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gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
16. No, I'm consistent about everything
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:26 PM
Apr 2016

or at least make be best effort possible to be.

s a batshit crazy teabagger rightwing position. Ask Trump or Cruz.
the Tea Party hates Trump, who is a buffoon anyway. Using disgusting terms to describe people who have ideas I disagree with is wrong, and I refuse to use such terms. I provide rational arguments based on facts, evidence, and reason to show the error of their ways, but I don't call them names. I have zero respect for anyone of any party who stoop to such tactics.

At least when it comes to guns you are firmly in the Bundy corner of the universe. Same goes for your concept of the Constitution.
Umm, no. Bundy thinks federal public land used to belong to the states, which it didn't. My concept of the Constitution is what it says. I'm closer to Alan Dershowitz.
It says what it says, not what you, me, or Bundy wished it said. I don't think the federal government has the right to ban pot, even though I think smoking it is as nasty and disgusting as smoking tobacco. I also oppose federal legislation to force states to accept CCWs of others, which is supported by the NRA, because I think it violates the tenth amendment.

What you call "batshit crazy right wing position" I call consistent and principled.

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the Constitution State like the fifth amendment about as much as the second gejohnston Apr 2016 #1
Yeah, wait 'til the commit a real crime. Like murder. Then after the trial and conviction flamin lib Apr 2016 #2
What crimes are you not yet guilty of? Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2016 #3
male DVs don't often use guns, gejohnston Apr 2016 #5
Absolutely . . . NOT flamin lib Apr 2016 #6
Ahh, so nobody elses rights matter. beevul Apr 2016 #7
turn in your liberal card, gejohnston Apr 2016 #10
Sigh, everybody is a Constitutional Scholar. flamin lib Apr 2016 #12
not confiscation of property, gejohnston Apr 2016 #14
No sir. Guns everywhere all the time without concern for public or personal safery flamin lib Apr 2016 #15
No, I'm consistent about everything gejohnston Apr 2016 #16
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson flamin lib Apr 2016 #19
key word being "foolish" gejohnston Apr 2016 #24
At least you were obvious trying to falsely attribute... beevul Apr 2016 #28
What's wrong with taking property? scscholar Apr 2016 #26
sometimes it is destroyed, or stolen by cops gejohnston Apr 2016 #27
"Preventive detention" is what the Nixon administration advocated... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #8
I support the 4th Amendment and probable cause. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #9
It's called due process, as others have pointed out. theatre goon Apr 2016 #17
A tro is due process. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #18
Sure... theatre goon Apr 2016 #20
No. You are wrong and no amount of reason will convince you otherwise so I'm done with you. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #21
Funny stuff. theatre goon Apr 2016 #22
Wrong again SecularMotion Apr 2016 #11
not the same thing, gejohnston Apr 2016 #13
Still wrong again. flamin lib Apr 2016 #23
I did, still doesn't say anything about property, gejohnston Apr 2016 #25
Wonder if she realized she also had the right to own a firearm? ileus Apr 2016 #4
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