I'm not sure it is empty. But I must note at this time that while you tacitly acknowledge it is not a red flag law you are more not less excited about opposing it.

I don't achnowledge anything I'll get to that in a moment

Oh sorry summarize? Sure I mean I did skim it but basically it sets up a small taskforce with a small budget to analyze the small problem of mass shootings. With a lot of restrictions and legalese. But I could not find anything in the bill empowering anyone to take anyone's firearms.

I mean you could read it and prove me wrong *I* couldn't find anything like that.

"A grant program that allows local law enforcement to use the same analytical tools and training on behavioral threat assessment that federal law enforcement has been using for 35 years." -Dan Crenshaw on that LWC interview about the taps act when asked what they are.

So lemme tell you the "grant program" is not "hey we're going to give you more money for this great program" they take money from the state if they don't enroll in the program. That's how we have speed limits on major highways because the department of transportation says "You can't have speed limits higher than *such n such* on a major highway". Same with seat belt laws. The drinking age is a state enforced thing. But any state that has a drinking age under 21 loses a big chunk of their funding. It behooves your state to have it. If not they take money from you. This taps act is a roundabout way of passing a federal law when they can't.

The threat assessment thing: You know how the FBI has access to the NSA and everything you do? We also want to make sure your local sheriff can pull up a screen and have access to everything you've ever said online and everytime you've ever made fun of your local sheriff for being a dick head. Or everytime you've said "there's a speed trap over there". What you're doing is your giving the information- all this trickling down from the patriot act - now all this unfettered federal access, that used to just be on the federal level, every cop is going to be for this. You are giving them more money and giving them access to this huge database. The whole taps act is about pre-crime. You're trying to stop somebody. Who hasn't done anything illegal yet. You know what I mean?

Or what?

It's another example of you can't criminalize being a dick. It's unconstitutional

> It's another example of you can't criminalize being a dick. It's unconstitutional

But the Dems sure will try

They will, I won't condone it

@Marushia Dark it's not even dems it's our own "Republicans" pushing this like Dan Crenshaw

I meant regarding Trump specifically

This is a problem with most federal programs. Of course the funding on this act is a few million and given staffing costs no where near these other problems. And again it has no power nor mandate to restrict the 2nd.

It's them trying to reach a hand across an aisle they don't realize is too far away to compromise with

Almost as though you want to go after Crenshaw for one reason yet choose another.....

I get the feeling that Congress will be mostly lame duck until after the election

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Likely.

My hope for 2020 is to crush them there too.

On the plus side, huge win for Trump in passing healthcare transparency rules

I would respect a DNC honorable opposition but they have to quit their socialist goals before that can happen.

Tulsi 2024

Fuck no.

She's the least awful among them

I can get a MILF on OKC I do not need to ellect one.

I'm not voting dem

I'd vote Crenshaw before Tulsi, she's not a bad person. But still too left, Crenshaw is allot closer to the middle

Tulsi or Yang would be the only Dems I'd vote for atm, but neither are viable

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Here's an idea. What about a Gabbard-Crenshaw ticket? They like each other well enough, it'd be the best of both worlds

They're the best options they have. And they have decided to ignore them. If they don't want help then they deserve the results

She'd temper his hawkishness and he'd temper her leftist economics

Yang is trash. I could see Pence 2024 he is a competent administrator. Look at his budget as governor.

That could work

The DNC is corrupt as fuck and right now as it stands we are aligned with Trump in the Republican party of today and before that too becomes more corrupt than it already is we gotta get real movement going questioning with our voices and wallets about what people like LwC, Ben Shapiro and all the fake conservatives in Congress and the media who are shills.

I don't like Yang's tax plans or M4A generally, but apart from that, he's got many solid, forward-thinking policies. He's made the rounds among economic conservatives like Shapiro who've grilled him on the details of UBI and managed to hold his own. I think he understands our concerns about welfare at least in that regard.

Ultimately, he'd be a better advisor, though

True look I don't want the DNC to *lose* I want them to *lose humiliatingly*. Most sensible people wanted them to see 2016 as a wake up call. Instead they doubled down. If they face ultimate defeat it means they may have to change. Even if it means they become the party of NeoLibs it is an improvement.

They need someone like a Kanye to come in and reform the whole thing

Pretty much all the potentially decent Dem candidates should spend sometime in an advisory position to get some more experience before they consider a run at the big seat

Specifically under a republican

If JFK was resurrected tomorrow and put on the ticket I would vote for him. A committed anti-communist who lowered taxes and supported civil rights. As things stand the current DNC would call him a libertarian radical.