Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

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That’s a good read. I’m not old enough to really remember the genesis of the Movement Conservatives, they were fully formed by the time I reached high school in the late 90’s and started paying any attention to politics. But damn, apparently everyone around me got ridiculously drunk on that Kool-Aid when I was a child and most haven’t sobered up yet. Had no idea the local brand of political thinking came about so recently.
 
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Outstanding piece. I've been boring friends, relatives, and innocent bystanders with my claims that Trump's no aberration but rather a consistent outcome of the political logic of the past forty years, and Heather Cox Richardson's summation here is so good. She used to be president of a historical society I worked for, but her day job is as a historian at Boston College. She's been doing excellent work over the past few years and she wholly deserves her increasing prominence. Thanks so much for posting it.
 
I haven't been following the $2,000 thing to be honest.

Is the amount tied to some other crap like most bills are in the US or something? Or is McConnell really just saying no to a straight up $2k relief fund?
 
Tubey said:
I haven't been following the $2,000 thing to be honest.

Is the amount tied to some other crap like most bills are in the US or something? Or is McConnell really just saying no to a straight up $2k relief fund?
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He's preventing a vote from being held on the single issue of $2000 and instead put forward a bill including that, but which would also repeal Section 230 (which currently protects online platforms like the present forum from being liable for anything posted on them by any given user) and establish a commission to look for fraud in the recent election, which effectively kills any chance the bill might pass.
 
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He's preventing a vote from being held on the single issue of $2000 and instead put forward a bill including that, but which would also repeal Section 230 (which currently protects online platforms like the present forum from being liable for anything posted on them by any given user) and establish a commission to look for fraud in the recent election, which effectively kills any chance the bill might pass.
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Ha that's amazing... I thought the issue would have been the dems tying fluff to the bill, not the other way around.

What an electoral own goal this is.
 
Tubey said:
Ha that's amazing... I thought the issue would have been the dems tying fluff to the bill, not the other way around.

What an electoral own goal this is.
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When it comes to Republicans and Democrats just simply ask "is this going to help or hurt the average person?" If it's going to help is most likely a Democrat initiative, if it's going to hurt it's most likely a Republican initiative.

So if a Democratic initiative is trying to help people be pretty assured Republicans just torpedoed it because of that simple fact.
 
Tubey said:
Ha that's amazing... I thought the issue would have been the dems tying fluff to the bill, not the other way around.

What an electoral own goal this is.
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Intentionally so. Not only is the bill designed to be politically unpalatable to a majority it literally cannot become law even if passed by the Senate as it changes IRS code. That can only be done by bills that originate in the House.

It's theater.
 
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