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  1. What evidence do you have of the former? Tommy eyeballs was criticizing the latter. He apparently is against organizing peaceful protests and thus the first amendment. I think we see some of the most rabid MAGAs here.
  2. Many MS nurses are NP's, if for no other reason than pay. Some do a doctorate as well. Your ignorance on vax makes me worried for your patient but at least you won't be prescribing.
  3. A primer on how the government funds the deficit. Should be required reading for every American.
  4. So you're gonna b an NP? Lord, help us. I served in underserved communities for years, providing care where little was available. Some of the places qualify as undesirable especially in light of the rural drug crisis. Watching teens die on a vent in the ICU from OD's is pretty brutal. Helplessly watching stupid anti vaxers die from Covid in the same setting is as well. But everything you did through the barrel of a gun was much more important...We had a high ranking military guy talk to our civic club about the positive effects of rice bowl diplomacy. He said work from groups like ours and NGOs are overall more important than guns, bombs and bullets at maintaining peace and retaining/recruiting allies (not to mention, improving global health). He is no libtard. I believe he still teaches at West Point and has written several books in use there. We need both but force just isn't working well anymore ie Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc. And you support a president that decimates USAID and NGO's, lambasts and isolates our allies, has military parades ala Putin), threatens anyone protesting them, and makes war zones out of American cities. Bravo!
  5. OK, legal genius. Libtard, how original! What did you do in the service? JAG officer, prison guard? Your compassion is striking.
  6. Will anyone stand up to this attack on the constitution and the 1st amendment? https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5342291-trump-warns-protesters-military-parade/
  7. Is trump demented or lying thru his teeth again? https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/newsom-fears-trumps-mental-state-35371199 From US Army techniques publication cited above Continental United States Versus Outside the Continental United States 2-4. For the U.S. Army, conducting civil disturbance missions within the United States. will vary greatly when compared to conducting civil disturbance missions within a foreign country where the U.S. Army is conducting operations. Except as expressly authorized by the Constitution of the United States or by another act of Congress, the Posse Comitatus Act (18 USC 1385) prohibits the use of the Active Army as enforcement officials to execute state or federal law and perform direct law enforcement functions within CONUS.
  8. No. It's what military experts recommend. Will see what law is after all the lawsuits (one already started by Cali) go to SCOTUS. Dumba$$ Why would I pay more when people making 2.5 mil or more are paying less? If I pay more, so should they.
  9. straw man. Absolutely zero people are saying everything is fine.
  10. look at the army protocol for domestic riots. yes, fine with me and it would have affected me. So not the next income level up. For many D's (the new real R's). but 2.5 mil is a bridge too far for R's.
  11. This isn't the world. It's domestic. The rules are different per my link above very conservative on use of force especially for nonviolent protesters. No. A 1 million dollar income threshold was proposed for higher taxes and rejected by the R's. I'll look it up but that income level must be the 2% and possibly the 1%. https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ How many people made $1,000,000 or more in 2024? Somewhere around 462,544 people made a seven figure income in 2024. That's less than .3% of the workforce. $430000 is the 99th percentile The proposal was actually only for those making 2.5 mil or more. And they still axed it. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-considers-tax-hike-americans-making-2-5-million-more-per-year
  12. Looks like the national guard skipped several steps if they used any force at all. https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-civil-disturbances/
  13. never served. so what's the line where it's no longer support. shooting rubber bullets. shooting live ammo? Fergy played while we had season tix. he was no archie manning but he played for miserable teams too. Several years he was one of their best players. https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/survey-results/daily/2025/06/10/50147/3 Do you approve or disapprove of deploying National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement? All adults Region Gender Politics Age Race Approve 38% Disapprove 45% Not sure 17%
  14. Does protect include use on chemical irritants. Where's the threshold for "support"?
  15. Around 6:30 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to a request for assistance from federal authorities at around 6:30 p.m. and arrived at the scene within 55 minutes. The department said its response time was impacted by "significant traffic congestion, the presence of demonstrators, and, notably, by the fact that federal agents had deployed irritants into the crowd prior to LAPD's arrival." Later, the Department of Homeland Security claimed the LAPD took two hours to respond. A federal law enforcement official told CBS News that ICE requested assistance from LAPD multiple times over the course of Friday night and that it took more than two hours to honor that request. However, a senior city official in L.A. disputed that timeline, telling CBS News that it took LAPD 55 minutes to respond, not two hours. The LAPD posted on X at 7 p.m. that it had declared an "unlawful assembly," ordering protesters to leave the area and giving them five minutes to comply. By 8 p.m., video shows LAPD officers had blocked the crowd's path to the detention center. Police said some protesters had thrown large pieces of concrete. CBS News Los Angeles reporters witnessed officers firing non-lethal foam projectiles and bean bag rounds in response.
  16. Do you not agree that everyone needs morality regardless of whether they're religious. It's certainly laid out in Christianity. It's very clear to me. And it's peaceful and benign. The trouble starts when people impose their beliefs on others causing loss of freedom for those on the other side.
  17. Newsome and Bass want control of the response to the riots in their state and city. That's not hardball. It's states rights.
  18. Obama removed more illegals without any of this happening
  19. Congressmen Jim McGovern nails it https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/save-me-your-crocodile-tears-rep-jim-mcgovern-calls-out-the-gop-hypocrisy-in-trump-sending-national-guard-to-la/vi-AA1GqB0u?cvid=5c1172c4710f4e28a7b941bf0013544c&ei=23
  20. Beshear is correct. Many areas in his state have over 50% medicaid pts. That's the case in many counties not far from me. Hospitals WILL close and people will go without any care. And most of them voted for trump. "I love the uneducated". Most members of congress and senators from these states are MAGA. Once hospitals close and poor people end up going to an ER fifty miles away from their home for band aid care with no follow up,, that might change. But never underestimate stupidity.
  21. As predicted in 2010. See above link. It's happening right now as predicted. In his 2010 analysis published by Nature, Turchin identified several warning signs in the domestic electorate: stagnating wages, a growing wealth gap, a surplus of educated elites without corresponding elite jobs, and an accelerating fiscal deficit. All of these phenomena, he argued, had reached a turning point in the 1970s. "These seemingly disparate social indicators are actually related to each other dynamically," he wrote at the time. "Nearly every one of those indicators has intensified," Turchin said in an interview with Newsweek, citing real wage stagnation, the effects of artificial intelligence on the professional class and increasingly unmanageable public finances. Turchin's prediction was based on a framework known as Structural-Demographic Theory (SDT), which models how historical forces—economic inequality, elite competition and state capacity—interact to drive cycles of political instability. These cycles have recurred across empires and republics, from ancient Rome to the Ottoman Empire. "Structural-Demographic Theory enables us to analyze historical dynamics and apply that understanding to current trajectories," Turchin said. "It's not prophecy. It's modeling feedback loops that repeat with alarming regularity." He argues that violence in the U.S. tends to repeat about every 50 years— pointing to spasms of unrest around 1870, 1920, 1970 and 2020. He links these periods to how generations tend to forget what came before. "After two generations, memories of upheaval fade, elites begin to reorganize systems in their favor, and the stress returns," he said. One of the clearest historical parallels to now, he notes, is the 1970s. That decade saw radical movements emerge from university campuses and middle-class enclaves not just in the U.S., but across the West. The far-left Weather Underground movement, which started as a campus organization at the University of Michigan, bombed government buildings and banks; the Red Army Faction in West Germany and Italy's Red Brigades carried out kidnappings and assassinations. These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated. "There's a real risk of that dynamic resurfacing," Turchin said. edit: went to the no kings site. nothing about communism. They're helping to organize a nationwide rally that will draw thousands against dictatorship. That's democracy, not communism. Not exactly the weather underground but that's probably coming soon.
  22. Best explanation I’ve seen. Rome is burning https://www.newsweek.com/peter-turchin-political-violence-donald-trump-barack-obama-riots-2083007
  23. If I was there at th outset, I'd attend. I'm sure there are like mannered Angelinos that were there. You might think IR'm an ####### but I'm not lawless. Never been arrested nor do I think I ever will. I'll bet there are some on this board who can't say that. Once the military came I would have left immediately. We all should know what happened to the Tianemen Square protester who stood in front of a tank.
  24. "We'll kill you like I killed my bird dog puppy!" https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-issues-chilling-warning-to-l-a-protesters/ar-AA1Gpp5y
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