I think the FEC and EAC should be merged to form the FEA, and then given more autonomy so that it is not at the mercy of the Democratic and Republican parties.
From what I heard some else say. If he really was struck by a bullet that grazed his cheek and ear, it could be said that he was saved by an act of God. If he was struck by broken glass, the shooter just didn’t aim well and the glass just flew towards trump.
No, they aren’t going to change their minds, just passing along a reason that I’d heard. That group has so much brainwashing and mental gymnastics training that they live in a different reality.
Qdoba melted so fast to the Chipotle takeover. My buddy used to work in a Qdoba in college and he’d sing praises about Chipotle. Then his store melted (and nearly every Qdoba disappeared in my state)
Roosevelt threated to put bankers in stocks. For causing the depression. We need a president that threatens personal consequences to the ultrarich for their egregious actions.
No, I’m saying it’s pretty simple. Those are just basic letters.
Compare that to Donald’s name in devanagari script: डोनाल्ड
Edit: And also devanagari (along with most Indian script) is phonetic. What you say is what you write. There’s no confusion about pronunciation of letters no matter which word they’re in.
In Switzerland we basically had ISP monopolies back in the day on cable (DOCSIS) and on the phone (xDSL) networks. Prices were ok, but not low. Then fiber optic as a viable tech came around, but neither of the large ISP was particularly eager to build out a fiber infrastructure, as it was more lucrative to just sit on their “old” tech, knowing the ohter party won’t be building fiber, so won’t have a better offer either
So what happend then was that munincipalities built their own fiber networks, renting them out to the ISPs, large and small ones, either as an IP service or as dark fiber for ISPs which want to provide their own equipent. Only the largest ISP still builds their own fiber infrastructure, in parallel, and they are required by law to rent out that infrastructure to other ISPs as well.
This has really leveled the playing field, brought good competition and lowered the prices.
So I think government owned infrastructure is the way to go, but it takes a long time to build out and needs the right policies and legal framework to succeed.
That would require the government to not be bought out by billionaires. That would require the government NOT working for the billionaires that control them. That would require the government to actually give a fuck about anyone poor.
Worked in my home town for about 20 years until they outsourced to our version of Comcast as a ‘cost-saving measure’. Wow, were they stupid.
It actually worked astoundingly well before that. Hated ISP a? Make a phone call and within an hour your same gear was now on ISP c.
At a recent job I worked closely with some muni IT people. Their plan is to fibre their area and then price the backhoe access out so the ISPs have to compete over the common infrastructure and can’t restrict access. City doesn’t want to be an ISP; just manage the glass.
If we’d just stop putting good money after bad in states like Oklahoma that don’t pull their own weight we’d have the cuts he’s looking for.
I know, that punishes the poor folks in those states. Seeing as how Repubs are diverting (or trying to) those funds away from the intended recipient though, I feel it’s fair game to at least have on the table.
What we need to do is have federal agencies that just go right around the state government and set up offices in little towns in Oklahoma that provision aid directly to qualifying residents without letting the bullshit state politicians get in the way. With as much corruption and self dealing as goes on in red state agencies that we’d be cutting out I’d bet there would still be a cost savings.
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