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PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.


You could just link to the article.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article249311500.html

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lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

maria shitpiss

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1362805645511176195?s=20

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

hard things are hard

u_s_eh
Feb 19, 2005

I AM ALL I AM NONE

Breakfast All Day posted:

theyre detention centers again

or “temporary housing”

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

World War Mammories posted:

lol I have to wonder if the optimal still-possible path for modern civilization not to collapse in mass climate death involves the US balkanizing into a million pieces

The damage is done already. The only thing the US splitting up would do is maybe save a few more lives at the southern border or avoid a couple pointless offensive actions.

At the southern border if we stay intact we will have the worlds largest military backing up our kill drones/turrets while we just say gently caress it and start openly attacking other countries for their resources. Like "President Trump Jr declares Paraguay will give up it's aquifers or else"

However, If we break up then most of our nonsense will stay in the continental US while the border is guarded by only a couple smaller autonomous regions that are at war with the confederacy / silicon southwest or whatever. I doubt their killbot/drone regime and manpower would be the same as a single united evil empire focusing it's efforts there.

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

Here's my revised letter. I spent about three hours on it. I suspect that I shouldn't be wasting my time writing such letters, and it'd have been more productive to have focused that time toward studying instead.

quote:

Rep. _____,

I'm writing about the COVID-19 relief bill currently undergoing reconciliation. It seems to me that risking Medicare being automatically cut is a strategic mistake. I don't see why it's necessary, given that Democrats could be making up the gap by raising taxes on the wealthy instead. Democrats have been justifying not rolling back Trump's tax cuts by saying that during a recession isn't the time to do it. However, the $1.9 trillion 2017 Republican tax plan used a strategy of raising taxes on the poor and the middle class only near the end of their 10-year reconciliation period, counting on Democrats to undo it, as a way of circumventing the $1.5 trillion limit. Democrats could do the same thing with taxes on the wealthy to address their concerns about short-term negative economic stimulus.

I think that a lot of Republicans would not be hesitant to let Medicare be cut, given that they have argued that a cut in the growth of Medicare commensurate with costs does not constitute a cut without any negative effects. They'll be likely to play off automatic Medicare cuts as a technicality and blame it on Democrats failing to negotiate, so that more people come away with the impression it's like a helicopter crash where one pilot parks where he or she shouldn't and then another doesn't check the landing zone. I interpret an underlying assumption of Simpson-Bowles to be that Republicans and gridlock would let the automatic cut 20% cuts happen to Social Security in 2035, so seniors would be better off if the cuts were smaller and sooner but more gradual, in exchange for concessions such as increased payroll taxes. If that's correct, why would the same thing not occur with these automatic Medicare cuts?

The Congressional Budget Office stated in 2012 that spending has a short-term stimulus of $0.90/dollar and tax cuts have a short-term stimulus of $0.60/dollar, so it seems that if the PAYGO limits on the deficit constrain how much can be spent, then raising taxes on the wealthy later to cover immediate stimulus will allow Congress to deliver more short-term stimulus in absolute terms. Additionally, it seems like the stimulus check should be $2,000 per month, rather than $1,400. There are people in all kinds of circumstances who fall through the cracks when means-testing based on income is applied, especially 2019 income. People entering the job market who have not necessarily yet qualified for unemployment include widows, spouses leaving abusive situations, students entering the job market, graduates, full-time caregivers for the elderly, and all kinds of situations which are difficult to predict. Given that 30-40 million people are at risk of homelessness, it doesn't seem like the package can possibly be big enough.

I'd like to know your thoughts on the COVID-19 relief bill, both strategy and what the contents should be. Thank you for voting for the Raise the Wage Act and your diligence in representing our community.

Sincerely,

galenanorth has issued a correction as of 19:36 on Feb 19, 2021

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

dick cheney: powerless goofball of the bush admin

mad.radhu
Jan 8, 2006




Fun Shoe
whoa who could have seen this coming

https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1362797636286361604

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


That's a lot of balls for someone who had them shotoff

Impkins Patootie
Apr 20, 2017






oh right thats what the cruz stuff is distracting from, should have knoiwn better

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

galenanorth posted:

Here's my revised letter. I spent about three hours on it. I suspect that I shouldn't be wasting my time writing such letters, and it'd have been more productive to have focused that time toward studying instead.

They won't read this you moron.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Rofl

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


The Republicans are going to save medicare a second time

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Eggplant Squire posted:

The Republicans are going to save medicare a second time

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

dick cheney: powerless goofball of the bush admin

Democrats use the same formula for themselves as fascists use for their enemies.

They're alternately too strong and too weak whenever rhetoric demands.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp

paranoid randroid posted:

its weird how all these deep blue cities in deep blue states keep routinely brutalizing people and demanding that if we dont like it we should VOTE harder


Teargas Jenny got tired of letting the police run wild and won't be running for reelection

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

galenanorth posted:

Here's my revised letter. I spent about three hours on it. I suspect that I shouldn't be wasting my time writing such letters, and it'd have been more productive to have focused that time toward studying instead.

it's better than anything i'd have written, which would probably just be "suck my dick you fuckman"

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/JackDexterity/status/1362333060784664579

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

bedpan posted:

If you begin from the assumption of categorical falsehood, you have assumed a position where no information can ever falsify your position. This doesn't make you smart or insightful, it makes you deluded.

The amusing thing about these people is that they're completely oblivious to the fact that their own beliefs also involve a bunch of assumptions (because it's literally impossible to not have starting assumptions about things). The only difference is that we're aware of and can defend our assumption that "Democratic politicians, like all American politicians, should be assumed to be doing harm unless very strong evidence otherwise is provided." They, on the other hand, just believe that "you should assume the best of Democrats unless proof is provided otherwise" is some sort of ironclad logic of reality.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Excelzior posted:

b-but Rogan platforms terrible people!

*Kasich and Powell are given speeches at the DNC*

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

lol

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

Weembles posted:

It's impressive how well the Biden admin has been at keeping themselves out of the picture in the Texas thing.

The entire news cycle has been about dumb Texans and Ted Cruze. It all might as well be happening in a foreign country.

is it impressive or is it just media moving the spotlight away from him cause they don't want to attack him

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006



dude in the replies is on his second day of telling all the perfidious bernie bros that better things aren't possible. there's a whole sea of poo poo takes he's got but man, this one
https://twitter.com/LACEdaFlyFellow/status/1362826643534929937
ARE THERE NO PRISONS? ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES?

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

World War Mammories posted:

dude in the replies is on his second day of telling all the perfidious bernie bros that better things aren't possible. there's a whole sea of poo poo takes he's got but man, this one
https://twitter.com/LACEdaFlyFellow/status/1362826643534929937
ARE THERE NO PRISONS? ARE THERE NO WORKHOUSES?

lol I saw taht guy

he got bodied about biden pushing for a $15 minimum wage so he started bitching about the squad and bernie

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Doctor Jeep posted:

is it impressive or is it just media moving the spotlight away from him cause they don't want to attack him

That sort of industry wide coordination is impressive. Not even Obama had the media this locked down.

Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

Watch out, Virginia model!

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1362783768998801408?s=20

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

i thought impeachment was supposed to spell the end of trump

do these people not know that historians 200 years from now are going to think they are dumb and also bad??

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-plans-to-visit-texas-ask-fema-to-accelerate-major-disaster-declaration/ar-BB1dPxJo

MSN posted:

Biden also said he is going to ask the top federal emergency response official to speed up a request for a declaration of a major disaster in Texas.

uh, sounds like something he should have already done

I sent the e-mail. I hope he does not try to contact me by phone, and that I do not have to respond to his email, so that this doesn't continue to take up my time after I get his response. He replied to my last email about cosponsoring the Raise the Wage Act ($15/hr in five years), at the time undecided by saying "the South is a little different" before eventually cosponsoring and voting for it. He told me to write to my city and state officials, though, implying he was unaware of state pre-emption of city labor law or he was drawing from a template.

galenanorth has issued a correction as of 19:54 on Feb 19, 2021

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

Bootleg Trunks posted:

what horrible secret does the person who runs the oval pawfice account have?

scat porn? vore fetishist? neo nazi?

They gently caress dogs op, hth

Gods_Butthole has issued a correction as of 20:14 on Feb 19, 2021

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


spacemang_spliff posted:

i thought impeachment was supposed to spell the end of trump

do these people not know that historians 200 years from now are going to think they are dumb and also bad??

the idea that there will be historians in 200 years, lmao

WorkerThread
Feb 15, 2012

World War Mammories posted:

the idea that there will be historians in 200 years, lmao

they will be alien historians, and 200k years from now

Gods_Butthole
Aug 9, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
We'll make for a nice tomb planet to excavate some artifacts from.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/IMGmodels/status/1362469766720598022

imagining a world where Bernie picked Kamala as his VP in a vain attempt to appease the moderate wing and we have president Sanders but this poo poo is still happening anyway

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

loquacius posted:

https://twitter.com/IMGmodels/status/1362469766720598022

imagining a world where Bernie picked Kamala as his VP in a vain attempt to appease the moderate wing and we have president Sanders but this poo poo is still happening anyway

who gives a poo poo about these people or what they do lol

WorkerThread
Feb 15, 2012

Smythe posted:

who gives a poo poo about these people or what they do lol

i thought you went khive???

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Gods_Butthole posted:

We'll make for a nice tomb planet to excavate some artifacts from.

With what we are doing to the environment there probably won't be a lot left other than weird concentrations of subterranian minerals.

Our best bet is to etch a giant cock on the moon so that can serve as a monument to mankind's hubris

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

WorkerThread posted:

i thought you went khive???

yes im full khive now. prepare to taste my flames

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


Rectal Death Adept posted:

With what we are doing to the environment there probably won't be a lot left other than weird concentrations of subterranian minerals.

Our best bet is to etch a giant cock on the moon so that can serve as a monument to mankind's hubris

it's possible that the flags on the moon will last a while

of course, if they've survived, they're probably bleached white by now, which seems appropriate

The Pussy Boss
Nov 2, 2004

The Biden dog twitter is nails on a chalkboard, even compared to other cutesy political pet twitters, because those accounts mostly stay in character as a dog or w/e. Like if it was just Biden's dog playing in the Rose Garden, OK fine whatever. But wtf, this poo poo isn't cute:

https://twitter.com/TheOvalPawffice/status/1359653287650349057
https://twitter.com/TheOvalPawffice/status/1361022415409676292
https://twitter.com/TheOvalPawffice/status/1362521610540883968

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WorkerThread
Feb 15, 2012

Smythe posted:

yes im full khive now. prepare to taste my flames

just smh my head if you weren't first in line for the emhoff etsy store

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