kalm says that's the problem with an unregulated market. Those markets need to be better regulated so that pricing is equalized and consumers in both neighborhoods pay and make the same price. The people in the nicer neighborhoods should make up for the pricing in the more run-down neighborhoods.
They don't have insurance
I missed this call out.
Two words: public transit.
‘88’s remedy:
Buy a car you can’t afford, pay for insurance you can’t afford, work your way through school at a minimum wage job designed as a stepping stone and not a living wage so that you can find a better paying job which enables you to move out of the ghetto and get more affordable insurance.
And don’t get sick and make sure you save enough to afford the rent while you’re there. And make sure you earn enough to support Internet and a phone as the economy needs you to keep consuming these luxuries you can’t afford.
Buy a car you can’t afford, pay for insurance you can’t afford, work your way through school at a minimum wage job designed as a stepping stone and not a living wage so that you can find a better paying job which enables you to move out of the ghetto and get more affordable insurance.
And don’t get sick and make sure you save enough to afford the rent while you’re there. And make sure you earn enough to support Internet and a phone as the economy needs you to keep consuming these luxuries you can’t afford.
While the ultra-wealthy get a free ride and keep their money offshore
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
by BDKJMU
The majority party removing members of the minority party from committee assignments, something the democrats started during the last Congress. Now that the republicans are doing it, the democrats are losing their collective shit, and it is hilarious. On the open anti semite Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Taliban:
AOChe:
Corey "Everything Is White Supremacy' Bush:
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:46 pm
by kalm
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
The majority party removing members of the minority party from committee assignments, something the democrats started during the last Congress. Now that the republicans are doing it, the democrats are losing their collective shit, and it is hilarious. On the open anti semite Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Taliban:
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
The majority party removing members of the minority party from committee assignments, something the democrats started during the last Congress. Now that the republicans are doing it, the democrats are losing their collective shit, and it is hilarious. On the open anti semite Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Taliban:
AOChe:
Corey "Everything Is White Supremacy' Bush:
Why did they remove her?
2:30 minute mark about how its not tit for tat for the 3 donks removed from 'a" committee, 4:45-5:40 mark about Ilhan specifically:
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 5:38 pm
by UNI88
kalm wrote:
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
The majority party removing members of the minority party from committee assignments, something the democrats started during the last Congress. Now that the republicans are doing it, the democrats are losing their collective shit, and it is hilarious. On the open anti semite Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Taliban:
AOChe:
Corey "Everything Is White Supremacy' Bush:
Why did they remove her?
I don’t know if it’s why they removed her but she’s a bigot.
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Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:21 pm
by BDKJMU
"I didn't know there were stereotypes about Jews and money."
I don’t know if it’s why they removed her but she’s a bigot.
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They have some common ground they can build on
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:42 pm
by houndawg
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:21 pm
"I didn't know there were stereotypes about Jews and money."
I bet you didn't know that either
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:54 pm
by Pwns
We need to get past this stupid, childish notion that if anyone even mentions George Soros' money influencing politics or money being thrown around by the Israel lobbying arms makes you antisemitic. Put Omar and MTG on their committee assignments and to hell with the pearl clutchers.
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:51 am
by HI54UNI
McCarthy did it wrong. He should have said Omar can say whatever stupid shit she wants but her removal is strictly tit-for-tat - the Dems did it to members of our caucus and now we are doing it back. It can continue or we can end the stupidity. Republicans need to start fighting like Democrats due instead of always trying to take the high road.
2:30 minute mark about how its not tit for tat for the 3 donks removed from 'a" committee, 4:45-5:40 mark about Ilhan specifically:
Of course not.
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:58 am
by houndawg
HI54UNI wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:51 am
McCarthy did it wrong. He should have said Omar can say whatever stupid shit she wants but her removal is strictly tit-for-tat - the Dems did it to members of our caucus and now we are doing it back. It can continue or we can end the stupidity. Republicans need to start fighting like Democrats due instead of always trying to take the high road.
Whale shit is higher than the Republicans "high road"
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:08 am
by kalm
If this pisses you off, you might be one who needs to read it most.
Now, a generation later, that rhetoric has led to its logical conclusion: the Republicans have created a group of voters and their representatives who are openly white supremacists and who believe that any attempt to use the government to hold the economic playing field level is socialism. They are overwhelmingly evangelicals. They back former president Trump or someone like him and are eager to break the power of the current government even if it means defaulting on our debt. They threaten violence.
With the Republican Party just barely in control of the House, that group now wields enough power that it divides the House into three groups: the Democrats, the Republicans who want to cut taxes and gut regulation, and the Republicans who want to destroy the “socialist” government, want to keep white people in charge, support Trump or someone similar, are fervently Christian, and openly court violence.
Today, the House voted to condemn socialism—another attempt to appease that far right—while Republicans then chided those Democrats who refused to vote in favor of that condemnation because they said they thought it was a setup to cut Social Security and Medicare as socialism. (They are not socialism.)
Also today, former president Trump “retruthed” the words of a person who warned that he and “80,000,000” were willing to fight for Trump and were “Locked and LOADED.” In the House, some of the far-right group are wearing AR-15 pins, but when Emine Yücel of Talking Points Memo asked Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) why she was wearing one, her office answered that it was “about sponsoring a gun bill and has nothing to do with whatever blueanon conspiracy theories are being floated on Capitol Hill,” a reference to the idea that Democrats-- rather than the Republicans like Greene who were QAnon adherents-- are embracing conspiracy theories. The members wearing the pins have not, so far, introduced any gun bills.
This is alarming, but it is not the first time an extremist minority in Congress has organized, determined to control the country. In 1879, for example, before the parties switched into their current arrangement, Democratic former Confederates banded together, demanded the leadership of key committees—which the exceedingly weak speaker gave them—and set out to make the Republican president, Rutherford B. Hayes, get rid of key Republican policies by refusing to fund the government until he caved.
With the support of House minority leader James A. Garfield, Hayes stood firm, recognizing that allowing a minority of the opposition party to dictate to the elected government by holding it hostage would undermine the system set up in the Constitution. The parties fought it out for months until, in the end, the American people turned against the Democrats, who backed down. In the next presidential election, which had been supposed to be a romp for the Democrats, voters put Garfield, the Republican who had stood against the former Confederates, into the White House.
HI54UNI wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:51 am
McCarthy did it wrong. He should have said Omar can say whatever stupid shit she wants but her removal is strictly tit-for-tat - the Dems did it to members of our caucus and now we are doing it back. It can continue or we can end the stupidity. Republicans need to start fighting like Democrats due instead of always trying to take the high road.
Whale shit is higher than the Republicans "high road"
houndawg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:58 am
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Whale shit is higher than the Republicans "high road"
Thanks Abe.
That and “onion on the belt as it was the style at the time” are two of my favorites among many.
I totally re-read Houndie’s post in Abe’s voice.
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:11 am
by Baldy
kalm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:08 am
If this pisses you off, you might be one who needs to read it most.
Now, a generation later, that rhetoric has led to its logical conclusion: the Republicans have created a group of voters and their representatives who are openly white supremacists and who believe that any attempt to use the government to hold the economic playing field level is socialism. They are overwhelmingly evangelicals. They back former president Trump or someone like him and are eager to break the power of the current government even if it means defaulting on our debt. They threaten violence.
With the Republican Party just barely in control of the House, that group now wields enough power that it divides the House into three groups: the Democrats, the Republicans who want to cut taxes and gut regulation, and the Republicans who want to destroy the “socialist” government, want to keep white people in charge, support Trump or someone similar, are fervently Christian, and openly court violence.
Today, the House voted to condemn socialism—another attempt to appease that far right—while Republicans then chided those Democrats who refused to vote in favor of that condemnation because they said they thought it was a setup to cut Social Security and Medicare as socialism. (They are not socialism.)
Also today, former president Trump “retruthed” the words of a person who warned that he and “80,000,000” were willing to fight for Trump and were “Locked and LOADED.” In the House, some of the far-right group are wearing AR-15 pins, but when Emine Yücel of Talking Points Memo asked Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) why she was wearing one, her office answered that it was “about sponsoring a gun bill and has nothing to do with whatever blueanon conspiracy theories are being floated on Capitol Hill,” a reference to the idea that Democrats-- rather than the Republicans like Greene who were QAnon adherents-- are embracing conspiracy theories. The members wearing the pins have not, so far, introduced any gun bills.
This is alarming, but it is not the first time an extremist minority in Congress has organized, determined to control the country. In 1879, for example, before the parties switched into their current arrangement, Democratic former Confederates banded together, demanded the leadership of key committees—which the exceedingly weak speaker gave them—and set out to make the Republican president, Rutherford B. Hayes, get rid of key Republican policies by refusing to fund the government until he caved.
With the support of House minority leader James A. Garfield, Hayes stood firm, recognizing that allowing a minority of the opposition party to dictate to the elected government by holding it hostage would undermine the system set up in the Constitution. The parties fought it out for months until, in the end, the American people turned against the Democrats, who backed down. In the next presidential election, which had been supposed to be a romp for the Democrats, voters put Garfield, the Republican who had stood against the former Confederates, into the White House.
If you take this at face value, please don't read any emails from a Nigerian Prince asking for your help.
Re: Things that be all racist n' sheit
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:57 pm
by BDKJMU
kalm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:08 am
If this pisses you off, you might be one who needs to read it most.
Now, a generation later, that rhetoric has led to its logical conclusion: the Republicans have created a group of voters and their representatives who are openly white supremacists and who believe that any attempt to use the government to hold the economic playing field level is socialism. They are overwhelmingly evangelicals. They back former president Trump or someone like him and are eager to break the power of the current government even if it means defaulting on our debt. They threaten violence.
With the Republican Party just barely in control of the House, that group now wields enough power that it divides the House into three groups: the Democrats, the Republicans who want to cut taxes and gut regulation, and the Republicans who want to destroy the “socialist” government, want to keep white people in charge, support Trump or someone similar, are fervently Christian, and openly court violence.
Today, the House voted to condemn socialism—another attempt to appease that far right—while Republicans then chided those Democrats who refused to vote in favor of that condemnation because they said they thought it was a setup to cut Social Security and Medicare as socialism. (They are not socialism.)
Also today, former president Trump “retruthed” the words of a person who warned that he and “80,000,000” were willing to fight for Trump and were “Locked and LOADED.” In the House, some of the far-right group are wearing AR-15 pins, but when Emine Yücel of Talking Points Memo asked Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) why she was wearing one, her office answered that it was “about sponsoring a gun bill and has nothing to do with whatever blueanon conspiracy theories are being floated on Capitol Hill,” a reference to the idea that Democrats-- rather than the Republicans like Greene who were QAnon adherents-- are embracing conspiracy theories. The members wearing the pins have not, so far, introduced any gun bills.
This is alarming, but it is not the first time an extremist minority in Congress has organized, determined to control the country. In 1879, for example, before the parties switched into their current arrangement, Democratic former Confederates banded together, demanded the leadership of key committees—which the exceedingly weak speaker gave them—and set out to make the Republican president, Rutherford B. Hayes, get rid of key Republican policies by refusing to fund the government until he caved.
With the support of House minority leader James A. Garfield, Hayes stood firm, recognizing that allowing a minority of the opposition party to dictate to the elected government by holding it hostage would undermine the system set up in the Constitution. The parties fought it out for months until, in the end, the American people turned against the Democrats, who backed down. In the next presidential election, which had been supposed to be a romp for the Democrats, voters put Garfield, the Republican who had stood against the former Confederates, into the White House.
BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:27 pm
The majority party removing members of the minority party from committee assignments, something the democrats started during the last Congress. Now that the republicans are doing it, the democrats are losing their collective shit, and it is hilarious. On the open anti semite Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rashida Taliban:
AOChe:
Corey "Everything Is White Supremacy' Bush:
Why did they remove her?
Has on multiple occasions compared the US and Israel to terrorist states.
We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,"
"Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians. It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid,
-Referred to the 9/11 attacks as "some people did something"..
-Has repeatedly referred to Israel as an apartheid state.
-Made comments about Jews and $$$, then after a huge backlash, claimed she wasn't aware wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan- ... i-semitism
Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."
Someone like her should not be serving on the House Foreign Affairs committee.
Has on multiple occasions compared the US and Israel to terrorist states.
We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,"
"Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians. It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid,
-Referred to the 9/11 attacks as "some people did something"..
-Has repeatedly referred to Israel as an apartheid state.
-Made comments about Jews and $$$, then after a huge backlash, claimed she wasn't aware wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan- ... i-semitism
Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel."
Someone like her should not be serving on the House Foreign Affairs committee.
