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Quote:Stalemate is stupid. Last month, the Texas Trumptards stupidly shutdown the power grid of Texas : http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64179&mid=11288
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
If Biden* gets nothing else gets passed, it means democracy is working. And that's a good thing. Nothing SHOULD get passed based on 50% of the people.
And by the numbers, the US population is divided about 50/50. The Senate is divided 50/50. The House is divided about 50/50.
Stalemate is a fair democratic outcome here.
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The Trumptards in Congress are doing the same thing as what happened in Texas -- shutting down the legislative process out of obstinate stupidity.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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When the population changes, democracy will reflect that change.
Do you like democracy, SLOPPY?
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Second hated Democracy between the years of 2016 and 2020.
Now he's a fan of it.
I bet he would have LOVED there being no filibuster in Congress during Trump's first two years.
He thinks getting rid of the filibuster now is a good idea because he's a mindless twit.
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher 
PSA: Don't click on any links in Second's posts. He's trying to fish your private information out of you.
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Quote:More idiocy from the racist Russian troll. You clearly don't know our laws, or any statistics.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Yeah, just what we need: a flood of impoverished, uneducated, unhealthy, non-English speaking, gringo-resenting border-jumpers who obviously don't respect our laws.
Yanno, we can't even house our own homeless, heal our own sick, educate our own inner city youth, and provide jobs for the jobless. What makes anyone think we should take in a million more?
But the Dems attitude seems to be that if you jump the border you're entitled to food and water, shelter, and medical care. We treat them better than we treat our own citizens.
How about this?: If we don't fuck up their countries in the first place, then we have no moral responsibility to provide a safety valve for their own governments. So let's leave them alone ... no sanctions, no "interventions", no political cover for authoritarian governments, and require them to solve their own problems.
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Quote:I love Democracy, but to be technical, what America has is government by representatives. It is not even approximately a Democracy when the representatives, whether Presidents, Senators or Representatives cannot be yanked out of power within a week of making an insane blunder. Instead, years pass before the voters can pull power away from a nut like Trump or a goofball Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. The kind of nonsense from those two, which goes unpunished, proves America is a poorly designed government by representatives, one which continuously malfunctions with ridiculous deadlocks and bizarre stalemates. It's as if the government has the worst case of schizophrenia in medical history. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, trouble with thinking and lack of motivation.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
When the population changes, democracy will reflect that change.
Do you like democracy, SLOPPY?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The GOP’s Long-Game Plan to Thwart Biden’s Agenda Is Already in Action
A lawsuit filed against the stimulus bill shows how Republicans will use the Supreme Court, the one branch of government they have left.
Last week, Ohio’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department challenging the landmark recovery legislation just passed by Congress, the American Rescue Plan, or ARP. The lawsuit is somewhat technical, focusing on a provision that prevents states receiving direct funds from the bill from reducing their net tax revenues over the next three years. This essentially means that the federal government intends to provide funds to share the burden of pandemic revenue loss, rather than give states free money for tax cuts. The day before Ohio filed its suit, 21 other GOP attorneys general sent a letter to Secretary Janet Yellen threatening to sue if the provision on tax revenues was not narrowed. Republicans are honing in on this as a part of the bill that they might be able to attack.
In defense of the provision, the Treasury Department has argued that such “reasonable conditions are used all the time,” and pointed out that the law does not in fact prohibit tax cuts. Rather, it requires that states not use the appropriated money to offset revenue losses from tax cuts. Substantively, the Treasury Department is right—the bill deploys the spending power, which has long been considered Congress’ least restricted power. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court limited this power when it struck down the mandatory Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act, and it could take the same aggressive approach here. In other words, this lawsuit raises issues that an opportunistic conservative judiciary could use to limit the power of the federal government, a difficulty the Biden administration is likely to face again and again.
To understand the lawsuit, it’s worth considering the relevant conditions attached to the appropriation. First, states can only use the funds in certain ways, like filling fiscal shortfalls, investing in infrastructure, or aiding those affected by the pandemic. A state must also certify that it requires the funds to carry out these activities. And second, states receiving funds cannot reduce their net tax revenue for three years. The logic between these conditions should be clear—if a state can’t fill these gaps with its own revenue, surely it can’t afford to reduce revenue either.
But that is basically what the GOP governors are requesting—that states be allowed to use federal funds to pay for state tax cuts. And their legal arguments are tailor-made for a judiciary hostile to the federal government.
The bill doesn’t prohibit tax cuts. Instead, it requires—as a condition for choosing to accept aid—that states do not affirmatively choose to decrease net tax revenues. Governors still have policy control over the tax side of their balance sheet: Any number of tax cuts could be passed so long as they were balanced out by increased revenue elsewhere.
It’s possible that this lawsuit goes nowhere and the substantial costs of litigation for both sides deter further action. But regardless of what happens, the GOP will surely launch more legal attacks on the federal spending power. With the GOP shut out of the presidency and both houses of Congress, it will turn to the branch of government where it still exerts firm control: the judiciary. This case symbolizes a core challenge for the Biden administration: designing policy that can withstand a conservative legal onslaught.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210324160949/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2021/03/stimulus-bill-gop-lawsuits-janet-yellen.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:If "government by representatives" makes it not-a-democracy, then NOBODY on the planet has a democracy.
I love Democracy, but to be technical, what America has is government by representatives.
And you hate America.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I love Democracy, but to be technical, what America has is government by representatives. It is not even approximately a Democracy when the representatives, whether Presidents, Senators or Representatives cannot be yanked out of power within a week of making an insane blunder.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
When the population changes, democracy will reflect that change.
Do you like democracy, SLOPPY?
They can two by the other representatives or the people of his/her district. One term used is a recall.
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Just to note that the Dem-controlled Congress has requested that the National Guard stay on until March 31. Because ...? I guess this must be like our open-ended deployments in the Mideast.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/03/thorner-washingt
on-dc-under-military-occupation.html
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Speaking of open-ended deplyments: USA troops will remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of the month, DESPITE a signed agreement with the Afghan government to withdraw. (MOAR WAR!!!!)
https://news.antiwar.com/2021/03/24/top-house-democrat-says-biden-plan
s-to-stay-in-afghanistan-beyond-may-1st/
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Also, Biden* claims that the border surge is Trump's fault, altho we all know that's not true, and he* has assigned Harris* to manage the problem.
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And finally: Blinken is STILL going around pissing off Russia AND China at the same time. I can't imagine what he's hoping to accomplish.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-behind-disinformation-er
ode-trust-vaccines-blinken-tells-nato-summit
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Pretty weird how Joe Biden can hold a press conference without needing to lie or distort or brag or make up infantile nicknames or insult reporters or praise himself.
It's like he knows how to president.
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