He looks petty shook here. Hopefully the message gets through.
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Gift link to the NYTimes coverage
Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, as well as a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they continue negotiating guardrails to rein in immigration agents. It is unclear how quickly the House can and will process those funding bills after the Senate passes them.
Once again giving up all negotiating power in advance, GJGE.
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Posts moved back to the thread they were originally in so as not to virtue signal. I guess we can discuss both possible perspectives on the Dems pre-caving.
Youâre just like the dems frfr
Now we all look like Democrats, like a bunch of dopes.
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Trump setting up to gift himself billions from his fake IRS lawsuit while the dems talk about how they are master dealmakers for getting a pinky promise about maybe not doing stuff that is already illegal is just perfect man.
the dems think they wont be punished for any of this and they are probably right.
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Of course they wonât. Most people in the American âleftâ are centrist morons who vote blue no matter who. They are actually right wing who pretend from time to time to give a fuck about one or two minorities to tell themselves they are not right wing.
We have many here.
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Sad trombone
The ban face masks law was dumb in any case. It was never going to be enforced.
Of course not, but this makes it clear that itâs not politicians or judges who make law, itâs cops. Even if he has authority to set priorities, he has no legal authority to say heâs not enforcing the law, but really the law is just what the biggest gang of people with guns say it is.
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Like, his thoughts now are the California State Supreme Court or something.
But Swank didnât say something normal. He said the whole thing simply didnât apply to him. âI donât recognize your authority.â So threatening to limit his sheriffâs deputies isnât about any typical policing concerns, such as safety. Itâs about a symbol â a way to wear utter contempt for democratic institutions and the rule of law right there on your face.
ETA-I edited out âmask upâ and added âlimitâ in its place.
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Not sure where to put this, but since I live in one of the blueist cities in the country, I want to lol at my Mayor and City Council for how they handled our recent snowstorm [horribly] and wondering how/why other cold weather cities seem to handle storms better.
For folks in cold weather cities:
Who is responsible for clearing sidewalks and how is that enforced?
In DC, the owner of the property is required to clear the sidewalk in front of their building. Enforcement is via a very small fine. After the recent storm, the Mayor declared that the responsibility still fell on the owners, but so many owners were complaining that the snow/ice mix was too hard to remove that she paused enforcement of the fines. Result: the storm was on Sunday, ~ 40% of the city sidewalks are still completely covered with thick ice/snow today and many intersections can only be crossed by pedestrians if youâre willing to scale the small glacier that was deposited by the snowplow that came through once on Monday. Seems less than ideal, so wanted to hear what other places doâŚ
We have more plows and contracted plows ready, also everyone owns a shovel or two.
I have a two handed plow shovel to move snow and a regular shovel to lift. Itâs just having more resources and experience to deal with the snow.
Even places like Buffalo in the US donât have the funding, there was a blizzard/ice storm that terrorized Fort Erie a few years back where cars were stuck and abandoned. I think 0 deaths in Canada and like 40 in the US for the same storm.
My friend got caught in it (Canadian side)and had their car abandoned for a day, but got home to his parents 12 hours later who were without power for a week.
Iâm in PA so itâs snow/ice here. Sleet turns to cement once it settles so the only way to get rid of it is to shovel it as it falls. But no one does that. So everyone has the same problem. Nothing you can really do until it warms up.
This isnât perfectly applicable to the current storm since ice is always difficult to deal with, but I grew up in a cold weather city and have lived in DC for a long time.
From what I can tell, the main issue in the DMV is they simply donât have enough resources, because they rarely need it. Not close to enough plows, not enough manpower to salt the roads beforehand, etc. Itâs very, very unusual for the temperature to stay below freezing for a long time like this, so âwait for it to warm up and meltâ isnât as stupid as it sounds.
As for the sidewalks specifically, imo people simply arenât used to it here. When you live in a cold weather area, it snows frequently so shoveling just becomes part of your habit. In DC, you can sometimes go the whole winter without shoveling. And if it only snows a little, the foot traffic alone can be enough to make a path in the sidewalk. I bet a lot of people donât even know theyâre supposed to shovel it.
Here in north Texas we just went through this as dfw was shutdown for five days. We wait for the ice to melt,
Toronto has the sidewalk game all figured out