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HR 1: Election Reform Bill

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:05 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Recap: 20 posts of lies, 0 posts of honest fact.
Out of 57 total poists in the thread.



21st:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
where IS that list of GOP measures to "restrict the ballot"?

You keep posting about it, but so far I see no none. It's beginning to look like RUSSIA!COLLUSION!! all over again: all hot-air accusations, no substance.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/state-voting-bills-tra
cker-2021

As of February 19, 2021, state lawmakers have carried over, prefiled, or introduced 253 bills with provisions that restrict

fraudulent, illegal, illegitimate, ineligible, disqualified
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voting access in 43 states

About 134,000,000 stories on bills restrict voting access:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bills+restrict+voting+access

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:06 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


22nd:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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As of February 19, 2021, state lawmakers have carried over, prefiled, or introduced 253 bills with provisions that restrict voting access in 43 states
So, are these LEGITIMATE restrictions?

After all, we DO restrict voting! You must be a citizen, and over a certain age.

I would add that you must be able to provide proof of both your identity AND your citizenship, and follow whatever procedures are required to validate absentee or mail-in ballots.

Seems pretty brain-dead simple to me!

Now, on IT'S part, the state/county must provide secure and validate-able voting procedures, and follow them diligently in order to ensure that legitimate ballots aren't diluted with illegitimate ones.

Also pretty brain-dead simple!

Simple: stop

fraudulent, ineligible, criminal, illegal
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Democrats from voting. Once passed, these laws will become Federal Court cases. The Republican legislators who voted for the laws will have their words as evidence that stopping
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Democrats was their intention. This will end with years of litigation in hundreds of cases. HR-1 will override all these cases, but HR-1 will itself be litigated for years, going all the way to the Supreme Court, much the same as Obamacare went to the Supreme Court.

FIFY.




Repeating the same lies over and over again does not make them true.



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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:09 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile, and BACK ON TOPIC ...

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90,000 Ballots in Largest Nevada County Sent to Wrong Addresses, Bounced Back: Report
By Petr Svab
March 10, 2021 Updated: March 10, 2021

More than 90,000 ballots mailed to registered voters in Nevada’s largest county were returned undeliverable, according to an analysis of the election data by a conservative legal group.

So, OOC, how were these envelopes "bounced back" as "undeliverable"? Was it because no such address existed?

Or did it depend on the honesty of the recipient, who dutifully noted to the mail carrier that no such person lived there, and were returned?

Because if it depended on the honesty of the recipient, it would be far too easy for someone to say "Oh, hey! A Ballot that I get to use!". And since NOBODY was validating IDs, anyone could use one.

Hello Signym! Nevada County, California, says in the video that: "Every vote by mail ballots is carefully checked to ensure a voter did not vote elsewhere and that the signature on the envelope matches the voter's signature in the registration record."

A voter can check into the status of their mail in ballot (mailed, returned, counted or rejected) at https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/

If that is not good enough for you, Signym, complain to the government in California about that.
https://mynevadacounty.com/740/Vote-By-Mail



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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:09 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Republicans Are Wasting Their Time With Vote Suppression Bills

Kevin Drum, March 9, 2021 – 10:34 am

Republicans have introduced a huge raft of bills in red states that would restrict

fraudulent, illegal, corrupt, unsecured, ineligible, illigitemate
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voting in federal elections. And make no mistake: these bills are partisan cruise missiles aimed solely at reducing the Democratic vote.
Wow! Libtards finally admit that the illegal voting fraud is solely a Democrap operation!!
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They are loathsome.

But they are also pretty conventional. For the most part, they include all the old-school Republican favorites like restrictions on Sunday voting, photo ID laws, and so forth. These are all things Republicans have been promoting for years, and none of them have turned out to be all that effective. In some cases this is because they simply don't affect very many votes, while in others it's because they spur a backlash that prompts Democratic-leaning voters to turn out in higher numbers.

The big new addition to this arsenal is an attack on mail voting. Republicans are apparently convinced that this cost them the 2020 election, but it turns out these bills are just more of the same old ineffectual rubbish. Ian Millhiser describes a natural study of Texas voters:

Texas is one of a handful of states that discriminate on the basis of age when determining who may vote absentee: Voters over the age of 65 are allowed to request an absentee ballot, but most voters under that age are required to vote in person. The researchers at Stanford’s Democracy and Polarization Lab compared turnout rates among 65-year-olds in Texas’s 2020 elections — that is, among voters who were eligible to vote absentee — to the turnout rates among 64-year-olds who mostly could not vote by mail.

They found that “65-year-olds in Texas turned out in 2020 at almost exactly the same rate as 64-year-olds, even though roughly 18% of 65-year-olds voted absentee while only 3% of 64-year-olds voted absentee.”

The end result was that 65-year-olds were more Democratic than 64-year-olds by 0.2 percentage points, a difference too small to even be meaningful.

Other studies have shown the same thing: All of these anti-mail measures have only a very tiny effect. It may make Republicans feel good to demonstrate a whirlwind of activity that Fox News is happy to spin as "protecting against fraudulent votes," but in the end it doesn't really buy them much.

On a moral plane, this does nothing to excuse what they're doing. But on a practical plane, it means they're mostly wasting their time.

https://jabberwocking.com/republicans-are-wasting-their-time-with-vote
-suppression-bills
/

Kevin Drum again? Is your lies detector stuck on him, so he is the only liar you can quote? Did he get fired from mother jones for lying too much? Or did you endeavor to quote his lies through another site, just to try and trick folk?



Anyhow, Sigs demolishes this nonsense in the post right after.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:10 PM

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24th:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Of course, it would NEVER occur to this apparently brain-dead partisan that these measures are meant to ensure the integrity of the vote, and to obviate questions of fraud before they come up.

The Trumptards didn't give a goddamn about "these measures meant to ensure the integrity of the vote" until Trump lost, then the Trumptards went berserk, with hundreds of bills that they imagine will keep Trump from ever losing again in exactly the same way. Bring it on, moron Trumptards! Please nominate Trump in 2024! If he runs, HR-1 requires him to reveal his income tax returns in Title X—Presidential and Vice Presidential Tax Transparency. If he won't, the IRS will do it without Trump's permission and make the results public. Too bad, Trumptards, if your man is a tax cheat.

kiki deflates this windbag about 5 posts later.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:10 PM

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25th:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
^ Trumptard.

HR 1 will never pass, Trumptard.

Title X—Presidential and Vice Presidential Tax Transparency will pass. There will be no more tax cheaters elected President which means Mike Pence and Ted Cruz are most likely the next Republican President and Vice-President. Learn to love those two, 6ix, because Fatso can't get reelected after stealing $billions in tax money. Trump's lawyers will be in a life and death struggle to keep him from going bankrupt because of unpaid tax obligations. I hope his lawyers lose the contest before he dies so Fatso can watch all his money be taken away.

taxes?

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:11 PM

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26th:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
If there's one Trumptard here who doesn't seem to care about the integrity of the vote - considering how often you refuse to address the Vote Project's recommendations - that would be you.

It would be Trump:

Donald Trump (Unironically) Requests a Mail-In Ballot Ahead of Palm Beach Municipal Election
March 10, 2021 9:55 AM

Ever since Nov. 3, and in fact for many months before Election Day, Donald Trump railed on and on about the existential danger to democracy that mail-in voting presented. It was, of course, all self-serving hooey. Trump voted (for himself) in Florida by mail in the March 2020 presidential primary and then again in an August 2020 primary, his family routinely votes by mail, and a quarter of all American ballots cast in the 2016 election — won by Trump — were cast via the post. But Trump’s voting lies got bigger and bolder and now a significant portion of the Republican Party doesn’t trust the 2020 election result and are using this concocted suspicion to make it harder to vote in Republican-controlled states across the country. Their biggest target? Mail-in voting.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/donald-trump-requests-mail
-in-ballot-florida-palm-beach-municipal-election.html



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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 8:15 PM

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JewelStaiteFan, why are you posting again and again everything "second" already posted? What is the game you are playing? What is your purpose?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:13 PM

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He's just pointing out all of your lies.

Don't worry, bruh. Nobody but JSF read them the second time either.





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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:19 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's just pointing out all of your lies.

Don't worry, bruh. Nobody but JSF read them the second time either.

JewelStaiteFan did diddly-squat. He did NOT point out lies.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:31 PM

1KIKI

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HR 1: Election Reform Bill

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HR-1 is Congress' latest attempt, strongly motivated by the messiness of the 2020 election.
Did they, like, time travel when they addressed elections that hadn't happened yet?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3] (Introduced 01/03/2019)
Committees: House - House Administration; Intelligence (Permanent Select); Judiciary; Oversight and Reform; Science, Space, and Technology; Education and Labor; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Ethics; Homeland Security
Committee Meetings: 02/26/19 1:00PM 02/06/19 10:00AM

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:34 PM

1KIKI

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HR 1: Election Reform Bill
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k - I read that bill a month or 2 ago. Unless it's been changed in that time, the one thing it DOESN'T have that would definitely improve the entire election process is a validation requirement and protocol, specifically, statistical study like the one highlighted by the Mitofsky Report, as a basis for closer vote examination.
It sure would be nice to be able to demonstrate there were no signs of mass cheating, and if there were, to be able to go back and conduct a good examination of when, how, and who.

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This is the bill introduced in House (01/04/2021). If you didn't see it, you were wrong again:
nothing indicating statistical evaluation of the vote as exemplified by the Mitofsky Report and strongly recommended by the Vote Project

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:35 PM

1KIKI

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HR-1 mentions reports 454 times.

but nothing like the statistical evaluation exemplified by the Mitofsky report and strongly recommended bu the CalTech/ MIT Vote project.



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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:38 PM

1KIKI

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Not unexpected that Trumptard states have an abundance of high school dropouts.
fails to address WHY states should allow 16 year-olds to register when they can't vote

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's just pointing out all of your lies.

Don't worry, bruh. Nobody but JSF read them the second time either.

JewelStaiteFan did diddly-squat. He did NOT point out lies.



All one needs to do to point out when you're lying is quote you word for word.




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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:45 PM

1KIKI

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why stop with requiring a diploma? Go all the way and require a certain amount of wealth before you can vote.
This is a strawman argument, which also has nothing to do with HR 1: Election Reform Bill.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:48 PM

1KIKI

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In Texas, the zip codes with the higher percent registered voters get better services.
This is another logical fallacy (fallacy is another word for lie) post hoc ergo propter hoc. And it also has nothing to do with HR 1: Election Reform Bill.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:50 PM

1KIKI

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It has everything to do with why Trumptards would be opposed to HR-1. They do NOT want to be pressured to provide more services to zip codes with more youngsters
And repeated.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:50 PM

1KIKI

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
You mean the very few percent of 16 to <18 yr old non-voters who might register is going to make a substantial difference in how resources get apportioned across the country? Remember, we're talking about that very narrow demographic. Not about "under 19", or "youngsters", but that very narrow age range.

So, you got a link for that? Because if not, I'll just file this under 'more ignorable junk' from SECOND.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:52 PM

1KIKI

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The quantity of old, white Trumptards is shrinking while the quantity of young, non-white Libtards is growing. That is why the Republican Party is opposed to HR-1.
This is yet another logical post hoc ergo propter hoc 'fallacy'.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:52 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

HR 1: Election Reform Bill

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HR-1 is Congress' latest attempt, strongly motivated by the messiness of the 2020 election.
Did they, like, time travel when they addressed elections that hadn't happened yet?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3] (Introduced 01/03/2019)
Committees: House - House Administration; Intelligence (Permanent Select); Judiciary; Oversight and Reform; Science, Space, and Technology; Education and Labor; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Ethics; Homeland Security
Committee Meetings: 02/26/19 1:00PM 02/06/19 10:00AM

Two different bills:

H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1
H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:53 PM

1KIKI

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The GOP maintains a list of insane people suitable for office if enough advertising money is spent to make them look sane.
This is pure comedy!!

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:56 PM

1KIKI

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]I will insult you and your kind some more: Sad watching the fat man blundering through his Presidency. Sad watching 75,000,000 Trumptards stumble through life.
And this is a post from someone STILL so obsessed with Trump he can't even keep to his own topic HR 1: Election Reform Bill.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:59 PM

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March 07, 2021 • Presidential Actions
And a post about an Executive Order as meaningless as the one about new drilling leases but not existing ones ... on Federal land only ... but maybe not on reservations ... being delayed ... but not forbidden ... because THAT'LL stop global warming!

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

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The quantity of old, white Trumptards is shrinking while the quantity of young, non-white Libtards is growing. That is why the Republican Party is opposed to HR-1.
This is yet another logical post hoc ergo propter hoc 'fallacy'.

"Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." Work that out for me, 1kiki. What is event X? Event Y? And Y should anyone care what a Russian troll writes? Explain yourself in excruciating detail since you get paid rubles by the word.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:14 PM

1KIKI

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Is there some important reason why Republicans don't want people to vote? There is. The GOP has introduced hundreds of bills in the state legislatures in the last 3 months to reduce the number of voters.
This is an ipse dixit logical 'fallacy'.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:24 PM

1KIKI

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These measures are being passed in reaction to provably false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, despite record numbers of audits, lawsuits, and government findings that the election was one of the most secure in American history.
Which doesn't mean the election was valid, only that particular claims were rejected - sometimes(often?) for lack of standing, not because of any evidence one way or the other.

There's nothing to indicate the results weren't manipulated in a major way.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
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why stop with requiring a diploma? Go all the way and require a certain amount of wealth before you can vote.
This is a strawman argument, which also has nothing to do with HR 1: Election Reform Bill.

To consider the proposition seriously, it would be because the Electorate for the past 200 years should (hopefully, but not proven) understand the concepts, responsibilities, duties, risks and rewards of this new form of Republic, this historic experiment in democracy.
At the incubancy, infancy, formative years, such was not true as applied to the British Rule, but for those who had funds and land.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:25 PM

1KIKI

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Anyway, this is my reprise of SECOND's posts, page one. It should be abundantly clear why I posted this.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:28 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

This is an ipse dixit logical 'fallacy'.

It is fallacy to believe the filibuster prevents HR-1 from passing. If Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is willing, HR-1 passes. If not, then not.

The mighty filibuster, the scourge of American governance for so many decades, was little more than one of those emperor-has-no-clothes things. As soon as a single person pointed out the truth, everyone blinked and suddenly realized that there had never been anything there in the first place. The majority party had always had the ability to pass anything it wanted with 51 votes. It took nothing more than the will to do it and the recognition that the other party could do it too. Far from requiring a nuclear option, it turns out that ending the filibuster required only the faintest breath to make it vanish in the breeze like a dried out dandelion.

Details at https://jabberwocking.com/the-filibuster-is-nothing-but-a-mirage/

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:28 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
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The GOP maintains a list of insane people suitable for office if enough advertising money is spent to make them look sane.
This is pure comedy!!

Perhaps Texans have not been exposed to the "news" that Basement Biden was declared "winner" after a strenuous campaign for President.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:47 PM

1KIKI

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H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1
H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1

Oh, you mean they ignored the very first bill and drafted another one from scratch?

Really?

You mean, like this?

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Shown Here:
Passed House (03/08/2019)

For the People Act of 2019

This bill addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, political spending, and ethics for the three branches of government.

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Shown Here:
Introduced in House (01/04/2021)

For the People Act of 2021

This bill addresses voter access, election integrity and security, campaign finance, and ethics for the three branches of government.



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Specifically, the bill expands voter registration and voting access and limits removing voters from voter rolls.
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Specifically, the bill expands voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early voting). It also limits removing voters from voter rolls.


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The bill provides for states to establish independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions.
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The bill requires states to establish independent redistricting commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.


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The bill also sets forth provisions related to election security, including sharing intelligence information with state election officials, protecting the security of the voter rolls, supporting states in securing their election systems, developing a national strategy to protect the security and integrity of U.S. democratic institutions, establishing in the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, and other provisions to improve the cybersecurity of election systems.
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Additionally, the bill sets forth provisions related to election security, including sharing intelligence information with state election officials, supporting states in securing their election systems, developing a national strategy to protect U.S. democratic institutions, establishing in the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, and other provisions to improve the cybersecurity of election systems.


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This bill addresses campaign spending, including by expanding the ban on foreign nationals contributing to or spending on elections; expanding disclosure rules pertaining to organizations spending money during elections, campaign advertisements, and online platforms; and revising disclaimer requirements for political advertising.
This bill establishes an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices. The system involves federal matching of small contributions for qualified candidates.

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Further, the bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosure of campaign-related fundraising and spending, requiring additional disclaimers regarding certain political advertising, and establishing an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices.


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This bill sets forth provisions related to ethics in all three branches of government. Specifically, the bill requires a code of ethics for federal judges and justices, prohibits Members of the House from serving on the board of a for-profit entity, expands enforcement of regulations governing foreign agents, and establishes additional conflict-of-interest and ethics provisions for federal employees and the White House.
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The bill addresses ethics in all three branches of government, including by requiring a code of conduct for Supreme Court Justices, prohibiting Members of the House from serving on the board of a for-profit entity, and establishing additional conflict-of-interest and ethics provisions for federal employees and the White House.


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The bill requires the President, the Vice President, and certain candidates for those offices to disclose 10 years of tax returns.

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Meanwhile, and BACK ON TOPIC ...
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90,000 Ballots in Largest Nevada County Sent to Wrong Addresses, Bounced Back: Report
By Petr Svab
March 10, 2021 Updated: March 10, 2021

More than 90,000 ballots mailed to registered voters in Nevada’s largest county were returned undeliverable, according to an analysis of the election data by a conservative legal group.

So, OOC, how were these envelopes "bounced back" as "undeliverable"? Was it because no such address existed?

Or did it depend on the honesty of the recipient, who dutifully noted to the mail carrier that no such person lived there, and were returned?

Because if it depended on the honesty of the recipient, it would be far too easy for someone to say "Oh, hey! A Ballot that I get to use!". And since NOBODY was validating IDs, anyone could use one.

Hello Signym! Nevada County, California, says in the video that: "Every vote by mail ballots is carefully checked to ensure a voter did not vote elsewhere and that the signature on the envelope matches the voter's signature in the registration record."

A voter can check into the status of their mail in ballot (mailed, returned, counted or rejected) at https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/

If that is not good enough for you, Signym, complain to the government in California about that.
https://mynevadacounty.com/740/Vote-By-Mail

For anybody who is not a moron, or is not geographically illiterate, what does Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas Metro) have to do with Nevada County, California (Truckee, and near Sacramento)?

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For anybody who is not a moron, or is not geographically illiterate, what does Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas Metro) have to do with Nevada County, California (Truckee, and near Sacramento)?

If a county wants to vote by mail, whiny little Trumptards can't stop them. And HR-1 won't stop vote by mail, either. But not to worry because Sen. Joe Manchin decides whether or not HR-1 passes and he is leaning in the direction that pleases Trumptards. I don't know which way he will fall. He probably doesn't know.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210310225509/https://www.theepochtimes.c
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:58 AM

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Well, I hate to say it but SECONDRATE, when not kyping other people's opinions, is shown to be a complete moron.

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It is fallacy to believe the filibuster prevents HR-1 from passing. If Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is willing, HR-1 passes. If not, then not.



Is that right?

Why isn't $15 minimum wage passed tomorrow then?

Why were progressives pushing so hard to get it into the "American Rescue Plan Act"?

Why was Bernie Sanders so desperate to keep it in ARPA that he argued increasing the minimum wage couldn't be struck down by the Byrd Rule since, by his own admission, it would have a direct impact on the budget by making goods and services cost more money for the Government?




Maybe we can break the rules whenever we'd like to now...

We just don't want to break them to raise the minimum wage.




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Originally posted by second:
It is fallacy to believe the filibuster prevents HR-1 from passing. If Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is willing, HR-1 passes. If not, then not.



Is that right?

Why isn't $15 minimum wage passed tomorrow then?

Why were progressives pushing so hard to get it into the "American Rescue Plan Act"?

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) did not want $15/hr, so it didn't pass. Manchin said on TV that he is uncomfortable about spoiling other Democrats' plans but too bad because that how they do things in West Virginia. Probably next on Manchin's kill list is any spending bills on infrastructure.

Manchin on his veto power over Biden agenda: 'It's not a good place to be'. When he said that, he was laughing and smiling. It is a GREAT place to be, is what he meant.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/politics/joe-manchin-biden-agenda/index
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So, let' recap what SECONDRATE has posted.


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Congress should set the rules for registration and voting and they should be the same for every state. This is so obvious that it barely even needs to be defended.
However, all of the changes to the vote were made by amending the Constitution, not by simply passing a bill. My guess is that, if HR1 were to be passed and come before the Supreme Court, it would be found unconstitutional.


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Every county in Texas has a different voting system. There is some overlap in the systems used in different counties because the clerk in one county might ask how they run elections in the four adjacent counties, but it is very nonuniform in different places and in some counties pretty damn close to chaos. I hope others states have more sensible systems, but the recounts and court cases in 2020 show that there is far too much flexibility in how each county or city can run their little piece of a national election.
Uh ... so what? There are many ways to vote, and many ways to count votes. As long as each county can guarantee that the vote is secure and can be audited (i.e. auditable records kept) the only way that this diversity could be challenged, I imagine, is under the "equal protection" clause of the Constitution.

I would strongly prefer HANDMARKED PAPER BALLOTS, COUNTED BY HAND IN PUBLIC, but that's for ech State Secretary to decide.





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So, let' recap what SECONDRATE has posted.

However, all of the changes to the vote were made by amending the Constitution, not by simply passing a bill.

NOT a Constitutional amendment: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.

Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982
Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992
Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006

Furious Republicans have been arguing that the Act is unconstitutional since it passed. Should HR-1 pass, furious Republicans will argue it, too, is unconstitutional unless the constitution is amended, but that has been the Republican argument since 1965. Losing case after case never changes Republican certainty about the complete unconstitutional of the Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965#Constitutional
ity


As expected, Republicans have taken several other voting laws to court in order to get those declared unconstitutional:

Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)

Republicans won about as many cases involving voting acts as Trump won cases to get himself declared the winner in 2020, but the Republicans keep trying to overthrow everything as unconstitutional.

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, let' recap what SECONDRATE has posted.

However, all of the changes to the vote were made by amending the Constitution, not by simply passing a bill.

NOT a Constitutional amendment: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.

Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982
Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992
Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006

But based on CONSTITUTIONAL provisions.

For example, setting the legal voting age to 18 (from 21), changing the nature if selection from state Legislatures to direct election, giving freed slaves and women the right to vote were all Constitutional amendments.

HR1 seeks to make similar- scope changes that directly contradict portions of the Constitution.

Also don't forget the voting rights act was challenged in the Supreme Court as discriminatory against certain states.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-203.ZO.html

If I were to write a bill that would address real problems but still fall within the "equal protections" clause of the Constitution, I would require that voting procedures be auditable and able to be challenged in court.

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But based on CONSTITUTIONAL provisions.

For example, . . .

Signym, Republicans have always screamed about the "unconstitutionality" of everything they dislike. HR-1 is the most recent example. When enough justices from the Federalist Society are on the Federal Courts, the Republicans will start winning based on "unconstitutionality", a word thrown around too often by Republicans.

The GOP's legal moves have always been based upon first shouting "No!" Long after, their most talented lawyers come up with arguments that dazzle the yokels, but it is always a shout of "NO!" underneath the phony-baloney legal reasoning.

Sam Alito Delivers Grievance-Laden, Ultra-Partisan Speech to the Federalist Society. The Supreme Court justice railed against COVID restrictions, same-sex marriage, abortion, and the alleged persecution of conservatives.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201113112504/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2020/11/alito-federalist-society-speech-insane.html


At least one justice is clearly a bitter partisan out to settle scores with the left. Flouting his ethical obligations, Alito waded into fierce political debates over public health during a pandemic, reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality, and other issues that routinely come before his court. It is wildly inappropriate for a justice to assume the role of Fox News commentators, and unwise in light of progressives’ mounting doubt about the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. Trump stacked the judiciary with judges just like him, who learned from the Federalist Society how to cloak Republican policies in the guise of conservative judicial philosophies.

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Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:24 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, let' recap what SECONDRATE has posted.

However, all of the changes to the vote were made by amending the Constitution, not by simply passing a bill.

NOT a Constitutional amendment: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.

Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975
Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1982
Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992
Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006

Furious Republicans have been arguing that the Act is unconstitutional since it passed. Should HR-1 pass, furious Republicans will argue it, too, is unconstitutional unless the constitution is amended, but that has been the Republican argument since 1965. Losing case after case never changes Republican certainty about the complete unconstitutional of the Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965#Constitutional
ity


As expected, Republicans have taken several other voting laws to court in order to get those declared unconstitutional:

Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)

Republicans won about as many cases involving voting acts as Trump won cases to get himself declared the winner in 2020, but the Republicans keep trying to overthrow everything as unconstitutional.

Are you trying to set records for the number of lies in a single post?

Too many to recount.

Some:
VRA 1965 was specifically authorized by the Enforcement Clause of the 15th Amendment to The Constitution (meaning Part Of The Constitution).
It expired after 5 years, necessitating 1970 to continue enforcement, which also expired in 5 years. Thus 1975, which expired in 7 years, and 1982, for 25 years.

As with all of the Civil Rights Acts, and Voting Rights Acts (Blacks, former Slaves, Women, etc), Congress could not pass any of them until enough Republicans were elected to Congress to overcome the Democrap chokehold on common sense Rights. Before passage, VRA was informally known as the Dirksenbach Act (Dirksen was R-IL.)
VRA was very specifically purposed to cease Dixiecrat Libtard Democrats practices and policies, continuing since 1957.

Rights are always a Republican and conservative victory, always a Libtard Democrap Socialist Progressive Marxist defeat.

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Are you trying to set records for the number of lies in a single post?

Too many to recount.

Some:
VRA 1965 was specifically authorized by the Enforcement Clause of the 15th Amendment to The Constitution (meaning Part Of The Constitution).
It expired after 5 years, necessitating 1970 to continue enforcement, which also expired in 5 years. Thus 1975, which expired in 7 years, and 1982, for 25 years.

As with all of the Civil Rights Acts, and Voting Rights Acts (Blacks, former Slaves, Women, etc), Congress could not pass any of them until enough Republicans were elected to Congress to overcome the Democrap chokehold on common sense Rights. Before passage, VRA was informally known as the Dirksenbach Act (Dirksen was R-IL.)
VRA was very specifically purposed to cease Dixiecrat Libtard Democrats practices and policies, continuing since 1957.

Rights are always a Republican and conservative victory, always a Libtard Democrap Socialist Progressive Marxist defeat.

I have an advantage that you don't have, JewelStaiteFan. I can remember the passage of this law and clearly remember the people who were pleased or upset by it. For example, the Republican that co-sponsored the Voting Rights Act - Everett Dirksen - had nothing in common with the Trumptards of today's Senate. And the Texans upset by the Act of 1965 - who voted Democrat at the time - in the years after 1965 would be switching to Republican and voting for Nixon. None of the switchers are still alive, but their children became full blooded Trumptards who hate with a passion HR-1. It seems to be an inherited character trait of Trumptards to brag about qualities and abilities they don't actually possess and to accuse others of lying when it is the Trumptard who is lying. Trump is the best documented example of that trait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen#Early_life
Everett McKinley Dirksen's immigrant parents spoke a Low German dialect at home, and taught German to their children, but Johann had lived in the United States long enough to become politically aware; the middle names of all three boys were a nod to his Republican Party leanings.

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JO and I were discussing the harmful effect of political parties on government.

ONE way to reduce the influence of political parties is to have the President and Vice President run separately. That would increase the chances that they might be of different parties.

Another way is for the FCC to REQUIRE that all broadcast media provide an equal amount of free primetime airtime (say, one hour per week) to ALL candidates who exceed a certain polling threshold, and that ... as part of their section 230 protections, all large platforms provide equal and easily-identifiable space to the same candidates to air their views and promote their platforms.

In addition, as part of their 230 protections, platforms must demonstrate that they are providing an unbiased space, only censoring speech that is illegal.

The cost of entry of a third party is huge, and part of that cost is advertising, so, while not "election reforms" per se, they should have a positive effect on the ability of non-establishment candidates to make their mark, and fall well within the purview of Congress.

The whole concept of limiting donations to candidates is pointless. It has never worked in the past. The best you can do is require that they be made public.


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JO and I were discussing the harmful effect of political parties on government.

ONE way to reduce the influence of political parties is to have the President and Vice President run separately. That would increase the chances that they might be of different parties.

Look at the present. Would it be good if Mike Pence was Vice-President right now, rather than Kamala Harris? Harris was the tie-breaking vote for passing the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. No Republicans voted for that bill and I think I can safely assume that if Mike Pence was Biden's V.P., Pence would not have voted for the bill. By the way, Republican voters don't hate that bill; only Republican politicians hate it because it is a Democrat's bill.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/actions

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JO and I were discussing the harmful effect of political parties on government.
ONE way to reduce the influence of political parties is to have the President and Vice President run separately. That would increase the chances that they might be of different parties.

SECONDRATE: Look at the present. Would it be good if Mike Pence was Vice-President right now, rather than Kamala Harris?

YES.

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Harris was the tie-breaking vote for passing the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. No Republicans voted for that bill and I think I can safely assume that if Mike Pence was Biden's V.P., Pence would not have voted for the bill. By the way, Republican voters don't hate that bill; only Republican politicians hate it because it is a Democrat's bill.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/actions

The ONLY reason why you don't like the idea is bc, in this term, it might mean a GOP VP to a Dem President.

But next time around, it might mean a Dem VP to a GOP President.

I think that would FORCE Congress to write bills that are acceptable to BOTH parties, rather thn steamrolling bills along partisan lines. It's what the FF envisioned.

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The ONLY reason why you don't like the idea is bc, in this term, it might mean a GOP VP to a Dem President.

But next time around, it might mean a Dem VP to a GOP President.

I think that would FORCE Congress to write bills that are acceptable to BOTH parties, rather thn steamrolling bills along partisan lines. It's what the FF envisioned.

What you are so certain will lead to compromise would actually lead to even worse gridlock. If Jefferson Davis had been Abraham Lincoln's V.P. the Federal government could not have functioned because Davis's goals were incompatible with Lincoln's, just as today the GOP's goals are literally, not figuratively, at war with the Democratic Party's goals. Look at the Democrats' platform. Compare it to the GOP's. You will see that the two cannot come to a compromise.

https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020
https://ballotpedia.org/The_Democratic_Party_Platform,_2020

National Political Party Platforms
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archi
ve-guidebook/party-platforms-and-nominating-conventions-3


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Friday, March 12, 2021 1:37 PM

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If a nation is so polarized andore or less evenly divided, sometimes standing still is the best thing to do.

But even tho there may be extreme divisions on a few ideas, there are still large area of agreement.

With rare exceptions, everyone needs the same things:
Good food to eat.
A safe place to live and sleep.
Agency over their individual and collective futures.
Care for the very young, the sick, disabled, and the elderly.
A clean environment to live in.


Nobody likes corruption.
We almost all need meaningful jobs at living wages.
We can end our endless wars THIS YEAR.


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What about the other reforms I proposed? Aren't they meaningful and within the purview of the Federal government?

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I am not putting in the effort to shoot down each of your so-called "areas of agreement", but it is easy to disagree if you want to be disagreeable. ** disagreeable opposition to everything ** is inserted between ** and **
Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
If a nation is so polarized and more or less evenly divided, sometimes standing still is the best thing to do. ** HR-1 is Unconstitutional. And America should stand still, by which I mean do nothing, on coal burning, Covid-19, gun control. **

But even tho there may be extreme divisions on a few ideas, there are still large area of agreement.

With rare exceptions, everyone needs the same things:
Good food to eat. ** Americans are overweight and under exercised **
A safe place to live and sleep. ** If you can't pay the rent, you don't deserve sleep and I certainly don't want cheaper or free housing built in my neighborhood with my taxes **
Agency over their individual and collective futures. ** Tell that to criminals **
Care for the very young, the sick, disabled, and the elderly. ** Your blood relatives are your problem, not my problem **
A clean environment to live in. ** I'm not paying to clean your air **


Nobody likes corruption. ** I'm not corrupt; I just don't want to pay taxes **
We almost all need meaningful jobs at living wages. ** $15/hour destroys jobs and start your own business if you want a meaningful job **
We can end our endless wars THIS YEAR. ** America can't appear to be too weak and frightened to fight any enemy anywhere **

To make the point a tiny bit clearer, it is no sweat to be obnoxious, disagreeable and to refuse to cooperate with anyone about anything. That attitude will definitely conserve your energy, but it might cost your life, but being dead conserves energy, too, because nobody pays lower taxes, works less, gets more rest, and has fewer problems than dead people.

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