I sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court asking him to please send me a copy of the new U.S. Constitution because the one I have was written in 1787 and it no longer seems to apply.
I figured since he’s the U.S. chief justice — the top dog in robes, so to speak — he probably has the greatest access and can lay his hands on the new version faster than anyone.
You are looking in the wrong places for this document. The copy of the revised Constitution and Bill of Rights is in the secret vault in Bill Barr's office.
The Constitution bars federal officials from receiving payments from foreign officials, something Trump has been doing since before he even took office. Trump has faced allegations of violating the emoluments clause from the start of his tenure.
Trump has spent federal dollars not authorized by Congress, separated families and incarcerated children at the Texas/Mexico border in defiance of a federal court order, pulled 1,000 American troops out of Syria ignoring a commitment to allies and facilitating war against civilians, and sent 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia without a congressional declaration of war.
He has also criminally obstructed a Department of Justice investigation of himself but escaped prosecution because of the intercession of an attorney general more loyal to him than to the U.S. Constitution.
Ms. Chittenden does present a valid point in her column, albeit in an unnecessarily callous and snarky fashion. Her argument equivocating the eviction moratoriums with the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is thin at best, as her property has not been seized, nevertheless I take her point that she has suffered financially as a result of an executive order. As to this, I would simply ask her to ‘take a number’ and join the millions of her fellow citizens that are truly suffering in these trying times. Mass evictions will only increase the magnitude of our national crisis.
In reading her words one would hardly assume that they were written during desperate times, but they were, and desperate times require desperate measures. During the depression farmers overproduced causing food prices to crash. The New Deal answer was subsidies that paid farmers not to plant. The consequence of this well intended policy was the mass eviction of their tenant farmers. There are photos of these dispossessed families lining the highways with nowhere to go, lost and hopeless. Desperate measures again faced Americans when WW2 came and Executive Order 8875 instituted nationwide rationing. Things once in abundance became rare overnight. Sugar, tires, coffee, and even shoes were given up to support the greater good. Although they had no choice in following a policy they never voted for, everyone pitched in and sacrificed in the hopes of better times ahead.
My point is that although the eviction moratoriums indeed present a hardship for landlords, a diaspora of the 22 million people that are expected not to be able to pay their rent by September (Wash. Post) presents a greater crisis. As dire as Ms. Chittenden’s personal plight may be, she is by extension just another victim of the vacuum that has stood in the place of national leadership for years. Once again Americans are suffering a crisis, and a crisis demands a hero. Perhaps one will arise, but for now I recall the words of Sartre, who held that everything is a choice, and sometimes all your choices are bad. To advocate for the mass evictions of families unable to meet their obligations as a result of extraordinary forces beyond their control, points less to the kind of businesswoman one is, and more toward the kind of human being one could be.
No Jeff! We’re entitled to do as we think is right for ourselves and to @#$& with anyone else ! I’ve got vacations planned and want a new car! What’s wrong with you! There will always be poor people, and I don’t want to grovel like them ! I’m a white supreme American ( God bless America, or at least the part I’m interested in) by golly! ( steal a phraseology from a fellow social mediest ) “once I go quack I’ll never go back”! [ I didn’t mean any of this as the truth concerning myself]
Ha. I think it was Rousseau that said all of man's troubles can be tracked back to the first man that fenced off a piece of land and declared 'This is mine!', and the idiots that let him get away with it.
Yeah, how cutesy she frames the dystopian effects of this global pandemic on its victims. Just throw the bums out, kick them to the curb, make them homeless, let them eat cake!
Making people homeless is the last thing that needs to be done to these victims, having them move in with relatives is playing right into the COVID-19 strength. Our federal government needs to get out the printing press and make more money to help these people who have lost their means to earn a living at no fault of their own! Dick Cheney want to said deficits don’t matter, as long as they’re giving welfare to corporations or rich Mac Daddys that Miss Crittenden seems to favor. How these people sleep with themselves is beyond me! Deplorable!
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You are looking in the wrong places for this document. The copy of the revised Constitution and Bill of Rights is in the secret vault in Bill Barr's office.
The Constitution bars federal officials from receiving payments from foreign officials, something Trump has been doing since before he even took office. Trump has faced allegations of violating the emoluments clause from the start of his tenure.
Trump has spent federal dollars not authorized by Congress, separated families and incarcerated children at the Texas/Mexico border in defiance of a federal court order, pulled 1,000 American troops out of Syria ignoring a commitment to allies and facilitating war against civilians, and sent 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia without a congressional declaration of war.
He has also criminally obstructed a Department of Justice investigation of himself but escaped prosecution because of the intercession of an attorney general more loyal to him than to the U.S. Constitution.
Sounds like you are buying the misinformation Rachel Madcow and Chris Cuomo are pushing.
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Ms. Chittenden does present a valid point in her column, albeit in an unnecessarily callous and snarky fashion. Her argument equivocating the eviction moratoriums with the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment is thin at best, as her property has not been seized, nevertheless I take her point that she has suffered financially as a result of an executive order. As to this, I would simply ask her to ‘take a number’ and join the millions of her fellow citizens that are truly suffering in these trying times. Mass evictions will only increase the magnitude of our national crisis.
In reading her words one would hardly assume that they were written during desperate times, but they were, and desperate times require desperate measures. During the depression farmers overproduced causing food prices to crash. The New Deal answer was subsidies that paid farmers not to plant. The consequence of this well intended policy was the mass eviction of their tenant farmers. There are photos of these dispossessed families lining the highways with nowhere to go, lost and hopeless. Desperate measures again faced Americans when WW2 came and Executive Order 8875 instituted nationwide rationing. Things once in abundance became rare overnight. Sugar, tires, coffee, and even shoes were given up to support the greater good. Although they had no choice in following a policy they never voted for, everyone pitched in and sacrificed in the hopes of better times ahead.
My point is that although the eviction moratoriums indeed present a hardship for landlords, a diaspora of the 22 million people that are expected not to be able to pay their rent by September (Wash. Post) presents a greater crisis. As dire as Ms. Chittenden’s personal plight may be, she is by extension just another victim of the vacuum that has stood in the place of national leadership for years. Once again Americans are suffering a crisis, and a crisis demands a hero. Perhaps one will arise, but for now I recall the words of Sartre, who held that everything is a choice, and sometimes all your choices are bad. To advocate for the mass evictions of families unable to meet their obligations as a result of extraordinary forces beyond their control, points less to the kind of businesswoman one is, and more toward the kind of human being one could be.
No Jeff! We’re entitled to do as we think is right for ourselves and to @#$& with anyone else ! I’ve got vacations planned and want a new car! What’s wrong with you! There will always be poor people, and I don’t want to grovel like them ! I’m a white supreme American ( God bless America, or at least the part I’m interested in) by golly! ( steal a phraseology from a fellow social mediest ) “once I go quack I’ll never go back”! [ I didn’t mean any of this as the truth concerning myself]
Ha. I think it was Rousseau that said all of man's troubles can be tracked back to the first man that fenced off a piece of land and declared 'This is mine!', and the idiots that let him get away with it.
Cheers
Rousseau was an astute philosopher! Funny!
Yeah, how cutesy she frames the dystopian effects of this global pandemic on its victims. Just throw the bums out, kick them to the curb, make them homeless, let them eat cake!
Making people homeless is the last thing that needs to be done to these victims, having them move in with relatives is playing right into the COVID-19 strength. Our federal government needs to get out the printing press and make more money to help these people who have lost their means to earn a living at no fault of their own! Dick Cheney want to said deficits don’t matter, as long as they’re giving welfare to corporations or rich Mac Daddys that Miss Crittenden seems to favor. How these people sleep with themselves is beyond me! Deplorable!
Funny what people of “ means” want from those without ? Where’s Utopia?
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