Posted on 08/02/2021 8:44:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Once again we visit the timeline of Oilfield Rando for a ‘play-by-play’ of the stupidity in the Infrastructure Bill and the ridiculous things Democrats are getting away with because Republicans are basically letting them. As he points out in this thread, our GOP sadly seems more and more useless, hiding behind the excuse that they’re the minority.
It’s getting old, folks.
But what’s not getting old is Rando’s take on the bill. Hey, it still sucks but if we can laugh a little why not?
Already found $250 million for an invasive plant species removal program lol.
Infrastructure! pic.twitter.com/MaNuMttTyM
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
WTF is an invasive plant species and where are they removing it from?
Oh cool, $50 million for STUDIES on how to tax us more with road usage and per-mile fees.
You are useless, @gop. Useless. pic.twitter.com/x29f7o9EtP
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Spending our money to figure out how to take more of our money from us.
Government at its finest, ladies and gents.
Studies on people hitting deer lol. Infrastructure! pic.twitter.com/HI4sv7vmoK
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
You know that face you make when you’ve got a new puppy in the house and she won’t let you work and she’s so darling you want to play with her and not work but you know if you don’t work you don’t get paid? Yup, just made that face.
$50 million for ten “Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence”, which will do climate change reports and engage “disadvantaged communities”.
Again, you are f**king trash, @GOP pic.twitter.com/LqpcfZlzce
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
What he said.
Upgraded Amtrak train service in……Canada.
Speechless. pic.twitter.com/XwnvlK4F0B
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
IN CANADA.
Combatting human trafficking is infrastructure, apparently pic.twitter.com/tOe0FdljEJ
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Promoting more lady truckers is infrastructure, even though gender isn’t really a thing anymore pic.twitter.com/QB3zhejgWp
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
We thought gender was just a construct and stuff.
All new cars will have to be equipped with a breathalyzer, h/t @creek_ghost pic.twitter.com/0thSmSE0qF
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Holy crap.
Studies on smoking the weed and driving. Infrastructure! pic.twitter.com/BvhLJwwmgv
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
They legalize weed and want us to pay for studies of people driving under the influence of weed.
Hint, they’ll get high.
There, study done.
Sport fishing and recreational boating safety is infrastructure pic.twitter.com/MOiNDUtpFC
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
smh
$2.5 billion in green energy subsidies for schools and non-profits pic.twitter.com/lJs5P7MIvv
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
The “Digital Equity Act” lmfaoooooo pic.twitter.com/jFRImps10Z
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Digital Equity Act.
Man, if we never hear the word ‘equity’ again it will be too soon.
$5 billion for low/zero emissions school buses pic.twitter.com/3M1dsLCiVN
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$250 million for electric ferries pic.twitter.com/xpOvEnk7vU
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Electric ferries?
We sellin 87 million barrels of oil from the SPR, moist boooooiiiiiii pic.twitter.com/WwwP6PqkEY
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Another $2.6 billion for NOAA, those science bitches pop up in every single spending bill lol pic.twitter.com/KmUf4VjZPo
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Because science!
$50 million for Utah, there’s Mitt’s payout pic.twitter.com/h6elNmNoj2
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Yup.
$16.3 billion for DOE renewable energy and efficiency programs pic.twitter.com/tAvVDzQIp3
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$2.1 billion for carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure pic.twitter.com/OjLaR3MNEf
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$21.5 billion for clean energy demonstrations pic.twitter.com/6Xl7H4yrnS
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$1 billion for the Appalachian regional commission, there’s Manchin’s payout. And $150 million for the Delta regional authority pic.twitter.com/reXkM0bC6n
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Yup again.
$75 million for the Denali commission, there’s Murkowski’s payout pic.twitter.com/F8r1FalSVz
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Wow.
$14.2 billion for the FCC pic.twitter.com/yUal6s6RfO
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$3.4 billion for the Federal Buildings fund pic.twitter.com/hlbLQ7Y38S
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$330 million for DHS pic.twitter.com/7lXfNwie0c
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Infrastructure!
$455 million for the Fish and Wildlife service pic.twitter.com/pn9tA16mYw
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$510 million for the US geological survey pic.twitter.com/b30yuLO0mC
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$2 billion for the EPA pic.twitter.com/l4FYDR2QKo
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
$3.5 billion for Indian Health Service. Infrastructure! pic.twitter.com/976a1ui4eE
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Well, that’s what popped out on the first skim.
Tomorrow will be working up the full RandoLand breakdown.
At least I haven’t seen the National Endowment for the Arts yet
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) August 2, 2021
Your government at work.
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No political party is gonna fix this mess....it is deep and systemic—fall of the Roman Empire stuff....
The Treasury now looks like Al Capone’s vault after Geraldo opened it.
I know. It’s true.
It will take a long time to fully play out, but we’ve already lost everything.
The GOP are truly pathetic, and have been for ages.
Unfortunately the party we have been forced to rely on is a fake party. The only reason people vote R is because they are perceived as the lesser of two evils.
If there was another party with convictions, principles and values — and the willingness to fight for them — who would ever vote R again?
I really wish Trump would start a new party.
You'd think by now I'd be used to the RINO compulsion to reach around the aisle, but somehow I'm always surprised.
America and FED.gov needs bankruptcy. It really does.
Who is writing these monstrosities? I’m sure none of our honorable leaders know all that’s in there.
Pigs feeding at the trough.
“Studies on people hitting deer lol. Infrastructure!” Reminds me of the old radio bit with the lady who called in to say, “Just move the deer crossings so fewer deer are hit.”
Rinos deliberately love to keep their balls in the air and people guessing. I won’t give them that satisfaction...I see them as entirely self-serving Demorats period and always for sale to the highest bidder one way or another.
All new cars will have to be equipped with a breathalyzer?!
Deep State is looting the public treasury.
I completely agree with this assessment while reminding everyone that, this notwithstanding, the pubbies are still at least two orders of magnitude above the dhimmicrats who are oozing pustules.
Wait a minute. What about all those letters and emails I keep receiving from Rona Romney and assorted GOPers who keep promising that if I only send them $50, $100, or more they’ll continue to fight Biden.
This makes their already weak pitches down right insulting. Come election time watch them talk really brave and all tough that they need us to help them stop Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer.
Pfffft... what a joke.
Americans keep on getting fiscally raped and ask for more.
In other words, misguided, institutionally indoctrinated state lawmakers are now wrongly depending on the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment, Democratic and RINO-controlled Congress to provide unconstitutional federal funding for state infrastructure. The problem is that such funding derived from unconstitutional federal taxes, unaccountable taxes that will probably ultimately be used to help finance the reelection campaigns of desperate Democrats and RINOs.
A bigger problem with paying unconstitutional federal taxes is that the states are left with insufficient revenue to maintain their own infrastructure.
The bottom line is that Trump supporters need to get the feds out of the unconstitutional business of “helping” the states to manage their revenues and let incumbent Democrats and RINOs find another way to finance their reelection campaigns.
Next, freepers should be familiar with the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions that emphasize the reasonably clear language of the Commerce Clause (1.8.3).
More specifically, regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, it remains that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
”State inspection laws, health, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
The collection of excerpts about Congress's limited Commerce Clause powers has now grown to four excerpts that contain similar language. They seem to have been inspired by President Thomas Jefferson, the most detailed clarification that infrastructure is a state power issue coming from Justice Joseph Story. The excerpts emphasize that Congress has no express constitutional authority to tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes.
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." --Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
”State inspection laws, health, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty [emphasis added]. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." --Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
In other words, all that minority federal RINOs need to argue to stop unconstitutional state infrastructure taxing and spending by the feds is to point out that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
(Again,) "From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Trumps supporters need to primary incumbent federal and state lawmakers who don't send their supporters emails ASAP that clearly promise to introduce legislation to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending for state infrastructure within 100 days after start of new legislative session.
Insights welcome.
This brings me a lot of pain because I have developed the same expectations. Khrushchev said we'd go down without a fight. Damn.
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