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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:43 pm

The Daily Show makes fun fof Mark Zuggerberg and lack of fact checking
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by macdoc » Wed Jan 08, 2025 2:05 pm

Does BlueSky fact check ? :dunno:
I do think getting rid of it is a dire irresponsible move .....fucking FB
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by macdoc » Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:02 pm

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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:07 pm

"Looks like Trump's second term will largely constitute of selling the deck seats of the Titanic to the highest bidder."
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:18 am

personality_of_colt
2 hours ago
America, we need to have a talk. When did so many of you decide that "leadership" can include lying about the cause of a disaster for political points while that fire is still destroying lives?When did juvenile nicknames just become "part of the package?"If you wouldn't put up with this behavior coming from your supervisor at work, why do you think it's acceptable (or even laudable) coming from the leader of our entire country?I guess what I'm asking is, America... are you okay?
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No, we just lost what small forward momentum we had by the lowest margin of votes in I think it was 100 years or more, because the part of the country that would happily shoot themselves in the face as long as they could hate in public want to drag us back to the antebellum ages. We’re not okay and it feels like we’re stuck in a car that drove off a bridge and is rapidly filling with sewer water. Thanks for asking.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 09, 2025 3:12 pm

I just dug out my book that outlines the disgust that voters have for politics. It's sort of like colonoscopy. They want to have the job done, but don't tell me any details.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769 ... _Democracy
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:13 pm

DOGE big brain applicants willing to work 80 hours a weekhave to apply to Elon on.....X.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:05 pm

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Republican demands that California quit taxing the rich so much. And cut all that regulation. Block trans women in sports and toilets. They will get some federal crumbs after that.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:28 pm

George Carlin saw it all coming. Poltics interview 1996.
Only works at YT
https://youtu.be/N9OhMZYTS4E?si=iEZSMtcQbnzYXLtg

there is an environment rant for a while
gets better at 9 min
a shorter clip
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:05 pm

Who knew? Tremendous PR on wealth and fascism connection
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:17 am

The US economy is dominating :dunno: --just dropping a note to check back in 4 years.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:51 am

We need...people? citizens?
NYT article plus our local commentator
The headline on the "Times" editorial reads, "A Big Idea to Solve America's Immigration Mess."
"Donald Trump won a second term as president on the promise that he would turn back the clock, restoring order by returning immigrants whence they came. The president-elect has vowed to deport all immigrants who do not have legal permission to be in the United States, and some who do. He also has described plans to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.

"The United States undoubtedly needs to establish control over immigration, and we describe below the necessary changes. But mass deportations, or reductions in future immigration, are not in the national interest."

"Immigrants are America’s rocket fuel, powering our nation’s unsurpassed economic and cultural achievements. The famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty mischaracterizes those who leave their home countries behind. They are not the tired and the poor; they are people possessed of the determination, skill and resources to seek a better life. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 142 immigrants to the United States. Nearly half of the companies in the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or their children. Blue jeans, Tesla, basketball, “God Bless America” — all the work of immigrants."

"There’s a more basic imperative, too. America needs more people. Americans no longer make enough babies to maintain the country’s population. To sustain economic growth, the United States needs an infusion of a few million immigrants every year."

The "Times" cites the example of Japan, a country with declining population which is struggling to maintain basic services.

So, the "Times" goes on to call for "three big shifts" in U.S. immigration policy.

"1. The government must make every reasonable effort to prevent people from living and working illegally in the United States. Congress should allocate the resources necessary to secure the nation’s borders and to overhaul the shambolic asylum system so that decisions are made at the border. To further deter people from coming to the United States to seek work — including the significant share of undocumented workers who enter the country legally, on temporary visas, and then remain illegally — the United States also needs to hold employers accountable for the legal status of their workers.
"2. Congress should legislate an orderly expansion of legal immigration, including a role for the federal government in directing people to the places that would benefit from population growth and in underwriting the transition costs.

"3. The nation also needs to deal humanely with the estimated population of 11 million illegal immigrants who already live here, including the more than three million “Dreamers” brought to this country as children. For too long, large parts of the economy have depended on the labor of immigrants neither paid nor treated as the equals of Americans, a system of exploitation that also undermines American workers and law-abiding employers. Most immigrants who have made their lives in this country should be given a path to citizenship."

There have been at least three major efforts to pass this type of immigration reform in Congress. A "bi-partisan" bill actually passed the Senate in the Obama administration but was never taken up by the Republican controlled House.

"The United States cannot admit everyone who wishes to come, and the choice of who may come should be intentional, not a result of a government’s lack of the will and the capacity to enforce its own laws."

The "Times" editorial compares the opposite reactions and results of two American cities approach to immigration. Houston, TX welcomed immigrants and is prospering. Birmingham, AL has taken the opposite approach with a tough stance on immigration (much like Fremont, NE) and is experiencing a decline in population while employers are struggling to find competent employees.

"The state’s hostility to immigration helps to explain why Birmingham has lost population in every decade since 1960. It is a city of unfilled spaces — vacant lots, parking lots — and of open jobs. Alabama in August had just 55 available workers for every 100 job openings, among the lowest rates in the country, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
"Americans have a long history of celebrating past waves of immigration while worrying that the newest arrivals will be different — perhaps less successful or less American. But in a study published in 2017, the economists Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan found that the current generation of immigrants was assimilating culturally and prospering economically at essentially the same pace as previous generations.

“The children of immigrants from El Salvador are as likely to be economically successful nowadays as were the children of immigrants from Great Britain 150 years ago,” they wrote in “Streets of Gold,” a 2022 book describing their research."

"From technology companies in Texas to turf farmers in Alabama, employers insist they can’t find enough domestic workers, and the numbers bear them out. The unemployment rate is low, and as Americans have fewer children, the shortage of workers is projected to increase. The nation must import more than 1.6 million people each year simply to maintain the population."
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:52 pm

Very exciting 2026 election.
Will they fix it? Will there be an election?
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:19 pm

No disaster aid for California until tax cuts for the rich.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:16 pm

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International disaster, gonna be a blaster
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International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
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