Posted on 12/23/2022 10:33:14 AM PST by SoConPubbie
We have criminals in congress and the white house.
Which one of those did he sign because his gop congress overrided his veto, or threatened to.
the globalist useful idiot tool tickling our ears with hot air rhetoric is in the same category as McConnell on my clipboard.
I feel much better after cutting off fox "news" on Jan 7th
I appreciate Musk’s actions, but he isn’t who I am talking about.
He is good on 1st Amendment issues, and Musk is a producer not a looter, in the words of Ayn Rand. Almost every single politician we have in the government would be classified as a looter, along with more than a few in Big Pharm/Big Tech, and so on. On everything else, Musk is all over the map on various issues, and has been sucking the government teat with Tesla and getting chummy with the ChiComs. I don’t hold that much against him, as he is probably legal in those things, and...he does produce.
But because he is a good spokesman for 1st Amendment issues, I regard him as an ally in this, because it is the single most important issue today in my opinion. We may be able to dig out financially, as unlikely as that seems, we may be able to get a handle on immigration, we may be able to reverse the deliberate destruction of the military. But if we don’t get 1st Amendment issues squared away, nothing else is going to happen, or even matter.
The people I am that my post is aimed at are producing nothing, get as rich as Croesus, and that is it. They are in to protect their sinecure as President/Senator/Congressman/Appointee, and that is it. Getting filthy rich in the process. So few seem to ask the question: How can someone being paid $200K a year exit that job 4-8 years later millions of dollars richer, sometimes tens of millions of dollars richer?
It isn’t a Marxist class oriented point of view. It is a practical point of view.
So Musk isn’t one of the people I aim that comment at. He is not elected, and he isn’t someone who is going to institute change.
-—————Deja Vu———————
Trump’s signing of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill means that there will not be a government shutdown and that the government will be funded through the end of September. The package also includes a $900 billion dollar COVID-19 relief bill that gives most Americans individual direct payments, continues unemployment benefits, extends the eviction moratorium through the end of January, restores the Payroll Protection Program to provide aid to small businesses and frees up money for COVID-19 vaccine distribution and coronavirus testing.
This comes following a delay due to the president’s demand to increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. Trump had delegated negotiations of the COVID relief and omnibus spending bill to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who had called it “fabulous.”
https://www.alreporter.com/2020/12/28/trump-signs-covid-relief-omnibus-spending-bill/
Yes as if you put the Dems or GOP operatives in a bag and shook them up and dumped them out on the table they would all look alike..The John Birch Society detailed our political party corruption and how to fix it but that would require upheaval of the current system, and many seem happy with the corruption. Maybe because they profit from that very corruption?
Trump was too late on this one. He was one of the few but if he wanted to make a difference he should have been raising hell a week ago. Calling out that traitor McConnell for openers. Too little too late. Worth noting DeSantis said nothing. Floridians are getting a screw job by this awful bill too.
It’s folks outside of politics that DO institute change. Even our bills are out-sourced. They’re all talking about this latest bill but nobody has actually read the 4000 page sucker. If you want to know what changes are coming you watch outside DC, that’s where new and long term changes are coming from, for good or Ill.
"I'm not supporting that bill! Trump supports it!"
I have to disagree with you completely on this.
While I understand the point I think you are trying to make, you make, people outside of government cannot own an issue.
They cannot sponsor an issue.
They cannot advance an issue inside government towards legislation.
Of course, people outside of politics can (and do) influence change, often greatly, they absolutely, 100% cannot institute or enact change, except within their own sphere of interest or influence.
The sad truth is we have lost our Republic and are progressing rapidly towards a Communist dictatorship.
“What is your point? We should sit out 2024?”
Problem is the elections are rigged
Same here. The entire lock down + free money was a giant dictionary/encyclopedia example of how to create inflation. Then the economists claimed it was “transitory”. Where did those idiots go to college.
The entire 2020-2021 reaction was a giant neon sign of inflation.
Trump didn’t veto either bill.
“Well, thank you all very much. This is a very important day. I’ll sign the single-biggest economic relief package in American history and, I must say, or any other package, by the way. It’s twice as large as any relief ever signed. It’s $2.2 billion, but it actually goes up to 6.2 — potentially — billion dollars — trillion dollars. So you’re talking about 6.2 trillion-dollar bill.”
Trump, March 27, 2020
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What does he mean potentially 6.2 trillion?
He did admit to liking big bills, definitely not a fiscal conservative.
Not officially no. They can influence those who write the bills and/or pass bills.
It was outside of the political sphere that Gingrich got the republicans to vote for the funding of solar radiation management (supported by Trump). It was sold as a compromise to climate change. I believe in 2019 funding was earmarked in the first COVID bill to Harvard, 20 million to start testing and to be implemented in 2022.
If our Congress folks don’t write bills or read bills, what do they do?
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