American Politics 3.0 - Back to Brunch

[PeteMoss]

So many of these gun loving Americans have this view of themselves as John Wayne fending off bad guys with their guns in slow motion.

[nfotiu]

I guess she's blaming gun control zealots for twisting her words and strangely not admitting she misspoke.

https://www.newsweek.com/lesko-slams...ildren-1722415

"It never ceases to amaze me the lengths gun control zealots will go!" Lesko tweeted. "They turned my speech about protecting Second Amendment rights and my right to protect my grandchildren from violent criminals into a claim I would harm my own grandchildren. Absolutely ridiculous!"

[wireframe]

"When Republicans were in the majority, we actually passed legislation that was signed INTO LAW that would have prevented mass shootings"


It didn't.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

I guess she's blaming gun control zealots for twisting her words and strangely not admitting she misspoke.

https://www.newsweek.com/lesko-slams...ildren-1722415

It's clear to me that she misspoke, but that doesn't excuse it being a bat#### crazy argument from the start. Generally, a person this chronically stupid shouldn't be in a position of any authority.

However, their overriding ego may be the biggest problem. They seem so twisted up in nonsense and alt-realities that admitting even a minor mistake and explaining it rationally is impossible.

That could be a strategy to keep their base frothing at the mouth at the demon, liberal Democrats, but I think it's just substantive stupidity.

[shermanator]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1545447455558406145

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by shermanator

https://twitter.com/user/status/1545447455558406145

It is an egregious overstep of presidential powers, furthering recent precedent in an extremely troubling way.

But it is a good immediate term thing for women.

[opendoor]

It's not really an overreach. It doesn't maintain access for in-clinic abortion procedures; that's not something the President can do without Congress passing a law. I believe it's just reinforcing access to Federally-approved abortion pills and contraception. Those things are approved by the FDA, and I think the Federal Government's position is that states cannot limit access to or ban FDA-approved drugs.

[Monahammer]

I didn't read any of the specifics, I just meant the continued use of executive orders to expand presidential authority and oversight is worrisome.

[activeStick]

So apparently, Uganda discovered gold deposits which are worth over $12T USD on their land.

I wonder when the west is going to give the people of Uganda "freedom" and "democracy"?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

So many of these gun loving Americans have this view of themselves as John Wayne fending off bad guys with their guns in slow motion.

####ing Idiots.

Anyone that has been on a 2 way range will tell you it ain't like the movies

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by activeStick

So apparently, Uganda discovered gold deposits which are worth over $12T USD on their land.

I wonder when the west is going to give the people of Uganda "freedom" and "democracy"?

If there’s that much would it devalue gold? Not quite as rare….

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by edslunch

If there’s that much would it devalue gold? Not quite as rare….

The amount that has supposedly been discovered I think is on a scale similar to the whole global volume of above-ground gold, so if the extraction costs are lower than current global averages I would say it's pretty fair to expect it will have an impact. Gold's down about $150 since the discovery, but so is silver, so I don't think there's any impact as of yet. I would think the big question will be the extraction costs and how it comes to market.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by edslunch

If there’s that much would it devalue gold? Not quite as rare….

They'd be smart to pull a 'DeBeers.'

Extract, silo and hide and then dole out to market in small doses.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Locke

They'd be smart to pull a 'DeBeers.'

Extract, silo and hide and then dole out to market in small doses.

Yes. And invest in their military.

For context, the value of that gold discovery is equivalent to something like 300 years of their 2021 GDP, which was their all time high GDP as a nation.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by activeStick

So apparently, Uganda discovered gold deposits which are worth over $12T USD on their land.

I wonder when the west is going to give the people of Uganda "freedom" and "democracy"?

I hope Kamala get his share.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by activeStick

So apparently, Uganda discovered gold deposits which are worth over $12T USD on their land.

I wonder when the west is going to give the people of Uganda "freedom" and "democracy"?

China will get there first

[rubecube]

Just an absolute charisma vacuum with zero authenticity.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1545536560648560642

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by edslunch

China will get there first

They have contracted with a Chinese company to start the mining.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

I didn't read any of the specifics, I just meant the continued use of executive orders to expand presidential authority and oversight is worrisome.

Well, yeah.

But people like it when their side does it, and hate it when the other side does it.

[Macman]

So does an executive order over ride a Supreme Court ruling?

I was watching a bit of Biden’s speech yesterday and when he talked about women’s rights I could already hear the other side going off about their rights and guns.

It doesn’t help that the SC is so partisan and political, just another arm of government and not really a neutral SC.