Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "MeidasTouch" channel.

  1. The court is usually more lenient on defendants who plead guilty. If he had been found guilty in trial he probably would have gotten more than three times more time.
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  2. Why do we still have geographic voting districts? Why not let voters in a state decide what district to be in when they register, just as we decide which political party (if any) to register in? Then we wouldn't have this embarrassing, unjust gerrymandering problem.
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  3. “Legislate from the grave” Excellent phrase
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  4. No. He's also very depressed because he found out that Daniel Arthur Mead used a prosthesis.
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  5. The courts are often gentle with defendants who plead guilty. Trials, even short ones, are surprisingly expensive.
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  6. I heard he was caught using the nuclear football as ... a football.
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  7. By issuing an injunction ordering FDA to de-approve the drug.
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  8. Wasn’t “Socks” the name of Chelsea Clinton’s cat?
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  9.  @utha2665  Thank you for your answer. BUT...... RE: "We have to vote for the district we live in, otherwise people will just choose the district they want to manipulate, especially if a large group get organized to turn a district..." Why would that matter? Both sides would use the maneuver you describe, and it would just be part of how the game of electoral politics is played. If people supporting one side if a political question were motivated enough to organize, and got a lot of like-minded people to join in one virtual district and elect a candidate who agreed with them on the issue in whichever district they chose, then they would probably deserve the victory they would get. That's the point of elections: to award victory to whoever is most motivated and capable, so they can work their will democratically rather than by physical violence. In other words, what you are calling a bug I see as a feature. My idea is, instead of having politicians gerrymander, let the voters do the gerrymandering, when they register.
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  10. Well, I hate Trump as much as anyone, but let’s be fair. The wording errors could be spellcheck running wild. I am careful about editing, but I get errors like accusation/acquisition too.
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  11. There is no such thing as a "Messianic Jew". A central, indispensable tenet of Judaism is that the Messiah is in the future. If you believe that the Messiah has already lived here on Earth and that He was born of a Jewish woman named Mary and crucified at the order of a Roman man named Pontio and died on the cross and was entombed and resurrected, then you may be Messianic, but honey, you ain't no Jew. "Messianic Jews" are Christians who, for some reason, find it expedient to represent themselves as Jews.
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  12. Do tables have gills???
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  13. Given that American women are being prosecuted under the Comstock Laws from 1873, why is Trump bitching about being prosecuted under a law from 1917???
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  14. Q: What happens if you fart in church? A: You have to sit in your own pew. (Ba-DUMP-bump)
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  15. Pelosi should sue for defamation. It would probably succeed.
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  16. You need to open your mouth more when you speak! You mumble and mutter and are inaudible much of the time.
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  17.  @MsMommom2  I have no idea! A judge trying to tell FDA what to do is uncharted territory.
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  18. The lawsuit is against FDA. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to order FDA to de-approve Mifepristone. I don’t think this has happened before- that a judge ordered FDA to de-approve an approved medication. But if it happens and Mifepristone loses its approval, we can use Methotrexate in its place. FDA won’t de-approve Methotrexate, which was approved back in the early 1950s and is one of the most widely used medications ever. More than a million Americans use it every year, for psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and other chronic autoimmune diseases; also it is a first-line broad-based chemotherapy drug for cancer, and useful for non-surgical treatment of ectopic/tubal pregnancy. If it were de-approved, the entire medical profession would be seismically traumatized and would probably go on strike.
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  19. Coup de GRACE! Pronounce the s at the end! Not “coup de grah”.
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  20.  @utha2665  Why should we have geographically determined districts at all? Let the voters choose which district they want to belong to when they register to vote.
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  21. If Dema decide to expand the Supreme Court, my advice is think big. If you expand it only a little, to, say, 13 justices, then the Republicans will just expand it again, and there will be a gradual stepwize escalation and oscillation of power which will be frustrating for everyone. The way to avoid this is simple: be bold, leap the entire distance the first time. Expand the court, not to a paltry 13 justices, but to 49 justices, and appoint forty dedicated progressives to all the new seats. That way, if Republicans try to retaliate by expanding it again, they'll be looking at a Court larger than the US Senate itself. An absurdity even the Republicans won't want.
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  22. Half Hannibal Lecter, and half Naomi Wolf.
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  23. Eating Crow for three decades
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  24. PREDICTION: The SCOTUS will decide for Trump, on a party-line vote, just like Y2K, when they decided for W over Gore. Like Y2K Trump will lose the people's vote and win the Electoral College, because of the EC's well-known Republican bias..
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