Michael Ritland
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Sales would indicate that it was. If that's your metric, it wasn't a good title. No, but from a politics standpoint, I'm not the trees of liberty need to be watered with the blood of tyrants type of guy that thinks that we should burn the whole fucking country down. However, the current system, I think most people could agree, is not working.
Sales would indicate that it was. If that's your metric, it wasn't a good title. No, but from a politics standpoint, I'm not the trees of liberty need to be watered with the blood of tyrants type of guy that thinks that we should burn the whole fucking country down. However, the current system, I think most people could agree, is not working.
You know, when you look at favorability ratings at whatever fucking department or group or whatever entity you look at, they're embarrassingly low. And so...
You know, when you look at favorability ratings at whatever fucking department or group or whatever entity you look at, they're embarrassingly low. And so...
You know, when you look at favorability ratings at whatever fucking department or group or whatever entity you look at, they're embarrassingly low. And so...
Yeah. And I actually am stealing this idea from rural Texas jury duty. And so they do these six-month stints, basically, in the county where my kennel is located. Back when I was living out there, I got summoned to do jury duty, and it's grand jury duty. So it's a six-month period where basically the entire voting base of the county—and I would do the same thing for the House of Representatives.
Yeah. And I actually am stealing this idea from rural Texas jury duty. And so they do these six-month stints, basically, in the county where my kennel is located. Back when I was living out there, I got summoned to do jury duty, and it's grand jury duty. So it's a six-month period where basically the entire voting base of the county—and I would do the same thing for the House of Representatives.
Yeah. And I actually am stealing this idea from rural Texas jury duty. And so they do these six-month stints, basically, in the county where my kennel is located. Back when I was living out there, I got summoned to do jury duty, and it's grand jury duty. So it's a six-month period where basically the entire voting base of the county—and I would do the same thing for the House of Representatives.
It's not going to work at the high level of president— But I think because the House of Representatives is the gate with which everything else, whether it's spending bills, and this is obviously including the Senate, whether it's judges, cabinet members, you know, vetoing president's bills, like the amount of power that should be actually used and not partisan parsed out is actually significant.
It's not going to work at the high level of president— But I think because the House of Representatives is the gate with which everything else, whether it's spending bills, and this is obviously including the Senate, whether it's judges, cabinet members, you know, vetoing president's bills, like the amount of power that should be actually used and not partisan parsed out is actually significant.
It's not going to work at the high level of president— But I think because the House of Representatives is the gate with which everything else, whether it's spending bills, and this is obviously including the Senate, whether it's judges, cabinet members, you know, vetoing president's bills, like the amount of power that should be actually used and not partisan parsed out is actually significant.
And I think it's the most powerful branch by a long shot. But so in that same realm is you have every region, whether it's a county. I mean, how you're going to separate it out, I think you would just piggyback the counties.
And I think it's the most powerful branch by a long shot. But so in that same realm is you have every region, whether it's a county. I mean, how you're going to separate it out, I think you would just piggyback the counties.
And I think it's the most powerful branch by a long shot. But so in that same realm is you have every region, whether it's a county. I mean, how you're going to separate it out, I think you would just piggyback the counties.
But each voting base of the county basically has to put a list of 10 names together of people that they think who have been living here long enough, who aren't felons, who pay their taxes, etc.,
But each voting base of the county basically has to put a list of 10 names together of people that they think who have been living here long enough, who aren't felons, who pay their taxes, etc.,
But each voting base of the county basically has to put a list of 10 names together of people that they think who have been living here long enough, who aren't felons, who pay their taxes, etc.,