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[–] 164 points 1 year ago (1 child)

the Hatch Act is only as effective as the White House decides it will be

Lovely

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  • [–] 149 points 1 year ago

    As well they should.

    The Confederates are breaking the law, again.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well as long as its at least 7.

    My only solace is that the boomers waited till they were so fucking old to try to stop the world from changing through fascism.

    Hitler shot himself at 56 and had spent a lot of his 30-40s trying to gain power. A lot of the current generation of fascists are a light jog away or botched botox from their death. But fuck this.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What the actual fuck man. We are turning into north Korea. Love the state obey the state praise supreme leader

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We are turning into north Korea.

    Conservatives have been pushing to turn America into NK/Russia for a long time now. Looks like they're finally getting their wish, courtesy of stupid American voters/non-voters.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    What is the Republicans end game here? Democrats aren't going to vote for his bill without getting anything in return. Why would anyone think otherwise.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Have you ever known a child who could manipulate his parents by being stubborn and annoying. The parents are incapable of setting boundaries and caving to the child’s demands is easier than having difficult discussions.

    Republicans are the children and Democrats are the patents. The parents are now trying to set a boundary. Expect an epic tantrum from the children.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, Democrats have a history of terrible negotiations. I think republicans are correct that if they win the PR war democrats will fold, even if I wish it weren't so.

    Historically, republicans take every opportunity to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They do, but I'm a little surprised by how well they've positioned themselves on this one. It seems to me that the most likely scenario is that the Republicans will give nothing on principal, the shutdown will go until November when the premiums increase, and the country will see that the Republicans would rather close the government for two months than spare them a doubling or tripling of their healthcare costs.

    And all the while Trump trashes the government in an attempt to retaliate, without really understanding that the government provides services that people, his voters included, depend on. I'm not sure, "the Democrats made me do it," will save him with anyone other than his cult members.

    I am cautiously optimistic.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The goal is complete vilification. Then it's "won't someone please rid me of these troublesome Democrats".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They are already vilified by Republicans, so it isn't like they have anything to lose. If the Democrats cave, they will just be vilified by Democratic voters, too.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    They want/need more vilification. The further they vilify, the further they can go on things like project 2025.

    Eg you can say they vilified the left 10 years ago, but 10 years ago they wouldn't have gotten away with deploying the national guard. They get away with it now because of the last 10 years of vilifying even more. Now imagine what they'll be able to do in the next 5 to 10 years.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, you're right, the average republican voter thinks that democrats are vile, hateful, literally evil people that want to end their way of life... but they also can't point to something major is going to ruin their life in the next two months. Fuck with all those fools' health insurances, and every other service that's going to be sputtering in the gutter, and now you have the whole, "society is only [X] meals away from anarchy/revolution/chaos," AND you have the army of fools 'rising up' pointed at your political enemies for the thing they're now mad specifically about, rather than just generally.

    It's also just part of their general faux news schtick: repeat the same thing, over and over. In this case, it's that democrats are the bad guys and at fault for everything. Can't let up the propaganda stream, or the people might start having independent thoughts in those heads. Maybe those thoughts would be that the republicans aren't on their side, or maybe that capitalism isn't benefiting any of them... so better keep it up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, it feels like Repubilicans have gone too far on this one. It's just becoming noise. No one believes the Republicans anymore. Someone neutral could ask, "If you want the Democrats to vote for it, what did you do to get their vote?" And the response would be, "Nothing."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No one believes the Republicans anymore.

    You and I wish. I am in a red area, and the only thing that has changed in the last 10 months is that some people who were sucking orange man's virtually present dick are now also returning to saying that 'politicans are bad,' which is how they compartmentalize the pedophilia. Three guesses who they think are the pedophilic politicians.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    It should be all of them. Get that fascist propaganda out of here.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “This is probably not a Hatch Act violation, because it's not tied to an election,” Cynthia Brown, senior ethics counsel at the non-partisan ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told Forbes.

    Not tied to an election? What? What rock are you living under?

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good god, the morons in office right now are so fucking stupid. They have to make videos to put out and blame the left for all the dumb shit they do. They did it! They did it! Despite having the minority in all branches of the gov, it's totally them.

    Fuck off fascists

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The fucking Maggats are like a clown version of the NAZIs, trying to ape their practices whilst being total incompetent klutzes at doing it.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It would be hilarious if america wasn't fucking stupid enough to fall for it. Every. Damn. Time.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Well, on the upside America might actually survive the Trump regime purelly because of how, even with a fucking master plan seemingly made by smarter people, they're horribly inept at making it work, mainly because everybody in that Administration has been chosen based on loyalty or looks and not at all on demonstrated execution abilities.

    Imagine if instead of a gaggle of morons, that Administration was instead made up of competent people with domain-applicable experience.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd love to see a real instance of "The Storm" if Democrats were to get back in the WH....issue warrants for every single one of those responsible for shit like this.

    Arrest every single one of those in his cabinet. Arrest everyone in his family.

    I know the pearl-clutching "centrists" will cry about "tone" and "civility" and how this is only going to make Republicans worse. Fuck that. Make Republicans motherfucking SCARED to try this kind of shit again. As they should be.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whatever happened to the fucking Hatch Act?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How many laws do they need to break in order for something to actually be done? They are clearly mentally ill and none of them are based in reality, so we need to get them out of office.

    None of this is ok and none of this is normal.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are not mentally ill, they would gladly twist a toddler's neck for a couple bucks. And that's been rewarded in America for centuries.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That is a mental illness. These people have a serious hoarding disorder, and they can't stop accumulating money. They have enough money that neither they, nor their descendants for the next century could possibly spend it all, and yet they will still walk through fire, or hire someone else to, to get even more.

    If those people hoarded cats, or rusty cars, or newspapers, or general junk, we would get mental health care for them, and dismantle their collection. Psychopathic Oligarchs are no different. We should involuntarily commit them to mental hospitals to treat their hoarding issues, confiscate the bulk of their treasure, and keep them from rebuilding their fortunes.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nearly three dozen …. Including the 10 busiest …. Affecting 1/3 of us air travelers ……

    Did this story change after being posted or is the headline way downplaying this?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    tbh I could also easily see a ton more not playing it but opting not to publicize the fact that they aren't playing it (ignored media request for comment).

    That and not all airports even have TVs setup by the TSA checkpoint, or they're hardly used.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    this should really fall on the courts to enforce the hatch act & give laws governing officials more teeth.. this is insane 1984 level shit

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You mean the courts controlled by Reps?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    telling travelers “Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government” and claiming that is why “most of our TSA employees are working without pay.”

    Honestly the TSA shouldn’t exist, it’s a graft and corruption scheme created by the Bush Jr administration so guys like Michael Chertoff could steal taxpayer money.

    They can’t even perform their stated functions, there have been numerous instances of them failing to detect firearms and bomb parts during tests, they fail the majority by a wide margin.

    It’s a “make-work” program. Those people should be building hospitals in rural communities, fixing roads and bridges. At least that would have a return on investment.

    Same with ICE, and the entire DHS, frankly.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Is this the one where she’s cranking Lewandowski’s ridiculous stub with her grizzled paws?

    No? Different video then. I mean she blames Democrats for both.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    “Don’t broadcast bad breath…”

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I recently went to two different airports and didn't see this at either. I think local airports are just ignoring this shit.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know koalas are sleepy bastards, but at least try reading the article. They aren't showing the video due to policies that forbid advertising that names any particular political party. They aren't taking a moral stand, they're just following normal boring guidelines.

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