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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Apparently it's not for millions of Americans. But then again these are the same kind of people who believe in birtherism, 9-11 being Obama's fault, Clinton running a child sex slave ring in a pizza parlor basement (one that has no basement), think Info Wars is actually a reliable source of news, think FOX News is a reliable source of news...
edited 11th May '18 4:54:57 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedA little local flavor
May primary gives Democrats the most choices for [Idaho] governor since 1998
http://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article210828339.html
After a quickie read before I have to go to work, I'm not entirely sure who to support, myself.
Balukoff has experience, but that line about seeing executive role like a CEO makes me nervous since that's been Trump's logic.
Dill seems like a possibly Blue Dog, but that might be what we need to win.
Jordan seems good, but does she have a shot in the general as a Native American woman in a Red State?
edited 11th May '18 5:56:06 AM by sgamer82
Counterpacking would be balancing the current court. The issue is that you would have a yo-yoing of political dominance, where each successive opposition takeover of the executive would see the court add five new seats to guarantee an ideological majority.
You could balance the court much more easily by incorporating an expiration date on the appointment. The issue isn't so much that there are too few SC Js, it's that the SCOTUS as a whole has a completely outsize importance and thus each nomination and confirmation, and indeed, every presidential election, is a do-or-die situation.
edited 11th May '18 6:35:44 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.""Exclusive: AT&T CEO says hiring Trump lawyer was 'big mistake' - memo" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-at-t-exclusive/exclusive-att-ceo-says-hiring-trump-lawyer-was-big-mistake-memo-idUSKBN1IC1L6
Ive said this before, but Citizens United ought to be amended out of existence. That is, screw messing with the composition of the court, go directly for the underlying legal reasoning and get money out of american elections in a more permanent way. The court cant overturn constitutional amendments.
And it should be quite a possible change to get through, simply because the never ending cycle of fund raising is incredibly noxious to all sitting politicians regardless of ideology. Even republicans did not go into politics to spend hours every day begging rich folks for money.
Cross-posting from the EU politics thread:
Relating to the Iran-decision, it seems that the EU (at least France) is prepared to go farther than just not following the US lead in this matter:
Europe is prepared to introduce measures to nullify the effect of Donald Trump imposing sanctions on any non-US firm that continues to do business with Iran, the French government has said.
“We have to work among ourselves in Europe to defend our European economic sovereignty,” Le Maire said, adding that Europe could use the same instruments as the US to defend its interests.
[...]
Le Maire pointed to the possibility of reinstating EU “blocking regulations”, dating back to 1996, which were used to counter US sanctions that targeted third countries doing business with Libya.
The statute permitted European companies to ignore the US sanctions and said that any decisions by foreign courts based on the sanctions would not be upheld in Europe. The US backed down before any sanctions were implemented.
“We want to reinforce this regulation and incorporate the recent decisions taken by the United States,” Le Maire said.
“The second avenue is looking at Europe’s financial independence – what can we do to give Europe more financial tools allowing it to be independent from the United States?” One proposal is to set up a purely European finance house to oversee euro-denominated transactions with Iran.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said possibilities to save the deal without Washington needed to be discussed with Tehran, while economy minister, Peter Altmaier, said Germany was ready to give help to its affected firms, including legal advice, to continue doing business in Iran. [...]
If they go through with some of the measures discussed here, the Iran-disaster could quickly open up another front in the possible trade war between US and EU (and escalate the whole thing). I just fear that Trump and his advisers will take it as an incentive to double down and really go for escalation this time (like with China).
I would suggest doing the discussion there (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13097231810A39260100&page=302#7545)
, but as the US is an important factor for this thing I thought it's fine to post it here, too.
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While it's true that Citizens United should be removed it's not accurate to say that it effects all politicians equally, there is a clear empirical difference between the parties and who they represent
. And spoiler: it's not the Democrats who primarily represent the wealthy.
edited 11th May '18 7:55:45 AM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
It's just more examples of Trump screwing the pooch without even thinking about it. He has no judgment or foresight whatsoever.
Another reminder that Trump DID make a lot of economic promises.
And he's broken all of them.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Another day, another school shooting
.
So far, one person got injured (shot in the arm) but they're in stable condition. Shooter is in custody. This was in Palmdale, California.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.Also, that move about removing the cybersecurity position? Sounds like a deliberate attempt to make the US more vulnerable. If the US were officially at war with any nation, that would count as treason.
edited 11th May '18 10:00:12 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Hackers apparently take over Idaho Legislature's website with Italian manifesto
http://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article210946194.html
What can we do about education.
I feel like part of the reason that we're in the place we're in now is because of the lack of decent Civics education.
The quality of schools also varies so much from state to state and even from city to city, and many are chronically underfunded.
edited 11th May '18 11:37:09 AM by megaeliz

I feel like politicians listening to whoever gives them the most money has always been a problem even before the creation of superpacts,undoing the act might make superpacts vanish but they'll just move on to another way to increase the influence of politicians through monetary investment
have a listen and have a link to my discord server