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Tag: politics
Tbh we should get rid of the electoral college
Who tf keeps thinking of all these dumbass ideas
Pretty sure this one came from a “silicon valley” billionaire. And I have that in quotes because it’s not a fucking valley. It’s an alluvial plain. Google is literally built on old saltmarsh.
And I’ve read that two of these states would likely be democratic, and “Southern California” would be swing, but it’s still a bad idea. And would never be approved by Congress, so an utter waste of time.
And so it begins.
Welcome to the slippery slope into Fascism.
The federal week in review:
1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.
2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee’s salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.
3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump’s first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.
4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY cost related to the repeal of the ACA.
5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.
6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.
7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.
8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department–for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don’t like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.
I’m watching Man in the High Castle and you’re right – watching both right now is too much.
I love it, but yeah. I one cannot have ONLY repression and secret resistance stories in one’s life. Especially if we need to be resisting for real. Come to think of it, we also just saw Allegiance, and that was of a similar ilk (though the past, not the future). It’s important to be open to those stories, but not to the point that they affect your real mood and ability to cope. But I will probably try to watch HMT… if only to compare to the film. I wonder if they’ll skip the epilogue as well.
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entertainmentweekly:
The Handmaid’s Tale looks so…
I read The Handmaid’s Tale every two years and I’m glad it’s getting more attention via the series but I have no desire to watch the series. I don’t know why. Maybe because it’s hitting to close to what could be.
It was feeling a bit close to home during the election, which is why I tried to make all my cis white male friends read it so they could understand why I was freaking the hell out. They can understand potential threats intellectually, but to have a visceral response you need a story… either to have lived one or read one. They got it afterwards. And none of them want to read it again, so I completely understand not wanting to subject yourself to the arc when you feel like you’re on it and you already have learned the visceral reaction. Don’t know if I have the stomach for Handmaid’s Tale and Man in the High Castle at the same time, tbh…
Black to mourn the probable loss of our civil liberties.
and match my mood
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