What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!
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Retiring House Republican says $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'Most of us don't have wealth'
He's not alone: AOC and others have argued lawmakers should be paid more in order to protect against corruption and make the job more accessible.
www.businessinsider.com
Perhaps the Congressmen should cut out some avocado toast.
There isn't a violin small enough to convey my lack of sympathy. Like, I don't want to just not acknowledge it, because then it looks like I just didn't see it. I want a violin small enough to accurately show that I did see it and don't care. But I don't think such a microscopic instrument exists.
I think a giant violin would better convey how little you care. You play it at a normal volume when they start talking, then when they talk louder to try to be heard over it, you can play it loud enough to drown them out. Then you keep exceeding their volume until they get the point and stop talking, after which you continue to play loudly until they leave the room, then you play even louder to make sure that they hear it until they've walked a few blocks away.
But is it worth the effort of carrying an enormous violin? Bear in mind I am quite lazy.
Congressional salaries are kind of sticky situation. There ARE some strong arguments in favor of increasing their pay, but at the same time a lot of congress members really don't need the money. Maybe their pay rate should be based on total income. Kind of a progressive pay-scale like we do with income tax... You're raking in 20 million a year in book sales, you get a salary of 10k, you're only living off your salary, you get 500k...
Frankly: the act of public service while already rich by any standard of the society should be volunteer. Are you worth more than a million dollars? Yeah, you get your travel reimbursed, maybe some meal vouchers. Because actively working to keep the country in order and serving the public? Your payment is warm fuzzies.
Do you not have a million dollars? Okay, you get travel reimbursed, maybe some meal vouchers, and... let's be generous: 1.5 times the average income. Oh, and all the warm fuzzies from making life better for hundreds of millions of people. You're welcome.
But hey, while we're dreaming: let's make summary execution the defacto punishement for violating your oath, and let's make the suspicion of it sufficient cause. Cause fear is the best reason to behave.
Do you not have a million dollars? Okay, you get travel reimbursed, maybe some meal vouchers, and... let's be generous: 1.5 times the average income. Oh, and all the warm fuzzies from making life better for hundreds of millions of people. You're welcome.
But hey, while we're dreaming: let's make summary execution the defacto punishement for violating your oath, and let's make the suspicion of it sufficient cause. Cause fear is the best reason to behave.
I'd be more than willing to significantly increase their pay, but ONLY if we also outlaw stock trading by members of Congress.
www.commondreams.org
Fresh Calls for Stock Trading Ban After US Lawmakers Beat Market in 2023 | Common Dreams
"Members of Congress should not be allowed to trade stock," said one former congressional candidate. "It's corruption."
www.commondreams.org
I mean, theoretically this is what the second amendment was for, but the founders of our country were being overly optimistic about what kind of people would resort to violence to solve their problems. Let's not make the same mistake.
They would be the people they need to be if the government wasn't incentivized to keep them stupid by destroying public education.
Three years later & openly admitting they're going to do it again.
www.nbcnews.com
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik won’t commit to certifying the 2024 election results
“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik, a member of House GOP leadership and a Donald Trump ally, said in an interview with “Meet the Press.”
www.nbcnews.com
A failed insurrection that isn't swiftly punished is a dress rehearsal.
Yeah, we knew that, because they still haven't stopped lying about the results in 2020. Because people like kari lake are still throwing tantrums on the state level. Because the very latest conspiracy is that democrats are letting millions upon millions of illegals into the country specifically to vote in november.
Get yourself, your friends, your family registered to vote. Make sure they make it to the polls, and try to convince them to vote blue all the way down the ticket. The insanity ends in december if democrats win enough seats.
Get yourself, your friends, your family registered to vote. Make sure they make it to the polls, and try to convince them to vote blue all the way down the ticket. The insanity ends in december if democrats win enough seats.
Except, again, this time they won't have a sitting President on hand to order law enforcement to stand down. And for all my pessimism about cops and the military, if Biden orders the National Guard to start busting white heads, then white heads are going to get busted.
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So yesterday or the day before Trump's lawyer actually tried to argue that a sitting president could order a seal team to kill his political opponents and as long as he wasn't impeached and convicted in the Senate, he couldn't be tried in court.
So Biden, take notes. lol.
So Biden, take notes. lol.
He's not trying to argue whether or not he committed all kinds of crimes, he's arguing that he had the right to do it. It's basically an extended and very public confession. If and when this ever actually goes to court, that's gonna go over like a fart in church.