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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.

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Total Members Voted: 9

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

[LarryBnDC]

So Trump has called off negotiations with the democrats in the House.
Probably a good thing for taxpayers.
Yesterday Pelos outlined types of projects  to be funded under her plan;
roads, bridges, mass transit,and broadband Internet connections, as well as water and sewer systems and “all of the things that have enormous needs.”

She noted that the American Society of Civil Engineers has opined that trillions of dollars are required to build or repair U.S. infrastructure.

But, amazingly, Pelosi then put the price tag at $ Two Billion !

Well, gee.  Looks like she is planning on another stimulus plan she and Barack forced down our throats in 2009. A plan loaded with payoffs to fat cat democrat donors and those ubiquitous
 “ green projects “ that accomplished almost nothing.
Well it did help cleanse Washington of a lot of  Democrats so there was that.

It’s been ten years. You can cut the bullshit. No one forced anything down your throats in 2009.

Ah yes. 2008. Democrats full of hope and glory with control of the Federal Government.
Two years later the Blue Dog democrats walked the House plank after the electorate soured on the political spectacle of the Stimulus and ObamaCare.
And then came the Senate in 2014.  And after 8 years of arrogance from Obama*, to say nothing of his business stifling " regulation pen", the hand picked successor to his economic house of cards went down to an inglorious defeat in an election she " could not lose".
With a rollback of regulations and a tax cut the economy took off and all demographics benefitted with jobs and higher wages.

*“That “boy” just didn’t know his place.”

Fuck you. The GOP busted the economy, dragged their heels on the recovery dragging out the pain and losses for ordinary people, blamed that economic pain on their racist fears and resentment and took over the government on a campaign of hatred and greed. Now, they’re taking credit for the very recovery they did their best to stifle.

White America deserves this GOP.

[REDSTATEWARD]

News Item-May 22


 Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.


So with those published fears and the constant chatter from the New York bartender that the world as we know will end in 12 years Congress will get cracking on the Green New Deal?

Meh.

Today with an over-whelming bi-partisan vote in excess of 400 votes the House made it easier for all of us to save for retirement.


The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting retirement savings that also fixes an issue with the GOP tax law.

The bill, known as the SECURE Act, passed by a vote of 417-3. The three lawmakers who voted against the bill were GOP Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas).

The bill includes a number of provisions designed to encourage businesses to offer retirement plans and to make it easier for people to save for their retirements.

These include provisions that would make it easier for small businesses to join together to offer retirement plans, treat graduate students’ stipends as compensation for purposes concerning individual retirement accounts (IRA), allow long-term and part-time workers to participate in companies’ 401(k) plans, and eliminate the age maximum for contributing to IRAs.


“This is the most substantive promotion of retirement savings in the last 15 years,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)


https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445215-house-votes-to-boost-retirement-savings


So rest easy Millenials, the world isn't going anywhere.
Start saving and stop listening to fake news.

And this retirement savings bill will join the other hundred twenty plus bills gathering dust in Mitch McConnells “In Box.”

Wake up...

The Senate already has a similar Bill. With bi-partisan support.

[whiskeypriest]

News Item-May 22


 Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.


So with those published fears and the constant chatter from the New York bartender that the world as we know will end in 12 years Congress will get cracking on the Green New Deal?

Meh.

Today with an over-whelming bi-partisan vote in excess of 400 votes the House made it easier for all of us to save for retirement.


The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting retirement savings that also fixes an issue with the GOP tax law.

The bill, known as the SECURE Act, passed by a vote of 417-3. The three lawmakers who voted against the bill were GOP Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas).

The bill includes a number of provisions designed to encourage businesses to offer retirement plans and to make it easier for people to save for their retirements.

These include provisions that would make it easier for small businesses to join together to offer retirement plans, treat graduate students’ stipends as compensation for purposes concerning individual retirement accounts (IRA), allow long-term and part-time workers to participate in companies’ 401(k) plans, and eliminate the age maximum for contributing to IRAs.


“This is the most substantive promotion of retirement savings in the last 15 years,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)


https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445215-house-votes-to-boost-retirement-savings


So rest easy Millenials, the world isn't going anywhere.
Start saving and stop listening to fake news.

So... how did that bartender vote on the bill?

Seriously, do you just have some sort of far right Mad Libs thing you just randomly toss into your posts, regardless of whether they make sense?

[barton]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1131550346248040448


awwww.... aint she sweet?

That comes across as pretty demeaning.  You don't say a word about her actual points regarding arm sales to SA.  You use phrases people use for pets or babies, because....why?  To dismiss her views, or her place in the conversation?   

[facilitatorn]

Because he has fallen into the same all-consuming rectum as the Freedom Caucus. He has been enveloped by those enormous wrinkly flatulent cheeks.

http://www.vox.com/2019/5/23/18634023/justin-amash-impeachment-republican-freedom-caucus

[facilitatorn]

Fascinated by sharks, terrified of infrastructure,

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-rose-garden-infrastructure-pelosi.html

[barton]

Seriously, do you just have some sort of far right Mad Libs thing you just randomly toss into your posts, regardless of whether they make sense?     

Red never met a Strawman Argument he didn't like.   Almost no one who is thinking about how we can take care of the Earth thinks it will be Mad Max or Waterworld in 12 years.  But he wants to belittle constructive approaches to stopping sea level rise (now projected to swamp nearly 200 million people in this century), saving a million species including pollinating insects our food supply depends on, keeping pthalates, plastic particles, PFAS, heavy metals, and other toxins out of our bodies,  saving fisheries and coral reefs, and having the tropics and subtropics remain habitable.  His only argument is that it's all fake news. 

Let's use Ockham's Razor here:  which is more likely, a vast international conspiracy that includes 99.5% of scientists who have lived in the past 80 years that has succeeded in crafting completely fraudulent data in almost every scientific field all for the purpose of convincing us that humans have a powerful effect on their ecosystems (meanwhile, everything is fine, that species didn't go extinct, it's just resting up in Cornwall...) or that 7.2 billion people and their livestock and their polluting tech can make a big mess?   

[barton]

Fascinated by sharks, terrified of infrastructure,

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-rose-garden-infrastructure-pelosi.html

Solid analysis!

  .....the complete collapse of negotiations before financing discussions even began shows how performative this exercise was from the beginning.

[LarryBnDC]

Obama was in my hood yesterday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/05/23/obama-surprises-kids-dc-after-school-program-with-pep-talks-softball/

[REDSTATEWARD]

News Item-May 22


 Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.


So with those published fears and the constant chatter from the New York bartender that the world as we know will end in 12 years Congress will get cracking on the Green New Deal?

Meh.

Today with an over-whelming bi-partisan vote in excess of 400 votes the House made it easier for all of us to save for retirement.


The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting retirement savings that also fixes an issue with the GOP tax law.

The bill, known as the SECURE Act, passed by a vote of 417-3. The three lawmakers who voted against the bill were GOP Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas).

The bill includes a number of provisions designed to encourage businesses to offer retirement plans and to make it easier for people to save for their retirements.

These include provisions that would make it easier for small businesses to join together to offer retirement plans, treat graduate students’ stipends as compensation for purposes concerning individual retirement accounts (IRA), allow long-term and part-time workers to participate in companies’ 401(k) plans, and eliminate the age maximum for contributing to IRAs.


“This is the most substantive promotion of retirement savings in the last 15 years,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)


https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445215-house-votes-to-boost-retirement-savings


So rest easy Millenials, the world isn't going anywhere.
Start saving and stop listening to fake news.

So... how did that bartender vote on the bill?

If she voted it was not a NAY.  Which may be her way of telling Millenials she was just kidding.

Seriously, do you just have some sort of far right Mad Libs thing you just randomly toss into your posts, regardless of whether they make sense?

Nothing I could argue would top Nancy Pelosi's disdain for AOC.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Seriously, do you just have some sort of far right Mad Libs thing you just randomly toss into your posts, regardless of whether they make sense?     

Red never met a Strawman Argument he didn't like.   Almost no one who is thinking about how we can take care of the Earth thinks it will be Mad Max or Waterworld in 12 years.

I didn't take poll of MIllenials and I wasn't asked my opinion.

But Congress sure isn't  But he wants to belittle constructive approaches to stopping sea level rise (now projected to swamp nearly 200 million people in this century), saving a million species including pollinating insects our food supply depends on, keeping pthalates, plastic particles, PFAS, heavy metals, and other toxins out of our bodies,  saving fisheries and coral reefs, and having the tropics and subtropics remain habitable.  His only argument is that it's all fake news.

I am scheduled at the Maldives for a vacation next year. 
You know the Maldives are scheduled for extinction  when the Arabian Sea rises.
But check out the Growing Islands project at MIT.

MIT’s Self Assembly Lab and Invena, an organization based out of the Maldives, are working together to create a system of underwater structures that use wave energy to create sand accumulation in strategic locations. Over time, the goal is that the accumulation of sand will grow into new islands or  help rebuild existing beaches, creating an adaptable solution to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels.

I have much more faith in our ability to adapt or find workable solutions than simply ruining our economy with some ditzy plan to abandon fossil fuels and doom billions of people to starvation.

[facilitatorn]

It’s cute how you try to use “our” when talking about humanity. Dishonesties have to begin somewhere and that does seem like a pretty core misconception.

[REDSTATEWARD]

 :)President Trump walked out on Pelosi and Schumer’s meeting on “ infrastructure” with Trump mad that Pelosi asserted he was guilty of a coverup.

After Mr. Trump walked out, Ms. Pelosi turned to other Democrats there and recounted a story about how Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt had each brought people together to solve infrastructure problems.
“I knew he was looking for a way out,” Ms. Pelosi concluded. “We were expecting this.”
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, was in the room. “Respectfully, Madam Speaker,” she asked, “do you have a direct response to the president?”
Ms. Pelosi said she was responding to the president, not members of his staff.


Which is certainly understandable given that she and trump head co-equal branches of our Government.
But.
What to make of the House committee subpoenaing AG William Barr on the condition he be questioned by Committee staff?
Kudos to Barr for giving the Committee the Pelosi-style backhand.

[facilitatorn]

Heroic misreading.

Governing is too hard for the old white men who sold their country for power. It’s a familiar feeling for these men who buy sex but can’t perform, which might have a lot to do with why they have Red’s sympathy.

[LarryBnDC]

:)President Trump walked out on Pelosi and Schumer’s meeting on “ infrastructure” with Trump mad that Pelosi asserted he was guilty of a coverup.

After Mr. Trump walked out, Ms. Pelosi turned to other Democrats there and recounted a story about how Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt had each brought people together to solve infrastructure problems.
“I knew he was looking for a way out,” Ms. Pelosi concluded. “We were expecting this.”
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, was in the room. “Respectfully, Madam Speaker,” she asked, “do you have a direct response to the president?”
Ms. Pelosi said she was responding to the president, not members of his staff.


Which is certainly understandable given that she and trump head co-equal branches of our Government.
But.
What to make of the House committee subpoenaing AG William Barr on the condition he be questioned by Committee staff?
Kudos to Barr for giving the Committee the Pelosi-style backhand.

Meanwhile Barr indicts asshole Assange in a bullshit attack on Journalism and the First Amendment.

Achtung, motherfuckers!

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/23/18637668/julian-assange-indictment-wikileaks-espionage-act