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Juan Williams would be the diversity hire by Fox News to add comedy and colour, and to dumb it down for their compulsory viewer component of intellectual donkeys.
"restore wymminses rights"? Eh? More and more the Disintegrating States of America are making stuff up on the run.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
mob tried to commit a coup less than 18 months ago, how crap have you got to be to get ratings like that?
Committing a coup 🤣 armed to the teeth with plastic water bottles. Ratings, indeed.
I'm sure you folks did this one to death last year, so no need to revisit it unless anyone really feels the urge. If you don't like the c word we can just say "attempted to overturn the election result" instead. The point still stands, Biden is a dismal failure and the Dems are shapeless
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@chimoaus said in US Politics:
Again, not a popular idea but making all drugs legal and available to addicts means the quality is guaranteed and if they have safe places to use, they are far less likely to die. They are also far less likely to commit property crime to support the habit if the drug is supplied.
The "war on drugs" is/was daft, but are you talking about making all drugs legal or only legal for addicts?
Decriminalised, rather than legalised. So they're still restricted / prohibited, you just don't end up with a criminal record for them.
A couple of decades ago I argued on 60mins for decriminalisation to remove the market incentive to produce and associated crime to procure. Frustrating to see it's still treated overwhelmingly as a criminal matter than a health one after all this time.
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All that Dems and news media wants to talk about is the single issue that American voters care about the least. CBS poll yesterday:
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Hilary Clinton v Trump in 2024? FFS.
There’s a SAS straw poll for young conservatives in Tampa next month to see whether their support is for Donald or DeSantis. That should open a few eyes.
Fwiw, I agree completely with what Scott Adams is tweeting:
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In 10 days they've overturned Roe, struck down state gun control laws, ruled in favour of govt school teachers praying with students and against EPA action on climate change. That's a hell of a shift for a week and a half, reckon they're in a rush to get it all done before the rapture.
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Actually It didn't rule against any EPA action programme but said Congress would have to clearly authorise that power to the EPA. Congress (the elected representatives of the people, remember) has previously rejected the EPA's proposed carbon limiting programme.
All the SCOTUS has done is rule the EPA can't act against the will of democratically elected bodies and act as if it's above Congress. After listening to the ex-EPA woman in the clip, it seems a very sensible decision.
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I'll agree that she's not a great advertisement for the EPA, although there are plenty of people in Congress who are even less coherent.
Technically you're right, SCOTUS didn't rule against the EPA standards, it ruled against the EPA'S authority to impose those standards on the states. The end result is pretty much the same though.
The problem of course is that Congress is totally dysfunctional. They're not experts, and generally not willing to listen to experts, so nothing will get done.
The other problem of course is that the senate - which can and will block any climate action - is thoroughly unrepresentative. California has the same power as Wyoming, despite being about 80x more populous. So 18% of the population controls 50% of the senate. (Meanwhile 4 million people in DC & Puerto Rico have no voice in the senate at all).
Frankly I don't care if it's the EPA or POTUS or Congress or the states setting the rules. But the bottom line is that even though the majority of Americans want proper climate action, the EPA and POTUS can't do anything, and Congress won't. It's a common theme, the system in the US is broken right now.
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I'm neither right, wrong, even technically, as those were just the facts.
The Senate isn't meant to be representative of the US population as it's a federal system, where each state makes up it's own laws on a representative basis, that's the the role of the House of Representatives. And far from being "thoroughly unrepresentative", The split in the Senate (50/50) pretty much mirrors the HoR (220/210).
Perhaps if the POTUS got off his arse, put away his divisive politics, partisan point-scoring & actually did his job, he'd likely be able to build consensus and deliver on climate change in a legal way - just like Reagan, Bush, Clinton and every other President has done on important issues.
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@gibbon-rib I don’t think many people, outside of the media and the left, are worried about a supposed climate “crisis” right now. The most important crisis at the moment is gas going from about $2.20 to $5.94 a gallon and inflation. And that price is at Sam’s Club and the cheapest you can get.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I'm neither right, wrong, even technically, as those were just the facts.
The Senate isn't meant to be representative of the US population as it's a federal system, where each state makes up it's own laws on a representative basis, that's the the role of the House of Representatives. And far from being "thoroughly unrepresentative", The split in the Senate (50/50) pretty much mirrors the HoR (220/210).
Perhaps if the POTUS got off his arse, put away his divisive politics, partisan point-scoring & actually did his job, he'd likely be able to build consensus and deliver on climate change in a legal way - just like Reagan, Bush, Clinton and every other President has done on important issues.
Time 20201107: "In a forceful and eloquent victory speech Saturday night, President-elect Joe Biden vowed to usher in "a time to heal" in America."
The Hill 20201107: "President-elect Joe Biden called on a deeply divided United States to come together and “heal” "
This repeated the smooth, mellifluous charm of the magic negroÂą at his inauguration in 2009 (as he settled in to crank up the race hatred).
Neither of them meant it, but deceit has become a way of life in the disintegrating USA.
"The problem of course is that Congress is totally dysfunctional." That novel idea would hold water if the electorate acted with similar astonished astonishment.
Since the advent of the modern party system in 1857, when the President's party holds the majority in both chambers, it is considered a “unified government”.
The government has been unified 47 times, 22 under Democratic control and 25 under Republican control. That is, in 81 “governments” during 165 years they have had unification 47 times, with separate House and Senate control 34 times. Neither side has absolute control, both sides have the opportunity to set the agenda.
That would be an involved electorate taking the opportunity every two years to retain or change the dopes, functioning as designed.
Âą the quote belongs to some palooka named Spike Lee ... "popularized in 2001 by film director Spike Lee" ... who, if you look, appears to be authorised to say such things.
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@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD said in US Politics:
Time 20201107: "In a forceful and eloquent victory speech Saturday night, President-elect Joe Biden vowed to usher in "a time to heal" in America."
I have a friend in Pennsylvania who tells me that's what she is certain the US public wants - someone who may do their own thing but who shows respect to the opposing viewpoint.
Biden has had opportunity after opportunity to do just that, but seems determined to copy Trump in ramping up the devise rhetoric.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD said in US Politics:
Time 20201107: "In a forceful and eloquent victory speech Saturday night, President-elect Joe Biden vowed to usher in "a time to heal" in America."
I have a friend in Pennsylvania who tells me that's what she is certain the US public wants - someone who may do their own thing but who shows respect to the opposing viewpoint.
Biden has had opportunity after opportunity to do just that, but seems determined to copy Trump in ramping up the devise rhetoric.
I hope that is what they want. And that they aren't kept waiting much longer. But with Trump still sniffing around I can't see it
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'This scenario isn’t just plausible: it’s probable.'
'Wolf Blitzer announces that DeSantis has won the election, and millions of people pour into the streets to protest. They’re met with a hail of bullets as Republican-affiliated militias have been rehearsing for this exact moment.'
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Putting aside the mass shooting extrapolation (which wasn't helpful) for a second, why do you believe that the part about States voting in spite of the popular vote isn't possible or likely given what we have seen happen so far and what's now happening?
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