This is the kind of shit people talk about when people say the GOP supports white supremacy.

Defense does not necessitate apartheid or ethnic cleansing.

And then we would deny them their WIC, SNAP, and end the child tax credit to ensure they stay in poverty, and systematically defund public education.

And then when the poverty rate mysteriously jumps, which mysteriously causes crime rates to jump, we can just blame democrats.

https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx

We repurchased 10 million shares totaling $1.2 billion at an average price per share of $119.

They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.

https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

Conservatism can't exist in the face of criticism, it requires an echo chamber.

No, just the government. If no new spending bill passes it will be pretty not great.

The two party system is the natural result of FPTP voting. We desperately need to switch to STAR or approval.

Well gee, that sure does give Isreal the right to do ethnic cleansing. It's self defense after all so everything is permissible. /s

Gotta love a bribery based legislature system.

Leaving them on the streets is also more expensive than housing them.

When they're on the streets, it means the government must pay for emergency services, extra sanitation work, police are called more frequently, etc.

It's worse than that though:

“I think that these people need to be replaced,”

“If we do that,” Peters continued, “none of this song and pony show dance fake circus nonsense would even be in existence because the people that are perpetuating this and have openly declared war on the American people will be held to extreme accountability, and they will be gone.”

the only thing stopping them from completing [their new world order] is 450 million guns in this country, so now we just need to talk about what to do with those guns and how to use them.”

This is calling for the death of political opponents.

So therefore we should stick with a system that treats votes unequally? Fuck that. All votes should be equal.

Where exactly has Israel done this recently?

They've been doing it for decades.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

As for the more recent:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/civilians-trapped-in-gaza-cant-escape-israels-siege.html

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[3][4][5] It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even as ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Attacking someone across your border because they’re killing people near yours is war.

Civilians are getting killed and forced out of their homes, all based on race. It's an apartheid, and an ethnic cleansing.

How many dead people have been found voting for people? How many ballots in trunks of peoples cars last couple years?

These are election security issues, none of which are unique to a popular vote. They can happen and have happened under our electoral collage. So this is a moot point.

and populous states and cities controlling everything while completely taking a voice from the rest of the country

That's not how it works. All votes are counted equal regardless of who they are or where they are from under a popular vote. Neither cities or land votes, only people do and the system should reflect that.

The rest of the country would actually get a say under a popular vote unlike with the electoral college. Most people don't live in a city in a swing state, which is the only place politicians cater to.

Given that the popular has only been overridden twice in two decades, it’s hardly a bitching point.

That's not the point though. The point is that all votes should be counted equally.

And if you live in a state that is solidly blue/red then your vote is essentially meaningless. Nobody should get a bigger voice from living in a swing state, it should be everyone's voice.

Not defending Grisham here, but it is really odd to see the party of "protect the children" to constantly be doing everything in their power to allow children to get shot.

So the reason given is that Gen. Milley delayed the response to Jan 6.

And that he is a "sodomoy promoting", "homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist".

The only reason somebody says something like that in the context of calling for execution is when they find these things as reasons for execution. Calling for the deaths of homosexuals is fascism, and the GOP is openly embracing it when they support people like Gosar.

Also feel the need to mention that hes a politician, so hes probably lying or at least stretching and bending the truth.

That's supposed to be comforting? "Oh don't worry about this congress man calling for the death of a military general based in part on LGBTQ hatred, he's probably just lying about his true intentions"

As if he doesn't have worse intentions than what he believes to be publicly acceptable.

Where people live shouldn't effect their voice in who is president. And the majority of Americans recognize that.

The voice of a New Yorker should not be more important than a Kansan, and a Kansan's voice should not be more important than a New Yorker.

Not only that, buy it's almost always cheaper to just give the homeless housing.

A chronically homeless person costs the tax payer an average of $35,578 per year. Costs on average are reduced by 49.5% when they are placed in supportive housing. Supportive housing costs on average $12,800, making the net savings roughly $4,800 per year.

http://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf

Studies have shown that – in practice, and not just in theory – providing people experiencing chronic homelessness with permanent supportive housing saves taxpayers money.

https://www.npscoalition.org/post/fact-sheet-cost-of-homelessness

Without connections to the right types of care, they cycle in and out of hospital emergency departments and inpatient beds, detox programs, jails, prisons, and psychiatric institutions—all at high public expense. Some studies have found that leaving a person to remain chronically homeless costs taxpayers as much as $30,000 to $50,000 per year.

https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Ending_Chronic_Homelessness_in_2017.pdf

This obviously varies from state to state. But generally it is cheaper to fix the root of a problem (housing) than a symptom (emergency services), and that applies to homelessness. Why wait until your leaky roof collapses of rot when you can patch a small hole?

But even if it wasn't a better option from a purely cost/benefit analysis, the moral thing to do is to house the homeless. So no matter what, it is something we should be doing.

pro-life seems to be more about punishing women than it does about protecting (future) children

A single look at republican climate policy tells you all you need to know. They children can go fuck themselves, they don't deserve a habitable world. Who cares that we are risking extinction?

That's exactly the first thing that crossed my mind. Whenever I get a depressive episode, the last thing I want to do is cook. So the least effort, quickest meal is the meal I have. And meals like that are generally processed, terrible foods.