Autumncomet posted:

I don't think there's anything saying dual citizens can't be president either.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Is "natural born citizen" actually an unsettled bit of constitutional law? I always took it to mean you had to be born in a US territory.

Atlas Hugged posted:

In other words it's another example of my high school history teachers having no loving clue what they were talking about.

Atlas Hugged posted:

In other words it's another example of my high school history teachers having no loving clue what they were talking about.

computer parts posted:

Not really, because usually the most common way you have citizenship by birth is by being born in the US.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Except that's not how it's framed or taught. I was literally taught by multiple people, "You must be born on US soil to be president."

Joementum posted:

LP97S posted:

It's amazing he is literally the only man in history to lose money while owning not one but two casinos.

skaboomizzy posted:

short of prostiution

skaboomizzy posted:

Seriously, I can't get over this. "The house always wins" is the first rule of casinos. If you go bankrupt running a casino, you are literally the worst businessperson in the world. There are illiterate bookies running out of the shittiest bars or strip clubs imaginable making six figures every year. Sheldon Adelson made his billions from casinos.

Donald Trump literally took the most iron-clad money-making machine in recorded human history (short of prostiution) and managed to run it into bankruptcy. Nobody ever calls him out on this. How can you own several casinos and still lose money?

pentyne posted:

In their defense, the casinos probably made money, but Trump funneled all of their income into his failed real estate plans.

Atlas Hugged posted:

In other words it's another example of my high school history teachers having no loving clue what they were talking about.

Orange Devil posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xhuSxyHWRw

Seriously, all the kids in this video are terrible human beings and should be parted from their wealth post haste.

max4me posted:

Just like how people question whether tupac is dead because you cant get death certificates in Nevada

quote:

Risk, Relativism, and Resources
Three things conservatives must know about progressivism in order to defeat it

By Kevin D. Williamson

Conservatives understand the intellectual roots of conservatism better than progressives do, for obvious reasons, but we also understand the intellectual roots of progressivism better than progressives do. That is the case in no small part because progressives prefer to think of themselves as non-ideological pragmatists and empiricists, and they are immune to the irony that their just-the-facts pose is only an echo of vintage “scientific socialism” and related 20th-century ideologies with which our contemporary progressives claim to have no kinship. (I know a guy who wrote a book about that.) Progressives do not study Marx, Bismarck, Croly, or their other intellectual founding fathers, because they do not believe them to be their founding fathers — and also because many of them are kind of embarrassing.

But even though we study the Left’s thinkers, spend years in the universities they administer, and swim in the popular culture they dominate, conservatives still occasionally fail to appreciate critical aspects of the progressive tendency — especially the most attractive ones. Perhaps we should make a New Year’s resolution to better understand them, if not for reasons of charity and intellectual probity (we should always engage our opponents on their most meritorious arguments), then at least because doing so will help us to advance in the theater of ideas.

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The political preferences that produced two terms for President Obama have been with us for a long time and will be with us long after the gentleman from Honolulu has completed the 82nd volume of his memoirs, and we would do well to better understand its attraction. The desire of one part of the population to live at the expense of another certainly is part of that, but conservatives are kidding ourselves if we think that the Democratic constituency consists entirely of freeloaders.

With that in mind, there are three ideas that should help guide conservatives’ thinking and policy prescriptions.

First: Progressives and those who sympathize with them are economically risk-averse compared with conservatives. As Charles C. W. Cooke recently pointed out, the terms “conservative” and “liberal” are sometimes confusing in the American context, and that is certainly true in the case of financial risk, about which conservatives are not conservative at all. As an academic study published in the American Journal of Business put it: “As the economic political orientation of the subjects in our study becomes increasingly conservative (meaning they lean more towards an economically libertarian position as opposed to an economically socialistic position), they assume significantly higher levels of risk in their investment decisions.” Other studies find similar results.

There are many ways to measure financial risk tolerance, but consider this: One of the riskiest things you can do with your money is start a business, and entrepreneurs and small-business owners skew heavily Republican. The 2011 survey from the National Small Business Association found that 54 percent of the organization’s members identified as Republicans, while only 16 percent identified as Democrats; it is significant that more small-business owners identified themselves as independents in the survey than as Democrats.

The Democratic party is in fact a coalition of financially risk-averse groups: Women, blacks, and Hispanics all exhibit a high degree of financial risk-aversion when compared with whites and men. Even when controlling for income, white households are more likely to invest in stocks and other relatively risky assets compared with non-white households, and men are more likely to invest in stocks than are similarly situated women, though those differences are somewhat diminished when accounting for net worth and education. Black and Hispanic households, even when adjusted for income, are more likely to invest in low-risk, low-yield assets such as government bonds:

African-American households are particularly conservative in their investment style, preferring real-estate assets and insurance products to stock and bond investments. Even within these relatively more popular investment categories, however, the mean values for all categories of real-property investments across the African-American sample lie well below their corresponding values in white households. This trend persists across all income and education levels.

Race Realists posted:

BlackAndRight is a conservative so we can say whatever the gently caress we want you guys


Kevin D. Williamson has got you guys number


http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/336481/risk-relativism-and-resources-kevin-d-williamson

nm posted:

Well, you wouldn't want to actually give up your access to truly universal health care and a good safety net, would you?

ShorStack posted:

Maybe it means one cannot be president if one was a cesarean section baby as opposed to a natural vaginal birth.

Race Realists posted:

BlackAndRight is a conservative so we can say whatever the gently caress we want you guys


Kevin D. Williamson has got you guys number


http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/336481/risk-relativism-and-resources-kevin-d-williamson

The Constitution posted:

Fear not, America, no man not born of woman shall e'er have power upon thee.

Orange Devil posted:

But then again I'm reminded of that rich kids documentary in which his daughter is interviewed and she talks about back when he was deeply in debt and they walked past a homeless beggar while exiting their million-dollar apartment or whatever and Trump told her something to the effect of how that guy is lucky because while he has nothing, Trump was deeply in debt, aka, has even less than that beggar. His daughter is so proud of dear daddy for getting through that horrible period. Also I think it was her, could be some other spoiled brat, that thought giving money to poor people was just the most hilariously jokey thing to suggest she'd do with the money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xhuSxyHWRw

Seriously, all the kids in this video are terrible human beings and should be parted from their wealth post haste.

Erick Erickson posted:

Libs on twitter rally around abortion as a means to exterminate the religious. Fitting, given King Herod, etc. fb.me/6xOdkZYIY

Guilty Spork posted:

On Twitter a bunch of Pro-Lifers have been doing a #PrayToEndAbortion hashtag. Patton Oswalt jokingly tweeted that people should get an #AbortToEndPrayer hashtag going. Anyone with any comprehension at all would have realized that this was not in fact "let's kill religion and have ALL THE ABORTIONS for real in real life because we just love abortions!", but rather "they made a thing, let's make the opposite thing wouldn't that be funny."

Erick Son of Erick is apparently a bit slow on the uptake:

beatlegs posted:

Contrast & compare with Megyn Kelly now claiming her "Santa/Jesus is white" comment was "tongue in cheek". She was joking! OMG can't liberals take a joke?

max4me posted:

Serious question, I m gonna be careful cause in my head its sounds like a troll. I know the religious right loves Israel for messed up reason regarding the ending of the world.

I know in the early 20th century jews werent regarded very well, and that after the holocaust there was movement to include jews in our "Judeo Christian heritage"

Megyn Kelly is playing to her audience, "Jesus was white" does saying "Jesus was Hebrew AKA jewish" really throw off her perception? cause I thought Jews are now white. Since the only groups bitching about them are neo nazi....oh dear did I just answer my own question?

beatlegs posted:

Contrast & compare with Megyn Kelly now claiming her "Santa/Jesus is white" comment was "tongue in cheek". She was joking! OMG can't liberals take a joke?

Time to read Zinn posted:

What, exactly, was her joke? To me it seemed like she said that without a hint of irony.

The_Rob posted:

It just baffles me that the Highest rated news channel is a white supremacy channel.

Lycus posted:

apparently she sincerely thought Jesus was white

Von Sloneker posted:

Not that I needed multiple aneurysms, but I decided to watch this thing anyway, and a) the Trump quote was even more harebrained: "That [homeless] guy has eight billion dollars more than me;" and b) the woman laughing hysterically at the mere idea of giving a million dollars to the homeless, A&P Supermarket heiress Juliet Hartford, then added after some contemplation, "I just have so few houses, like in the Bahamas and London."

To be fair, a few of those kids do seem self-aware and conflicted, even sympathetic. But holy poo poo that Cody Franchetti dude. Every stereotype compacted into one shining quintessence. Quoting Schopenhauer, bitching about proper lapel height. He is smarm incarnate.

Guilty Spork posted:

Admittedly I only saw the clips as they were presented on the Daily Show and Colbert Report, but Kelly came off as extremely serious and non-jokey when she said that. If she did in fact mean it as a joke, as far as I can tell she managed a wholly un-joke-like delivery, to a degree that would be hard to manage on purpose.

Huey Freeman posted:

Excuse me. Everyone, I have a brief announcement to make. Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying about 9-11. Thank you for your time and good night.