Well unless some idiot sends out a Nuclear attack warning like they did in Hawaii.

Then they cause mass panic and hysteria and do the opposite of safety.

“Brawndo’s got electrolytes” text incoming from President Camacho soon.

Yeah but my birth certificate or social security doesn't have my phone number.

Edit: Just saw irstupid post that says its from a tower and not to my number. But still it's probably a breach of human rights to send texts without giving my consent.

I think there's a limit where economic liberalism ends and corporativism begins, don't you?

One merely has to look at Trump's environmental policies. Claiming there is a war on coal and in turn slapping a 30% tariff on solar panels, for instance. If that wasn't a huge red flag  already, look at how he removed regulation for hazardous chemicals on air and water. Who would even benefit from that? Even if, I don't know, there was the benefit of some 0.1% of extra jobs created at certain companies due to it, do you agree with it?

Besides, I belive, given your political inclinations, you would agree merit is a large part of the capitalist free market. However, a lot of inequality actually comes from inheritance (which effectively given unearned wealth to random people much like lottery) and those who merely manipulate money, not from the worker or the entepreneur. And it has been shown the economy can, and often is, negatively impacted by speculation and wealth concentration.

Well it's also been explained that they don't actually have your specific phone number on file, so it's really an overreaction for nothing

This one I believe is controlled by the federal government. In fact, I think Trump himself has to do it or order it, but I could be wrong.

I believe plans for this system were made prior to his presidency for one thing.

While the kids being separated is bad, it wouldn't have happened if they hadn't come over illegally. We have laws. What are we supposed to do, ignore the laws because of sympathy? Isn't that favoritism?

None of us are qualified to judge that Ford/Kavanaugh situation. There is no evidence, the witnesses that we're there say they weren't, the dates are muddy on Ford's part and Kavanaugh had a more pact calendar for a high schooler than I thought possible. I don't know who is telling the truth, and without evidence or witnesses I presume someone is innocent, just like any of us would hope would be the presumption against us if we were accused of something.

No, I'm saying unless you are PROVEN guilty we cannot assume guilt.

So you're okay with being harassed by text? 

Let's say, hypothetically, that he is innocent and this is made up and he gets rejected because of it or withdraws. What is to stop this from happening to the next nominee? And then the next?

How would you feel if, in your opinion, you were falsely accused of something and it cost you a promotion, a job, your reputation? It caused you to get hate mail, emails, maybe rocks thrown through your window, death threats, angry protesting screaming at you everywhere. How would you feel? That is the problem with passing up on Kavanaugh if there is no proof of his guilt; it establishes a precedence for screwing people out of jobs they are qualified for and have earned even if there is no proof that they did any wrongdoing.

If there is proof, then absolutely no one should move up into these positions and should be prosecuted. But there has to be proof.