Our good friend Annie over at annieasksyou has been doing some research, closely following the antics of the fully dysfunctional Republican-majority House of Representatives as we race toward Friday night when the government very well may shut down, less than a week before Thanksgiving. The things these fools (whose salaries WE pay) are doing are designed to hurt the very people they are sworn by oath to represent. Not a single one of them deserve their seat in Congress … NOT ONE!!! Please take a few minutes to read Annie’s work here, ponder and share if you feel so inclined. The more people are aware, the better chance we have of fixing this problem!
My apologies … I am not yet quite finished with this week’s ‘good people’ post, and I felt that Annie’s needed to be shared, so ‘good people’ will be delayed, but it WILL be here either later today or tomorrow … that’s a promise! Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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Splitting the shutdown rock in two is novel. This Johnson guy will need to be closely watched. I dimly remember in Physics class when experimenting with oscilloscopes dividing a sine wave into two and tracking the proliferation of nodes. The current situation will look the model of stability in future shutdown situations.
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While you lost me with some of the science there, yes, I agree that in all likelihood this will look like ‘the norm’ in times to come, for we seem to stray further and further from what was thought of as ‘the norm’ in the ’50s and ’60s.
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Funny thing about generational change. The grand children will study history and to them 50’s and 60’s of the 20h century will appear to be a time of idyllic myth. What you and I see as normal was so outside the historical human experience, equivalent of picking four numbers in a row on the roulette wheel. We were given a cosmic gift and so few appreciate it.
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And if we had known then what awaited us in the next century, we would have run screaming ….
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Thanks, Jill! We have to wonder what will happen once they start demanding draconian cuts that the Democrats won’t tolerate.
Note: Speaker Mike Johnson was one of the mega-MAGA manipulators who voted AGAINST McCarthy’s attempt just six weeks ago to do what he just did. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…for sure!!
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That is exactly what’s likely to happen when they return from their Thanksgiving break. They will insist on cutting all the programs that actually benefit the people of the country, and there will be another standoff with neither side able to budge an inch. We really really really have to fix this next November!!! If we survive that long!
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We need public pressure on the ones elected in districts Biden won. They must join the Dems in some arrangement that allows that little task of governing—which has always been hard, but the MAGA monsters are making impossible.
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Good point, Annie! Um … did you say ‘governing’? What’s that? I seem to vaguely remember the term from way back when …
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🥲 Well, when Mr. Jeffries holds the gavel, governing will come around again!!
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Absolutely!!!
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Jill, based on yesterday’s quite embarrassing antics, don’t disagree with Republican legislators as you will be called out to a fight or elbowed in the back. Just when I think the party cannot go any lower, the bar is lowered further. And, while that was going MTG was being interviewed by Piers Morgan about her belief in Jewish space lasers.
We are desperate for governance. We are hope for civil discourse, But, we must insist on our legislators not to threaten or act with violence. It would be nice if they focused on serious matters, as well and not space lasers or whether a former president was cheated out of a lost election. Neither are real topics. Just ask Fox News who is $1.1 billion in the hole and counting or those insurrectionists who are in jail because they believed a dishonest former president. Keith
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It is truly like a really bad sitcom you might see on cable television! I don’t know how we have devolved to this point. Yeah, I saw that Margie had sat for an interview with Piers Morgan, who cannot get intellectuals to his show, so he settles for the bottom of the barrel. That she believes this ridiculous stuff should be grounds enough to boot her, but heck … they cannot even give liar/cheater/thief George Santos the boot! I think the loonier a person is, the better the GOP likes them!
Yes, we ARE desperate for governance … some people in Congress have never seen good governance and wouldn’t recognize it if they did see it. It seems that next year’s congressional elections will be a contest to decide whether we devolve further into Third World territory or whether we decide that we’ve had enough of the costly game-playing and want serious people working for the nation and its people. I wish I had more faith in the latter.
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Bad People Doing Bad Things. Could be a new series for you…
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That should probably be the title of my entire blog!
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Why should they worry? They get all that free ‘ink’ and air time’ and live off of their independent incomes.
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Right … it seems to be just that which they seek … keep their names and faces in the news and on social media, because come election time, people who don’t know the candidates and issues will remember the ones whose names they heard and faces they saw most! I repeat … grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …..
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It’s a sickener and no mistake Jill🤬
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