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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Which is still dumb as fuck like every other law on that list, yet sadly the one most likely to get the courts to do any thing.
A procrastination in of itself
Yeah this is “Target gun makers for the actions of gun smugglers” the same way the Texas law is “Target Uber drivers for the actions of women getting abortions”.
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Regarding the French submarine affair. This Twitter feed has a somewhat different view on the French affair - that it's primarily a fallout of bad US strategic decisions regarding European policy [namely, pretending to care about European strategic priorities while hindering European military integration?] that boiled over at this seemingly minor thing.
However, I don't know if any of this is reliable.
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The Texas voting law seems to be so little talked about now that I'm starting to suspect they deliberately passed the abortion law right after to change the subject.
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Yeah, the US torpedoing a French deal like that seems like a shitty move coming from an ally.
Optimism is a duty.
My (admittedly very limited) understanding is that both the Texas Supreme Court and the 5th Court of Appeals favor Republicans and have overturned lower court rulings in favor of voting rights. So I'm leaning towards not, though it's not impossible.
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Cumbre Vieja on La Palma has erupted. The one that could cause a megatsunami.
People living on the east coast should start feeling very nervous right about now. For that matter, everyone living around the Atlantic should.
Edited by Redmess on Sep 19th 2021 at 10:05:31 AM
Optimism is a duty.
Blech. Here's a Wikipedia page and please consider that eruptions are way more common than tsunamis.
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If it happens, it will be very relevant, I imagine.
Maybe a new thread?
Edited by Redmess on Sep 19th 2021 at 10:11:40 AM
Optimism is a duty.
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La Palma will not cause an tsunami from just a simple eruption, much less a mega tsunami. There have been 8 eruptions since the Spanish have started keeping records there and likely many more since the last time it caused a mega tsunami over 500 thousand years ago.
The time to worry is if an eruption causes a landslide into the Atlantic. Then is the time for a Mass "Oh, Crap!" for anyone on the coast of the north Atlantic.
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Is this more Rebublican grandstanding, or would they really do it?
Edited by kkhohoho on Sep 19th 2021 at 8:17:31 AM
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They say they will do it every time this comes up. What I don't understand is how they expect to win the vote without someone like Manchin or Sinema defecting.
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Have they ever signed a paper explicitly saying they won't raise the debt ceiling before?
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Some such was attempted during Obama's terms. I don't recall if it was a physical document, but a pact was made... and then broken.
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Paper is just paper.
Why does it feel like, even though the Republicans lost the presidency and the Senate, they still won overall?
The last few weeks have brought that doomscrolling feeling back.
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Because the budget deadline is coming up and this happens every year. At this point it's literally seasonal.
The ultimate question is whether or not they think they can blame the democrats for any of their shenanigans. When they tried this stuff in Trump's term it tended to backfire, iirc.
Because being a problem requires no effort and actually solving problems does.
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I'm hearing that the Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that Immigration-related topics are not proper for Reconciliation. Meaning that our one realistic chance to fix Immigration and save the Dreamers is dead.
At this point, Schumer dismisses this Parliamentarian and replaces her with someone who will actually work with the Democrats, or the Reconciliation is just gonna keep getting chipped away and chipped away until it's nothing but the same as the Infrastructure Bill already passed in the Senate...
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Or we eliminate the filibuster, which is why the Parliamentarian has all this power to begin with. And realistically it's hard to see how immigration reform is a budgetary measure except by a major stretching of words.
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Sounds like just because we don't like the ruling doesn't mean it's incorrect.
It's "sue the manufacturer every time you have any evidence this gun shouldn't be here".
Edited by RainehDaze on Sep 19th 2021 at 9:51:51 AM
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