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Friday, December 4, 2020 3:01 PM

THG


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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Critics of Canceling Student Debt Aren’t Afraid It Won’t Work—They’re Afraid It Will
https://fair.org/home/critics-of-cancelling-student-debt-arent-afraid-
it-wont-work-theyre-afraid-it-will
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The business media’s fairness argument against forgiving student debts is made in bad faith: Canceling student debt doesn’t negate other policies that would benefit blue-collar workers or the unemployed. Sanders voters who want to forgive student debt also support increased jobless benefits and stimulus payouts across the board, as well as universal healthcare, which would untether medical costs from employment.



Forgiving student debt is the perfect way to inject life into the economy. As the vaccine is distributed and we need the economy to come back, what better way then to inject 2 trillion dollars into it. That's how much money is tied up in student loans. It also helps lift those burdened with this debt. It used to be getting a mortgage was the major debt people took on. Now education in many cases dwarfs the cost of a mortgage. If we're going to compete globally we need to lesson the cost of higher ed.

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Friday, December 4, 2020 5:16 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.

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Friday, December 4, 2020 7:46 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.




If the government paid off student loans, they're giving free money to the most upwardly mobile, mostly young white middle-class people in the country.

Great idea.



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 8:02 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


The fight to reform or abolish the electoral college began almost as soon as it was created, by those who created it. In 1802, Alexander Hamilton, one of the original architects of the electoral college, was so displeased with how it was being executed that he helped draft a constitutional amendment to fix it. Since then there have been more than 700 efforts to reform or abolish it, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The electoral college is once again confounding the country as it prepares to meet Dec. 14 to ratify the election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Just one problem: President Trump refuses to concede to Biden, making baseless claims of fraud while his surrogates urge Michigan legislators to overturn the election by appointing their own electors.

Biden is expected to win the electoral college by the same margin Trump did in 2016. Back then, Trump declared his victory a landslide, though he trailed in the popular vote by nearly 3 million while this time Biden leads the popular vote by nearly 7 million.

The closest the country has ever come to abolishing the electoral college was after segregationist Gov. George Wallace’s presidential campaign nearly threw the 1968 election.

Wallace was a man accustomed to winning power on technicalities. The state constitution in Alabama forbade governors from serving two consecutive terms. When his first term as governor was running out in 1966, his wife Lurleen ran to succeed him, promising to “continue, with my husband’s help, the same type of government.” She won in a landslide.

So, when he decided to run for president in 1968 as a third-party candidate, he had a trick up his sleeve there, too. His goal wasn’t to beat the Democratic or Republican candidates for the White House; it was to deprive both men of the 270 electoral votes needed to win, thus kicking the decision to the House. Then, as his biographer Dan Carter put it in a 2001 PBS documentary, Wallace would be “in a position to dictate to either candidate, ‘Alright, if you support me on the following issues, then I’ll deliver the presidency.’ ” And what were those issues? An end to federal desegregation efforts, for starters.

By this time, Wallace had learned the art of the dog whistle and was no longer saying things like “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” out loud. But he still inflamed rally crowds with his talk of rioters, hippies and anarchists. In the chaos of 1968, many White voters flocked to him. By October, polls showed him with 22 percent support nationally, more than enough for his electoral college hack to work.

But then Wallace dealt himself his own October surprise. He announced his running mate, Curtis LeMay, a retired Air Force general, who promptly told a room full of reporters he wasn’t opposed to nuking Vietnam.

In the end, Wallace got 14 percent of the popular vote, and 46 electoral votes, carrying most of the South. But Republican Richard M. Nixon got 301 electoral votes, foiling Wallace’s plan. Had Wallace gotten 50,000 more votes in Tennessee and had Democrat Hubert Humphrey gotten 91,000 more votes in Ohio, it would have been successful.

The near miss was enough to spur Congress to action. Why did the amendment fail to pass Congress? Because Southern senators led by South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond were perfectly happy with the system as it was. As Wallace had demonstrated, the electoral college increased the importance of the Southern White vote and, very important, effectively canceled out the Black vote so long as Southern Blacks remained the minority in each state. Senator Thurmond blocked the amendment from moving forward with a filibuster.

More at https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/04/abolish-electoral-co
llege-george-wallace-trump-bayh
/

Who was Senator Strom Thurmond? Originally a Democrat, he was reelected as a Republican to seven consecutive terms. In 1996 he became the oldest person to serve in Congress and the following year became the longest-serving U.S. senator.
www.britannica.com/biography/Strom-Thurmond

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 8:57 AM

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:47 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.



Once again comrade kiki displays her two dimensional thinking; black or white. Her response allows for no consideration of the state of the economy today, and how and why it differs from times past. Differs due to the incompetency of her chosen president. I won't waste any more time discussing this with a Russian troll. We need to forgive student loan debt as a way to boost the economy.

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:07 AM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.

You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.



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Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:10 AM

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:39 AM

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:54 AM

REAVERFAN


Donald Trump can – and should – be stopped from running in 2024
This is the moment to send a clear message that democracy need not supply its enemies with the means to destroy it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/04/donald-trump-pre
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Saturday, December 5, 2020 12:21 PM

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 5:03 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.

Quote:

You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be kleggitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of kleggitch to go around.

But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it'd be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.

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Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:24 PM

REAVERFAN


More stupid than sassy.

Really stupid, actually. Any gay person who would vote Republican is an idiot.



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Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:24 PM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.

Quote:

You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be klegitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of klegitch to go around.

But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it's be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.

This is how we know you're a low IQ Russian troll. You do your shit job because you have no marketable skills.



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Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:10 AM

REAVERFAN



They're fascist, and the economic model US fascists aspire to.
We're watching it happen, now.



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Sunday, December 6, 2020 3:09 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



"Fact's" should be "Facts". If you're going to make stuff up because you have nothing legitimate to say, at least get the spelling right. Or can't you manage even that?



RF is an idiot. It's that simple.

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:19 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


I believe AI will cause massive dislocations in the labor market, and we’d best get ready for them. One of the most common counterarguments, however, is that if AI robots were truly putting people out of work, then we’d see labor productivity going up. (Fewer people making more stuff = higher productivity.) But that’s not what we see:

Not only has labor productivity declined a bit over the past 60+ years, but it’s cratered over the past ten years, precisely the time when AI has supposedly started making huge inroads. So the doomsayers predicting hundreds of millions of jobs lost to AI are wrong.

Ahem. We would be wrong if the past ten years really had seen the introduction of true AI. But it hasn’t. Nevertheless, a lot of people are persuaded by this argument because they hear, on nearly a daily basis, about some new AI breakthrough.

Bottom line: We don’t have AI yet. We’re still a decade or two away from true, human-level AI. In the meantime, what we’re getting is baby steps toward improved automation, which will have a growing impact on the labor market (for example, when self-driving cars and trucks become a reality) but probably won’t lead to massive dislocations.

But around 2035? All hell is going to break loose. I’m still not sure precisely what we can do about this, but the first step is to at least understand what we are and aren’t dealing with today.

More at https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/12/please-stop-calling-eve
rything-ai
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:05 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.

Quote:

You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be kleggitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of kleggitch to go around.

But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it'd be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.




I could sign up for a a welding course right now, if I wanted to throw $12,000 plus gear and materials at it.

Will I get to do that for free too? Or it's not free unless I have to subject myself to 4 years of "professors" telling me why I'm a terrible person because of my skin color and genitalia?

Yanno.... REAL education?



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:47 AM

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 6:40 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Quote:


After the Deep State Sabotaged His Presidential Bid, Bernie Sanders Mocks Those Who Believe it Exists
Also ridiculing "rigged elections" and "fake news" -- two other weapons used on him -- the Vermont Senator's relationship to the Democratic Party descends from loyal support to abject subservience.


At what would be the peak of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. intelligence community, using anonymous leaks to The Washington Post, dropped a devastating bomb on the Vermont Senator. “U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest," the paper announced, citing “people familiar with the matter” whom the paper allowed to speak “on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.”

At the time of this perfectly timed leak, Sanders was on a major roll. He had effectively tied Pete Buttigieg for first place in the scandal-plagued Iowa caucus, in which an app developed and sold by Democratic Party operatives made it impossible to reliably count the votes, and then won the first primary in New Hampshire (Joe Biden finished fourth and fifth, respectively, declared all but dead by the punditocracy and Democratic donors).

The leak to The Post was published on February 21 — the day before Nevada was to hold its caucus, as polls showed Sanders with a sizeable lead in that state. The next day, Sanders had a blowout win, defeating Biden by twenty-two points and scoring what The New York Times described as “a major victory in the Nevada caucuses that demonstrated his broad appeal in the first racially diverse state in the presidential primary race and established him as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination.”

But that intelligence leak, as designed, plagued him from that point forward, particularly heading into the South Carolina primary that would prove fatal to his presidential bid. At the time, Sanders himself seemed to acknowledge that the leak to The Post — a paper he had long attacked for its open hostility to him — was intended to cripple his candidacy. After exiting his plane on the day before the caucus, he was informed of the intelligence leak by the press on the tarmac, and he responded sarcastically, ridiculing its obvious purpose.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/after-the-deep-state-sabotaged-his



It doesn't seem like he's getting a Cabinet position or anything. (And neither is Elizabeth Warren for that matter.) And democrats wouldn't dare throw him out of the Senate caucus since it's so close to 50/50. I wonder what they're holding over him.



And if democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?
When Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.


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Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


They still need Bernie because they still need the black mask wearing terrorist millennials he represents. Maybe now more than ever. They're not going to go around burning down the streets if they don't still think that Biden* is their guy. Well... They're always burning shit down, but it won't be in the name of Democrats if Trump ends up winning this thing if they preemptively shut down Bernie and AOC before the inauguration.

They'll throw Bernie completely under the bus once Biden* is safely in the President's chair.

There's no room for them in the Establishment either.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:37 PM

REAVERFAN


250 million on strike in India. Police violence in France and Germany.

And this. People are rising up.





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Monday, December 7, 2020 8:10 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


The libertarian vs. populist trade-off in the 2020 election and beyond

The Democratic ‘brand’ is ‘socially liberal, economically moderate,’ while the US electorate as a whole is socially moderate and economically progressive.

While Biden and Democratic congressional candidates did relatively well with the “libertarian” vote (socially liberal but economically conservative), they did poorly with the “populist” vote (economically progressive but socially conservative).

Biden got about 93% of the economically and culturally progressive vote. (Democratic congressional candidates got 91%.)

The problem for Democrats is that the “populist” vote is more than 3x as large as the “libertarian” vote.

The upside is that Democrats could enact a thoroughly progressive economic agenda and then receive more “populist” votes. But it’s certainly fair to ask, what the downside would be of having more “populists” voting Democrat.

Start with the idea that “social issues” of the “populist” vote in most cases really are seen as “moral issues” by most people, and that’s why it is so difficult to find a compromise on them.

For example, 38 States allow 17 year olds to get married; of those 27 allow 16 year olds to be married. In 9 of those States a person over 21 years old can marry a person age 17 or even 16.

Suppose one of those married couples – say a man aged 64 and a teenage girl age 16 – moved into your State. Into your neighborhood.

Under the “full faith and credit” clause of the US Constitution, your State would have to recognize that marriage. It is a very open question to say the least whether your State’s laws criminalizing sex between those two persons could be enforced.

How does that “social issue” look to you?
Suppose you are the proverbial baker, who is a proprietor of your own business. If that couple wanted you to bake a cake for their first anniversary, do you think you should be able to lawfully refuse?

How does that “social issue” look to you?
The point I am trying to make in the above hypothetical situation is that the situation looks very different when it is *your* moral code that is being infringed upon.

More at https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-libertarian-vs-populist-trade
-off.html


https://navigatorresearch.org/navigating-coronavirus-test/


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, December 7, 2020 8:38 AM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I could sign up for a a welding course right now, if I wanted to throw $12,000 plus gear and materials at it.

Will I get to do that for free too? Or it's not free unless I have to subject myself to 4 years of "professors" telling me why I'm a terrible person because of my skin color and genitalia?

Yanno.... REAL education?


It's abundantly clear that you have no idea what college is like. All you know is what your anti-intellectual cult leaders tell you on reichwing media.

You know less than nothing.



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Monday, December 7, 2020 12:44 PM

REAVERFAN


A Guy Named Adolf Hitler Just Won An Election In Namibia—And People Are Understandably Weirded Out
https://www.comicsands.com/namibia-adolf-hitler-uunona-elected-2649235
098.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GTAK&utm_source=George+Takei+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b4e910ea14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_29_05_08_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e6b4c049b-b4e910ea14-304174341


"As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. It wasn't until I was growing up that I realized this man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things."



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Monday, December 7, 2020 3:47 PM

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Anything that helps anyone is communism, unless it's tax breaks for the rich.




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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:09 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


The case for Congress bringing back Earmarks.

Americans have a terrible habit of finding ways to feel better about the problems we face without actually fixing the issues — often causing entirely new problems.

We still remove our shoes as we go through airport security almost two decades after the Shoe Bomber failed to take down an airplane, which remains part of the security theater that has been playacted since 9/11. Despite the science now saying Covid-19 is transmitted more often through contact with someone not wearing a mask than contact with surfaces, businesses are still making a huge deal about how often they're wiping down every surface.

Congress has been performing a kind of anti-corruption theater for the last decade. The stereotype of legislators living fat and large in Washington helped inspire lawmakers to curtail their spending habits. But the result has been a breakdown in the legislative branch, putting partisan politics first and hindering effective laws from being passed.

Part of the fix has to be to bring back the much-derided earmarks process. Since the early days of the republic, members of Congress have added targeted provisions to appropriations bills to bring money back to their districts. That has included setting aside federal funds for basic infrastructure projects like highway repair and ensuring that defense projects are spun up in their states, and it was briefly exemplified by Congress' nearly spending $400 million on the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska before public outcry got the funds stripped.

Republicans ended earmarks as a practice in 2011 as part of their tea party-fueled takeover of the House. Senate Democrats followed suit about a month later, over Majority Leader Harry Reid's objections. Even President Barack Obama was against them, threatening during his State of the Union that year to veto any bill with earmarks.

It's easy to see why this was considered good politics at the time. Republicans had spent the previous 30 years railing against big government, and the antiestablishment sentiments of the day made so-called pork barrel spending a prime target. But ending earmarks has had second-order effects beyond the arguments made by anti-corruption and waste reduction crusaders.

In practice, the ban on earmarks took away a key tool to get lawmakers to vote for bills.
No longer would wavering lawmakers be offered something the people of their districts would be able to see — for example, new funding for firefighters or hospitals built in areas where most have closed. Instead, committee chairs and party leaders have to rely on personal relationships and party loyalty — two currencies that speak less loudly than cold, hard cash.

John Boehner, the newly minted speaker of the House in 2011, learned as much during the debt limit fight that his recently arrived Tea Party Caucus members had sparked. Boehner soon realized that without earmarks, he had few carrots to dangle before his rebellious caucus. "It's not like the old days," Boehner said that year. "Without earmarks to offer, it's hard to herd the cats." Boehner's successor as speaker, Paul Ryan, had similarly little success in dragging his party into agreement on new measures.

More at www.msnbc.com/opinion/congress-has-forgotten-how-spend-money-earmarks-
can-help-n1250179


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:22 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I could sign up for a a welding course right now, if I wanted to throw $12,000 plus gear and materials at it.

Will I get to do that for free too? Or it's not free unless I have to subject myself to 4 years of "professors" telling me why I'm a terrible person because of my skin color and genitalia?

Yanno.... REAL education?


It's abundantly clear that you have no idea what college is like. All you know is what your anti-intellectual cult leaders tell you on reichwing media.

You know less than nothing.





Wrong, once again.

I did go to college. Even at the community college the "professor" in our American Government class spent half the time he "taught" telling us that Republicans were evil and why we should always vote Democrat.

They weren't doing the Gender/Race bullshit back in the late 90's, but there's zero doubt that they're doing it now.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:23 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
250 million on strike in India. Police violence in France and Germany.

And this. People are rising up.




Yup. People have just about had it with the lockdowns.

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


With a pandemic and economic crisis waiting for the president-elect, some observers have wondered whether Joe Biden could be a modern-day Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more apt comparison may be to Abraham Lincoln.

Ray Dalio, manager of the world’s largest hedge fund, believes that we are at a dangerous crossroads, bringing to mind some of the challenges Lincoln confronted—most centrally, an opposition party that refused to accept the results of a free and fair election.

I don’t expect Biden to face, as Lincoln did, an armed attempt to dissolve the Union. But there are troubling similarities—a nation that has been bitterly divided for decades and a national party that refuses to accept the legitimacy of presidential election results with its leaders encouraging violence as a response.

Trump claims the election was rigged and has asked state legislators to overturn the result. Trump ally Michael Flynn, recently pardoned by the president, has called for martial law and a new election supervised by the military. Trump lawyer Joe DiGenova called for the execution of former cybersecurity official Chris Krebs, and Trump ally Rep. Matt Gaetz declared that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to Republicans in Congress considering an attempt to refuse to accept certified election results from the states. The Arizona state Republican Party suggested supporters should consider putting their lives on the line to keep Trump in power.

These extraordinary circumstances have profound implications for Americans. The United States is at a tipping point in which it could go from manageable internal tension to revolution and/or civil war.

As Lincoln recognized nearly 160 years ago, the nation’s path forward once again depends on the party that lost a presidential election playing by the rules of American democracy and rejecting extralegal efforts to upend the system. That means finding a way to work with Republicans—to extend an invitation (to those who are willing to reciprocate) that they have a place in the constitutional system, not as bitter enemies but as fellow Americans.

The challenge for Biden is stark and it is clear: can he help lead the United States back from the brink? He cannot do this alone: from the outset of his presidency, he will almost certainly need at least some support from Republicans in Congress, and ultimately, if the Republican Party doesn’t pull away from the abyss, the danger will persist.

What does this mean, in tangible terms? Biden must reach out to congressional Republicans—not the majority who will be largely unreachable, but the few who have already made clear they recognize the grave danger the country faces. Mitt Romney is the obvious best option—he recently described Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results as the most undemocratic thing a sitting president could do.

Biden and Democrats must make a pitch to Romney aimed at persuading him to put country over party in refusing to vote in lockstep with the Republican caucus.

What would the pitch be? It depends, to an extent, on the results of the two U.S. Senate elections in Georgia early next month. If Republicans win one or both races and retain their majority in the Senate, Biden will have to ask Romney and perhaps one other Republican to provide the votes needed to ensure Biden’s presidency can get off the ground by confirming cabinet secretaries and other nominees while appropriating money to keep the government running and avoid a shutdown (an issue that will come to a head well before Jan. 20).

If Democrats win both of the Georgia runoff elections (hardly a sure thing) then, in theory, Biden could move ahead without a single Republican vote in the House or Senate. But, unless the Republican Party changes direction and recommits to U.S. democracy, the dangers will not recede. Biden would still need to reach out to Romney and any other like-minded Republicans who are receptive to talking about specific ways to shore up liberal democracy.

Offer something in return

Of course, Biden would have to offer Republicans something in return, to persuade them it’s worth facing the prospect of angry tweets from an ex-president who remains immensely popular with rank-and-file voters, in addition to punishment from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the threat of a primary challenge from a Trumpist candidate. Biden and the Democratic Party cannot change the Republican Party itself—but they can help point a way forward by offering an incentive for at least some Republicans to reject Trump’s anti-democratic vision.

More at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-biden-has-to-peel-off-a-few-repu
blican-senators-11607466686



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^ I won't throw the first stone.

But people who don't live on my block would do well to stay off my front lawn.



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Great cartoon reaver, and oh so true.

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Great cartoon reaver, and oh so true.

T






Nah. Trump isn't giving pardons to any of Biden*'s cabinet picks. That's where the swamp is going now.

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Friday, December 11, 2020 7:09 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


One of the things that makes political philosophy so amusing is that it’s mostly abstract. You can’t really prove anything — it’s just a never-ending argument about values. Every now and again, though, reality intervenes in a way that illustrates the absurdity of particular ideas.

Something like this happened in the mid-2000s in a small New Hampshire town called Grafton. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, author of a new book titled A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear, says it’s the “boldest social experiment in modern American history.” I don’t know if it’s the “boldest,” but it’s definitely one of the strangest.

The experiment was called the “Free Town Project” (it later became the “Free State Project”), and the goal was simple: take over Grafton’s local government and turn it into a libertarian utopia. The movement was cooked up by a small group of ragtag libertarian activists who saw in Grafton a unique opportunity to realize their dreams of a perfectly logical and perfectly market-based community. Needless to say, utopia never arrived, but the bears did! (I promise I’ll explain below.)

I reached out to Hongoltz-Hetling to talk about his book. I wanted to know what happened in New Hampshire, why the experiment failed, and what the whole saga can teach us not just about libertarianism but about the dangers of loving theory more than reality.

Libertarians have never been in charge of a nation, or a state, or even a city. And they’ve always really wanted to create a community that would showcase what would happen if they implemented their principles on a broad scale. So, they chose a town in rural New Hampshire called Grafton that already had fewer than 1,000 people in it. And they just showed up and started working to take over the town government and get rid of every rule and regulation and tax expense that they could.

What happened over the next few years or so? By pretty much any measure you can look at to gauge a town’s success, Grafton got worse. The town’s legal costs went up because they were constantly defending themselves from lawsuits from Free Towners. The number of sex offenders living in the town went up. The number of recorded crimes went up. The town had never had a murder in living memory, and it had its first two, a double homicide, over a roommate dispute. Basically, Grafton became a Wild West, frontier-type town.

Enter the bears.

It turns out that if you have a bunch of people living in the woods in nontraditional living situations, each of which is managing food in their own way and their waste streams in their own way, then you’re essentially teaching the bears in the region that every human habitation is like a puzzle that has to be solved in order to unlock its caloric payload. And so the bears in the area started to take notice of the fact that there were calories available in houses.

One thing that the Free Towners did that encouraged the bears was unintentional, in that they just threw their waste out how they wanted. They didn’t want the government to tell them how to manage their potential bear attractants. The other way was intentional, in that some people just started feeding the bears just for the joy and pleasure of watching them eat.

As you can imagine, things got messy and there was no way for the town to deal with it. Some people were shooting the bears. Some people were feeding the bears. Some people were setting booby traps on their properties in an effort to deter the bears through pain. Others were throwing firecrackers at them. Others were putting cayenne pepper on their garbage so that when the bears sniffed their garbage, they would get a snout full of pepper.

It was an absolute mess.

Bears are very smart problem-solving animals. They can really think their way through problems. And that was what made them aggressive in Grafton. In this case, a reasonable bear would understand that there was food to be had, that it was going to be rewarded for being bolder. So they started aggressively raiding food and became less likely to run away when a human showed up.

There are lots of great examples in the book of bears acting in bold, unusually aggressive manners, but it culminated in 2012 . . .

More at https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-ne
w-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling


Download the free book from here: https://libgen.unblockit.dev/search.php?req=Hongoltz-Hetling

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, December 11, 2020 7:15 AM

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Remember when the Republicans deferred the money from your paycheck this year? Guess what… You’re going to have to pay it back next year.




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Friday, December 11, 2020 8:29 AM

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^ I won't think about it.

I didn't defer my taxes, because I'm not an idiot.



What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Quote:

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Gravel Institute ran by a couple of trust-fund kids that aren't worried about medical bills.

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Quote:

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Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:






Gravel Institute ran by a couple of trust-fund kids that aren't worried about medical bills.


So, is the information incorrect?



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AOC Proves Haters wrong in FANTASTIC video highlighting progressive accomplishments





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Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:56 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


The U.S. Shouldn’t Be the World’s Leader

We, and no other country, left the Paris climate agreement. We, and no other signatory to the Iran nuclear deal, left the Iran nuclear deal. We, in the middle of a pandemic, and no other country, left the World Health Organization. We invaded Iraq in clear violation of international law. We have basically made the World Trade Organization dysfunctional because we have vetoed all appointments to its main panel. Our record of not ratifying international treaties on things like preservation of the oceans; the rights of women, children, and the disabled; the regulation of arms sales; the regulation of cluster bombs; nuclear nonproliferation; war crimes; and genocide is unparalleled among any country in the world. And I think the American exceptionalist narrative—which simply takes American innocence as a given so that when we do things that are wrong, it’s simply a mistake, it’s out of character, but when other countries do things that violate international law, that’s a reflection of who they really are—I just think a lot of people in the world don’t buy that. …

Given the set of experiences that we’ve seen from Iraq to Libya to Afghanistan, I think the onus has to be now on people who want the United States to intervene aggressively in regime change operations to be able to prove convincingly that there’s a very strong likelihood of a positive outcome.

I don’t think it’s quite right to say the United States has withdrawn. I would say the United States has wielded its power in different ways. The United States has been extremely unilateral, levying sanctions on all kinds of countries, even countries that are traditionally our allies. We were not great about signing up for international agreements already, but we’ve withdrawn now from a kind of unprecedented number of them. What we’ve seen with Trump is not, as I think it’s sometimes described, isolationism, but unilateralism—essentially the notion that American power should be bounded by no authority, legal or moral, beyond what America sees as is in its own narrow self-interest. I think that that has really eroded whatever was left of the belief in much of the world that the United States was pursuing a kind of common good in the world.

If you look at George W. Bush’s administration, the Bush administration not only would not enter the International Criminal Court because of the fear that we might one day be prosecuted, but it basically gave the United States the right to virtually take military action to ensure that the International Criminal Court never brought proceedings against the United States. So basically the position of the United States is by definition our behavior should never be subject to international moral standards of human rights behavior. What Trump has done is essentially taken that logic even further. But that logic has a deep history in American foreign policy. He did not invent it. And I think it’s part of the reason that other countries look at the United States and say, “On what moral authority do you claim to have to exercise the right of moral leadership for the world?”

Pretty consistently, polling does not suggest that Americans want to withdraw from the world and have America have no role, but neither do they want America to be the single dominant force. Mostly what they want, even if it sounds kind of soft and mushy, is cooperation. They want America to be one country cooperating with other countries. So there’s actually, in public opinion, a surprising amount of support for this and surprisingly little support for the notion of America as the single dominant power, which is often popular in foreign policy circles.

There is often a tendency in foreign policy discourse to associate America’s global footprint, particularly its global military footprint—you know, who has more power in Syria or in the Caucasus, Russia or the United States?—to associate that with the well-being of ordinary Americans. And if there’s one thing we can take away from the Trump experience and the fact that he was elected, it’s that many Americans don’t buy that necessarily, and they’re right not to buy it. It is not necessarily the case that America having more influence in more countries around the world and having a larger military footprint in those countries necessarily benefits ordinary Americans. In some ways, it actually detracts from our ability to take care of things here at home.

You see Americans asking themselves, What is in it for me, in American global power? How is it actually benefiting me? It may well be that if America were to retract some of its military influence and power around the world and redeploy some of those resources and energy towards trying to build a more functional society at home, actually Americans at home would benefit from that.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/biden-foreign-policy-picks
-us-world-leader-blinken.html


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Government study shows taxpayers are subsidizing “starvation wages” at McDonald's, Walmart
Sen. Bernie Sanders called the findings "morally obscene"
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/12/government-study-shows-taxpayers-are-
subsidizing-starvation-wages-at-mcdonalds-walmart
/

Millions of Americans employed at some of the country's largest companies have had to rely on food stamps and Medicaid, with giants like Walmart and McDonald's employing the most workers whose income is subsidized by taxpayers, according to a new study.

The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog, released a study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., last month based on data provided by 11 states.

The report found that, in every state studied, Walmart was one of the top four employers whose workers rely on food stamps and Medicaid. McDonald's is among the most subsidized employers in at least nine states.



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Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:28 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Quote:

Government study shows taxpayers are subsidizing “starvation wages” at McDonald's, Walmart
Sen. Bernie Sanders called the findings "morally obscene"
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/12/government-study-shows-taxpayers-are-
subsidizing-starvation-wages-at-mcdonalds-walmart
/




And what Cabinet position did Bernie get, again?



If democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?

And when Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.

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The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a baldly seditious lawsuit calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and hand their electoral votes to Trump. It was flatly an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, end constitutional government, and install Trump in power. Before the Supreme Court threw the suit out Friday night, 17 other Republican state attorneys general had joined him, along with 126 members of the Republican caucus in the House, while Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has agreed to represent Trump. And this is just one of dozens of attempts that Republicans at all levels of government have concocted to overturn Trump's loss.

The political situation in this country have not been this bad since 1860. The logical endgame of the rapidly-accelerating Republican attempt to destroy democracy would be civil war — if it weren't for the high probability that Democratic leaders would be too cowardly to fight.

But it's worth thinking about what a party seriously committed to preserving democracy would do when faced with a seditious opposition party — namely, cut them out of power and force them to behave. Democrats could declare all traitors ineligible to serve in national office, convene a Patriot Congress composed solely of people who have not committed insurrection against the American government, and use that power to re-entrench democracy.

The reasoning here is very simple. All members of Congress swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, which establishes a republican form of government. The whole point of a republic is that contests for power are conducted through a framework of rules and democratic elections, where all parties agree to respect the result whether they lose or win. Moreover, the premise of this lawsuit was completely preposterous — arguing in effect that states should not be allowed to set their own election rules if that means more Democrats can vote — and provides no evidence whatsoever for false allegations of tens of thousands of instances of voter fraud. Indeed, several of the representatives who support the lawsuit were themselves just elected by the very votes they now say are fraudulent. The proposed remedy — having Republican-dominated legislatures in only the four states that gave Biden his margin of victory select Trump electors — would be straight-up election theft.

In other words, this lawsuit, even though it didn't succeed, is a flagrant attempt to overturn the constitutional system and impose through authoritarian means the rule of a corrupt criminal whose doltish incompetence has gotten hundreds of thousands of Americans killed. It is a "seditious abuse of the judicial process," as the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin jointly wrote in their response to Texas trying to steal their elections.

The Constitution, as goofy and jerry-rigged as it is, stipulates that insurrectionists who violate their oath are not allowed to serve in Congress. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, written to exclude Confederate Civil War traitors, says that "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress … who … having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same[.]" How the Supreme Court ruled, or whether Republicans actually believe their lunatic claims, is irrelevant. It's still insurrection even if it doesn't work out.


Democrats would have every right, both under the Constitution and under the principle of popular sovereignty outlined in the Declaration of Independence, to convene a traitor-free Congress (also including similar acts committed by Republican senators like Lindsey Graham, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, and others), and pass such laws as would be necessary to preserve the American republic. That might include a national popular vote to decide the presidency, ironclad voting rights protections, a ban on gerrymandering either national or state district boundaries, full representation for the citizens of D.C. and Puerto Rico, regulations on internet platforms that are inflaming violent political extremism, a clear legal framework for the transfer of power that ends the lame duck period, and so on. States would be forced to agree to these measures before they can replace their traitorous representatives and senators.

This wouldn't be the first time such a thing has happened, either. Immediately after the Civil War, the Radical Republican Congress refused to seat delegations from the former rebellious states until they were satisfied with the progress of Reconstruction. Southern states were forced to ratify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments — which guaranteed due process and universal male suffrage — before their congressional delegations would be seated. (As a consequence, those delegations included numerous Black representatives, until Reconstruction was overthrown.)

It is virtually impossible to imagine the ancient, timid fossils that run the Democratic Party even considering this kind of thing (though remarkably, Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey has) because it would require courage, vision, and honestly reckoning with the parlous state of the nation. It would not be illegal, but it would be a step beyond narrow legal proceduralism and into the uncharted waters of aggressive political innovation and raw will-to-power. It could conceivably touch off armed unrest in several states.

But it's not hard to see where the current conservative trajectory is headed. While elected Republicans have tried to overturn the election using increasingly blatant methods, top conservative pundits are mulling the idea of secession, as their treasonous fire-eater forebears did 160 years ago. The lie that Biden stole the election is now official GOP dogma. By the same token, it is not a coincidence that the Republican Party is ignoring the deadly pandemic (if not actively spreading the virus) while they try to overturn the Constitution. They feel they can safely ignore the welfare of the American people, because they are not accountable to them.

Unless this escalating conservative extremism halts from the inside somehow — which is not remotely in sight anywhere — this can only end eventually in a violent confrontation, or (much more likely) Democrats will simply give up and let themselves be defeated. Still, this country was founded by people who thought it was worth putting their lives at hazard to throw off tyrannical rule. Perhaps some of that spirit can once again be found.

More at https://theweek.com/articles/954673/constitution-answer-seditious-memb
ers-congress


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Sunday, December 13, 2020 9:01 AM

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History will be unkind to those who currently occupy republican seats in congress. Only tribalism will get any of them reelected. Even so, they will have a black stain next to their name.

T



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81,200,000 people want to know.


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