No, I am King, Earth is mine, leave or die, you are currently in noncompliance you unkinglyrespectfulying HEATHCLIFF. It is always known, mine mine MINE MINE MINE ALWAYS MINE ALWAYS VIOLENCE MINE. /s
Frustrated by the district attorney’s decision last year not to charge the officers, Thompson’s family filed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit on Tuesday against five officers from the Denver suburb of Arvada who were present when she was killed.
Ahhh, ha ha ha, it’s gone, it’s gone, it’s gone. Oh, it’s gone. All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it. Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called…Arizona Bay. That’s right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all that it will leave…is Arizona Bay.
Except that even with biggest earthquake ever, that won’t happen. The San Andreas fault is a strike slip fault, not a subduction one. At worst California will just move north, and not into the ocean.
This isn't surprising. Thw US Constitution doesn't encompass all legislation or possibilities. That's the purpose of legislation from congress.
That so many keep turning tonl the constitution all the time for answers speaks volumes about how broken the US Congress and state level political systems are.
Basically if we want legislation to enforce climate stabilisation and prioritisation then the US needs to do something about it's polarised and clogged up political system.
Personally I think proportional representation to break the power of the duopoly of dems and repubs is the way to go. Citizens in individual states and communities may even have potential routes to do that at local levels through their plebiscite systems. They could break the system from the bottom but for whatever reason aren't.
They could break the system from the bottom but for whatever reason aren't.
Comfort. The system as it is, is predictable. Not just the voting public but members of Congress too. Good example the FED rate. At any point Congress could have put forth fiscal policy to address the looming monetary situation that quantitative easing was very clearly bringing. But they didn't because no one wanted to be the group that ended the party. Because what would happen if they implemented policy and then poof, slow down of the economy or inflation?
But of course we know what happened. No fiscal policy got implemented and basically we kept riding that gravy train till it was completely untenable. Then monetary policy had to be implemented. Then came a massive spike in inflation. Congress was so scared to implement any kind of policy that they basically ensured the thing they didn't want happening.
Then you've got folks like Senator Elizabeth Warren trying to blame the FED chairman and it is like, "No, you're inaction Senator is why the FED chairman must do the things he must do. All 100 of you are culpable in this, you all sat there and did nothing."
But of course one brings this up and some folks want to try and hijack it like "See both sides!" Or you get "No the other team is much worse!" And the reality is, most members of Congress are just too sheepish to implement any kind of bold policy. Because what if it doesn't work? There's the obvious bunch that are seen most often in the news, but there's way more members than the ones that seek out face time on the TV. And those are the majority.
The majority of Congress just wants to push the button they're told to push, collect their paycheck, and move on. And that is why we see no motion. The polarization is the visible figureheads battling it out, but the real culprit is indifference and a desire to maintain the comfortable world that has known qualities. Very rarely is actual original thought obtained in the US Congress.
Excess savings peaked at $2.1 trillion in August 2021, far exceeding the projected trend line from before the pandemic.
Explain it how you want, but when you have a figure that's gone from $2.1 trillion to $190 billion among the same 330 million people, something interesting has happened. The standard explanation isn't that the stimulus checks were a significant factor, but rather that you had two years of people not traveling, not attending events, not really going out to eat, and generally having significantly fewer opportunities to spend. Now that that's ended, we've seen a year of people trying to make up for that lost time, going on trips, and generally splurging a bit.
Anecdotally, I saved a ton on money in 2020 on a pretty mediocre salary because literally my only expenses were rent and groceries.
It’s like watching the world’s smallest, stupidest terrorist faction finally getting the attention of the most powerful government that has ever existed.
Under Georgia law, names of grand jurors are publicly listed on indictments — an effort at transparency that some have questioned in light of ongoing threats in the aftermath of the charges against Trump and 18 others accused of conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.
To a layman, publishing the identities of grand jury members involved in high profile cases seems incredibly stupid. Average people called to perform a civic duty are put in harms way for …better transparency?
Anyone care to play devil’s advocate and explain why grand juror identities are publicly relevant information? Why does this law exist?
Same reason that we publish the names of people arrested for crimes before they’re convicted.
It’s not about one specific case, it’s the fact that our justice is done out in the open so we can’t just make people disappear and have no paper trail showing what happened.
If we didn’t have a trail of documents somewhere that can be inspected to show exactly how a person ended up in jail, then we could just lock them up and say “trust us, we did everything right.”
Sure, in some situations (especially arresting innocent people, where just the record of the arrest can ruin their lives) it sucks, but if it was all done in secret, it would suck so much more for many more people.
i like it when the prove how conservative they really are.
im convinced the current democrats are really the current conservatives. the current progressive left are the current democrats and the current conservatives are just unempathetic fascists.
maybe updating everyones nomenclature might solve for some identity issues the right seems to have.
if youre conservative, and dont think youre a fascist, guess what? youre still conservative. if youre a democratic whining that youd now be called conservative, own your shit. get over it. and the fascists? well they can fuck right off.
I mean… People from actually democratic countries have known that for a very long time… Even compared to Canada, which is USA light in many ways, the Democrats would be our Conservative Party (although their current leader/members is moving them closer and closer to the Republican party).
The US Democrats would count as very conservative on most issues in Germany. The Republicans would mostly be in jail for hate crimes or just plain old regular crimes. The failure of the US justice system to hold the political class accountable is staggering.
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