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Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 am
by Kriegsspiel
I flew through the Republican one, which I found
here. It was long as hell, but covered a lot of different aspects of what they wanted done to fight the coronavirus and its economic damage to companies (via loans and taxes)** and people (helicopter money). They wanted to give a handout to fucking UNIVERSITIES, for fucks' sake, which I think it totally idiotic. (colleges refused to refund students for room and board and campus-related stuff which they were no longer using, or to lower tuition, or anything, really.). They're doing special things for women and minority-owned businesses, and have a weirdly long section on menstruation (yes, really), but... fuck it. Absolutely nothing indicating that Republicans were trying to sneak shit past Democrats, like making abortion illegal or requiring every citizen to buy a gun.
That one was 247 pages long. The Democrat's new one is more than 1,400 pages long. I haven't gone through it yet, I'm assuming there is more insanity than we've seen so far.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:31 am
by Kriegsspiel
Hah, Tim Pool just put out a
video on it.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:52 am
by flyingpylon
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 am
I flew through the Republican one, which I found
here. It was long as hell, but covered a lot of different aspects of what they wanted done to fight the coronavirus and its economic damage to companies (via loans and taxes)** and people (helicopter money). They wanted to give a handout to fucking UNIVERSITIES, for fucks' sake, which I think it totally idiotic. (colleges refused to refund students for room and board and campus-related stuff which they were no longer using, or to lower tuition, or anything, really.). They're doing special things for women and minority-owned businesses, and have a weirdly long section on menstruation (yes, really), but... fuck it. Absolutely nothing indicating that Republicans were trying to sneak shit past Democrats, like making abortion illegal or requiring every citizen to buy a gun.
That one was 247 pages long. The Democrat's new one is more than 1,400 pages long. I haven't gone through it yet, I'm assuming there is more insanity than we've seen so far.
The story was that the "Republican" one was actually a bipartisan product with input from both sides. But when Nancy Pelosi came back from vacation she blew it up with her 1400 page monstrosity.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:56 am
by Kriegsspiel
Yup, I hadn't gotten to that part of the Tim Pool video (he reads a lot more "news" than I do). This situation is goddamn shameful.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:14 pm
by dualstow
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:31 am
Hah, Tim Pool just put out a
video on it.
Good, I was expecting one. Is there a German word for enjoying getting angry?
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:28 pm
by vnatale
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:36 am
Senate Democrats blocked the first coronavirus bill**. Look what they're putting in their version:
Tucker Carlson is on it.
Politics continues to disgust me.
** If anyone is aware of stupid stuff in the first one, plz post it.
I agree that while all these things may be important items now Is NOT the time to hold up on dealing with this current crisis. Another time to deal with all those other issues.
Vinny
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:18 pm
by Xan
vnatale wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:28 pmI agree that while all these things may be important items now Is NOT the time to hold up on dealing with this current crisis. Another time to deal with all those other issues.
If by important, you mean asinine, then yes.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:14 am
by Kriegsspiel
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 am
The Democrat's new one is more than 1,400 pages long. I haven't gone through it yet, I'm assuming there is more insanity than we've seen so far.
This guy found a few more of the little nuggets squirreled away in there.
Re: Senators Sold Stock, Sounded No Alarms
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:54 pm
by Kriegsspiel
Back when I was reading about this, I saw something about how within hours of this bill getting passed, the Kennedy Center started firing all their employees. I was going to post something about whether they were going to give the money back, but it seemed so perfect and I didn't see anyone else covering it, I thought it was going to turn out to be fake news. But it looks like it was real.