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Acebuckeye13 posted:current event: gently caress every part of the state of arizona that is not federal or tribal land On that topic: https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/1366460180360224770 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/01/us/joe-biden-news#protests-by-native-americans-lead-to-a-delay-in-arizona-copper-mine-project Looking like the Biden folks figured out a way to cancel the last-minute transfer: reject previously-approved paperwork and shove an indefinite hold on it!
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fknlo posted:When the gently caress is DeJoy going to get the boot? My understanding is that it's in the Senate's hands right now for scheduling Biden's board picks. Biden's picks would shift the board to 5-4 Democrat, but in true democrats.txt fashion, one of those Democrats voted for DeJoy back in April, and some House Democrats are all like WE CAN CUT A DEAL TO FIX THINGS with DeJoy. So USPS is still hosed until summertime, probably.
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Mar 2, 2021 01:12
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Cuomo's a sex pest and there's a picture of his sex pesting. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1366556713848107016 It's his third accused pesting and just goes to show that the pesting doesn't usually happen just once.
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I wondered if/when this kind of thing would get worked out - just took an administration that gave a drat. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1366734778213498884?s=19 Won't help for a few months, but Merck's own vaccine flamed out, so gently caress it, get them involved! DPA-prioritize getting them the equipment, grease the skids between the companies, and woohoo, more J&J vaccine, by Merck.
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Looking like the QAnon insurrectionist fucks had their shot and security people aren't pretending they're harmless anymore. https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1366799860679249921?s=19 https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1366803592561229826?s=19
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boop the snoot posted:Will the goalposts get moved to July 4th next? Already saw a March 20th with zero reason whatsoever. The movement kind of fell apart without Donnie Dumbass calling out the dates. Looking like the end result will be a solid meh. Republicans wanted to toss out the whole drat Voting Rights Act, because racism, and that more or less got uniformly laughed at. Some of the other dumb poo poo Republicans pulled are going to fly though, which likely means the poo poo they're doing now goes through too. https://twitter.com/Tierney_Megan/status/1366820805338951680?s=19
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Here's the context: https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1366851885618069509 Literally killing people because of ideology and not giving a gently caress.
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https://twitter.com/AlsupTheWriter/status/1366848508083523585?s=19 Pretty clear that these states have determined that the current plateau of our current level, equivalent to HOLY gently caress OUTBREAK summer numbers, means it's time to OPEN UP and cause another surge as vaccines come online. Lunatic poo poo. We only need a few more months.
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Defenestrategy posted:Yea, I think it's something more embarrassing for them. Probably that the amount of government dole they'd need to be solvent would be big enough they'd need a specific "texas bailout" bill, which would be hilarious to me. Supposedly it isn't even that much. Projection was $5B, ended up $1B, but they must've not liked the expected FY21 numbers. But meanwhile, the timeline just shifted two months to the left: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1366863524471836672 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1366863876206264327 https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1366838943560433669 Gonna be weird when Democrats learn from 2009 and Republicans didn't.
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And a brand new post because she deserves one as a standalone: https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1366861968498454529
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Wait gently caress, now she posted a video to go along with the picture, so she gets a second dedicated post. https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1366866210852323328 "I'm old enough to get it and I'm smart enough to get it" Edit: That was the most wholesome thing I've ever loving seen. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Neera's out. RIP. https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1366898022727221252
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Here appear to be the finalized numbers on BidenBux, because Senate Democrats are gonna Senate Democrat: https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1367134476472565762?s=19 https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1367144049677893633?s=19 And the DC Guard Commander is testifying now and he got roadblocked for three hours on January 6th, when he got precleared for the DC protests in the summertime: https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1367124952978178049?s=19 https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1367143549758808070?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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It occurs to me that some generals are going to get shitcanned. https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1367146548048629761?s=19 https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1367146812570816512?s=19
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BEND THE CURVE https://twitter.com/JuliaLMarcus/status/1367159066531880961?s=19
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Arven posted:Is there anything to stop people from just saying they smoke to get the vaccine? I'm not trying to be an rear end, I'm just genuinely curious. Like everything lately, it depends on the locality. Around here, you can likely lie about the questions, but you can't get around the county requirement. Like if you live in County 1, but sign up for a vaccine in County 2's health department, you're likely getting rejected at the table when you give them your ID. A lot of places are shifting to age-only requirements (easily checkable!), or you can verbally say what kind of worker you are to become "essential". But most of my county's vaccinations are rolling through the hospital chains and you don't even get contacted unless you qualify. https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1367193921542045698 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOZNS3WhyY&t=91s
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well, it landed! https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1367253989356625922 fake edit: well, it blew up https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1367257769695404032
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Bail is one of those things where you're absolutely presumed innocent and you're supposed to be let go if there are conditions that will bring you back and/or you won't crimes it up some more. But gently caress these people, even if they get let out (and a lot are) I'm glad they've at least done some unbailed time. And speaking of gently caress these people: https://twitter.com/LaurieSegall/status/1367499159125819398?s=19 QAnon Shaman's mom is giving off some powerful Michael Jackson vibes.
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Every time I think that online bullshit can't possibly be real: https://twitter.com/corinne_perkins/status/1367548888106827777 Edit: and sounds like vaccines are working good here too https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1367558643944747017 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 4, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/SenatePPG/status/1367570559773650946 https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1367571577441824768 So now they have to read the bill out loud (because Johnson is a fucker), then 20 hours of debate. Then a vote-a-rama again, with each amendment getting 30 minutes and Republicans expected to flood the thing with amendments (because they're fuckers). Most observers think it clears the Senate at the end of the weekend, then it gets sent back to the House for a straight up-down vote. The Unemployment plus-up expires on March 14th, so that's a pretty hard deadline.
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Defenestrategy posted:Does it have to be a senator/congress critter to do it? Is there an issue with just hiring the Micromachines guy or an auctioneer to just blow through it? Anyone can do it, but the Democrats have the standard clerks reading the bills, with additional clerk staff serving as backup. The clerks thought they could do two pages per minute, but it's slow going because the table of contents and early pages are dense as hell. Funny bonus though - a Republican senator has to be on-site or the bill-reading ends. I think the Democrats aren't doing the speed reader poo poo because it's only "costing" around eight hours or a full Senate day, and they still have time. MA-Horus posted:can't kill people in long term care when they're already dead poo poo's getting weird in Israel. https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1367584677503008769 Might be that the vaccines turned COVID into a harmless/nothing cold. Could be the test catching residual COVID in the air or something. Keep your masks on, you lucky vaccinated fucks.
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Fox News is going to blow their loving lid. https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1367644746739499009
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Platystemon posted:I had to looked up the neanderthal context. Here's how dumb it all is: https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1367568770319998976
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:BREAKING NEWS https://twitter.com/GrahamUnsworth/status/1366008362144567297?s=19
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And that's how reading a bill out loud for 11 hours speeds up the process. Congress, y'all.
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A while back, someone mentioned how unemployment was taxable and it was loving over a lot of people that don't have the money for the tax bill. Senate Democrats found a Very Democrat way of dealing with that problem. https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1367861458864926720 I think it's fine, but I'm doubtful that cutting out $400/month is counterbalanced by an extension and tax forgiveness. It's more that the unemployment increase was set to expire during a congressional recess and gently caress the recess if that could happen. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:And of course trading the tax change for lower benefits means the higher someone's income, the more they get out of it. Democrats! Yup, seems like one of those "Manchin is going to force it to be $300, what can we do to mitigate that" dumb self-negotiating that's stupid as gently caress. https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1367863840382328836?s=19 Just give people money, gently caress.
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For as much as Manchin sucks, it was pretty obvious that he wasn't the only holdout on the minimum wage, he was just vocal about it (edit: geez, this isn't even close): https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1367872010852982786 https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1367872851584417792 https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1367873272545742848 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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maffew buildings posted:Good work by the Dems, no way the GOP will trot out "TRUMP GAVE YOU 600 A WEEK" during the next cycle Just as easily countered by all the Republicans voting no on increased direct-checks and the multiple nos they're about to give on $300 checks. And caring more about Doctor Seuss than legislating right now Also, Donnie didn't even hit the low handing fruit of $1400=$2000 in a statement really, basically saying "Democrats are doing my $2k checks and we lost Georgia because McConnell sucks" statement. Also the 2022 cycle is going to look amazingly different than now. Could explode into a massive economic boom, could explode into a wave of mass death from a covid variant. As loving stupid as Democrats are being right now, this probably won't matter much for 2022.
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Dr seuss thing is apparently a total non story. The estate itself didn't want to publish them lmfao. Apparently Fox News has only posted the (blatantly racist) images a grand total of once, while yelling DEMOCRATS WANT TO CANCEL CAT IN THE HAT
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facialimpediment posted:Yup, seems like one of those "Manchin is going to force it to be $300, what can we do to mitigate that" dumb self-negotiating that's stupid as gently caress. Getting worse https://twitter.com/jim_newell/status/1367899860075155462
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Most of the "Democrats in Congress are lovely people that hate their own voters" stuff is a bit overblown, but then there's this: https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1367917179656617986 https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1367918827271581701
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Looking like the resolution here is going to be particularly Congress! and particularly Manchin! https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1367949756941664258?s=19 We remain ruled by dumb idiot morons.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Dems are so fuckin great Best comment I've seen lately is that moderate Democrats solely exist to take chunks out of bills to make them either a little worse or a lot worse. Whatever chunk they got of this bill is apparently about to be announced: https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1368001460412293131?s=19 Edit: ok it's not terrible, the 150k thing is the new bit https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1368003204424884231?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:And of course trading the tax change for lower benefits means the higher someone's income, the more they get out of it. Democrats! A follow-up here and an example of how stupid the system is - there's no automatic withholding on unemployment payments! So you're out of a job, you get the money, and you're expected to hold back the federal taxes, *yourself*, because the state can't do the holdback for you. That's how people are getting hosed by the surprise taxes - the taxes might not be that much, but people never set aside the chunk for taxes because why the gently caress would you. poo poo's dumb and bad.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I'm beginning to think we're seeing the true cost of the 2020 election. Bloomberg made it clear the Democrats were willing to mortgage or outright sell their souls, and the Dark Money came a'knockin'. Check out how hilariously skeezy it is on the republican side: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/klacik-gop-campaign-donations/2021/03/02/76300fde-7077-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html One candidate raised $8.3m and only received $4.6m of it. Another raised $12m and only actually received $5m of it. The consultant cut is hilariously massive. The Manchin stuff tonight is about dumber stuff than dark money - it's the moocher bullshit. Apparently the Welfare Mom poo poo is still alive and well in West Virginia and Manchin is one of its believers, the usual nonsense about "disincentivising work".
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Partial correction, it's based on this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/05/taxes-health-insurance-subsidy-overpayment/ So it's less about the unemployment check withholding, but more getting "too much" from unemployment which nails you with a health insurance subsidy overpayment bill. Like listen to this bullshit: quote:According to the federal government, Ryan earned too much money on unemployment. It was more money than she would have made working as a preschool teacher, and it bumped her into a different income bracket that reduced her Affordable Care Act insurance subsidy. She’s desperate to keep health insurance in the middle of the pandemic and is trying to figure out how to pay the hefty bill.
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