Comments by "Rusty Shackleford" (@POCKET-SAND) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1.  @CatherineKimport  You're right. We totally should remove the only barrier preventing Congress from granting itself unlimited power . . . I swear this comments sections leads me to believe that most leftists have never read our Constitution.
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  2. Thank God the Supreme Court finally struck down the most unconstitutional ruling in U.S. history.
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  3. Notice how none of the leftists in the comments are raging about the Supreme Court back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, when it was dominated by activist justices. But all of a sudden, now we need to change the rules in order to keep people with the wrong opinions out of power.
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  4. Quite ironic to think the Italian Catholic justices have "brought their beliefs into law" when nothing they've ruled really contradicts the Constitution. Compare that to justices that support abortion, something that has 0 basis in the Constitution.
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  5. Jim Jones was a leftist.
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  6. Understanding the Constitution = "terrorism" Therefore, we must sit idly by and allow leftists to tear up our Constitution and fill American law with their illogical left-wing dogma.
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  7. So you consider actually knowing how the Constitution works to be a negative trait then? Because most "progressive" judges aren't fit for the post at all. A Biden-nominated district judge couldn't even answer basic questions on the Constitution given to her by Senator John Kennedy.
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  8. No, it's actually looking at the history of Constitution and the reason why certain things were written. It's a written document, words on paper do not change. Therefore, the Constitution should be looked at through the same lenses that it was looked at on the day it was written. Democrats hate originalism because it prevents them from giving themselves more power at the expense of the American people.
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  9. "forced to carry children" You do realize people know what causes that now, right?
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  10. No, you're talking about the strategy that progressive justices use in order to shoehorn their own agendas into Federal law. Can you give me the Constitutional argument for abortion as a right?
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  11. Thank God because the ruling in Roe v. Wade was unconstitutional.
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  12. Socialism is incompatible with the concept of justice. You simply cannot have a court dominated by an inherently authoritarian ideology that rejects the concept of human rights and expect it to function well.
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  13. Not a Democracy and never were. We are a Constitutional Republic. I'd much rather have our laws be held in check by a document written to keep checks on power and recognize human rights than the opinions of some activist judge.
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  14.  @stephenwilliams163  No, the intent was rather to limit democracy because democracy and liberty are not the same things. Tyranny of the majority is a concept that can easily exist. The Founders simply believed that most people are idiots. I used to doubt that, but the older I got, the more I realized they were correct. Most people are idiots, at least with regard to understanding governance. Therefore, the ideal form of government would be one with limited power to ensure liberty, a position that would not be changed even if the majority demanded it. No, I don't consider actually following what the document says to be an "activist position." For much the same reason why I wouldn't consider the directions for a new kitchen appliance to be "merely opinion." We have one school of thought that seeks to understand and follow the Constitution and another school of thought that takes very little from the Constitution in favor of modern social views. It's really not hard to see which of the two schools is full of activists. Yet, activists made no attempt to follow that procedure. Instead, they insist that what is already written "doesn't actually mean what we have thought it means for the last 230 years." We are not talking about adding new amendments to the Constitution, we are talking about forcefully changing the meaning of the Constitution without adding amendments. A right to abortion, for example, has no basis in the Constitution. Even Ruth Bader Ginsberg admitted that the ruling was on extremely shaky ground and would likely be overturned in the future.
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  15. Understanding the Constitution = "authoritarianism" Because it totally isn't the politicians violating the Constitution by granting themselves more power that isn't authoritarian.
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  16. You know they've done studies that found if the government stole every last cent from the top 1%, it wouldn't even be enough to keep Medicare alone running for 5 years. The government is much more bloated, corrupt, and money-hungry than any billionaire.
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  17. Imagine having no issues at all with killing infants.
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  18.  @rocklarsen228  What are you talking about, it was legal in all states (enforced by the Federal government) for the last 50 years. OK, let's take a look at the logic of your comment. In the first paragraph you talk about a fertilized egg. In the second, you equate murdering a child to wearing a condom, yet you mentioned a fertilized egg earlier. There is no fertilized egg yet at the point somebody decides to put a condom on. Logic like this is why nobody takes the left seriously anymore.
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  19.  @rocklarsen228  And you equate wearing a condom to killing a child?
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  20. Actually understanding the Constitution = "the religious right"
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  21.  @Michadoo  Opposing abortion = "Not reading the Bible"
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  22. Dude, the left is responsible for most of these "games." The Roe v. Wade decision is the very thing that opened up the Supreme Court to judicial activism and corruption.
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  23. I'm sorry, but in about 99% of cases of women getting pregnant, they chose to make decisions that could lead to that, knowing full well that getting pregnant can result from that. To kill someone is not the appropriate way to react to that. "I maintain that I don't care if it is a 'life' that's not a valid reason . . ." And thank you for being the first one I've seen to go completely mask-off. The first to admit they believe the mass killings to be justified.
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  24. Anyone who knows anything about American political history knows we are not a democracy and never really referred to ourselves as such until relatively recently. We are a Constitutional Republic.
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  25. Understanding the Constitution = "Fascism"
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  26. Least violent leftist
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  27.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  * 5 replies in quick succession to one thing said to them * Most mentally healthy leftist. . . . as well as least butthurt leftist.
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  28.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  * thinks some guy whose never engaged with him before is a stalker * Least paranoid leftist
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  29.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  * employs grammar Nazi strategy * Best leftist debater
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  30.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  * changes subject * Most focused leftist
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  31.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  Says the guy who lacks any type of cohesive statement.
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  32. No, the two sides are "Pro-Life" for the people who oppose murdering infants and "Pro-Death" for the people in favor of murdering infants.
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  33. Killing children is immoral
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  34. America never was a democracy. The Founding Fathers strove to establish a government that would preserve liberty. Liberty and democracy are not the same and often go against one another. Liberty is freedom, democracy is the will of the majority. People could very easily be swayed into voting away their own rights and liberties, as the Democratic party has shown us in the last few decades. The Founders knew this, so they set out to create a government severely limited in its power and with plenty of checks in place on what power it does have. It's the political left that ruined this by gradually granted more power to the state and removing those checks.
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  35. Indians weren't legally considered U.S. citizens until the 1920s.
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  36. Understanding the Constitution = "far right"
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  37. Actually, the term "well-regulated" back in Colonial times meant something akin to well prepared or well equipped. And firing squads were not a common method of execution during peacetime.
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  38.  @lenadahling  How so?
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  39. "Conservative Fascist" is an oxymoron.
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  40. So you consider the Court striking down the most unconstitutional ruling in U.S. history to be "organized religious cabal?" Could you please explain to me the Constitutional argument for abortion? Where in the document is abortion affirmed as a right?
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  41. Understanding the Constitution = "Undermining the Constitution" Could you please give to me the Constitutional argument that supports a "right" to abortion? Because it will never cease to amaze me how brainwashed idiots can pull a right out of thin air and claim the Constitution allows it, despite nothing of the sort ever being considered in the 200 years leading up to that point, when it can be found nowhere in the Constitution. At the same time, they will look at a right like the right to bear arms, something this is explicitly and clearly mentioned in the Constitution as something that shall not be infringed, as "actually, we don't REALLY have the right to bear arms" and demand that the American people be disarmed, rendering them defenseless. Our education system has truly failed us since we have people as ignorant and ideologically blinded as that walking around.
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  42. Yeah what they don't mention if the Democrats' handling of Bork's confirmation hearing pretty much set the precedent for how those hearings are done today. The Democrats often complain about the "politicization" of these processes, completely ignoring the fact that they are the ones that started it. Same with the Roe v. Wade decision itself, it opened the floodgates for judicial activism.
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  43. Legally, they had to be recognized as individuals because the government realized that if they didn't, then they technically wouldn't be able to tax them anymore, hence why corporations are legally individuals.
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  44.  @toslowlypoke  Originalism is much more preferable than what liberal justices due: decree things based on their own opinions and nothing else. Left-wing closeted authoritarians don't seem to understand there's no point to having a Constitution if you're just going to ignore it.
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