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'Follow the Money': Corporations Gave $50 Million to GOP Lawmakers Behind Voter Suppression
Onslaught
"No matter how many PR statements Big Business puts out, its complicity with the antidemocratic
forces that want to make voting harder is clear."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/05/follow-money-corporations
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Since 2015, AT&T, Comcast, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, and other big businesses have donated a
combined $50 million to state Republican lawmakers who are currently supporting voter suppression
bills across the United States—generous political spending at odds with recent corporate efforts to
rebrand as defenders of voting rights.
A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that
during the 2020 election cycle alone, U.S. corporations donated $22 million to Republican architects of
voter suppression bills that are advancing through state legislatures nationwide.
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"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of
state and corporate power." -A fascist
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lol
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Quote:Nazis love Nazism. It makes them lol.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
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Imagine how the trolls would howl if a Democrat did that.
Trump's hypocrisy is not an issue to his cult. It reminds them of their own.
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Democrats Suddenly Get a Big Break
This is a big deal:
Alex Bolton @alexanderbolton
Chuck Schumer scores a big win as Senate parliamentarian rules that a revised budget resolution may contain budget reconciliation instructions. This will allow Senate Democrats to move two more reconciliation packages in 2021, averting GOP filibusters.
For the past couple of months Schumer has been arguing that Section 304 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 allows two budget reconciliation bills per year, not just one. The second one, he says, can be passed as a revision to the first one as long as the House agrees.
The value of a budget reconciliation bill is that it can't be filibustered and requires only 50 votes to pass. Democrats have already used it once to pass the $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill, and they'd like to use it again to pass President Biden's infrastructure bill. Now, according to the parliamentarian, they can.
This is an end-run around the filibuster, but not a perfect one. Reconciliation bills are limited to things that affect the budget, like taxes and spending, and nothing else. So it's probably OK for an infrastructure bill, but not, say, for a bill to raise the minimum wage of $15.
Nevertheless, there are a fair number of things that fall under the broad umbrella of the budget. Since Democrats control the House—which has to agree to all this—it means they get a chance to pass two big bills this year and then another two later in the year during work on the FY22 budget.
None of this changes the fact that they still have to round up 50 votes in a Senate with 50 Democrats. And it won't help with some of their highest priorities, like the mammoth bill to set federal voting standards. But it still opens up a lot of possibilities.
https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-suddenly-get-a-big-break/
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:It's Trump bullshitting, not hypocrisy. Trump bullshitted about the Jan 6th riot and the November election. A majority of Republicans don't have a problem with that bullshitting, either. From yesterday:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Imagine how the trolls would howl if a Democrat did that.
Trump's hypocrisy is not an issue to his cult. It reminds them of their own.
Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad,” a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.
Six in 10 Republicans also believe the false claim put out by Trump that November’s presidential election “was stolen” from him due to widespread voter fraud, and the same proportion of Republicans think he should run again in 2024, the March 30-31 poll showed.
Since the Capitol attack, Trump, many of his allies within the Republican Party and right-wing media personalities have publicly painted a picture of the day’s events jarringly at odds with reality.
Hundreds of Trump’s supporters, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, climbed walls of the Capitol building and smashed windows to gain entry while lawmakers were inside voting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory. The rioters - many of them sporting Trump campaign gear and waving flags - also included known white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys.
In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said the rioters posed “zero threat.” Other prominent Republicans, such as Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, have publicly doubted whether Trump supporters were behind the riot.
Last month, 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution honoring Capitol Police officers who defended the grounds during the rampage, with one lawmaker saying that he objected using the word “insurrection” to describe the incident.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformation/half-of
-republicans-believe-false-accounts-of-deadly-u-s-capitol-riot-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN2BS0RZ
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:
Originally posted by second:Quote:It's Trump bullshitting, not hypocrisy.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Imagine how the trolls would howl if a Democrat did that.
Trump's hypocrisy is not an issue to his cult. It reminds them of their own.
You'll have to forgive Marcos.
He still hasn't figured out how words work yet.
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Quote:There is an old quote: "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue." Getting to the core of what that quote means: Bullshitting is far worse than being a hypocrite who missed the target. The bullshitter may never have even aimed at the target and may not even have pulled the trigger. The bullshitter is saying "Bang! I hit the bullseye!" but the rifle wasn't loaded. There wasn't even a rifle. It was all pretending and pantomiming.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:It's Trump bullshitting, not hypocrisy.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Imagine how the trolls would howl if a Democrat did that.
Trump's hypocrisy is not an issue to his cult. It reminds them of their own.
You'll have to forgive Marcos.
He still hasn't figured out how words work yet.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Cute quote, but I disagree with the sentiment.
Nothing is worse than a hypocrite. A hypocrite has no cornerstone in their life and changes their mind and the reality around them at the drop of the hat to suit their current argument.
While some bullshitters are certainly hypocrites too, not all bullshitters are hypocrites.
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