Comment Re:It's super simple. (Score 1) 94
They have to tax the financial markets instead of the labor market. There's more than enough money up there to cover UBI for the whole world
Taxation doesn't work like that, sorry.
They have to tax the financial markets instead of the labor market. There's more than enough money up there to cover UBI for the whole world
Taxation doesn't work like that, sorry.
The people we're talking about here are attempting to block access to polling stations
Completely false.
A county election official, Gary Scott, said that the protest was about 100 feet from the building entrance where voters cast their ballot early. Contrary to some initial reports, the protesters had not blocked access to the polling station, he said.
Near as I can tell, that has happened once in Virginia (according to the NYT) yesterday. It seems to have amounted to about less than 10 people (judging from the picture) imitating the Whiner-in-Chief, the alleged president, and encouraging people to vote for him. Obnoxious yes, but the officials opened other doors so that voters could avoid them.
That is called campaigning and they are definitely within the 200 foot limit. All of them are criminals. Posting as AC because Mod points.
In Virginia, the limit is 40 feet. According to the election officer, they complied with all requests from the election staff, and were not blocking the entrance. This is normal electioneering. It happens outside every polling location in every election.
Biden will be marginally better because he will at least get the pandemic under control using the "Pandemic Playbook" he and Obama wrote (and Trump ignored).
OMG there are people that actually buy this crap! Here's your reminder that when Moderna announced they would have results of their vaccine trials by November, Biden and Harris became suddenly vocally anti-vaxx...
Now do Joe Biden's "base"...
Oh, that's right - he doesn't really have one. He's just the influence-peddling Democratic party's answer to keeping their Wall Street constituents happy. And they're depending on their coalition of party-line voters to show up and vote AGAINST Trump. That's all they've got.
In a normal election I'd say Biden doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning more than 2 states, but Trump's a grating narcissist that can't stay off Twitter, and the entire academic establishment hates him, the "news" media is so hell-bent on getting him ousted they'll publish any bullshit story from "anonymous sources" as long as it hurts Trump, and they'll prop up Biden with the fervor of 20-something insurance clerks determined to keep from ruining their Labor Day vacation in the Hamptons. Not to mention the NeverTrumpers and establishment Republicans that see their gravy train coming to an end as the endless wars in the Middle East calm down and the funding for those money laundering schemes dries up.
If trump loses, people will riot because he is still in the white house on nov 10th. They are that dumb.
Hopefully he won't send the FBI and the security agencies on an investigation into his opponent's collusion with foreign powers, and buy a house in DC so he can oversee the progress of the investigation after the inauguration.
That's how the system was originally designed. Go live in the state that has policies you prefer.
But the slow dismantling of the Republic as more and more power was claimed by the central government - and enabled by the SCOTUS - has caused broken the "50 laboratories" of social progress, leaving everyone fighting the Federal government for the right to impose their ideology on every state, and citizen.
So your goal is to be on the level of the Chinese government? I have higher standards in mind.
I have no problems with banning TikTok if its really doing the privacy invasive things I've heard. But it doesn't get to be decided on the whim of the president.
Well why not? Trade is intimately tied to foreign policy, and congress ceded that authority, along with the power to levy tariffs, to the executive branch back in the 1930's, and presidents have unilaterally made these types of decisions ever since. Between that and the Trade Act of 1974, the president has authority under the law to enforce trade agreements and ban imports from China. Just because TikTok is a digital import doesn't make it any different under the law.
Congress can make changes to those provisions if it has the desire and the will. But for now, Trump is within the law to ban Chinese apps from US soil.
Do you know that you cannot have a website not blocked by the communist party without a local presence, which for a small site is practically imposible to have? In essence the chinese communists banned every foreign site if there is chat or forum or any other service which can be used for free speech. Trump could ban half of the Chinese apps, and he would be still a gentleman compared to the communist china.
... and American companies helped them build that Chinese Firewall. Most of them are still looking to profit off of Chinese consumers, and will continue to bow to ChiCom policy to get it.
AXS sent me an email today about the "postponed" (no new date) Primus concert I bought tickets for. No refund option, no plans for refunds for moved events, and no dates for when the concert might happen.
Yea, at this point, they seem worse than Ticket Bastard, probably going to get away with it because they're smaller and not getting the bad press Ticket Bastard is dealing with.
That would be because Blockbuster failed due to its business model being outdated.
Ticketmaster is failing because entirety of economy is shut down temporarily. It has nothing to do with viability of its business model. Same is true for a lot of companies going under right now.
Ticket Bastard is the greediest middle-man monopoly I've ever seen. They can go away tomorrow and there will be lots of other ways, overnight, that tickets to events can be bought and sold.
Please die, Ticket Bastard, please die. I, for one, will be demanding immediate cash refunds for all of the tickets I have bought from them in order to hasten their demise.
As soon as they let me, that is........
Got my email today about the "postponed" Primus concert. New date? Nope, TBD. Refund? No information available.
Yea, I feel like I'm getting screwed. I could really use that money right now. I shouldn't be denied it due to the Ticket Bastard's business model.
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