American Politics IV: 1400 Reasons Why(A Stimulus Serial)

[Ifreann]

Something that didn't occur to me until I saw it pointed out, the ICE detention centres in Texas are also without power and are freezing cold. People whose welfare is the responsibility of the federal government are in life-threatening danger. Is Joe Biden going to let innocent children freeze to death because they don't have the right paperwork to be allowed into the US?

[Shrillland]

Something that didn't occur to me until I saw it pointed out, the ICE detention centres in Texas are also without power and are freezing cold. People whose welfare is the responsibility of the federal government are in life-threatening danger. Is Joe Biden going to let innocent children freeze to death because they don't have the right paperwork to be allowed into the US?

Probably. No other answer as I see it. Once America commits to committing war crimes, it's hard to get us to stop.

[San Lumen]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ucla-s ... -mesa-doj/

UCLA student who stormed Capitol, sat in Pence’s Senate chamber chair arrested in Costa Mesa: DOJ

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Now I kinda wish Beto beat Cruz.

Eh... no.

Beto from what I understand has questionable mental stability. Anyone who eats "magic dirt" after losing and tried to feed their wife baby feces (prank or not) is questionable putting it lightly.

Wow he sounds better than Ted Cruz.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Something that didn't occur to me until I saw it pointed out, the ICE detention centres in Texas are also without power and are freezing cold. People whose welfare is the responsibility of the federal government are in life-threatening danger. Is Joe Biden going to let innocent children freeze to death because they don't have the right paperwork to be allowed into the US?

To be honest, probably.

[Vassenor]

So we're up to 160 bills aimed at restricting voting rights filed since the 2020 election.

The GOP really hates democracy, it seems.

[San Lumen]

https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/ ... ies-at-86/

New Jersey’s second longest serving state legislator Gerald Cardinale has died at age 86. He served 54 years in politics and 12 terms in the state senate.

[Genivaria]

Sorry, but wtf are you talking about?

“Beto … was in a ‘funk.'” The Washington Post wrote. “In January, Beto hit the road, much as his father had done before him, and drew energy from the people he met, and — on one stop in New Mexico he didn’t write about in his blog — by eating New Mexican dirt said to have regenerative powers.”

Yeahhhhhhh

...what the fucking fuck...

[Kowani]

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) is calling for federal investigations into all those price spikes that happened during the storm


Seriously why would you raise it 10,000% that’s just asking to be investigated

[Bombadil]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

That dickhead is just trying to remain relevant.

[Bombadil]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

That dickhead is just trying to remain relevant.

CPAC + Florida + Trump is the purest trifecta of insanity available.

[Farnhamia]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

Why did they put "Joe" in brackets?

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

Why did they put "Joe" in brackets?

It's shorter than "Joseph Robinette" perhaps?

[Bombadil]

I wonder what he'll talk about..

Former president Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week, about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.

The CPAC meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 25 to 28 February, with Trump speaking on the final day, Reuters reported.

“He’ll be talking about the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the source reportedly said. “Also look for the 45th president to take on President [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policies.”

Link

Why did they put "Joe" in brackets?

Perhaps it's a convention to always write out the full name of a president, or former president.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Why did they put "Joe" in brackets?

Perhaps it's a convention to always write out the full name of a president, or former president.

I do appreciate "Former president Donald Trump" though. The custom of addressing former Presidents as "mr. President" should end: it has overtones of royalty which I've never liked and must be very confusing for time travellers.

Personally I plan to keep only half of his title in use: "mister".

[Kowani]

Texas has decided that now is the perfect time to let the giant utility companies to buy up more of the small electrical providers

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Texas has decided that now is the perfect time to let the giant utility companies to buy up more of the small electrical providers

Texan libertarianism: Fails in the most capital way possible, costing thousands of people their basic water and heating needs.
Also Texas: Let's have more of that libertarianism.

[Greater Miami Shores]

That dickhead is just trying to remain relevant.

CPAC + Florida + Trump is the purest trifecta of insanity available.

Not according to us Proud Pro Trump Republican Supporters.

[Alcala-Cordel]

It's Saturday! So, remember those small reforms Biden made? He just took a step back (this article tries and fails to defend it too), but of course we can expect him to close the concentration camps on the border... right? That's right, Biden’s new ICE guidance completely backtracks from 100-day deportation moratorium promise, expands enforcement priorities.

Depressing, but not unexpected.

[Neutraligon]

It's Saturday! So, remember those small reforms Biden made? He just took a step back (this article tries and fails to defend it too), but of course we can expect him to close the concentration camps on the border... right? That's right, Biden’s new ICE guidance completely backtracks from 100-day deportation moratorium promise, expands enforcement priorities.

Depressing, but not unexpected.

Can you explain to me why those who have committed felonies should be permitted to stay?

[Punished UMN]

Because it potentially runs into the same issues as rentier states, that is, that if the populace is dependent on the state for its income, then this gives the state a legal and philosophical justification for political dominance over such citizens. This effect is observed in Gulf States, where the state generates income from natural resources on state-owned property, giving it a massive income which is not dependent upon taxation of its citizens, and then it uses UBI-like programs and investment into development to give its citizens some of its economic resources. It is a reversal of the Western social-contract upon which democracy is based. To put it in terms Americans would be more familiar with: No representation without taxation.

If there is no representation without taxation, then half of US citizens aren't represented. You've mangled a Revolutionary War slogan that wasn't all that rigorous to begin with.

The Gulf States that provide free electricity and so on, do not illustrate a bad downward trend of democracy, in fact the opposite. Democracy anywhere is a demand of the middle class and capitalists, not of the "workers". Any social contract requiring people to work to survive is just a figment of your political imagination, and does not account for the rich, for charity, or for unpaid work eg of parenting.

You don't like UBI but you haven't given one valid reason. And anyway, aren't you an authoritarian? The workers being dependent on the state should be good, surely?

I'm an anarchist. I sometimes provide support for authoritarian arguments because I don't agree with the idea of political universalism. I don't believe politics* (which is inherently transactional) is compatible with the fundamental dignity of human beings.

*when I say politics, I mean the use of the state to make collective decisions.

[Picairn]

It's Saturday! So, remember those small reforms Biden made? He just took a step back (this article tries and fails to defend it too), but of course we can expect him to close the concentration camps on the border... right? That's right, Biden’s new ICE guidance completely backtracks from 100-day deportation moratorium promise, expands enforcement priorities.

Depressing, but not unexpected.

"The new guidelines could shield a substantial number of people. The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute estimated that 87% of noncitizens in the country without authorization would not be priorities for enforcement if Biden used the national security and public safety criteria as was done under Obama."

So... an improvement?

[New haven america]

It's Saturday! So, remember those small reforms Biden made? He just took a step back (this article tries and fails to defend it too), but of course we can expect him to close the concentration camps on the border... right? That's right, Biden’s new ICE guidance completely backtracks from 100-day deportation moratorium promise, expands enforcement priorities.

Depressing, but not unexpected.

Do... Do you actually read your sources?

It literally says up to 87% of illegal immigrants won't be deportation priorities.

[Neutraligon]

It's Saturday! So, remember those small reforms Biden made? He just took a step back (this article tries and fails to defend it too), but of course we can expect him to close the concentration camps on the border... right? That's right, Biden’s new ICE guidance completely backtracks from 100-day deportation moratorium promise, expands enforcement priorities.

Depressing, but not unexpected.

"The new guidelines could shield a substantial number of people. The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute estimated that 87% of noncitizens in the country without authorization would not be priorities for enforcement if Biden used the national security and public safety criteria as was done under Obama."

So... an improvement?

I think it might even be an improvement to what Obama did since it requires an aggravated felony whereas Obama required "significant misdemeanor"