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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Someone will manage to spin this as Trump denying the elites to feast with the People.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
I feel that the mindset of blaming the woman for being sexy or attractive is tantamount to the blamer Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
In other news, I posted this on the TFS&L thread, but this is more of a privacy matter than a directly related to Free Speech, so I'm posting it here as well
- a Bill that seeks to force ISPs to ask for permission to sell the metadata to 3rd parties is currently in the works
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- while 10 states are working to bring privacy protections into state law
edited 23rd Apr '17 12:56:15 AM by MorningStar1337
The DHS is gunning for foreigners' social media passwords
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edited 23rd Apr '17 1:22:11 AM by MorningStar1337
A page or so back: A budget cannot be filibustered. There is a special law that governs budget procedure that disallows filibusters.
However, a "budget" under US law is not the same thing as what people would call a "budget". It is basically a guideline for the finance committees who have to write the actual spending bills - the appropriations. These are the actual financing mechanisms, not the "budget".
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman4 Boarder states bawk at the Wall
. What was surprising to me was that even Texas is rejecting it.
(FYI the article came form the WSJ so its paywalled and probably biased.)
Maybe, but I can guarantee you that the voters will forget all about this by 2018 and 2020, just like they forgot about the 2013 shutdown.
Mexican trade is a massive part of the Texan economy; if I recall the trade statistics correctly, Texas is actually more dependent on Mexican trade than any other US state. Without trade access to Mexico, the Texan economy will collapse. The Texans in charge of the state know that they'll be facing an economic meltdown if Trump gets even half his anti-Mexican ideas working.
Regarding my post a few pages back: I'm explicitly talking about the people who voted for Trump in the first place. Like I said, there's nothing factual about this position but the people who voted for Trump will lap up anti-Democratic spin. The people who see through it, didn't vote for Trump in the first place.
My point is that if you're hoping that the government shutdown will change people's positions on Trump, you're going to be disappointed. That's what became clear from the Brexit court case that occurred in the UK, and why I compared the two situations. Brexit voters lapped up the spin and have regurgitated it ever since. The people who understood what the court case was about didn't vote for Brexit in the first place.
And, like Trashjack, I think if anyone is hoping Trump's behaviour now will translate into Blue Waves in a year or four, I think will probably be disappointed as well. People have short memories. The people who remember all this won't have voted for Trump in the first place. Every one else will have moved on. Trump needs to be making these kinds of screw-ups at the time of the elections, not a couple of years in the past. And even then, we might find ourselves dealing with Trump fatigue (people just becoming numb and unresponsive to his latest acts).
edited 23rd Apr '17 5:16:43 AM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Not so sure about that belief stability. The vote margin 2016 in Texas was much narrower than in 2012. And before anybody says "internal migration", such a shift has been observed in other places with similar demographics but not much internal migration - California's Orange County, most notably.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanOne thing to keep in mind is that the short memories thing only applies when the events don't happen to the people in question. If the wall is build and Texas' economy collapses entirely because of the wall, the Texans will remember that, because it happened to them.
Like, if mass deportations begin to happen, instead of the weird piecemeal approach being used right now, the farming states are going to get angry, becuase the illegal immigrants are the only people who work on a lot of the farms for the pathetic wages they offer.

There was probably like a thousand people? I'm not very good at gauging that kinda stuff but there was a good turnout in my opinion. Lots of focus on the environment, lotta chanting, singing, and cheering, overall was a pretty orderly experience. I was joined by a bunch of the younger people in my lab so it was also kind of a neat social experience.
edited 22nd Apr '17 7:15:55 PM by AlleyOop