Why the Right has become a laughing stock.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/17/what-is-bernie-sanders-net-worth.aspx. You appear to define Rich differently than most.

 

He may be well to do but how much money does he have in the bank? I think that's key in backing up your original post.

 

He's got more than 2.2 million in houses alone.

 

You're not even very good at trolling.

 

Excellent points, and the 14th amendment was passed to address this but quickly stripped of it's ability to do so, by SCOTUS.

The Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873, the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana state statute granting a franchise to a single slaughterhouse in New Orleans and forbidding animal slaughter elsewhere in the city. The decision has been heavily criticized for ending Reconstruction by effectively removing the Privileges or Immunities clause from the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides that “[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” This would seem to be a fairly important clause and the reactionary SCOTUS quickly stripped it from the text. It has however remained noticeably absent from Supreme Court jurisprudence since its passage due to a narrow ruling by Justice Samuel Miller. Justice Clarence Thomas, in McDonald v. Chicago became one of the few Justices in history to cite the clause.

Jeremiah Black, a Democrat, had actively sought to destroy Reconstruction. In Ex parte Milligan, Black convinced the Court to find unconstitutional the Union Army’s use of military tribunals, rather than civilian courts, for citizens – a severe blow to Republican aims in Reconstruction. Black explicitly wanted to destroy the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the essence of the newly constructed and powerful Fourteenth Amendment. As history knows, that is exactly what happened.

The day after the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Court issued its momentous decision in the case of Myra Bradwell, rejecting her efforts to gain access to the Illinois bar. Miller also wrote the opinion in this case, a much briefer decision in which he claimed that the same reasoning of the Slaughterhouse Cases made further elaboration unnecessary in this case: Bradwell had no recourse to the Privileges or Immunities Clause claimed the Court. To justify his decision, Justice Joseph Bradley wrote a notoriously patronizing decision about the proper roles of men and women.

The privileges or immunities clause stripped by the court from the 14th amendment paved the way for the Court’s infamous 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the use of “separate but equal” public facilities. The opinions in this case are noticeably absent of any sort of argument justifying why segregation may be permissible, instead according the states a blanket police power, a tact by the court made possible by the Court's effective nullification of the Privileges or Immunities Clause: because the court decided that clause meant nothing, jurists did not have to justify its abridgement.

Far greater damage to the progress of racial justice occurred with the Plessy decision would have been possible had the Privileges or Immunities Clause not been earlier stripped by the Court.

I expect a future Supreme Court will reconsider the implications of what happened when they redacted the Privileges or Immunities Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment as the Court did in the Slaughterhouse cases, to make the 14th Amendment great again!.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/b...ing-and-the-privileges-and-immunities-clause/

 

Your source?

 

I think Trump is the most anti-establishment POTUS we have had in a long time. Time will tell how he does and where his true intentions are.

That said, here and now he's the best choice.

 

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/17/what-is-bernie-sanders-net-worth.aspx Note this is from 1915. He has since the election added another house in the vicinity of 600k According to vanity fair.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house. Putit this way slary and wife's pension burlington alone put them in the top 4%

 

It does not seem very egalitarian, does it?

 

According to Motley fool that still makes him one of the poorest if not the poorest senators almost all of whom are in the upper 1%

 

None of the above was the best choice (but unfortunately not a realistic choice) still. .. have to start somewhere.

Regardless of what things about Trump (in my case - not much) he come with a whole lot of baggage .. GOP.

 

He's still a stunning hypocrite.

 

it shows us what happens when people do not get out and vote, the loons take over

 

He's got plenty of baggage, in that he's an outsider and pretty much everyone else including the republican establishment does not want him to do well.

 

No in this case the loons were kicked out.

 

yep, he won the election but lost the popular vote, sad!

 

Trump is the biggest loon of all

 

The popular vote is not the metric that elects Presidents.

 

And entirely debatable proposition.

 

Yes, I plan to enjoy the new administration for several years to come.

And as far as laughter goes, I'm not sure that all that many are laughing after they spent their pay to play money on the loser.

 

I remember dozens of threads like this, immediately after Barry got elected too.

Quaint.

 

For who?

 

Glad you like it. You're welcome.

 

I'm just happy to have been proven correct, concerning what the results would likely be, after the GOP regained the WH.

Truth be told, due to my health at the time, I didn't necessarily think I'd see it.

 

Enjoy him. Fewer people do day by day. His ratings are dropping like a rock. You do understand he'll go down as the worst president of all time. He's the real loser. Not her.