Dumbasses so desperate for just a small hit of copium. You think that over the course of the last fucking decade, something would have sunk in for idiots to realize they’re being fed horseshit, but no. They’ll keep believing the house of cards is totally going to fall down any day now because they read some bullshit tweet and are too fucking stupid to look up facts for themselves.
I’ve seen like half a dozen articles asking questions like this in the last week.
Money.
The answer is money.
The answer has always been money.
The answer will always be money.
There is no point in asking this question because everyone already knows it’s money.
Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what’s possible. Change brings chaos. And when you’re at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.
From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they’ve spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can’t figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.
Who do I tell? Their answering machine? Their poorly paid staffer who has to answer calls?
Maybe I should just go talk to my front door knob, or quietly whisper my complaints into a pillow. It would accomplish the same thing.
Lol, it’s a bill dude. That’s how bills work. The bill is called The Epstein Files Transparency Act. There is nothing special about this bill that would make it go straight from the House to the Justice Department. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed into law by the president before it takes effect.
You fell for the bait. And I get it, you’re probably scrambling now, looking up the actual reality of the situation going “No… No, that can’t be right… If that was how it worked then all this would be meaningless, and if this is all meaningless then why would every news site and social media board be talking about it as if it wasn’t? People would have to be complete, ignorant, fucking idiots for that to be the case…”
And now you know why I’m going bald.
…“If”?.. Do people just not understand the bare fucking basics of how the government works?
It won’t release on Tuesday. Not because of any kind of cover up, but because it’s only in the House right now. If on Tuesday the House votes to release it… It goes to the Senate. And they won’t vote on it that same day. There is no “if” it releases on Tuesday because there is literally no route for that to happen. And even moving forward, it’s extremely unlikely to ever get released this way.
That’s why I’ve been pulling my hair out at all the idiots going “OMG we got the 218 signatures now! They’re gonna vote to release it!!1!”
Yea… In the House. Then it goes to the Senate. Then it goes to Trump’s desk where he’s essentially guaranteed to veto it. Then it goes back to the house who now needs a 2/3rds majority, which they don’t have.
That’s how fucking bills work. We learned this in fucking grade school with schoolhouse rock. “Oh we have the signatures now!” is completely meaningless. It’s like celebrating you won the lottery when all you’ve done is buy a ticket; you still don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell.
Yea, it’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone! I mean, who among us HASN’T ordered an online prostitute who we thought was barely legal that turned out to be underage? There’s no way to avoid it!
Completely unrelated, but did you know that if all 4 tires are slashed on your car, insurance will typically cover the replacement; but if only 2-3 tires are slashed, you have to cover the replacement cost yourself?
When I was visiting Houston, there was this restaurant called The Puddery that people were claiming had the best pudding ever. I went there and stood in line for a while before I got my order. It was, indeed, the best pudding I have ever had; but it was still pudding. There is a limit to how good pudding can be. So while someone could say it isn’t “just” pudding, but the best, most amazing pudding in the whole wide world; at the end of the day, it really is “just” pudding.
Right? I’m happy he won, but he’s just a mayor. It’s a step in the right direction, sure. But I think some people are vastly overestimating what he’ll be able to accomplish.
Same punishment as a brick, or acid, or a bunch of razors. Really makes you think.
Sorry, they’ve been defunded. Best they can do is have a guy from Fox News with no scientific background waddle out and claim Climate Change is a hoax made up by the demoncRATS. Maybe blame it on the Jews too, if AIPAC hasn’t been donating as much lately.
Because it’s the New York Young Republican Club? It’s not any actual politicians calling for this. It’s a bunch of incel trolls jerking themselves off to videos of Andrew Tate and having wet dreams about how fucking funny it is for America to do a fascism.
No they aren’t.
No, I think you really need to expand on this horse shit you’re trying to sling.
Please explain how your family’s situation got worse. NOT why healthcare is still a mess, because it is, but how your situation got WORSE after the ACA was passed. What was better about your situation before the ACA?
They are untouchable. They may lose power. In a fantasy scenario, they may even be barred from office. But there is no scenario, even in fantasy, where these rich fucks will spend a single day in prison. The best we can hope for is them dying from old age, or quietly fading away.
They’re not going to be held accountable. There is no scenario where they do.
What’s different this time than his previous term? Do people just have shit memories or something? Pretty much every week someone from Trump’s inner circle would be tossed out in disgrace. How is this any different? I don’t see a Republican civil war, I see the same shit as last time.