Wall Street arrogance proves the internet is still undefeated
Cuomo might have undercounted dead nursing home COVID deaths by 50%
The internet is the greatest freest platform man has ever created. With barely existent barriers we can meet and exchange ideas, money, emotions and pictures of our private parts. This often happens for free or negligible cost.
We are blessed to live in a transitional period. Many of you reading lived at sizable portion of your life before the internet became the dominant form of culture. That means we where there as it humbled institutions that dared to think they were above it’s reach.
Newsweek might not have fully realized the internet existed when they spiked a story about Bill Clinton. Thanks to one proto-blogger the world soon knew what would have otherwise been DC gossip.
5 years later, Dan Rather thought running a shoddy story was close enough to the truth to pass. He was eaten alive by bloggers the next day and paid for it with his career.
That was 16 years ago. Since then the lessons have been less severe largely because people understand the hive mind will find a flaw in your work if you proceed with arrogance.
Wall Street might be the last true whale the internet can catch by surprise. So steeped in confidence in their craft they shorted a stock beyond any reason and now they find themselves in the clutches of a internet-led squeeze. The noise has now drawn the attention of Washington D.C.
Things will never be the same.
The internet is undefeated.
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Florida Dems think DeSantis is more vulnerable than Rubio
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My gut is the opposite. By the time the dust settles on COVID I think DeSantis will buoyed. That being said, who know how much anyone remembers COVID by 2022. (knocks on wood)
Jim Jordan will not run for Senate in Ohio
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New York might have undercounted nursing home COVID deaths by 50%
AXIOS
Cuomo to seniors as he writes his book about being awesome at managing COVID
Biden to NYT: Drop Dead
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A stunning rebuke to our nation’s journalists.
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I do feel we need to put a line in the sand , in that Congress critters should be able to pass a standard background check and not have done anything that would keep a McDonald’s from hiring you. The death threats would definitely keep her out. - MARSHALL
Man, if we did that then we’d have to account for all of the arrests, assaults and assorted crimes that happen to filter their way into congress. I would wonder if MTG’s liking of violent comments would prevent her from working at a McDonald’s.
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Anyone who runs unopposed can't possibly represent their constituency well. These are special times, and they call for special circumstances. I don't think it's out of line to expel a congressperson, provided they received the assent of the constituency. In that way, I suppose a better solution to the Marjorie Taylor Greene problem is local grassroots. Screw it, let's just nullify the constitution and start from scratch. I hope the new constitution is written on Libre Office with a papyrus font. - DB
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I think MTG needs to be ostracized by other GOP reps. Booting her may be too far, though I think she is unfit for public service. If her party were to unify against her that would be nice. Cut off party level funding to make it really hard to come back into office. She can get her two years of digging through the dark files. She is a terrible person who should not represent others.
How far is her stance on Parkland from the rest of the GOP? Weren't like 70+% of Americans in support of gun law reform at the federal level? Didn't one party refuse to do anything? One time they unplugged the CSPAN cameras during a democratic sit-in. So how different is she legislatively? - SEAN W
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Ken P brings up Canadians' reactions to Biden. I'm not at all surprised that he's implemented these policies, this is straight out of Obama's playbook. Trump may have gotten into a very public trade spat with us over his dislike of formal agreements and fired a random shot at protecting Aluminum and dairy, but the Dems tend to take a generally more systematic protectionist view of American industries. It's one of those weird incongruencies where a party moving more towards Canada in terms of governance values also moves them further from us in terms of actual trade routes.
The good news is that with Trump everyone had to just shut their traps and walk on eggshells or else he might randomly decide to focus his erraticism on Canada, and at least now we can "negotiate" with Biden. - CHARLIE
“Negotiate”
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I nominate Gov. DeWine (Ohio) for a C as well.
Other than a curfew that makes little sense (we convinced the virus to be nocturnal?), I feel he has handled the state's response to COVID as well as any governor. Other than the initial lockdown in March 2020, restrictions have been common sense and practical (again, excepting the curfew thing). He's been open and transparent about why each county was graded the way it was (each grade equaled a different amount of restrictions) and I feel he's done as well as anyone could through this.
If not for the curfew thing I'd have given him a B/B+. - CHAD
Dirty little government secret: curfews are there to regulate late night bars and restaurants without directly telling them to shut down.
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I'm new to the discord, is there a government board I have to submit my comments to so they can be approved? Also how long do you think your server will be allowed to exist before it gets taken down? - DAVID
No, I submitted my Free Speech Waiver to Melvin Capital a few months ago. We’re good until Labor Day.
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