Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

--John Adams

$100,000.00.

You meant $100,000,000 :)

Because power attracts psychopaths like shit attracts flies.

Inconceivable.

So many downvotes, so many butt-hurt people with no sense of humor.

During a smallpox epidemic, too!

Violence is the basis of all government, all law

You might find this article interesting: https://macris.substack.com/p/social-contract-theory-for-stratocracy

summarized some prudential rules for exercising judicial self-restraint and avoiding ruling on the constitutionality of congressional legislation

WTF? That's one of the purposes of SCOTUS.

I expect to hear a lot of "take the high road" appeals by the establishment conservatives. Christian morality is a useful tool to control rebellion.

We should certainly ask and remind them every chance we get.

If they gave such a damn about unity they would have been working on it these past 4 years.

I missed your post otherwise I would have up-voted it at the time. That's some good advice, especially the gunshot detectors. I forgot about those. :(

Because they're fucking stupid and have been brought up watching TV where everything is sorted out by the end of the hour.

The enemy must be white

and Christian. Russia is a very religious nation.

I expect the FBI will determine that this was caused by white supremacists.

Solar Winds produces network management and monitoring software. One of their products, which is used by the Military, NSA, Fortune 500 companies, etc., was compromised back around March 2020. Installing the patch for the product in question installed a backdoor and let hackers access the network.

This was such a sophisticated operation that it could only have happened with the support of a nation-state and/or it was an inside job.

One of the best solutions to the police issue is to disarm all the police and require willing citizens to be armed. That way, if the police feel they need firepower, they must call on the citizens. If the citizens don't feel it's justified then they won't back up the police.

Read, maybe. Understood, no.

And if you say it loud enough it really sounds atrocious.

That is a picture of a servant meeting his master.

This is the first reasonable post I've come across in this thread. I was beginning to wonder if I watched the same coin toss as everyone else.

The Navy guy didn't do anything to deserve all thhis scorn. President Trump never offered him a handshake. Navy guy and Army guy came in to shake hands then Navy guy nodded to Trump and turned away. Army guy came in for what Trump thought was a handshake but turned out to be an elbow bump.

Did you just assume they have arms? That's very abilist of you.

Not yet. This needs to play out until January, after all the other Constitutional safe-guards have run their course.

And 2020 obliges.

They tried that with Acosta then CNN sued because it was allegedly a violation of the First Amendment. Such a bunch of bullshit