Name one drone strike that has made your life better in any discernible way.
What opinion do you hold of the last tax Christmas present the owned operatives delivered to their owners?
What is your opinion of being faced with the choice, Trump or Biden, after the four year older choice of the Clintons or Trump?
Do you like welfare for war makers, and what's a multi-million dollar F 35 ever done to make your life better in any one single way?
Do you believe the DC operatives should all publicly be clenching at their pearls, moaning about misbehavior, blaming others; or do you believe a message was sent which they ought to, in decency, heed? Rather than being off message, saying, "Look over there . . ."?
Is big business out there to shape us? In a strong or servile way?
[...] executives at the Business Roundtable released a statement calling the protests “inexcusable violence” while suggesting Trump had perpetuated false claims about the election.
“Yesterday’s inexcusable violence and chaos at the Capitol makes clear that elected officials’ perpetuation of the fiction of a fraudulent 2020 presidential election is not only reprehensible but also a danger to our democracy, our society, and our economy,” the statement reads.
“After the unconscionable and tragic events we witnessed, it could not be clearer that it is time for the nation and lawmakers to unite around President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris,” the statement continued. “It is only together that we can move forward to successfully confront our nation’s many challenges, chief among them ending the pandemic and ensuring a safe and rapid economic recovery.”
As Breitbart News reported, the nation’s biggest banks on Wall Street jumped in to condemn the protests as well. Some bank executives said the “scenes are very difficult to watch” while others suggested that “now is the time to come together,” a sentiment that President-elect Joe Biden has pushed for months.
Is being offered a two-party choice of Biden or Trump to put up with fraudulent per se, or not?
Would "Fraud" at the two-party take-it-or-leave-it pairing level moot any claim that vote count manipulation, if any, matters very much as to how our nation is going to be run, 2021 and onward?
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Schumer, proving he can read a prepared statement saying don't worry, be happy - great things coming - we got TALENT! - I'm not getting into priorities: this short video.
Glenn Greenwald - THE DANGER OF BEING CAUGHT UP IN THE MOOD OF THE MOMENT, (ESPECIALLY MANUFACTURED MOODS).
Established media, using events to take a dump on non-established opinion outlet availability; here and here. Breitbart. One now thought of as a white supremicist, on keeping a level head against crisis mongering, and on sound dimensions of non-risk averse adulthood, here.
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If according trust to "we got talent" Schumer's rosy picture of Dems in power, consider what was, when knowing it would be dead on arrival at Mitch McConnell's desk, put on record as first House action, 2017, goes this time to the narrow Harris-has-tie-breaker Senate Dem caucus ultimately destined for Biden, then Schumer -only then - can be judged to not have spouted hollow words written for him by somebody, but instead read words which foreshadowed actual goodness; if that happens, be surprised. Be very surprised.
This is in reference to HR 1, 2017, reported here with resolution text, here.
Beautiful thoughts, but if you truly now believe the House will again plow that turf and pass the comparable issue package to the new 2021 Senate, you likely also believe in the Easter Bunny.
Likewise, iIf that high-sounding stuff somehow this time gets lost by Pelosi and crew, know you are seeing business as usual with Schumer as usual having been spouting nice-sounding pure bullshit.
For those disinclined to follow links the report on that 2017 H.R. 1 summarized:
At a press conference Friday morning hailing the forthcoming passage of the bill, Speaker Pelosi said, "Yes it is a 'power grab,' a power grab on behalf of the people."
"It ends the dominance of big dark special interest money in politics and it empowers small donors and the grassroots. It ensures clean fair elections and fighting voter suppression. It cleans up corruption returning integrity to Washington D.C," she said.
The bill was co-sponsored by every single Democrat serving in the House. It has three main tenets:
Campaign finance
It seeks to create incentives for elected officials to rely on small donors, rather than large corporate contributions, when running for office and proposes new disclosure requirements on the source of donor money.
Voting rights
The bill seeks to expand early voting, create same-day voter registration, save eligible voters from "voter purging," and creates a pathway for re-enfranchisement for those who have lost voting privileges due to felony convictions. There is also an amendment to make Election Day a holiday for federal workers.
Anti-corruption
Third, there is a focus on anti-corruption measures. H.R. 1 would require presidential and vice-presidential candidates to disclose their income tax returns and wants paper ballots to be used in federal elections, mainly to reduce the risk of electronic voting machines being hacked.
The reliance on small donor part of the package is the part that cuts against DC ways of feathering nests of former staffers and members, and it will be the part showing a disappearing act, if not the whole package being trash-heaped.
It was great propaganda.
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If Schumer was doing something more than blowing smoke, a good starting place for all that TALENT! would be FDR's Four Freedoms - per Wikipedia:
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
Roosevelt delivered his speech 11 months before the surprise Japanese attack on U.S. forces in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that caused the United States to declare war on Japan, December 8, 1941. The State of the Union speech before Congress was largely about the national security of the United States and the threat to other democracies from world war that was being waged across the continents in the eastern hemisphere. In the speech, he made a break with the long-held tradition of United States non-interventionism. He outlined the U.S. role in helping allies already engaged in warfare.
In that context, he summarized the values of democracy behind the bipartisan consensus on international involvement that existed at the time. A famous quote from the speech prefaces those values: "As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone." In the second half of the speech, he lists the benefits of democracy, which include economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care". The first two freedoms, of speech and religion, are protected by the First Amendment in the United States Constitution. His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional Constitutional values protected by the U.S. Bill of Rights. Roosevelt endorsed a broader human right to economic security and anticipated what would become known decades later as the "human security" paradigm in social science and economic development. He also included the "freedom from fear" against national aggression and took it to the new United Nations he was setting up.
That third one resonates. Freedom from want is an excellent summarization point for ending homelessnes, hunger, and finally providing Medicare for All. Even if it costs a few cancelled drone strikes; a few fewer F 35s, a cancellation of tax related welfare for the ultra rich; a reformed tax code, loophole free, and renewable energy related jobs programs along with other infrastructure maintenance and expansion jobs. Making it unnecessary for begging at intersections and traffic lights. Freedom from fear seems related to the Glenn Greenwald ideas noted earlier. Ending fear mongering by government, as a policy, even while MSM and internet platforms still would be allowed speech which might seem fearful to some. Even Trump not being silenced even as voices today suggest the opposite. Somewhere among those FDR four, there would be freedom from excesses of the DEEP STATE.
i JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT SCHUMERESQUE DEMOCRAT TALENT TAKE ON THE TASK.
SAY IT IS SO, JOE.