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Say what you will, but I’d bet he would be more ashamed of what the Predidency has become. Foreign statesmen staying in Trump’s D.C. hotel when they come to town (500 nights to Saudi lobbyists) looks more like “Ask what your country can do to make you money”.

Like when you play the Maddow card?

That sounds just like Rush. Call us all imbedded with perversion and immorality. Say it over and over and over until your followers believe it’s truth.

My feelings aren’t hurt, dude. I don’t believe in victim hood. I made my point and you questioned my description of the event. You got a better word, use it.

First off, does that law apply to abortion on demand or only if the life of the mother is in jeopardy? If it’s on demand I’ll bet dollars to donuts the Supreme Court will overturn it.

Word police. Am I being politically incorrect?

Yes, grown people lusting after children is disgusting. I also think dressing eight year old girls up like they’re 22 and prancing them around a stage is pretty outrageous. You think no lusting is going on out there in those audiences somewhere? Perverts no know political party or sexual orientation. I do believe 12 is too young. Juvenile and mental health authorities should handle them.

You pick the adjective for me, then.

Hagar, have you looked at the Democratic Party platform? None of that pedophile crap is in it. There are radicals in the party, but they’re nowhere near “controlling” it. Calling Dems perverted because of what some fringe members say is no more fair than calling Republicans racist because David Duke endorses and praises their party leader.

That’s not pedophilia. Very distasteful, but not pedophilia.

Shock caused by trauma, possibly.

My best friend, and roommate from my UT days lives in El Paso. He leans way right on economic policy, not so much social issues, but we still get together a couple of times a year and can go at it like cats and dogs, laughing all the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if more of us could do that. I got another friend here in Silsbee who’s a rock ribbed conservative, but we debate all the time and always part with a handshake.

Hardly a bastion of the radical left, South Carolina. At least they moved it up a year. If anyone advocated less than 17 I’d bolt. Along a similar line, do you believe a 12 year old should be tried as an adult in a murder charge?

Understood. Radical left will not govern any more than radical right. Answer’s almost always somewhere in between.

What countries have legalized pedophilia?

The pedophilia statement was pure conjecture. Abortion rights are arguments about the law.

Yeah. Casting dems as supporters of pedophilia is a fear tactic.

That’s what I’m saying. There are some constants in the law, and I believe that’s one.

Texas has a limit of twenty weeks. After that, not legal. Other states have different limits on term. It’s not legislation from the bench, it’s interpretation of legislation. Conervatives believe in original intent, liberals more in interpretation given the times in which we live. I think we’re basically saying the same thing, but neither of us are lawyers so we can’t talk like they do.

Hogwash. Minors cannot consent in the eyes of the law, and I don’t see anyone changing that. That’s just another fear tactic to demonize the left.

Where?

I don’t have a clue. That’s why we have a court system. Do you think “hate crime” is a legitimate cause of action in any case, or should it just be judged as assault and battery, attempted murder,manslaughter or murder, depending on the outcome of the action? I’m guessing it’s already being tried in the court of public opinion, but that court has no legal standing. Good wedge issue, though.

I want to know why you think what I said is incorrect. A more conservative court is going to be more sympathetic to states’ rights than a liberal court. That means more leeway in enforcing federal law. I’m not talking politics here, I’m talking about the law and it’s interpretation.

Give more leeway is what I said, meaning where the Texas law was overturned by the previous court, the Louisiana law may not be by this new court. Did you just have to disagree because a liberal said it?

Louisiana is appealing a state law right now to the Supreme Court similar to the one Texas had overturned a year or two ago. States can set parameters, but they must pass constitutional muster as interpreted by the Supreme Court. I'm saying the new court will be more open to states' modifications of abortion policy.