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All the liberals on Twitter are now crying that the white supremacist media got him killed by covering the scandal. Just ridiculous


Wait. Are you telling us the leftists don’t take responsibility for the consequences of their actions?

:lol:
Most simply can’t grasp the extent of economic consequences that occurred from the massive printing of currency during COVID. We aren’t going to recovery from that for decades.
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Then, let's see him go to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and apply for privledges to be on staff.....

He may be an academic doctor, but he hasn't earned his stripes, and he is not a true medical doctor.


You guys are retarded.

The guy has a doctorate. He’s a doctor.
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He’s accused of accepting bribes, kickbacks, steering contracts, malfeasance in office, cover-ups, and retaliation against employees, all involving taxpayer money, city-parish contracts, CATS contracts, and now he’s in control of another huge pool of money as school superintendent.


Welcome to Baton Rouge
As we get more and more research, it becomes pretty clear that teenagers need 8-10 hours a sleep for cognitive develop and mental health. It’s starting to become one of the most important factors of growth.
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The nearly 4,000 high school students within one mile of this development will probably disagree.


Correct. If they keep the riff raff and homeless out of there, this complex will print money.
His failure of a second term is going to cost us dearly. The Dems are going to win in 2026 and 2028 and we going to race to the left:

Open borders
Crazy tax increases
Crazy business regulations
Massive corruption (reinstating USAID)

It’s going to get really bad.
Just an incredibly disappointing second term. He had one of the largest public mandates in history with both houses of Congress and completely took his eye off the ball.
“Why does Baton Rouge have one the highest percentage of private school attendance in the country?”
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I know why they are doing it (a cashless society destroyed anonymity and lets them know pretty much everything about you


In reality, it’s because it cuts down on accounting and finance obligations tremendously and is a massive theft prevention.


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Is it not legally required anymore that businesses have to accept cash as legal tender?



No. There is no federal law that requires businesses to accept cash (the exception being debt transactions)
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Personally I long for the days of no playoffs or even the 4 team playoff


It’s so hard to accept this view given how great the CFB playoffs were last year. Almost every game was legit.
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Again, no one has to take my word for it. Read Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson directly, then compare their words with the Constitution and the historical record.


You need to reread Federalist No. 10 and 71 in their entirety because you are pulling single lines out of context. Both Madison and Hamilton are very clear in their distinction between democracy (mass elections, preference to public opinion, etc.) versus republics (institutionalized protection of individual rights under the Rule of Law). Jefferson may have been the closest to what you’re describing except he only promoted that on the local level with an extremely limited federal government.

Hence, again, why at the time of the founding, the population ONLY elected their representatives in the House. The Senate, the President, and the Judiciary were not democratic institutions because a Republic, by its very nature, its government designed to limit political authority through the rule of law and protect individual rights.

So, no, Republics and not a form a democracy. If anything, the correct description would be that Republics may use some democratic mechanisms within its framework for its ultimate purpose of limiting government power and protecting rights.

But no need to take my word for it, Read the works of Montesquieu, especially Spirit of the Laws, and his exact description of Republics and democracy simply being a subpart of a Republican government. His work, more than anyone else, was relied upon in the structural creation of the US.

re: Reta vs Tirz?

Posted by Antonio Moss on 8/2/26 at 5:37 pm to
Did you see a loss of motivation early on with Reta? I know that’s been a complaint but the first generations GLPs - basically that while it’s killing your food drive it kills other drives as well.
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Saying we aren't a democracy, we're a republic is like saying, “that's not an automobile. It's a sedan.” A republic is a form of democracy, not its opposite.


That is categorically false. A republic is not a form of a democracy. A republic is a government where the authority of government is held in the law. A democracy is a form of government where the authority of government is held with the majority of the people.

Demos = People, Kratos = Power

Res = Thing, Publica = the People’s

“Republic” is Latin for “the People’s thing”, which is the law. It’s a shared code that applies to all citizens.

“Democracy” comes from the Greeks which means “Rule of the People”

So, no, a Republic is not some subcategory of Democracy. It is an independent system of government.

Hence why at the founding, the American people had only one federal vote - for their representative. The rest of the Legislative branch, and the entirety of the Executive and Judicial branches were not determined by a mass vote.

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Persistent mismatches in which the national popular-vote winner loses the presidency, combined with sustained majority public support for a direct popular election, will eventually encourage elimination of the Electoral College.


You begin with the faulty assumption that a “national popular vote” was ever a priority to the drafters of the constitution.

Most states didn’t even hold an election for President in the early republic. Technically, states wouldn’t have to hold an election today; they could just direct the state legislature to award its EC votes to which candidate it chooses.

The problem is decades of poor education convincing Americans that our government is a democracy. It isn’t.
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I’m now retired and don’t have to drive that. I hope you enjoy the traffic everyday.


There is rarely heavy traffic on Government outside of the beginning/end of school. But that was the case before they redid the infrastructure.
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Sorry ED, I worked on Govt for many years and detest the crap they’ve done.


So have I and I like it. It’s one the area of the city that looks like somewhere functional for pedestrian access.

frick every street looking like Seigan Lane.
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Then tonight the Fever coach making her dumbass comments about not knowing the difference between a man and woman and the Portland coach saying he would welcome men to the game.


:lol:

I did laugh at the Fever coach’s answer. It’s basically, “look, I know it’s bullshite. You know is bullshite. But my job involves a large about of lesbians and a swath of extreme leftist psychopaths so, for my own survival, I can’t answer that question.”
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Who couldn’t understand that adding several liquor licenses, narrowing the road, adding bike lanes offered a target rich environment for accidents.
Add the weed patch center islands and it a near perfect example of urban planning. Remove a 4 lane and make it a 2 lane didn’t help traffic or safety.


None of that had anything to do with this retard getting run over.
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Catholic is not that expensive


Not when he went but I think that’s really changed over the last 10 years


It’s still the second cheapest private HS in the city.
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Subgroup analyses by age showed that the increased risk of events associated with the two mRNA vaccines was present only in those aged under 40 years. For this age group, we estimated 2 (95% CI 1, 3) and 8 (95%CI 4, 9) excess cases of myocarditis per 1 million people receiving a first dose of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively, and 3 (95% CI 2, 4) and 15 (95%CI 12, 16) excess cases of myocarditis per 1 million people receiving a second dose of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, respectively. This compares with ten (95% CI 7, 11) extra cases of myocarditis following a SARS-CoV-2 positive test in those aged under 40 years.


People under 40 (especially men) showed an increased rate of myocarditis after the second dose of the vaccine compared to the same population of those infected by virus. In sum, the group with the lowest risk of adverse outcomes to infection showed a greater rate of harm by the vaccine when compared to infection.