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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #54285 on: October 23, 2020, 01:30:43 PM »
I guess you really don't grasp why that post would be seen as condescending and negative.  If you support members right to speak freely and disagree with you, then you wouldn't be "ignoring" anyone. 


Well, I wouldnt expect you to be self critical but believe me there was valid reason to mute you.

You can go back and look if you want.  It's not ideology that gets one recognized as not worth it for a while - and thus ignored.

Clean slates are my absolute specialty.
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« Reply #54286 on: October 23, 2020, 01:37:47 PM »
It's a good thing for Dems that they have avoided - and will continue to ignore foreign policy - as Trump administration again brokers a deal between Israel and a previously non-engaging nation.

Trump - has done nothing - is doing nothing - blah blah blahhhhhhhhhhhh
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« Reply #54287 on: October 23, 2020, 01:43:35 PM »
In a letter released Friday, 30 scholars threw their support behind a term-limit bill that was introduced last month by Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California, Don Beyer of Virginia and Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts.

The legislation would set up 18-year terms for Supreme Court justices. To avoid clashing with the Constitution’s grant of life tenure to federal judges, justices would be given the option to continue serving on lower federal courts after their Supreme Court term expired.

“We are pleased that a formal legislative proposal to limit future justices to 18 years of high court service has been introduced and is advancing public discourse on court reform,” the scholars wrote.

“Though the bill is not perfect," they added, "we believe it to be a critical piece in prescribing how our country’s leaders can work to depoliticize the Supreme Court and its confirmation process.”

Among the signatories were Ted Kaufman, a former Democratic senator from Delaware, and Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Notable law professors who have written extensively about judicial reform also signed the letter, which was organized by the court reform advocacy group Fix the Court.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/522447-dozens-of-legal-experts-throw-weight-behind-supreme-court-term-limit

I have long wondered why this wasn't implemented decades ago. 
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josh

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #54288 on: October 23, 2020, 01:43:58 PM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 23, 2020, 01:30:43 PM
believe me there was valid reason to mute you.

And you.

You seldom add articles that don't simply reinforce your previous stated views, while continuously posting pap.

I post plenty of pap, myself, so I am pretty good at recognizing it, but I also post (a) articles that diverge from my own opinion, (b) facts which are counter to what I wish things would be, and (c) discussion about the substance of others' posts.

This is true for almost everybody else here.
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josh

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« Reply #54289 on: October 23, 2020, 01:57:30 PM »
We have a mechanism with some of our commissions by which there must always be a balance of appointees from each (of the two) parties, with a 3-2 majority being the largest advantage one is supposed to be able to get.

Trump and has circumvented this by simply not appointing new people to those positions when the time came. An example is the FEC. No more than 3 members from a single party, with a minimum of 4 votes required for any action.
https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/

There are 3 vacancies.

" As at May 19, 2020, there were 350 outstanding matters on the agency’s enforcement docket and 227 items waiting for action."

Per Wikipedia.
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« Reply #54290 on: October 23, 2020, 01:59:01 PM »
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« Reply #54291 on: October 23, 2020, 02:02:40 PM »
Race was (and in many places still is) a factor in incidence of cases of COVID-19.

In Mississippi, they have managed to overcome that, with the percentage of cases by race now roughly parallel to that of their population.

Mind you, it was not an intentional change, but incidental. The guess is that because Blacks wear masks more often that they are getting the virus less often.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/health/mississippi-coronavirus/index.html
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« Reply #54292 on: October 23, 2020, 02:39:59 PM »
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« Reply #54293 on: October 23, 2020, 02:43:12 PM »
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« Reply #54294 on: October 23, 2020, 02:49:28 PM »
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/522339-trump-order-strips-workplace-protections-from-civil-servants

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Trump order strips workplace protections from civil servants
BY REBECCA BEITSCH - 10/22/20 05:00 PM EDT 717
   
A new executive order from President Trump makes it easier to hire and fire civil servants that work on policy, stripping some protections from career employees before a potential change in administration.

Federal employee unions are billing the order as the biggest change to federal workforce protections in a century, converting many federal workers to “at will” employment.

It also makes it easier to hire new employees outside of the competitive process — something critics say could be used to hire policy employees without appropriate experience.

The order specifically targets policy-related career positions, a move critics say will enable the administration to fire employees that may question their policies.
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« Reply #54295 on: October 23, 2020, 03:07:41 PM »
And,  hey,  Redward,  haven't you been telling us that the federal government should stay out of state election systems and their voting procedures??

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-donald-trump-local-elections-lawsuits-4298a514550323d39931f3e5fff2ccae

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« Reply #54296 on: October 23, 2020, 03:11:36 PM »
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« Reply #54297 on: October 23, 2020, 03:15:19 PM »
Quote from: josh on October 23, 2020, 01:43:58 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 23, 2020, 01:30:43 PM
believe me there was valid reason to mute you.

And you.

You seldom add articles that don't simply reinforce your previous stated views, while continuously posting pap.

I post plenty of pap, myself, so I am pretty good at recognizing it, but I also post (a) articles that diverge from my own opinion, (b) facts which are counter to what I wish things would be, and (c) discussion about the substance of others' posts.

This is true for almost everybody else here.

If I was insulting - and then someone put me on ignore - I'd understand and accept it.
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« Reply #54298 on: October 23, 2020, 03:18:11 PM »
The United Sates government got their first loan from the Bank of New York, the USA had to have banks so that we got in debt to ourselves, instead of being in debt to foreign nations. Alexander Hamilton was one of the original founders of the Bank of New York. Now it is the Bank of New York Mellon.

"The bank provided the United States government its first loan in 1789. The loan was orchestrated by Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, and it paid the salaries of United States Congress members and President George Washington.[12]

The Bank of New York was the first company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange when it first opened in 1792.[13] In 1796, the bank moved to a location at the corner of Wall Street and William Street, which would later become 48 Wall Street.[8][14]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNY_Mellon

Salute,

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« Reply #54299 on: October 23, 2020, 04:07:00 PM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on October 23, 2020, 03:11:36 PM
Old news by now - but LET THEM PRAY!


https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/us/colorado-churches-lawsuit-mask-restrictions/index.html

Nothing stopped them from praying.

If their deity exists as they claim that deity exists, then He is everywhere and so is prayer.

And if He functioned the way most of them believe He does, then they wouldn't get sick.
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