing with real apparent reality be making laws that others not of their faith have to follow?
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LEGAL QUESTION: As I currently understand it to be:
a. The President's Executive Order defines how classified documents are handled while the President is President. (Executive Orders tell the Executive Branch how to apply the already legal laws and do not make laws in and of themselves, or at least are not supposed to).
b. But then also, just because a US President issues an Executive Order does not remove the President's overall authority. Basically, the Executive Order is just to tell the Executive Branch of the US Government how things should 'normally' be done but it does not exclude the US President from disregarding the Executive Order as the Executive is of course the Executive and retains full rights and authorities to even disregard their own Executive Order, because they themselves are the Executive.
c. Now, I am not saying this is how it should be for the sake of America's and America's allies national securities, but wouldn't the above understanding be correct?
* If anybody disagrees with the above understanding, I welcome refutes that have a legal basis for refuting.
Basically, "IF" America wants better controls over classified documents, then revise the US Constitution to make it so, so that even a US President could not overrule, nor the military and other government employees who swear an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution could legally disobey.
But from an actual operative standpoint:
What US ally would ever trust the US Government with any classified information ever again 'if' a US President could just declassify anything at all, regardless of the level of classification and/or harm that it could do, with their thoughts alone?
And declassifying items with the President's thoughts alone: what about if a President has a mental issue due to age and/or other physical issues? They just declassify whatever they want to, all the secrets of the US Government even, just because their mentally deranged mind wants to?
But then also, if we want to go down this path:
The entire US Government, including the US President, get all their powers and authorities from 'We The People'. 'We The People' would have ultimate powers and authorities. Just because 'We The People' have a US Constitution and all the laws that stem from the Constitution, does not remove the powers and authorities that 'We The People' have, each and every 'We The People' individually and as a society have.
Basically, anything at all the entire US Government could do, so could each and every individual American citizen making up 'We The People', and 'We The People' could probably do even more than the Government is authorized to do.
Of which also, 'if' a US President can pardon themselves from all crimes, then "I", a member of 'We The People' do hereby on this public forum, pardon myself from any and all laws, rules, regulations that ever were, are or will be.
I say it, so therefore it is.
And I guess also, even 'if' a US President cannot pardon themselves, I do hereby pardon my self anyway from all laws, rules, regulations that ever were, are or will be. I am 'sinless'.
I say it, (not to mention all I had to do was think it and not even say it), therefore it is.
Because 'I' can.
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In all seriousness, and I know that there are many people who disagree with me, but reality is still reality and truth is still truth.
The US Fed with their goal of 2% annual inflation, is 2% on top of all the 2%'s that came before it, which turns out to be an exponential amount of inflation over time (and many times inflation is over 2% annually). And most people in this world, do not receive pay raises that keep up with the true cost of inflation, hence more and more people become poorer in this world due to having less buying power. This is a contributing factor to many social and economic problems in this nation and in this world.
Additionally, space travel is the ONLY thing that is going to save any species from this Earth, and space travel has gotten more expensive just in my lifetime. While many people claim we have a lot of time before this Earth is no more, what is space travel going to cost in the next 100, 1000, 1 million years from now? Economic inflation just might be a contributing factor to all life from this Earth dying and going extinct.
What good is life if there are no entities left to live it?
What good is money if there are no entities left to spend it?
A law should be passed that the US Fed has to have an annual inflation goal of 0%. I know this will probably piss off a lot of rich people who game the system due to the Fed's inflation goals, but if it's not done, well, all life from this Earth, including all the rich people, will probably all still die one day from something, will forget everything they ever knew and experienced, and will be forgotten one day in future eternity, just like everybody else, because one day, there will be no life left to care that any of us ever existed at all in the first place, much less however anyone existed while they existed. Life itself would all be ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
Either at least one species from this Earth survives beyond this Earth and solar system, OR none do. Denying future reality will not make future reality any less real. People just won't be prepared for it is all.
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Concerning religious arguments:
GOD DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST EXCEPT FOR AS A CONCEPT:
For those who claim God actually exists (besides as a concept), consider the following:
a. An actual eternally existent absolute somethingness truly existing.
b. An actual eternally existent absolute somethingness that has consciousness, memories and thoughts truly existing.
People who claim God actually and eternally exists basically are claiming that 'b' above is correct but yet simultaneously seem to be saying that 'a' is impossible to occur.
'a' above can exist without 'b' existing but 'b' cannot exist unless 'a' exists. Even per the scientific principal of Occam's razor, 'a' is more probable of being really true rather than 'b'.
I am one step away from proving God's existence, but am unable to find any actual evidence to do so. And nobody I've talked to seems to have any actual evidence of God's actual existence either. All humans appear to have are 'Theories of God'. Some humans appear to go their whole life basing their life upon their specific theory of God. They even at times kill other humans based upon their own theories. Many give their God human characteristics and cannot even prove the existence of their God much less the characteristics given to their God. Some have circumstantial arguments for a God's existence, but others have circumstantial arguments for no God existing. Not one has any actual factual evidence that their God actually factually even exists. Hence, at this time in the analysis, God does not actually exist except for as a concept created by humans for humans. Humans have personified Nature and called that personification "God". It appears many of them are delusional and are believing in fairy tales as if those fairy tales were really true. Instead of what is claimed "God creating man in God's image", it's more likely that "Man created God in Man's image".
Further consider that if the emotional parts of the brain override the logic and reasoning parts of the brain, people can be made to believe basically anything at all as being really true. Plus modern science has already proven that humans can have visual and audio hallucinations that are very real to that individual. All the more reason for critical thinking being needed and to follow the facts wherever those facts might lead.
In addition, while modern science does not know what consciousness actually is yet, memories and thoughts appear to require a physical correctly functioning brain to have those items occur. Where is God's brain? Where are God's memories stored at? How are God's memories stored and retrieved? How does God think even a single coherent thought?
If inside of this space time dimension we appear are existing in, then where?
If outside of this space time dimension we appear are existing in, then where is the interface between that dimension and this dimension? No such interface has been discovered as of yet as far as I am currently aware of.
* Note: Since this is a search for the real absolute truth concerning God, Intelligent Designer, Pre-existent Consciousness, etc, feel free to copy and paste this elsewhere to further the analysis and discussion.
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