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Craig K posted:this guy? he's leaving to become some ceo of a nonprofit, i think, and it's not affecting congress's balance because the person replacing him's a democrat No, it's some woman. She just came in at the end of the vote and said she's resigning. I don't know who she is.
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Gatts posted:No, it's some woman. She just came in at the end of the vote and said she's resigning. I don't know who she is. No, it was Cicillini who resigned. The lady was just the secretary(?) for the house. She was reading his letter of resignation.
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Velocity Raptor posted:No, it was Cicillini who resigned. The lady was just the secretary(?) for the house. She was reading his letter of resignation. Ah ok. Thanks for the clarification.
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WarpedLichen posted:Scientology is getting far less publicity, here's to hoping it is a dying cult rather than a cult that learned how to keep its head down.
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cat botherer posted:Scientology is becoming a smaller, but more intensive cult. It’s a natural progression with this kind of thing. David Miscavige is still doing great and they’re pulling in more money than ever. It’ll die eventually, but it will be much longer than you think. I'm not certain if it's still the case, but they were digging in extremely heavily into the government and property ownership in certain towns and cities down in Florida like Clearwater. The goal of which with retrospect appears to basically try and make it perceived as a scientology "owned" town that they could exert influence over like it was their own personal fiefdom. So even if they're reduced in national influence they're thoroughly entrenched for the foreseeable future and have some pretty substantial financial holdings via property ownership. Especially given that the local republican government is more angry about minorities being able to peacefully exist than the actual literal dangerous cult that had a policy of ruining the lives of those that spoke out against it. Archonex fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1664080985762279425?t=NDuBvw0Kx4uYtnffwTRJ4g&s=19 hows this even possible, like if youre in congress and you have one job at all its to vote on poo poo. come on man
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1664080985762279425?t=NDuBvw0Kx4uYtnffwTRJ4g&s=19 She probably would have voted no anyways. I encourage everyone to go look at the provisions and submissions she tried to put into that bill. It's all vile poo poo that would get people killed. Alternatively, if someone got her on the hook for voting yes after all of that and she genuinely hosed up and ends up in the hot seat for missing her literal job then holy poo poo. 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1664080985762279425?t=NDuBvw0Kx4uYtnffwTRJ4g&s=19 They forgot the article https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToastOfTardiness
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Archonex posted:I'm not certain if it's still the case, but they were digging in extremely heavily into the government and property ownership in certain towns and cities down in Florida like Clearwater. The goal of which with retrospect appears to basically try and make it perceived as a scientology "owned" town that they could exert influence over like it was their own personal fiefdom.
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MTG, Illhan Omar, Gym Jordan voted yes. AOC, Katie Porter, Ro Khanna, Ayanna, Rashida, Anna Paulina, Gosar, others voted no. Hell of a thing.
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I think there's a decent chance that Scientology does a Mormonism and becomes a more or l3ss accepted semi-mainstream religion. Joseph Smith tried to become essentially a king and did some minor to moderate terrorism, Elrond was a fascinating shithead (i understand why hes robert evans' favorite bastard) but not particularly worse than J-Dawg.
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Craig K posted:e: not that the freedom caucus isn't extremely likely to try anyway, to be fair nailed it quote:Rep. Ken Buck told CNN after the debt limit deal passed the House that conservatives will be having discussions about ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy “in the next week or two,” although he didn’t commit to following through with that threat.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1664080985762279425?t=NDuBvw0Kx4uYtnffwTRJ4g&s=19 What the heck was she doing? Was she just outside playing Pokemon Go on her phone and lost track of time?
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Scientologist are making their serfdoms in a a state thats sinking into the ocean and another one that might be on fire and most of the year with occasional torrential rains and ash based mudslides. seems like their god is angry at them and killing them with CC. oh and Mormons have a desert state and may also get screwed by CC?
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Either the Freedom Caucus fail to oust him and they look like idiots, or they succeed and McCarthy looks like an idiot, and then they have to try and find a new speaker and everyone get's to look like an idiot.
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Gatts posted:MTG, Illhan Omar, Gym Jordan voted yes. I skipped the last couple pages, is this the debt ceiling thing
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PhazonLink posted:oh and Mormons have a desert state and may also get screwed by CC? the great salt lake is disappearing at an alarming rate and its continued shrinkage stands a very good chance of causing massively harmful dust storms, a similar situation to what happened with the aral sea. salt lake city imo is more immediately imperiled than any city in florida.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I skipped the last couple pages, is this the debt ceiling thing Yeah
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:What the heck was she doing? Was she just outside playing Pokemon Go on her phone and lost track of time? maybe she missed it on purpose so she can say she didnt vote for it, but also that she didnt vote for financial armageddon however im probably giving her too much credit
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I think there's a decent chance that Scientology does a Mormonism and becomes a more or l3ss accepted semi-mainstream religion. Joseph Smith tried to become essentially a king and did some minor to moderate terrorism, Elrond was a fascinating shithead (i understand why hes robert evans' favorite bastard) but not particularly worse than J-Dawg. It will have to change from being a pyramid scheme to giving their story away like every other religion. Its possibility for growth long-term is limited by how it sells everything to its members and has them spend their own money buying up pallets of Dianetics to keep it a best-seller. Every religion that lasts is completely open about their stupid supernatural beliefs and dumb rituals.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I think there's a decent chance that Scientology does a Mormonism and becomes a more or l3ss accepted semi-mainstream religion. Joseph Smith tried to become essentially a king and did some minor to moderate terrorism, Elrond was a fascinating shithead (i understand why hes robert evans' favorite bastard) but not particularly worse than J-Dawg. I think that already happened decades ago when scotus preserved its "religious" status. And since then the "church" has only expanded its tentacles in all sorts of "non-profit" businesses that don't cary its name (and don't pay taxes, of course).
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Archonex posted:I'm not certain if it's still the case, but they were digging in extremely heavily into the government and property ownership in certain towns and cities down in Florida like Clearwater. The goal of which with retrospect appears to basically try and make it perceived as a scientology "owned" town that they could exert influence over like it was their own personal fiefdom. Well yeah, they aren't doing anything Republicans don't approve of. I AM GRANDO posted:It will have to change from being a pyramid scheme to giving their story away like every other religion. Its possibility for growth long-term is limited by how it sells everything to its members and has them spend their own money buying up pallets of Dianetics to keep it a best-seller. Every religion that lasts is completely open about their stupid supernatural beliefs and dumb rituals. Open question as to whether there's still a space for a mystery cult in the modern day, though I'm pretty sure the backlash against Scientology has pretty badly crippled their ability to recruit now, since no one takes them seriously anymore and they have no mystique except to people already so stupid they're probably already hoovered up by another cult.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:What the heck was she doing? Was she just outside playing Pokemon Go on her phone and lost track of time? She was chasing after a school shooting survivor calling them a little bitch, probably. Ghost Leviathan posted:Open question as to whether there's still a space for a mystery cult in the modern day, though I'm pretty sure the backlash against Scientology has pretty badly crippled their ability to recruit now, since no one takes them seriously anymore and they have no mystique except to people already so stupid they're probably already hoovered up by another cult. I think the main trouble they have with recruitment is that the crazy conspiracy peddling business is straight-up mainstream now. Why go for thetans and marginalization when you can get your persecution complex gratis by just nodding along with the dominionists about the jewish space lasers. God this country is loving stupid.
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Big stolen documents news. So, a recording has been leaked of a meeting Trump had with aides in 2021, where he says the quiet part loud: basically, "yeah, these are the secret documents I kept, illegally, after I stopped being president, and was no longer allowed to have them." https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/trump-tape-classified-document-iran-milley/index.html Communist News Network posted:Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a law making Fentanyl as legally dangerous as... cannabis.quote:WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the U.S. House have passed bipartisan legislation in an effort to curb staggering overdose deaths from illegal fentanyl substances that are illicitly produced and up to 50 times stronger than heroin. Here's the Human Rights Watch statement opposing the legislation: quote:Dear Speaker McCarthy, Majority Leader Scalise, Minority Leader Jeffries, Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ranking Member Frank Pallone, and Honorable Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Either the Freedom Caucus fail to oust him and they look like idiots, or they succeed and McCarthy looks like an idiot, and then they have to try and find a new speaker and everyone get's to look like an idiot. One can only hope 
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Either the Freedom Caucus fail to oust him and they look like idiots, or they succeed and McCarthy looks like an idiot, and then they have to try and find a new speaker and everyone get's to look like an idiot. i honestly can't loving believe that apparently the biden admin just straight up rolled the GOP legislators i was expecting the vote to be, if not a disastrous not-quite-passing shitshow, at least a narrowly passing shitshow alas
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Willa Rogers posted:The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a law making Fentanyl as legally dangerous as... cannabis. My mom is a retired nurse and did hospice care, part of what she did for her patients end of life care was administer Fentanyl patches to make her patients last days go by peacefully. It's foolish to even have cannabis scheduled as it is, but to say there is no medical need for Fentanyl will lead to a lot of people dying in agony.
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I AM GRANDO posted:It will have to change from being a pyramid scheme to giving their story away like every other religion. Its possibility for growth long-term is limited by how it sells everything to its members and has them spend their own money buying up pallets of Dianetics to keep it a best-seller. Every religion that lasts is completely open about their stupid supernatural beliefs and dumb rituals. I wouldn't say LDS is completely open about its dumb rituals
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Archonex posted:Also it does not surprise me but Boebert tried twice to submit a provision to make it so that people on medicaid had to work to get access to healthcare. Somebody wanna take tarantula eggs for brains here to your average medicaid nursing home where they got one CNA running around between 16 fall risk dementia elderly per floor and tell her oHKAY line all the residents up, which ones have to be dishwashers to live and which get bussed to a call center This is one of those things where when you sit down and really think about it, it makes you feel like anyone trying to do something like this is actually kind of just straight up evil? Like you genuinely get to call it a satisfied philosophical matter
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Staluigi posted:Somebody wanna take tarantula eggs for brains here to your average medicaid nursing home where they got one CNA running around between 16 fall risk dementia elderly per floor and tell her oHKAY line all the residents up, which ones have to be dishwashers to live and which get bussed to a call center I doubt she has a firm grasp of what Medicaid is
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Staluigi posted:Somebody wanna take tarantula eggs for brains here to your average medicaid nursing home where they got one CNA running around between 16 fall risk dementia elderly per floor and tell her oHKAY line all the residents up, which ones have to be dishwashers to live and which get bussed to a call center She obviously doesn't give a poo poo if those people die, she would unhesitatingly pull the big trolley problem lever to annihilate every single Medicaid recipient if it got her 3 seconds of airtime on Fox News and an approving retweet from Kevin Sorbo. Replace every Congressional aid with nursing home patients
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logger posted:My mom is a retired nurse and did hospice care, part of what she did for her patients end of life care was administer Fentanyl patches to make her patients last days go by peacefully. It's foolish to even have cannabis scheduled as it is, but to say there is no medical need for Fentanyl will lead to a lot of people dying in agony. Fentanyl is the IV opioid of choice in most medical applications, in fact. Morphine and many other opioids stimulate the release of histamine , a potent vasodilator. This can lead to a dangerous drop in blood pressure, especially in patients who are critically ill or undergoing surgery. Additionally, patients with kidney failure—also common in critically ill patients, and many others—will be unable to excrete some of the morphine metabolites, leading to dangerously high levels thereof Fentanyl avoids both of these issues nicely, it’s a very “clean” analgesic. In my experience, it’s probably used 20x as much as morphine in the US. Remifentanil and alfentanil are based off fentanyl IIRC, and are more potent and shorter acting, sometimes used in anesthesia What I don’t understand is how these “FRS” can be classified as schedule I , given that the definition of schedule I means “currently no accepted medical uses”. Granted, it’s not like that’s true of heroin or cannabis either. Still, not exactly progressive drug legislation
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Failed Imagineer posted:She obviously doesn't give a poo poo if those people die, she would unhesitatingly pull the big trolley problem lever to annihilate every single Medicaid recipient if it got her 3 seconds of airtime on Fox News and an approving retweet from Kevin Sorbo. The difficult decision would be if she was forced to choose between killing every medicaid recipient and three seconds of airtime.
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Gatts posted:MTG, Illhan Omar, Gym Jordan voted yes. I'm curious why the dems voted the way they did, have any of them said why they voted for/against the bill? Also lol at MTG voting for the bill, wasn't she just calling it terrible a day or two prior and saying McCarthy would be voted out over it, or was that another of the wing nuts on the right? I'm guessing a lot of the R yays were because they had sternly-worded phonecalls/emails from their financial backers who would greatly prefer NOT having the economy implode.
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Randalor posted:I'm curious why the dems voted the way they did, have any of them said why they voted for/against the bill? Probably for the same reasons why several people in this thread were unhappy with it: Unnecessary additions of work requirements to SNAP, and disapproval of the GOP taking the world economy hostage. The procedural vote earlier in the day informed the Democratic party how many votes they'd need to pass it (how many could get away with voting against it).
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UKJeff posted:Fentanyl is the IV opioid of choice in most medical applications, in fact. Morphine and many other opioids stimulate the release of histamine , a potent vasodilator. This can lead to a dangerous drop in blood pressure, especially in patients who are critically ill or undergoing surgery. Additionally, patients with kidney failure—also common in critically ill patients, and many others—will be unable to excrete some of the morphine metabolites, leading to dangerously high levels thereof My wife's epidural for childbirth was a big ol bag of fentanyl
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