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[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Groundhog day:

 

[sobrave]

 

[GoTheMightyCrows]

 

[Contested Marx]

So the political discussion is now just posting shitty memes


(Welcome to 2016)

 

[sobrave]

So the political discussion is now just posting shitty memes


(Welcome to 2016)

Well you can't have any actual discussion without fear of getting banned.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[Dylan8]

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there's gotta be something exclusive to the boomer mind that makes these kinds of political cartoons decipherable

 

[sobrave]

there's gotta be something exclusive to the boomer mind that makes these kinds of political cartoons decipherable

I like how they all look like half melted candles

 

[Dylan8]

I like how they all look like half melted candles

I love jokes

 

[sobrave]

sadly, we are seeing this come to pass.

on august 1st a lot of rent deferral schemes and unemployment supplemental income will end in the US. its going to get even messier than it already is.

 

[Portology]

sadly, we are seeing this come to pass.

on august 1st a lot of rent deferral schemes and unemployment supplemental income will end in the US. its going to get even messier than it already is.

The politics of re-negotiating all that are beyond disgusting.

Trump's currently demanding the next set of economic measures include a pause to social security and medicare payroll deductions (in the US, these come from *both* employers and employees). Could be quite the near term cash flow or profit booster for a large employer (those scenarios far more likely than putting new folks on at the moment). Gives a tax cut to individuals on relatively higher $ who need it least, does little to nothing for folks who need help the most (like er the unemployed). He can hold out on that point, continuing his reverse-Robin-Hood measures that make him so popular with some kinds of business folks, then if the Dems cave, present a last minute extension of the above schemes as a benevolent trickle-down ... or golden shower if you like ... to the 'masses'.

Alternatively, he just lets the above expire, blaming it on House (Democrats) refusing to choose between how some folks will be further robbed in the interests of big business. Then with even more on their backsides or moving... it all varies state by state but late changes of address will 'complicate' many voter-ID updates and swamp already deliberately under-resourced re-registration processes for November. Just for fun, below, the various currently legitimate and in-legal-dispute requirements on voters on the day. Those fighting to survive are less likely to fight the processes to get their records changed in time, and that's always been the point. When they saw the demographics on the wall for their most blatant gerrymandering schemes, Republican governors turned their focus to regularly removing 'targeted' tens of thousands from their rolls with little or no notice. The rest of the path back to legitimised Jim Crow follows naturally. It's truly a sick democracy.

So glad we have mandatory voting here, genuinely independent electoral commissions, a relatively unpoliticized judicial system and mostly preferential and proportional voting systems.

Voter ID Laws

Read the latest updates on voter ID legislative action in the states and find out more about the two ways voter ID laws can be categorized. "

www.ncsl.org

 

[sobrave]

I've got a friend that lives in Portland. Whats happening there is pretty terrifying. Military personnel with no identifying features, in unmarked civilian vehicles, snatching protestors off the streets and taking them god knows where. People being shot in the head with "less lethal" bullets. This is drump's America.

 

[GoTheMightyCrows]

I've got a friend that lives in Portland. Whats happening there is pretty terrifying. Military personnel with no identifying features, in unmarked civilian vehicles, snatching protestors off the streets and taking them god knows where. People being shot in the head with "less lethal" bullets. This is drump's America.

Good, maybe instead of 'protesting' they can do something productive with their lives once released.

 

[tribey]

C) You’re here calling people trolls for disagreeing with you literally in the middle of an argument about you being a victim of bullying.

Old mate must be short of attention.

 

[LFC2010]

surely Knoll has to be booted.

most inept state MP I think I've ever seen.

 

[bomberclifford]

surely Knoll has to be booted.

most inept state MP I think I've ever seen.

ICAC going back a decade will be fun though. He goes now or he goes later. No in between.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Three South Australian ministers and the state's Legislative Council President have resigned over the State Government's expenses saga.

Stephan Knoll, Tim Whetstone and David Ridgway will leave their posts in Premier Steven Marshall's Cabinet.

Upper House President Terry Stephens, who was the subject of the ABC's initial reporting over his claiming of the Country Members Accommodation Allowance, despite spending significant time at a house in Adelaide, will also step down from his position.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[LFC2010]

this is gold

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Good that the bullshit exaggeration on debt and deficits has been called out. Maybe we wont hear bullshit hyperbole about it for a few years.

 

[Dylan8]

Good that the bullshit exaggeration on debt and deficits has been called out. Maybe we wont hear bullshit hyperbole about it for a few years.

Albanese used this line of attack on the Libs last week and it came across as completely inept and tone deaf. Focusing on deficit has obviously been bullshit Lib propaganda for years and Labor, being extremely genius, decided to try to flip this on them now... in the middle of a pandemic. When public spending will be paramount to keeping people out of poverty. It just doesn't make any sense to me to validate the tactic in the first place but now of all times? It comes across like what they're saying is if they were in power they wouldn't be spending and that is not what anyone wants.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Albanese used this line of attack on the Libs last week and it came across as completely inept and tone deaf. Focusing on deficit has obviously been bullshit Lib propaganda for years and Labor, being extremely genius, decided to try to flip this on them now... in the middle of a pandemic. When public spending will be paramount to keeping people out of poverty. It just doesn't make any sense to me to validate the tactic in the first place but now of all times? It comes across like what they're saying is if they were in power they wouldn't be spending and that is not what anyone wants.

Its aimed at the Murdoch media and other media, as much as the politicians.

But it is also there on the record, if in 5 years down the track the coalition start up the bullshit hyperbole again.

 

[Grave Danger]

Its aimed at the Murdoch media and other media, as much as the politicians.

But it is also there on the record, if in 5 years down the track the coalition start up the bullshit hyperbole again.

Or if Rudd makes a grand comeback.

 

[raman]

Jesus...



I always thought of Basil as merely an inconsequential dickhead, I didn’t realise he was a full bore shitcampaigner.