I mean that Republicans keep cutting taxes - which have yet to pay for themselves through economic growth - and the refusing to cut spending because they want to own the Libs (which is what shrinking government to the size it can be drowned in the bathtub is all about). They then sit back and cackle when Democrats fail to do their dirty work for them.
Americans supported the Biden Harris ticket by 7 million more votes then Trump Pence received. I'd be genuinely shocked if that didn't include a healthy dose of Obama to Trump voters.
Trump was a registered Democrat until 2011. He raised funds for Bill Clinton. It may be his ultimate Grift that he got Republicans to elect a Democrat to the White House.
And lest be clear that Al Gore conceded in 2000. Kerry conceded in 2004. and Hillary conceded in 2016. Trump has yet to concede.
Heck, just write everything Manchin has said he’ll support in a bill and run it through. Who the fish would oppose it within the party?
Democratic leadership allowed him to do just that. He balked and ran away because the White House had the temerity to publicly say they were tired of endless negotiations and they didn't think he was sincere. He wasn't sincere. In addition to trashing his own bill because he's apparently thin skinned, he spent months "negotiating" a watered down voting rights bill, allegedly with Republican support, which Republicans then failed to support.
Your mileage may vary, but neither of those outcomes suggest a man willing to actually carry his party's water.
I note that after this was submitted to the editors for review and publication, Politico added fuel to the fire:
The draft executive order shows that the weeks between Election Day and the Capitol attack could have been even more chaotic than they were. It credulously cites conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia and Michigan, as well as debunked notions about Dominion voting machines.
The order empowers the defense secretary to “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information, and material records required for retention under” a U.S. law that relates to preservation of election records. It also cites a lawsuit filed in 2017 against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
White House staff - whether political or career - don't just gin up Executive Orders, and certainly don't do so with this level of specificity unless they have been told to. Certain parts of it - like references to a previously unknown National Security Memorandum, suggest it came for the computer of someone high up with substantial security clearance.
Normal Presidents don't have such orders created for them. It's not a part of the practice of what is prepared following the loss of an election. And it further points to an Administration - of a certain party - willing to break laws, norms, and whatever else needed to be broken to stay in power.
There is a long list of things that need to be done to reform the police. None of them are a magic bullet. Many of them will have no impact on the other things that also need to be done.
Seems to me that means we need to start over with a new approach, not keep looking for band-aids for the current one.
That horse is out of the gate, down the pasture, and over the next hill -
Ninety-two percent of government employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, with the Department of Agriculture reporting the lowest coverage rate and the Agency for International Development topping the list, according to compliance data released by the Biden administration Wednesday.
The small number unvaccinated are unfortunate, but collectively we are WAY ahead of general US statistics.
I'd be interested in a discussion on how QI applies to this, because frankly I see one of the big holes in QI reform as not really addressing this sort of thing.
It is not arguable that Pfizer is unprosecutable for vaccine-related injuries (due to Brandon’s imprudent administration). Judges are kind of upset about this, as you might imagine.
Nope.
Under the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) PREP Act Declaration for COVID-19 (and
its amendments), COVID-19 vaccines are covered countermeasures within the PREP Act’s scope. As a
result, CICP—and not VICP—will apply to injuries resulting from COVID-19 vaccinations while the public health emergency persists and the Declaration remains in force. Compensation through CICP is generally somewhat more limited than through VICP.
The price tag of Manchin's version of BBB was $1.8 Trillion over 10 years. The price tag of Biden's proposal was $3.5T. The current Defense Appropriation for a single year is $770B. Which translates into $7.7 Trillion over ten years. Interestingly, the ten year figure BBB is less then the $2 T we spent in Afghanistan.
Let's also note that the appropriation to the Pentagon is both MORE then what Biden requested, and something the "masses of people" are not actually screaming for. Masses are screaming for solutions to their economic, educational and environmental problems - which BBB does.
Oh, and its not "other people's money." Its all our money. And if you want me to support spending at that level on Defense, I want you to support spending at that level on American citizens. Deal?
True enough - not unlike the President being responsible for gas price increases in an industry he doesn't control. Regular folks go there because both left, center and right leaning media tell them to go there, and no one of prominence tells them otherwise.
Given the MSM's unwillingness to ask probing questions that might ruin their ability to attend high society cocktail parties in DC, I have no doubt that there is some portion of this in play. Until additional information comes out, all I have to go on (as do you and Jaybird) is what is reported.
I'll try this one more time - Democrats allowed Manchin to rewrite the BBB in his liking, save for keeping the childcare tax credit. He got nearly everything he asked for. No Republican signed on to support his version. And then after getting all the power, all the press and all the deference he walked away from his own proposal. He walked away. Democrats didn't balk. They didn't tell him no. He walked away.
You can't negotiate that away, nor can you negotiate with Republicans who don't want to.
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His trial starts 18 July. He may still be in the appeals phase of his sentence by next January, but we should know whether he's convicted or not.
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I mean that Republicans keep cutting taxes - which have yet to pay for themselves through economic growth - and the refusing to cut spending because they want to own the Libs (which is what shrinking government to the size it can be drowned in the bathtub is all about). They then sit back and cackle when Democrats fail to do their dirty work for them.
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We have numbers:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitalizations-vaccination
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Americans supported the Biden Harris ticket by 7 million more votes then Trump Pence received. I'd be genuinely shocked if that didn't include a healthy dose of Obama to Trump voters.
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Democrats shoot too.
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Trump was a registered Democrat until 2011. He raised funds for Bill Clinton. It may be his ultimate Grift that he got Republicans to elect a Democrat to the White House.
And lest be clear that Al Gore conceded in 2000. Kerry conceded in 2004. and Hillary conceded in 2016. Trump has yet to concede.
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Democratic leadership allowed him to do just that. He balked and ran away because the White House had the temerity to publicly say they were tired of endless negotiations and they didn't think he was sincere. He wasn't sincere. In addition to trashing his own bill because he's apparently thin skinned, he spent months "negotiating" a watered down voting rights bill, allegedly with Republican support, which Republicans then failed to support.
Your mileage may vary, but neither of those outcomes suggest a man willing to actually carry his party's water.
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We also have one party dead set against raising revenue to pay the banks. NO private business could or would operate that way very long.
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I note that after this was submitted to the editors for review and publication, Politico added fuel to the fire:
White House staff - whether political or career - don't just gin up Executive Orders, and certainly don't do so with this level of specificity unless they have been told to. Certain parts of it - like references to a previously unknown National Security Memorandum, suggest it came for the computer of someone high up with substantial security clearance.
Normal Presidents don't have such orders created for them. It's not a part of the practice of what is prepared following the loss of an election. And it further points to an Administration - of a certain party - willing to break laws, norms, and whatever else needed to be broken to stay in power.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572
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Just don't call it a coup.
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Of course he is. Its all he has . . . .
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Seems to me that means we need to start over with a new approach, not keep looking for band-aids for the current one.
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That horse is out of the gate, down the pasture, and over the next hill -
The small number unvaccinated are unfortunate, but collectively we are WAY ahead of general US statistics.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-11-24/biden-administration-92-of-federal-workers-vaccinated-against-covid-19
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A friend of mine in Seattle has been part of this:
https://twitter.com/TechBlocSEA/status/1480625714151919616?s=20
She says its PTSD inducing stuff to pull it all together. I believe her.
And yet I don't see this changing anything in the discussion.
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Nope because cops are still doing it with their cameras on. Or doing after turning their cameras off.
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I'd be interested in a discussion on how QI applies to this, because frankly I see one of the big holes in QI reform as not really addressing this sort of thing.
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I have some theories . . .
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Nah, its just the other side of the issue. Which MUST be presented in a fair and balanced manner. Or so Fox News tells us.
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Nope.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10584
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Joe Rogan happily platforms people who lie regularly about COVID. That angers me. It should anger you.
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The price tag of Manchin's version of BBB was $1.8 Trillion over 10 years. The price tag of Biden's proposal was $3.5T. The current Defense Appropriation for a single year is $770B. Which translates into $7.7 Trillion over ten years. Interestingly, the ten year figure BBB is less then the $2 T we spent in Afghanistan.
Let's also note that the appropriation to the Pentagon is both MORE then what Biden requested, and something the "masses of people" are not actually screaming for. Masses are screaming for solutions to their economic, educational and environmental problems - which BBB does.
Oh, and its not "other people's money." Its all our money. And if you want me to support spending at that level on Defense, I want you to support spending at that level on American citizens. Deal?
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Care to expand on this? Because while I agree he loves taking on the left, he comes across as very much a rightie.
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True enough - not unlike the President being responsible for gas price increases in an industry he doesn't control. Regular folks go there because both left, center and right leaning media tell them to go there, and no one of prominence tells them otherwise.
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Given the MSM's unwillingness to ask probing questions that might ruin their ability to attend high society cocktail parties in DC, I have no doubt that there is some portion of this in play. Until additional information comes out, all I have to go on (as do you and Jaybird) is what is reported.
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I'll try this one more time - Democrats allowed Manchin to rewrite the BBB in his liking, save for keeping the childcare tax credit. He got nearly everything he asked for. No Republican signed on to support his version. And then after getting all the power, all the press and all the deference he walked away from his own proposal. He walked away. Democrats didn't balk. They didn't tell him no. He walked away.
You can't negotiate that away, nor can you negotiate with Republicans who don't want to.