The first three words of The Constitution are a lie.

The first I heard about the shooting in Oregon was from a US Senator demanding that my rights get stripped away. For Democrats, these tragedies are nothing but opportunities, and they jump all over each other to be the first to take advantage of it.

I, as a lifelong Republican and three time Trump voter in the vital 18-25 demographic, with an annual income between $69,500 and $83,225, just like you, target audience, have decided that Democratic candidates are clearly superior in every possible way because Trump is icky.

Which human? Which animal? Matters to whom? People keep asserting categorical value judgements without reference to a valuer as moral absolutes.

Make Epistemology Great Again

Individualism is not an ideology nor a choice, it is a fact. We are each separate and distinct consciousnesses. Every one of our ideas ours and only ours, even when many have considerable overlap with the ideas of others. Every goal is uniquely our own, even when some are compatible with the goals of others. Collectivism is in fact impossible, and even attempting it starts with that impossible metaphysics, proceeds through aberrant epistemology, and culminates with ethical and moral atrocity. The denouement is that the survivors starve to death.

He says "not sufficient" as if there is some constraining relation between taxation and spending. Government will always spend as much as it can get away with, even when (not if) it has to invent things to spend more on. Government will always tax as much as it can get away with, even when (not if) they have to invent funding risks to things people care about.

Here's socialists complaining when companies exploit fewer workers.

If you support the execution, you're a hypocrite if you complain about being able to watch it. If you oppose the execution, you're a hypocrite if you choose the public display as the part to get upset about.

If you vote, you should be forced to watch the execution.

Rubio might as well have announced he was running for President in Athens the other day. It was a hell of a apeech, and exactly the kind of "here's all the values I'm running on, and none of the promises" speech that people choose to announce a candidacy. It almost sounded more like an inauguration speech. The values he laid out have not been articulated by any politician that I can remember in my lifetime. Definitely not by Trump. He used the word "nationalism" in a positive way, but with plausible deniability about intending what it is normally taken to mean. In elaborating on that, he got at some truths about today's conditions that are undeniably true. If he was aiming for "I'm not Trump, but I'm ready to build on what he started", he nailed it. The MAGA base, and if they're honest, the Republicans too, will eat this up. He scored huge points on that front, and I'll bet that if there are polls for POTUS nominee, he's at the top of them today. Of course I'm not going to vote for him, or anybody else, but I did find the speech somewhat moving. Aside from the other N-word, it would be nice to believe there was a politician devoted to the values he laid out, and who would serve them in the ways impossible for a politician to ever do. Will I root for him in 28 over the democrats? Yeah probably, because if I have to live with somebody in that office for four or eight years, sane and kinda evil is better than absolutely batshit insane and wholly and maliciously dedicated to evil.

Hey @elonmusk, where's the flying cars?

Elections are decided by two things: which base turns out in better numbers, and who the NPCs think is going to win. If you're a "thoughtful" or "conscientious" voter, your vote does not matter.

That's a huge tax no one should have to pay to protect their rights.

Democrats are accusing Trump of planning to take over elections when they've spent the last ten years referring to democracy as theirs.