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Qaren’s at it again, this time with her wanting to speak to Congress’ manager about why she can’t cancel the Pledge of Allegiance.
 
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained on Monday that House rules prevented her from making a motion to adjourn before the daily prayer and Pledge of Allegiance had been completed.
 
“This government is failing the American people,” Greene opined. “And more votes we take this week are going to continue to fail the American people. And this is why I walked in here this morning to make a motion to adjourn. But then I was told I couldn’t make a motion to adjourn because we hadn’t said the prayer or the pledge.”
“It’s very unfortunate,” she continued.
 
Greene is dumb. Let’s just establish that opening thesis right now. The common Republican tactic is to underfund a program, then point to the resulting inefficiency as justification to cut more funds. Greene can’t manage that subtlety, so she’s just ree-ing about how she doesn’t like government so we should get rid of it.
 
But more importantly a member of the “Bible loving, Patriotic TM Party” is angry she has to express patriotism or devotion to God.
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R. Kelly won’t get off at the last second like Cosby right?
 
Because if he does then I think it’ll be correct to say that the system is not working anymore.
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…All the anti-war protesters, musicians, comedians, celebrities, intellectuals, and the like from the 60s to today—both alive and dead—would be having an absolutely murderous conniption at what you just said, here.
 
No they wouldn’t. They became Reaganites and helped champion the Iraq War.
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War, so long as human nature is as it is, is an inevitability.
 
 
Sure, bullshit wars like Iraq and Vietnam were pointless exercises in geopolitical pissing contests. But WWII, to stop the mass genocide of an entire peoples, not a bad reason to go to war.
 
The Allies had their demons, to be sure. The US was practicing state eugenics while fighting an empire of engenists in a grand and terrible irony. But no one with a brain would claim that the “diplomatic approach” was appropriate to deal with the Nazis. Nor is “peace” a good way to deal with the current crop of Neo Nazis.
 
War is a terrible exercise, but there are times when warfare is needed. A just war is one waged against an unjust enemy. Does not mean it will be clean, hence why war crime laws and codes of warfare exist.
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So this popped up in my Fakebook news feed, courtesy of banklocally.org/privacy  
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First of all, $600 is kind of a small amount to be monitoring, considering inflation and the falling value of the dollar.  
And IMO this would be more effort than it’s worth.
 
Secondly, doesn’t the fucking IRS have enough power over our lives and money as it is, being able to freeze our bank accounts without notifying us? Now it wants to basically monitor them without a fucking warrant or concern for our privacy?
 
Seriously, tell your representatives to block this proposal!
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Falling?
 
 
The dollar is up against the Euro, Pound, and Yen. The dollar hasn’t been falling, it’s been steadily rising since around May.
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But no one with a brain would claim that the “diplomatic approach” was appropriate to deal with the Nazis. Nor is “peace” a good way to deal with the current crop of Neo Nazis.
 
Yeah, they tried “Appeasement” with Nazis. It just lead to too many dead Jews and not enough dead Nazis.
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Republicans have filibustered the debt ceiling bill. There’s now only 2 days to rush out a new budget bill or else the government shuts down.
 
As always, Republicans continue to make our country poorer and dirtier as every time the government shuts down the economy loses billions.
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@Background Human
 
Another fora raised an interesting point about that.
 
If it’s going to be done, the sooner the better. If Dems drag their feet too long then the midterms will creep up, and getting rid of the filibuster around then means running the chance that Dems don’t have time to take advantage of it if Reps retake any chamber, but it does give the Reps free reign to abuse the lack of filibuster.
 
A gamble that needs to be decided sooner rather than later.
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Matt Gaetz has hired Epstein’s lawyer ahead of his expected indictments on his pedophilia accusations.
 
I’m just going to let that sentence sit.
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So I just learned that butthurt white supremacists / identity europa morons get upset about the idea of painted statues.
Apparently, the fact that the Greeks and Romans painted their statues and buildings, rather than leaving them bone white as they are interpreted today, is “anti white”. As if the very color itself is their identity.
How delightfully absurd.
 
Man, these White Supremacists are triggered snowflakes.
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Honestly, this doesn’t work as a gotcha. Painted or not, the statues still represent white Europeans. Now you can still make fun to the constantly changing definition of whiteness that only include Mediterranean people like Greeks or Italians when they feel like dunking on the Arabs or Africans but once it’s said and done, automatically reverting to “hurr durr Italians are not white le 20% face” memes.
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>y-you are fake news lmao  
Your Internet culture is trash and bring nothing but misery, funny guy. Ditch that red pill/Pepe/Wojak bullshit, it’s going to genuinely hurt you in the long run
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