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Joementum posted:Reminder that as much as everyone hates Ted Cruz, he's still a Republican. That's nice of him to do.
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McConnell is a class act. edit In other news, Brownback appears to be a big Dead Kennedys fan. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kansas-gov-sam-brownback-cut-45-million-public-school-funding quote:Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s aggressive tax cuts have come back to haunt him. In the latest move to make up for a massive state deficit caused by his economic policy, Brownback plans to cut nearly $45 million in funding for public schools and higher education in his state by March. Keep going Sam, you'll realize Reagan's dream once all the poor are too dead to need state assistance! Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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As I recall, didn't the Kansas Supreme Court say cutting schools was unconstitutional the last time he did it? http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/7/kansas-supreme-courtrulesschoolfundinglevelsunconstitutional.html yeeep, yep it was.
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Warcabbit posted:As I recall, didn't the Kansas Supreme Court say cutting schools was unconstitutional the last time he did it? "The Kansas Supreme Court has made their decision. Now let them enforce it." --Sam Brownback, probably
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Meanwhile in Michigan. What I really need is a bunch of old white prudes telling me what kind of sex I can have. Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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axeil posted:reposting in the hopes it can get more discussion, the US water system is in deep, poo poo with multiple cities having Flint-level badness in their pipes. Do those multiple cities skimp on anti-corrosive additives in their water because it saves $100 a month as well?
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Reason posted:Meanwhile in Michigan. Odd imperative for a government currently engaged in loving its poor black residents up the rear end.
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Reason posted:Meanwhile in Michigan. It was explained in the original uspol thread, that law is already on the books, he is just updating it to increase the penalty for bestiality and the politician behind it knows people will fight if he tries to remove the unconstitutional sodomy part so by leaving it alone he can get the changes he wants.
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I'm sure this will be handled rationally and empathetically by all the great communities of Texas.
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quote:Somewhat ironically, Texas, perhaps the reddest of red states, asks a federal court to stick its judicial nose into this political morass, where it does not belong absent statuary authorization. While it's certainly a legal win because gently caress those guys for even trying, seriously, I almost wonder if it's a humanitarian loss. I can absolutely see some rear end in a top hat looking to firm up his conservative cred having pictures, names, addresses and such of these people splashed on a page somewhere and we'll have some
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GalacticAcid posted:It's Krugman. It looks like he wandered away from home and somehow ended up in a Planet Fitness.
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Reason posted:Meanwhile in Michigan. If I hear one person say "both parties are the same" in person one more time I swear to god I'll break their jaw.
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lol Rubio did it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBX0Z1MkDyQ He's rattled. Also gently caress him for the sentiment he's poorly expressing here.
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Warcabbit posted:As I recall, didn't the Kansas Supreme Court say cutting schools was unconstitutional the last time he did it? Why does Sam Brownback have an attendance problem? Quit cutting class ya punk
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Bloomberg dismisses your objections and insists that the possibility of a President Bloomberg is real.
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Makes me want to buy a water testing kit just to see what's up, even though I don't live anywhere near the cities listed in that infrastructure article. It's so incredibly frustrating to see all this infrastructure neglect, especially considering how many people are unemployed currently. There is more than enough meaningful work to go around; the only issue is convincing people that it's worth paying for. Didn't we build most of the infrastructure in this country within the last 100 years? I mean, how did we go from "gently caress yeah, let's build lots of cool poo poo" to "who cares, let it rot" within the living memory of some people who are still making our laws? Edit: rhetorical question, I know the answer is "a combination of stupidity and greed, mostly greed", but still. It really pisses me off. Edit 2: vvvvvvv what I said above in the first edit, I guess, but you display more brevity and eloquence 
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Zarin posted:Didn't we build most of the infrastructure in this country within the last 100 years? I mean, how did we go from "gently caress yeah, let's build lots of cool poo poo" to "who cares, let it rot" within the living memory of some people who are still making our laws? Reagan.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Bloomberg dismisses your objections and insists that the possibility of a President Bloomberg is real. He literally is the worst of both parties combined. He wants to give a big old handjob to corps while also wanting to take away guns.
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Zarin posted:Makes me want to buy a water testing kit just to see what's up, even though I don't live anywhere near the cities listed in that infrastructure article. Here's a thing to keep in mind: there's lots of places where infrastructure isn't really being neglected, and also a lot of place where infrastructure has been skimped on for over a hundred years straight. And then there's cases where certain forms of infrastructure are deliberately skimped on in order to focus on others - New Jersey insists on refusing to expand or do much servicing on large amount of I-80 as part of a deliberate plan to encourage development to not spread too far from NYC, and uses money that would otherwise go towards building said expansions and ongoing maintain it to instead fund public transit. And like, a lot of the time wide swathes of land only got major infrastructure put in because it was needed to connect places that cared about infrastructure to each other, so the only thing that gets good maintenance is that interstate, or higher-spec surface highway, etc. Or things like how a town got a sewer and town water system put in as a result of a WPA make-work program in the 30s, and people have kinda just patchworked along with it to keep it to the barest minimum standard.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In other news, Republicans are beginning to call for (a) Ken Starr to return to Capital Hill. I for one welcome a House Permanent Subcommittee on Those drat Emails.
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Crowsbeak posted:He literally is the worst of both parties combined. He wants to give a big old handjob to corps while also wanting to take away guns. taking away guns is cool though
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Zarin posted:Makes me want to buy a water testing kit just to see what's up, even though I don't live anywhere near the cities listed in that infrastructure article. I'm in Cleveland. Gonna see about buying a kit in a day or two.
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Crowsbeak posted:He literally is the worst of both parties combined. He wants to give a big old handjob to corps while also wanting to take away guns. to be fair, if you're white and at least middle class you'll probably be better off than before
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There is honestly no way something like the Federal Interstate bill could go through today. I doubt we could even get ESEA passed today. Turns out trickle down didn't actually work and the GOP was turned insane by the trifecta of losing to Clinton, 9/11 and Bush fumbling so badly that they saw Obama as a generational shift, thus ending their relevancy (leading to their insistence of doubling down to the fringe). All of that has made people not want to spend a penny on anything because IF I'M BROKE SO IS THE GOVERNMENT. I have a feeling if the Middle Class was a lot larger a lot of these things wouldn't be an issue.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:lol Rubio did it again https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/623502913860698112 "...ly sinful and I'm going to picket this filth they're ramming down our throats"
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Remember that the lead manufacturers of ye olde times lobbied their asses off convincing people lead was no biggy. They were on par or worse than climate denial today. It's a drat shame since lead literally makes you stupid. Like worse than 10hr/d Fox News stupid.
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CortezFantastic posted:There is honestly no way something like the Federal Interstate bill could go through today. I doubt we could even get ESEA passed today. Turns out trickle down didn't actually work and the GOP was turned insane by the trifecta of losing to Clinton, 9/11 and Bush fumbling so badly that they saw Obama as a generational shift, thus ending their relevancy (leading to their insistence of doubling down to the fringe). All of that has made people not want to spend a penny on anything because IF I'M BROKE SO IS THE GOVERNMENT. I have a feeling if the Middle Class was a lot larger a lot of these things wouldn't be an issue. Trump is popular for a reason and it's not because finance guys say guys like him are creating jobs. The government has failed to prevent structural unemployment in rural, less-educated communities and Trump is reaping the whirlwind.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:"The Kansas Supreme Court has made their decision. Now let them enforce it." --Sam Brownback, probably Oh he did better than that. He threatened to defund the court itself which is a plan so crazy you'd think it was an off-the-cuff comment from Paul LePage.
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ErIog posted:Oh he did better than that. He threatened to defund the court itself which is a plan so crazy you'd think it was an off-the-cuff comment from Paul LePage. Speaking of which, following a December ruling in Solomon v. Kansas that again ruled the law in question unconstitutional, the injunction against defunding Kansas's courts expires March 15. A case seeking to declare the non-severability of funding clause unconstitutional, Fairchild v. Kansas, is still pending. Kansas has moved to dismiss or at least stay the case until the courts are officially defunded.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Remember that the lead manufacturers of ye olde times lobbied their asses off convincing people lead was no biggy. They were on par or worse than climate denial today. If you consider that all the lead in the gasoline most likely ended up in the air, floating around all the cities and suburbs of this country in small little trace amounts, slowly accumulating more and more over a lifetime, it sort of explains the general economic and social violence and insanity in this country. Like the lead in the pipes of the Roman aqueducts slowly poisoning the empire.
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fishmech posted:And like, a lot of the time wide swathes of land only got major infrastructure put in because it was needed to connect places that cared about infrastructure to each other, so the only thing that gets good maintenance is that interstate, or higher-spec surface highway, etc. Or things like how a town got a sewer and town water system put in as a result of a WPA make-work program in the 30s, and people have kinda just patchworked along with it to keep it to the barest minimum standard. Yeah. Every time I read about the WPA, I really wish it had been mothballed, rather than dismantled. I don't know if everyone back then just assumed we would be so totally super-enlightened after we won World War II that we wouldn't need it anymore, but ever since then, history seems to keep reminding us that everything is cyclical. We really could use something like that to keep everything moving forward in the down cycles. CortezFantastic posted:I have a feeling if the Middle Class was a lot larger a lot of these things wouldn't be an issue. I think this is probably true, for a host of different reasons. Probably enough to write a book on.
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Greatbacon posted:If you consider that all the lead in the gasoline most likely ended up in the air, floating around all the cities and suburbs of this country in small little trace amounts, slowly accumulating more and more over a lifetime, it sort of explains the general economic and social violence and insanity in this country. Like the lead in the pipes of the Roman aqueducts slowly poisoning the empire. Some people attribute our across-the-board decreases in violent crime to us dropping leaded gasoline, fwiw. It's a compelling case.
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ErIog posted:Oh he did better than that. He threatened to defund the court itself which is a plan so crazy you'd think it was an off-the-cuff comment from Paul LePage. Speaking of, today Brownback backed down and repealed the defunding law.
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My Imaginary GF posted:I almost hope a Republican wins in 2016, what with the way the Obama economy has been heading as of late. FDR didn't have a mullet, ever.
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My Imaginary GF posted:I almost hope a Republican wins in 2016, what with the way the Obama economy has been heading as of late. I see the parallels, what with FDR not being able to use his legs and Rahm breaking people's legs
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