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spouse posted:I don't doubt that this is real, but like, where are these people? some on the left believe that the Republicans are planning to legislate the democratic process away, and others believe that many on the right are ethnofacists, in the same vein as Nazis. If they truly believed this, why wouldn't THEY take direct action? People in this country have too much other stuff to worry about, no matter what their political beliefs may be. It's no coincidence that the largest scale protests seen in this country in decades occurred during the pandemic-induced shutdowns. That's also why we won't ever get another one
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Fucker posted:Pretty good argument. Unless someone comes up with a better counter-argument, I'm gonna have to concur. They do that anyways Voting for leftist candidates, regardless of their chances to win is the only way to push Democrats left. Your vote is the only leverage you have. Always voting for the Democrat bc they're the lesser of two evils gives them zero reason to legislate to you
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Killer robot posted:
from what I recall, most of those EOs were reverting Trumps EOs. Kinda uninspiring, how about signing some new, good EOs
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Jaxyon posted:Dude you and me both. ok, of the 42 EOs signed, 21 weren't revoactions of prior orders. I stand corrected: many, not most were rollbacks of trump stuff
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AmiYumi posted:
Specifically which medications or conditions? A scheduled medicine administered in a medical setting is considered on time if given within one hour before or after the ordered time, so I'd love to know more
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AmiYumi posted:I don’t remember the specific meds from last time I studied this, but pain management immediately springs to mind - an hour of unmanaged pain becomes a bigger problem than just giving them their dose on time, and often escalates to a need for further intervention. Don’t gently caress with medication schedules for no reason. Well if it comes back to you, please post it because it doesn't match up with what I've learned or seen in practice. Pain medications shouldnt be delayed, but those prescriptions are never written with a specific time of administration. It's either "take every X-Y hours as needed", "take X times daily", or "take before X activity"--none of which would be affected by an hour time change. The relative timing of Med administration to other activities & medications is what's important, not whether the clock reads an hour ahead from yesterday. The rest of your points regarding DST have some evidence but the medication one is baseless as far as I know
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didnt see this posted yet, but it's unsurprisin https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1458120817078947853 really, the most surprising part is why the progressive Dems let themselves get duped like this.
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Nov 10, 2021 16:06
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Harold Fjord posted:Lots of members of that caucus aren't actually progressive. I agree, but it's still handy for identifying the group of Dems that are ostensibly somewhat left of center
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Regarde Aduck posted:i see the 'proud boys aren't nazis' stuff in cspam as well and i'd love to know where the rehabilitation energy is coming from, and if the proud boys themselves know they're not nazis. People define Nazi differently, some people in this thread called Trump voters Nazis. To me, that's insane.
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papa horny michael posted:There's been more hope recently with the news that my former congresswoman, and current Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland will be campaigning for the climate positions of Biden's build, back, better programs. She didn't have a ton of luck with Warren outreach to tribal groups during the primaries, but I think she'll have much more sway now pushing for acceptance of the Biden climate and green technology provisions. https://www.eenews.net/articles/haaland-makes-cop-26-pitch/ Turns out she is pure poo poo, actually: https://www.audubon.org/news/as-oil-spill-cleanup-continues-feds-prepare-major-gulf-lease-sale quote:The U.S. Department of the Interior, meanwhile, is preparing to auction off oil and gas leases across 81 million acres in the Gulf, the largest such sale ever undertaken Love to drill more oil baby!!
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Nov 13, 2021 04:17
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Discendo Vox posted:Like the last five times this was raised, the Biden administration is being forced to conduct the sales by a court order overturning their pause on the activity. Something communicated in the article you're linking and quoting other parts of. Lol yes, they were really putting up a tough fight but the courts are just FORCING them, they did everything they could  Even if we accept that they HAD to continue auctioning leases, wanna show me where it said they had to auction off the largest amount of land to date? Its one thing to comply with an injunction by doing the bare minimum, it's quite another to comply in such a manner so as to set a record while doing it
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Barrel Cactaur posted:The amount of land leased out is proportional to the amount of leases requested. The current round of new leases was approved in 2017 and goes to 2022 . So long as the paperwork is in order basically any lease must be granted. This isn't individual haggling, it a bureaucratic permits office. Its driven by a formula, and with a current injunction they also can't alter that without getting slapped by the court again for constructively working around an injunction. At this point its basically a huge stupid computer program. The executive order was to say the number of sales will be zero. The court said that stopping now would harm several states, and so authority to make that change must be established in court before action can be taken. Now you can read 3 judicial tacks into this, as injunctions usually signal a judge thinks a case has merits. Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. Discendo Vox posted:Notice the amount of effort required to refute a meaningless, repeated and continually expanding conspiracist lie about how government operates, effort that has to be expended again and again because the people repeating the lie aren’t punished or stopped. The fact that this is due to a binding court order overturning meaningful executive action has been stated over and over and over again. Discendo Vox posted:Because it’s contradicted by the very thing they’re posting, because they converted it into a conspiracy theory when corrected, and because the exact same conspiratorial lie has been posted and corrected several times. The effect is to derail discussion by obligating other people to respond to a lack of effort with effort, and receive further abuse in return, over and over and over again. Shut up and stop backseat modding you dweeb.
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VitalSigns posted:
A Democrat win, period, doomed the party. The country is in the shithole, with problems everywhere, and the folks in charge are gonna take the blame This lets the Republicans easily blame the Dems for all the problems started during—and by—the Trump admin. Short of unprecedented effective legislation, there’s no winning for the people in charge over the next couple of years.
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SpartanIvy posted:Everything Trump did was a win until Biden took office. If Trump had gotten another 4 years all the "issues" today would be "features" until the next Democrat took office. There is no waiting for republicans actions to blow up in their faces because it never happens. The right just learns to enjoy the burning sensation on their cheeks and announces that having your eyebrows singed off is how America is supposed to be. Yes the republicans are generally more skilled at the politics aspect, but rising gas, housing & food prices as well as supply chain issues are material things that are hard to sweep under the rug camoseven posted:What the gently caress are you two going on about? Do you think all the problems with America started under Trump? Here's a non-exhaustive list of problems that are not Trump's fault that the Dems aren't fixing and don't seem to want to fix: Agreed, but that’s background noise  nobody is gonna fix any of that stuff and Americans have learned to live w itI’m talking COVID and the economy/supply chain issues it led to, as well as the problems resulting from the huge QE patch like inflation & housing shortages. Can’t be fixed in our political framework Somebody had to fall on that sword, and the voters would vote “the other guy” in next time, no matter what. lil poopendorfer fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Nov 23, 2021 |
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TGLT posted:You remember when a general wanted to drop a MOAB on some random cave and Trump was like "yeah sure"? Or when he had a random airfield in Syria bombed? He wasn't an isolationist in any meaningful sense, he just wanted to privatize foreign exploitation and otherwise stick to military maneuvers that made him feel big and tough. Any Republican will probably inherit his form of "isolationism" quite comfortably. He was the first president to not start any new wars or interventions in like 50 years, that counts for something
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What’s the word on HR1/Voting Rights act? It passed the house in March I saw, but doesn’t seem to have passed the Senate since? I understand Republican opposition but with a dem majority in the senate, why hasn’t it been passed?
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Class3KillStorm posted:My understanding is that Senate Dems can't pass the bill as is right now, as it wouldn't meet the 60 vote threshold with all 50 Republicans holding out against it. They would need to agree to a filibuster carve out for voting rights, which is something that they COULD do, but Manchin (and Sinema? And possibly a few other quieter hold outs?) is holding fast on "no changes to filibuster status" right now, so they CAN'T pass the bill currently. thanks for the explanation. it's a headscratcher since i would assume Dems are interested in maintaining their control over Congress but they dont seem to be taking any initiative in that regard
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Epic High Five posted:Kind of shocked to hear you're so surprised by this tbh I'm not, I'm deeply cynical and had my suspicions (they don't actually want to be in power or help their constituents) but there's usually some kind of positive way to spin these decisions. even a nakedly self-interested politician wants to maintain their power, so i figured this would be a priority for the Democrats.
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