For me, I would have the age cut off be 55 for all jobs in leadership positions including judges.
As far as social security and all, I am still of the mind that we should just raise the income cap and tax all income as income to solve its funding issues.
Also would like to put laws into place that would bar elected officials from working outside of government or holding any vested interest in any business ever again as a condition of working of being elected but are given 50% of their pay for life after any time serving and can still work in government jobs afterwards. As ways to prevent the revolving doors and help address regulatory capture.
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Let's do the Republican two-step!
Remember Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate? And his police reform he was working on?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...form-plan.html
He seemed very supportive of requirements for police departments to receive federal funding!...until yesterday -Judy Woodruff: Well, Senator, as you know, Democrats are calling for an outright ban on certain measures, like a choke hold or the so-called no-knock warrant.
Sen. Tim Scott: Yes.
Judy Woodruff: In your proposal, you are saying these things should be tied to federal funding, that, if departments go ahead with them, they risk losing funding.
Sen. Tim Scott: Yes.
Judy Woodruff: And yet you also said today that this is something that should be debated, the choke hold should be debated, for the American people to hear.
So, it sounds like you’re open to a complete ban on a choke hold. Is that right?
Sen. Tim Scott: Well, I would say — say it this way. My legislation gets us to the position where, if you are in a law enforcement department that does not already have a ban on choke holds, you do not have access to the federal funding.
Just a reminder that Republicans appear to act exclusively in bad-faith. This is reminding me of the bullshit they pulled with comprehensive immigration reform and the Gang of Eight.We said simply this: “I’m not going to participate in reducing funding for the police after we saw major city after major city defund the police.” Many provisions in this bill that he wanted me to agree to limited or reduced funding for the police. That’s a lose-lose proposition …
We have about a billion dollars in grant money that goes to police. When you start saying in order to receive those dollars, you must do A, B, and C, and if you don’t do A, B, and C, you literally lose eligibility for the two major pots of money the Byrne grants and the COP grants. When you tell local law-enforcement agencies that you are ineligible for money, that’s defunding the police, there’s no way to spin that …
What I did not agree to was the cuts that come from noncompliance. When you say once again that in order for you to receive the money for the Byrne grants or the COP grants, you must do the following, and if you don’t do the following, you lose money — that’s more defunding the police. We saw that tried throughout the country.
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ia-leaks.shtml
And I guess they were keen on assassinating the guy that Trump and company spend a year+ praising for releasing leaks that hurt Democrats. I guess it's fun when government officials openly discuss assassinating Americans who don't even have any ties to terror networks which is new and interesting.Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request “sketches” or “options” for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”
This goes beyond what I thought even Trump would do...but posting it for discussion.
Yahoo News reports that Team Trump discussed...kidnapping and assassinating Assange.
Like, they get specific about shooting out the tires of the plane he's flying to Russia in. Pompeo wanted fucking revenge, apparently.
Trump is a violent sociopath, but actually green-lighting a damn near public assassination? I don't know that I buy it. But...Assange's lawyer does.
As an American citizen, I find it absolutely outrageous that our government would be contemplating kidnapping or assassinating somebody without any judicial process simply because he had published truthful information.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...edical-records
Huh...and as initially reported in 2018...yeah, Trump's private buddies at Mar a Lago were working on a plan to monetize VA patient data.
Say it with me -“Patient data is, in my opinion, the most valuable assets [sic] the VA has,” a consultant said in a June 2017 email released Monday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. “It can be leveraged into hundreds of millions in revenue” by selling access to major companies, he said.
The
Government
Should
Not
Sell
Or
Otherwise
Monetize
Our
Data
Especially
Our
Medical
Information
Not exactly a catchy acronym, but who gives a fuck.
Screw it, I tried to make an acronym and screwed it up, lol.
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Pack it the fuck in y'all, 2024's results have already been predicted.
By Joe fuckin Rogan - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...iden-or-harris
I see conservative media again suddenly care about what some celebrity they don't care about has to say.
Who else goes to Joe Rogan, noted political expert, for all their political analysis? I mean, I swear, every time he's in the news I somehow lose even more respect for folks that listen to him unironically. The man is deeply, deeply stupid and has accidentialied his way into success despite honestly, not being very funny at all.
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And fuck 'Bama.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021...-money-prisons
$400M in covid relief money? SHIT LOOKS LIKE A WINDWFALL TO BUILD MORE PRISONS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH A PANDEMIC OR HELPING THE BROADER STATE OUT!
Seriously, what the fuck is with conservatives and their throbbing erections for the penal system?
Don't be silly, Edge.
Alabama's had a surge of COVID in prisons. Recently.
Isn't that like, massively illegal? HIPAA is a thing.
Because it's the last vestige of the plantation system and they will do everything in their power to ensure the stain of slavery remains present in this country for as long as humanly possible.
"Law & Order" folks are almost always either looking for free labor or to send a message to social 'undesirables'.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Gotta love how polls are BS when they go against Trump but the minute they don't, "Look guys!"
Gotta love how they hate the liberal Hollywood elite but the minute one of them makes favorable chimp sounds, "Look guys!"
Gotta love how it's ok to divert and accept federal funds if your Republican but the minute a Dem wants to it's welfare, illegal and "Look Guys!"
Gotta love how of all the people from NewsRadio, fuckboy is the only one still around
R.I.P. Phil
<3 Dave
Fuck Joe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assass...igence_reports
I'd buy it, sadly.On 16 November, Central Intelligence Agency members who internally analyzed multiple sources of intelligence concluded that Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's assassination.[1] On 20 November, US President Donald Trump disputed the CIA assessment and stated that the investigation into Khashoggi's death had to continue.[16] The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act required the U.S. intelligence community to share the report on who was responsible for Khashoggi's murder, but the Trump administration refused to release the report.
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/27/rep...cement-theory/
In which Matt Gaetz goes on Megan Kelly's SirusXM show to support Tucker Carlson and the Great Replacement racism.
The biggest surprise, honestly, is that Megan Kelly has a SirusXM show. I thought she'd faded into podcast obscurity like Pence and Giuliani after her non-Fox career imploded faster than she rose to the position of "heir apparent to the most valuable hour of television".