#the seinfeld congress

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As if the US House of Representatives were not experiencing enough chaos and dysfunction, Donald Trump will be visiting Capitol Hill next week. It will be his first visit since he encouraged MAGA terrorists to rampage through the Capitol on 06 January 2021.

He also stated that he would be "open" to becoming House Speaker. The holder of that position doesn't necessarily have to be a House member, but both parties have policies which prevent indicted individuals from being part of the Congressional leadership. Trump faces four indictments featuring 91 counts against him.

Since Seth Meyers made that vid, Trump has declared his support for conspiracy nutcake Gym Jordan (R-OH-04).

Trump endorses Jim Jordan for House speaker - CBS News

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in a stunning victory for artists, congress has now officially restricted AI datasets to megaconglomerates and shadowy psyop campaigns manufacturing deepfake porn. now the scourge of seinfeld hellworld edits is over

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Elie Mystal at The Nation:

There has probably never been a president who was more ignorant of the government, the Constitution, and the laws of this country than Donald Trump was in 2017. The man came to power with a child’s understanding of civics and a mob boss’s understanding of power. Instead of using the power of government to effectuate his agenda, he thought he could simply bend the law to his will. Trump was wrong, and the Department of Justice showed him why. Trump fired FBI director James Comey (whose decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails happened to be one of the proximate causes of his election in the first place) for his lack of loyalty. That led the DOJ to investigate Trump’s abuse of power. Trump likely assumed that his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, a longtime senator and an early supporter of Trump’s vile candidacy, would put a stop to the inquiry. But to Trump’s surprise, Sessions followed department rules and norms and recused himself from the case, leaving Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to handle the investigation. Rosenstein eventually appointed former FBI director Bob Mueller as a special counsel, and while Trump was never held accountable for this crime, he learned that the Justice Department could be a threat to his lawless abuse of power.

It’s a lesson he will not have forgotten if he wins or steals a second term. Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 blueprint for an eventual authoritarian takeover of the federal government, contains a lot of dangerous proposals for how Trump and his ruling conservatives can remake the executive branch. The authors’ ideas for the Department of Justice reflect not only their lust for unchallenged power, but also a deep fear of the DOJ’s independence—and, more particularly, the way that independence might be used against them if the DOJ is not brought to heel. Put simply: The conservatives hope to use the DOJ to make their darkest desires legal, while at the same time taking away the best legal means to stop them. As a first step, the Project 2025 Mandate recommends hollowing out the FBI. Why the FBI? Think of it this way: If Project 2025 is basically a conservative heist plot, then the chapter on the DOJ is the part where the plotters explain how they plan to take out the security cameras and floodlights so they can proceed under the cover of darkness.

The chapter begins like the Seinfeld holiday of Festivus: with an airing of grievances that the conservatives have against the FBI, including its alleged attempts to “convince social media companies and the media generally that the story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop was the result of a Russian misinformation campaign.” There are also entire paragraphs dedicated to railing against the FBI and the DOJ for trying to halt the spread of lies about the 2020 election—and, again, if you understand who these people are, you can see why stopping the government from policing their lies is a key goal. In order to accomplish this, Project 2025 proposes pushing Congress to demote the FBI, and its director, to a lower rung on the DOJ’s organizational chart and make the director report to a political functionary. It also wants Congress to eliminate the 10-year term of the FBI director to make it easier for the president to replace the director at will, like most other political appointees. Again, Trump got burned for firing Comey, and this proposal would make sure any future FBI director is sufficiently loyal.

If the conservatives simply wanted to destroy the FBI, I might agree with them. Even a cursory knowledge of the bureau’s history shows that the FBI is problematic: a dangerous tool of the surveillance state that, more often than not, has been deployed against civil liberties, civil rights, and social progress.

The problem with Project 2025 is that it doesn’t actually want to destroy the FBI; it wants to get rid of its independence—while keeping all of the FBI’s jackbooted thuggery so that it can hurt the “right” people. The Project 2025 Mandate calls for renewing the bureau’s focus on “violent” crime—and that word choice is important, because it leaves out nonviolent crimes like bank fraud, tax evasion, bribery, and document theft—you know, all the things that Trump or his business or donor-class friends are accused of doing. The document further suggests stripping the FBI of its legal workforce—the 300 or so attorneys employed by the bureau—which would turn the FBI into an even blunter weapon than it already is, completely untethered from the Constitution or civil rights. In line with the mission of hurting the “right” people, Mandate’s chapter on the DOJ details big plans for resuming Trump’s campaign against immigrants. Those plans include deploying the power of the Justice Department against Democrats who govern in “sanctuary cities.” Indeed, there’s a whole paragraph devoted to the wild idea of using the DOJ to sue district attorneys who use their discretion in ways that the conservatives don’t like—including, though hardly limited to, refusing to help deport immigrants.

[...] Toward that end, this chapter proposes transforming the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ into a tool to fight for white supremacy instead of against it. It aims to do this by using the division to prosecute institutions and organizations that promote diversity as violating the civil rights and equal protection of whites, and it’s the logical conclusion of the conservative assault on affirmative action and DEI programs. [...]

Using the DOJ to sue companies that hire people of color or women is meant to dissuade companies from hiring people of color or women, because according to conservative whites, anytime a person of color or a woman is hired for anything, it is because of affirmative action or DEI. This section is an attempt to whitewash America through force of law, since “the market” has rejected white supremacy (at least superficially) as a sound business practice.

When you break down what Project 2025 wants to do with the Justice Department, it’s chilling and terrifying, and yet I’m also struck by how petty and mean-spirited the tone of the document is. These people are consumed by their personal grievances (against Black people, against the media, against Hunter Biden and his laptop). There are multiple passages devoted to complaining that the DOJ has prosecuted people who threaten abortion clinics and parents who threaten school boards, as if being vile and hateful toward pregnant people and schoolteachers is their most precious “freedom.” Giving these people the DOJ is like giving a chimpanzee a gun: It’s inherently dangerous even when the chimp wields it like a crooked club.

Next time, Trump will not be handing the DOJ to people like Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr—people who wanted to use the department to further the MAGA agenda but felt bound by the rule of law. Next time, Trump will let someone like Stephen Miller, a ghoul who wants the law to promote bigotry instead of eradicating it, run the Justice Department. He’ll hand it to a devout loyalist and unreconstructed racist who wants to weaken the DOJ so it can’t hurt Trump, while weaponizing it against Trump’s enemies and the vulnerable communities he has decided to harass and terrorize. Project 2025 is telling us exactly how the conservatives plan to take away the rights of women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. I beg the American people to believe them. This dystopian future isn’t a threat, it’s a certainty, should we give these people power again.

Elie Mystal wrote in The Nation that the DOJ under a 2nd Trump term would be the legal wing of the MAGA movement. The extreme MAGA movement must be crushed at all costs.

See Also:

The Nation: June 2024 Issue

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I also need to clear some stuff about boycotting again.

So whats boycotting?

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a form of protest.

Why do we boycott certain things?

Let's take this Israel-Palestine conflict for example. In this one sided war, many nations, celebrities, famous brands are in support of Israel. This is not just saying "I stand beside Israel". They have a huge huge impact of this genocide.

***Many nations who support Israel are helping them in international congress. United Nation is helpless because the USA is in support of Israel. Those nations help with military support and supply war machines.

***useless celebrities, when they write a long post on social media sugar coating Israel may brain wash thousands. We all look upto celebrities right? There's been many proffs that Israel has been paying many celebrities to support them.

***famous brands: whether clothe brand of food brand, they have been supplying their product to Israel and of course they are being commissioned. For example Starbucks.

Now, why do we boycott?

Since boycotting is a form of protest, if you unfollow a certain celebrity or stop buying from a certain store they'd be forced not to support the wrong party. If they don't already support the right side, we might as well need to force it down their throat.

NOTE: IM NOT SPREADING HATRED TOWARDS ANY PARTICULAR NATION, CELEBRITY OR BRAND ( heck I am). BOYCOTTING DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO HATE THEM. IGNORE THEY EXIST FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND THEYLL COME AROUND.

Again. Dont boycott someone who didn't do anything. You should be sure about that person of brand being absolutely d***. So here's a list I made to help you guys out. It will work if we stand our ground.

Products:

Hp. Siemens. AXA( insurance) Puma. SodaStream. Ahava. Sabra. McDonalds. Apple. American eagle.

Celebrities (I'm sure half of them don't even know the full story, now they will)

Gal gadot. Dwayne johnson. Sonam kapoor. Kangana ranaut. Natalia portman. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Courtney cox. Justin beiber. Josh gad. Florence pugh. Liev Schreiber. Katy perry. Mark ruffalo. Jerry Seinfeld. LeBron james. Tom brady. U2. Guy oseary. Amy Schumer. Barbra Streisand. Amar’e Stoudemire. Sarah Silverman. Bar Refaeli. Ronen Rubinstein. Madonna. Floyd Mayweather. Andy cohen. Jamie lee. Debra messing. Sarah silverman. Kris jenner. Mindy kaling. Meghan McCain and many more

Nations: well you know them. I dont need to say it

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Some Seinfeld fans have been comparing Republican Congress Member-elect George Santos’ admitted whoppers to those that came from the mouth of the sitcom’s beloved pathological liar, George Costanza.

While Costanza (portrayed by Jason Alexander) lied to either land a job or a date, Santos admitted in a Monday media blitz to fabricating his own résumé on the campaign trail, which helped him win New York’s 3rd Congressional District seat covering northeast Queens and northern Nassau County.

Despite his admissions and the public shaming that followed the New York Times exposé about him, Santos rebuffed calls for his resignation, and indicated he would take the seat in Congress on Jan. 3 — claiming that his embellishments were not that big of a deal.

[zooterchet]

I recently fell into a deep morass, at my war service.

I can barely remember the sleep I went into, seeing such vivid dreams.

I've lived in lies much of my life, a police informant of my own volition; the training manuals, mine, about how to be my father.  A superhuman.

I drafted Dan Slot out of Federal German waters, his New York job running slaves.

I hit the Canadian Freemasons of Hopkinton so hard, the black came back, and Obama won on a Slim Jim pork ration for 9/11.

The entire weed market was beneath me, slamming them on sauce-free pizza, the delivery driver of the future; someone kind, a kid just raising another kid, with his wife.

I put an FBI raid the likes of which you wouldn't believe on MI-6 services in Taunton, and an air raid chopper on Osama's Kabul, with a French recipe out of the Weeks family; bacon-spinach souffle, at Panera Bread.

I made a half dozen or more arrests, sophomore year, each one a pacifist war agitator, none of them murdered, all of them drafted into an army of the willing; under George W. Bush.

The Louisiana Cajun Sheriffs and Boston Basim and the Irish Mob, were sent to war with the Stoneman's Society, the Jordanian writing circles of Boston; Sauds, got their first and last taste of Blockbuster, their new video investment.

I put a knife shot right into Julian Assange, Soros's man, and pulled Obama out of the war, with his Nobel Peace Prize Speech; Seinfeld.

When Syria hit France, I was there, on every comic book copy of GI Joe, Larry Hama's grinning face mocking them.

When Hamas and Israel came to bear and threaten, each time, an EON movie, from Silver and Cherna, those two little women I loved, along with Vampy, the third rarely suspected.

I made love with hookers and courtesans, but nothing was like Goddess Arsine, kidnapped to the French North, her home as a Boelyn.

And I laughed, I laughed like a motherfucker, when my CIA hire out of the Prosecutor's Agent office, Joseph Kennedy III, the lead prosecutor in my district, made it into Congress.

I pushed grass and sold booze, throughout the War on Terror, with a book called "No-No Boy", by John Okada.

The French already knew they were behind it.  The offense of the Ted Bundy trial, about saying a CIA couldn't betray for love and color.

I am pure red white and blue, and I was always a CIA field assassin.

The Joker.

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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Amid GOP confusion, U.S. braces for ‘first-ever shutdown about nothing’ (Washington Post) In 1995 and 1996, the federal government shut down as House Republicans and the Clinton administration clashed over spending cuts. In 2013, the government shut down because of a partisan disagreement over President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In 2018, Democrats bucked President Donald Trump’s demands to fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall, leading to the longest shutdown in U.S. history. “We are truly heading for the first-ever shutdown about nothing,” said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. Strain has started referring to the current GOP House-led impasse as “the ‘Seinfeld’ shutdown,” a reference to the popular sitcom widely known as “a show about nothing.” “The weirdest thing about it is that the Republicans don’t have any demands. What do they want? What is it that they’re going to shut the government down for? We simply don’t know.” Budget experts and historians say the current impasse stands out for its lack of a clear policy disagreement. With only two days left before the federal government shuts down and millions of Americans stop getting paid, members of Congress are frustrated and worried.

Heavy rains bring flash floods to New York City (NYT) Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York declared a state of emergency today as heavy rainfall pounded New York City and the surrounding region, causing flash floods. Entire subway lines were shut down, major roadways turned into lakes and children were moved to the upper floors of flooded schools. Hochul described the storm as a “life-threatening rainfall event,” urging New Yorkers to stay home and warning those who live in basements to brace for the worst. “Plan your escape route,” she said. “Don’t wait until water is over your knees before you leave. Don’t wait until it’s too late.”

Number of migrants crossing Panama’s Darien Gap surpasses 400,000 to record high (Reuters) The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration to the United States intensified despite efforts to curb the flow. More than half of those migrants were children and babies, Panama’s security ministry said in a statement, adding that September alone saw the number of crossings increase by a fifth compared to the previous month. Most of the migrants traversing the dangerous stretch of jungle are Venezuelans, with others from Ecuador, Haiti and other countries, Panama’s security ministry has said.

Cuba warns of worsening blackouts as fuel crisis bites (Reuters) Power blackouts in Cuba are expected to increase significantly due to a lack of fuel, officials warned in a nationwide TV broadcast, worsening the country's plight as it deals with food and medicine shortages. Local governments have already begun announcing restrictions on power usage at state-run companies and other entities, including moves to postpone sporting events and university classes. The officials suggested citizens could expect blackouts of up to eight to 10 hours per day starting in October outside of Havana, where residents are usually spared power outages. The Communist-run island has been mired in crisis and plagued by blackouts and shortages of food, medicine and fuel since the pandemic. Gross domestic product is 8% below 2020 levels and goods production 40% below, according to the government.

Who’s Gaining Ground in Ukraine? No One. (NYT) Despite nine months of bloody fighting, less than 500 square miles of territory have changed hands since the start of the year. Both sides started the year with lofty ambitions: Russia wanted to capture the eastern Donbas region, while Ukraine aimed to split Russian forces with an attack in the south. Neither offensive has gone to plan. The front line, after months of grueling combat and heavy casualties, remains largely unchanged. Across the front line, every mile of territory has been a grinding fight, with no repeat of the rapid breakthrough that Kyiv managed in Kharkiv in September last year, when Russia’s defenses collapsed after a surprise Ukrainian counterattack. Russia and Ukraine have faced similar challenges this year. Both sides are fighting for positions that have remained largely entrenched for months, or even years in some parts of eastern Ukraine. Seasoned troops and commanders who were killed earlier in the war have been replaced with new recruits who often lack sufficient training.

More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees as separatist government says it will dissolve (AP) More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population has fled to Armenia as the region’s separatist government said it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic inside Azerbaijan will cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for independence. By Friday morning 84,770 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Armenian officials, continuing a mass exodus from the region of ethnic Armenians that began Sunday. The region’s population was around 120,000 before the exodus began. The moves came after Azerbaijan carried out a lightning offensive last week to reclaim full control over the breakaway region and demanded that Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh disarm and the separatist government disband. During the three decades of conflict in the region, Azerbaijan and separatists inside Nagorno-Karabakh, alongside allies in Armenia, have accused the other of targeted attacks, massacres and other atrocities, leaving people on both sides deeply suspicious and fearful.

Blast hits prophet’s birthday celebration in Pakistan, killing at least 31 (Washington Post) At least 31 people were killed and more than 60 injured in a blast targeting a Pakistani procession to mark the birthday of prophet Muhammad on Friday, local police official Azam Khan said, as authorities cautioned that the death toll was likely to rise. The attack hit a rally in the district of Mastung in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan. Jan Achakzai, information minister of the provincial government, said the bombing amounted to one of the worst attacks in recent memory in the province, which is regularly struck by smaller blasts and targeted killings.

Sikh Separatism Is a Nonissue in India, Except as a Political Boogeyman (NYT) During his first trip to India as Canada’s prime minister in 2018, Justin Trudeau made a visit to the northern state of Punjab, where he got a photo op in full Punjabi dress at the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. He also got, courtesy of the Indian government, an earful of grievances—and a list of India’s most-wanted men on Canadian soil. The killing this summer of one man on that list, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, has turned into a diplomatic war between India and Canada. Mr. Trudeau claimed this month that Indian agents had orchestrated the assassination inside Canada. India rejected the assertion and accused Canada of ignoring its warnings that Canadian Sikh extremists like Mr. Nijjar were plotting violence in Punjab in hopes of making the state into a separate Sikh nation. But there is little support in Punjab for a secessionist cause that peaked in deadly violence decades ago and was snuffed out. For Mr. Modi, the amplification of the separatist threat provides an important political narrative ahead of a national election early next year. It furthers his image as a strongman leader who will go to any extent to protect his nation. It has prompted even some of his staunchest critics to rally around him in the face of Canada’s accusation.

Chinese property giant Evergrande’s slow implosion nears crunch time (Washington Post) It’s been a terrible week in Chinese real estate giant Evergrande’s battle to shake its reputation as the Lehman Brothers of China’s struggling economy—a comparison it has been trying to avoid since 2021, when it defaulted on $330 billion in debt and sent shock waves through global markets. It started with confirmation Sunday that the developer couldn’t raise funds after saying it needed to “reassess” its restructuring plans amid an investigation by Chinese regulators—news that led to the biggest sell-off in Chinese property stocks in nine months on Monday. Then, on Thursday, the group and two of its major subsidiaries suspended trading after Bloomberg reported that its billionaire chairman, Xu Jiayin, was being held under “residential surveillance” by Chinese police. The fall from grace of Xu and his company—he was by some estimates China’s richest businessperson in 2017—tracks the rapidly declining health of the Chinese property sector, which accounts for nearly a quarter of economic growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

Singapore’s population grows 5% as foreign workers return post-pandemic (Reuters) Singapore’s population grew 5% in a year as foreign workers returned to the city-state following the pandemic, data released on Friday showed. There were 5.9 million people in Singapore as of June, up from 5.6 million in June last year. Of these, 61% were Singaporeans, 9% were permanent residents and 30% were foreigners working or studying in the country. The bulk of the population increase came from foreign employment, with 162,000 foreign workers coming to Singapore from June 2022 to June this year. In 2020 and 2021, the population shrank as hundreds of thousands of foreign workers left amid strict Covid-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions.

Sudan’s diaspora sends home aid as world’s attention drifts (Washington Post) The indoor basketball court at a Northern Virginia fitness center echoes with a familiar chorus of cheers and groans punctuated by a blaring buzzer. Gihad Salih watches from the sidelines as two teams face off. The event, a fundraiser on an August weekend for local Sudanese aid organizations, feels a long way from the corpse-strewn streets of Khartoum, where some of his extended family remain. The casual tournament—Slam Dunk for Sudan—is one of many grass-roots humanitarian fundraisers Sudanese immigrants and their descendants in the West have led since the war began. From North America to Australia, Sudanese people have raised money for emergency medicines, food and rent; lobbied officials to ease entry for refugees; and crowdsourced information about road safety, medical care and getting money into the country. With the conflict grinding into its sixth month, many Sudanese people and their supporters around the world are growing frustrated as the East African nation struggles for its share of international relief budgets and to remain on the global aid agenda. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has received 27 percent, or $266 million, of the $1 billion it requested for its emergency response. “Despite the urgency of the crisis,” the agency warned in early August, “funding has trickled in.”

Turning Jokes Into Reality (NYT) Mehran’s Steak House in New York City boasts an almost-perfect Google review rating with over 90 reviews, as well as a fully-booked, months-long waitlist, making it one of Manhattan’s most desirable dinner attractions. Unfortunately for any diners seeking a night at the exclusive restaurant, the steakhouse, well, didn’t actually exist—up until last weekend. You see, it’s very easy to create Google Maps listings. You can pick a name for a spot, upload a few details, and rename your house to whatever you want—which is what a few friends living at a four-story “hacker house” in Manhattan did, naming the building after a member of their group named Mehran, who would cook a top sirloin from time to time for house dinners. They padded out the listing with sarcastic rave reviews, eventually setting up a website and phone number to grow out the elaborate joke. Last Saturday, that joke became a reality. The friends rented out an event space, set up a menu, and invited dozens of people from their waiting list of over 900. They served up a four-course menu crowned with a ribeye steak to the unsuspecting guests for the low, low price of $114 (before tax, tip, and drinks).

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TV Series News

TV series news is a type of television program that focuses on current events or news. Some series deal with specific subjects such as sports, science, politics, or history. Others have more generalized subject matter and focus on human interest or social issues. These shows are typically filmed in the style of documentary and often feature interviews with experts on a particular topic or event.

The news is a staple of the television industry, and it has long been an essential part of the media. The news is not always reliable or accurate, but it is a way to inform and educate the public about various topics.

Some of the most popular television news programs include The Today Show, CBS Evening News, and ABC Nightline. These series often cover a broad range of subjects and can be entertaining.

Cable-news dramas, which are based on real news stories and have been produced specifically for television, also exist. For example, the Emmy Award-winning The West Wing, created by Aaron Sorkin, is a drama that covers political issues and aims to educate viewers about the political world.

These shows often feature a variety of people, including reporters, politicians, and journalists. In addition, they often involve controversial topics such as racial discrimination or violence against women.

Other popular cable-news shows, such as ACN's News Night and MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, focus on news that affects a wide range of audiences. These shows can also be a bit polarizing, with many viewers disliking them because of their content or the way they portray certain people.

For example, in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the program's host tries to make positive contributions to society and the news. However, he has to balance this with the desire to be liked by his audience, which often involves him bringing on guests with controversial views.

The Tonight Show stars a wide variety of actors and hosts to discuss a wide variety of topics. This includes comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld and Stephen Colbert, as well as news anchors and political pundits.

There are also comedy-driven news shows that are more satirical, such as The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live. These shows can be found on both broadcast and cable channels.

During the 1960s and 1970s, many television networks began to create and broadcast nightly news shows to cover current events. These programs were sometimes referred to as news reports, and they are often considered more important than the daytime entertainment programs that dominated the evening airwaves during this period.

Some of these dizi haberleri programs have remained intact, although they have been edited and re-edited to fit the format of their specific network. Some of the early episodes of This Day Tonight, ABC's groundbreaking nightly current affairs program, have survived and can be seen at the Library of Congress.

Other notable news programs that have remained intact are the ABC television shows News at One and Good Morning America. These series were popular in the 1960s and 1970s and are not found in the archives of the American public television system.

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Congress is off to a spectacularly slow start, and members fear it won’t get better#Congress #spectacularly #slow #start #members #fear #wont

WASHINGTON — The House, paralyzed for days, struggled to elect a speaker. The Senate is holding symbolic votes just to pass the time. America’s most powerful lawmakers have been twiddling their thumbs, unable to hold hearings because committees aren’t set up. Welcome to the Seinfeld Congress. It’s a show about nothing. One month in, the 118th Congress is off to a spectacularly sluggish start,…

[muppets-galore]

8/26 “Argumentative”

The idea of divine intervention in the Iliad was brought up in class today, and. beyond that, how the gods in Greek mythology spend their free time pondering and arguing over things that don’t matter, because they don’t have any real things to worry about. My mind immediately shot over to the classic, incomparable staple of reality television, “The Real Housewives of [City or Area].”

I’m very familiar with that series, New York to Beverly Hills to Atlanta, because my mom pretty much only watches the Bravo network. Throughout my hours and hours of viewing Real Housewives, spanning childhood to today’s holiday visits, I’ve picked up on one very, very common theme: it’s nothing. The show is about nothing. The people in it do, for the most part, nothing. The only thing that keeps the show moving is the drama, which may seem like something, but under the surface it too is nothing of substance. Frankly, it’s impressive - no TV show since Seinfeld has done nothing so well.

So a group of gals are gathered and given camera crews, and basically the only driving force of the show is incessant bickering of the stars. Why? Why do they argue, why do they fight, why do some of them just fabricate stories about others in order to stir up  d r a m a ? My cumulative days-worth of research leads me to one conclusion: they have no worries. Like the Greek gods, the Real Housewives don’t have anything uber meaningful to discuss because... they don’t really have anything meaningful going on. Don’t get me wrong, some of them have careers (despite the title containing the word “housewives”), many start their own businesses, but there’s never really a concern of failure. They have projects that they partake in, they have children and families that they take care of, but those often are more of a drama-plot device than anything else. For the vast majority of their screen time they’re entrenched in some pointless argument, and it’s because their wealth allows them to float above any real concerns of survival.

I also realize that it is a reality show, which means that it really isn’t reality, but let’s look at Congress. Congress is different, they have SOME sort of meaning, if not only for the fact that they are one of three branches of government. But one thing is for sure, and that is that they do a lot of bickering. And that’s what it is, bickering, at least for the most part, as opposed to truly arguing. Some members of Congress argue for things that their constituents need, like healthcare, I can’t and won’t deny that, but a lot of the time both sides of the aisle actually agree more than they disagree, and the bickering comes from that environment. Think about recent stimulus check debates - Democrats want $x to give to people, but Republicans want to give $(x-y). Both agree that a one-time stimulus check is the best course of action, they just disagree on the dollar amount, and when their debates fail to bring about any agreements or resolutions the idea is effectively scrapped altogether, and why? Because stimulus checks don’t effect the vast majority of members of Congress, they don’t feel the effects of COVID in nearly the same way as the average American, so it just isn’t a huge deal to them.

That’s the big idea. They debate and bicker and occasionally argue “on behalf of the American people,” but really what they discuss is nothing. In the end, a one-time stimulus check will not cut it, it will not resolve the woes of the American people felt due to COVID, and that much is proven by the fact that a SECOND stimulus check was seen as necessary. Do they think that they’re fighting the good fight, discussing what they discuss? Maybe, but that’s really beside the point. People NEED healthcare, they need social safety nets, and the fact of the matter is that the majority of Democrats and Republicans don’t want to hear that, and that’s because they don’t have to worry about that stuff. For a majority of members of Congress, they are so distanced from the Average Joes they represent due to economic gap that they don’t truly bring forth (or at least they don’t seriously consider) ideas that would actually address the needs of the people. What they’re left with is debate of ideas that truly don’t mean anything - at the most they’re short-term fixing problems that will just resurface in a short amount of time (again, see stimulus checks).

All in all, a leader is only effective if they are in touch with the people that they’re leading, otherwise they’re just performing as an individual and implementing policies and ideas that either (1) they THINK could work, or (2) they personally like and agree with regardless of the opinions of their constituents. To bring it back around to the Iliad, Agamemnon was a leader who made decisions that his soldiers (Achilles in particular) didn’t always like. If you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” from 1957, the French generals most CERTAINLY act in a way that is unpopular among their subordinates (this post is long enough already so I won’t give a synopsis, but I do recommend watching it). Even though they were likely in the place of the soldiers they command at some point, they’ve distanced themselves so much from that position and those responsibilities that they’ve lost touch with it.

The higher up the command chain you move, the less to relate to those at the bottom, and so my concluding point is that hierarchy aids dysfunction. With more and more levels of command comes more and more degrees of separation among people who are supposed to be working toward the same goal, and that is no way to properly tackle and solve issues - in fact, I would say it’s a means of creating MORE issues, given the internal confusion and tension that comes from that separation. Should there be a more direct means of solving issues, a flat organization system where everyone contributes to making the machine run, you lose the muddling that hierarchy brings with it. You can better satisfy the masses since the members of those masses are directly addressing their problems. People know what their problems are, and it only makes sense that they would also be a great resource for finding solutions.

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So today I learned that my history teacher thinks of himself as a hipster version of Jerry Seinfeld who got ripped off for the idea of Netflix because he didn’t get a copyright from Congress when he was 16... I fucking quit guys

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The Bible Of Mysteries: The 23 Enigma

***2/3= .666 the number of the beast

The New York Yankees won the World Series 23 times

The Uranium isotope used in Nuclear bombs is U235

AOL chat rooms only allow 23 people at a time

In the film Airport, the mad bomber has seat 23

***There are exactly 23 charicters, numbers and letters, on the face of all U.S. coins

***Every 23rd wave crashing on a beach averages twice the size as normal

In the film Airplane II, the name of the spaceship is XR-2300

230 people died in the conspiracy plagued TWA flight 800 disaster

The Unibomber killed or wounded 23 people

The address of the Freemasons lodge in Stafford, England, is 23 Jaol Road. In New York City it's on 23rd street.

***The letter W is the 23rd in the alphabet and has 2 points down and 3 points up

The first Apollo landing on the moon was at 23.63 degrees east; the second was 23.42 degrees west.

April 19th the date of the battle of Lexington, the holocaust at Waco, and the Oclahoma city bombing is written 4/19 by Americans and 19/4 by Europeans. Either way it adds up to 23.

In Star Wars Princess Lea was held in cell AA-23

***Shakespeare was 46(2*23) when the King James Bible was published. Psalm 46(2*23) has it's 46th word "shake" and the 46th word back from the end is "spear".

On the Seinfeld show, Kramer hides an Air-Conditioner on levl purple 23 of a parking garrage.

***William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1556 and died on April 23, 1616.

51, as in Area 51 breaks down to 23 + 23 + (2*3)=51

August 23,1305 William Wallace was exicuted for treason.

August 23, 1970 River Pheonix was born.

The original Star Trek, as well as Babylon Five are set in the 23rd century

***The human Biorhythm cycle is 23 days

***It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body

***Julius Ceasar was stabbed 23 times by the assasans.

X-Files: 10.13 productions.10 + 13 = 23

"Scottish Rite Freemasonry" has 23 letters.

A technological singularity has been predicted by "experts" in the near future. It is expected around 2030 AD.

***Geosynchronous orbit occurs at 23,000 miles above Earth's surface.

Psychic Edgar Cayce started having visions of lost Atlantis in 1923.

Hitler joined a secret society in 1923.

Avagadro's number as used in the ideal gas law is 6.02 * 10^23

The CIA headquarters in McLean, VA is located on rt. 123.

***The tilt of Earth's axis is roughly 23o accounting for the changing seasons and the procession of the Zodiac.

***Homo sapiens are given 46 chromosomes from their parents, 23 male and 23 female.

***The Dog Days of Summer begin on July 23 when Sirius the Dogstar rises from behind the sun.

Sydney Carton was the 23rd man beheaded in the climax of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities

Accordidng to Noam Chomsky over half of the national media is owned by 23 companies

The average smoker inhales 23 ciggarettes a day

There are 23 chapters of the Cult Awareness Network

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints was born on December 23, 1805.

On December 23, 1805 the Federal Reserve Act passed i

n congress.

***According to ancient Mayan prophesy on December 23, 2012 the world will end.

***In both ancient Sumaria and Egypt July 23 is the start of the new year.

The Nissan car takes its name from "Ni" which means 2 in Japaneese and "san" which means 3. Nissan means 23.

The articles of Impeechment used against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton are under Article 2, section 3 of the constitution.

The United States set off 23 atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

Lines 22-23 of Book I of Milton's Paradice Lost "What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support."

In a recent film version of Alice in Wonderland a stuffed

Rabbit comes alive and runs away from a case numbered 23.

***The first prime number in which both digits are prime and add up to make annother prime is 23.

It is believed that Adam and Eve had 23 daughters.

It is believed that the verses of the Qur'an were revealed over a period of 23 years. There exist hadith that support this figure, but many more that give other lengths of time.

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President Costanza tackles inflation

President Costanza tackles inflation

President Biden on Tuesday tried to preempt Wednesday’s April inflation report with a speech rehashing his tired proposals to cut prices: raise subsidies, raise taxes and tighten regulation. He should take Jerry Seinfeld’s advice to George Costanza and do the opposite of his political instincts. The president again called on Congress to pass his Build Back Better, uh, sorry, ‘Build a Better…

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United States: The Democrats’ Tax Plans

New taxes will hit America’s rich. Old loopholes will protect them. The first big tax rise in nearly three decades is just a first step

— October 2nd 2021 Edition | The Economist | Washington D.C.

The last time Congress passed a significant tax increase, Seinfeld won an Emmy award, Nirvana unplugged their guitars for mtv and lawmakers were pondering whether to vote for nafta. Early in Bill Clinton’s presidency, in 1993, Congress raised personal and corporate income taxes. Since then, almost every tax bill in Washington has lowered them. In aggregate America is now among the most lightly taxed countries in the developed world. Its overall tax-to-gdp ratio was 24.5% in 2019, nine percentage points below the average in the oecd, a group of mostly rich countries.

The $3.5trn social spending bill (equivalent to 1.2% of the next decade’s projected gdp) wending its way through Congress proposes to change this. Passage would require a party-line vote in the Senate, with all Democrats supporting it (which currently looks doubtful). Its provisions would touch many facets of American life: monthly payments to parents with children, funding for universal pre-kindergarten and incentives for power companies to use renewable energy. Just as significant is its potential impact on America’s tax system. “This bill will signal that Congress can actually raise taxes sometimes, as opposed to simply borrowing and kicking the can of financial burdens down the road to our children. I much prefer tax-and-spend to borrow-and-spend,” says Steve Rosenthal of the Tax Policy Centre, a think-tank.

America’s federal income taxes are already progressive: those at the top pay proportionally more. The proposal approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would make them more so, increasing the top rate for personal-incomes taxes to 39.6% from 37%. Those with more than $5m in income would face an extra 3% levy; the top rate on capital gains would climb to 25% from 20%; and the top rate for corporate taxes would rise to 26.5%, partly reversing cuts passed under Donald Trump in 2017 (his signature legislative accomplishment). Voting on the bill may take place in the coming weeks, possibly wrapped into a package that also raises the debt ceiling. In order to secure full backing from Democrats, some of these tax increases will be watered down.

Yet headline rates are not the same as what people actually pay. A series of deductions, from mortgage interest to local taxes, let the wealthy cut their bills. The ultra-rich have even more room to manoeuvre. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley have found that the 400 wealthiest Americans face lower tax rates than the middle class, because they collect much of their income as corporations. Reporting this year by ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news organisation, showed that tycoons like Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, consistently paid little or no tax.

The House bill aims to change that. The Joint Committee on Taxation, a non-partisan research arm of Congress, found that most of its tax increases would land on households making $1m or more per year. Their taxes would rise by 11% in 2023. Meanwhile, taxes would drop for everyone making less than $200,000, with the biggest benefits flowing to people on the lowest incomes. “This will put a serious dent in inequality. The major thrust of the bill is that it will make major investments in the middle class and the working class, paid for by very significant tax increases on the rich and corporations,” says Seth Hanlon of the Centre for American Progress, a left-leaning think-tank.

Many businesses are, unsurprisingly, less enthusiastic. The us Chamber of Commerce has called the proposals “an existential threat” to American prosperity. Expert studies do not quite hit the same alarmist notes, but they do raise questions about the economic impact. The Tax Foundation, an independent policy group, concludes the bill would lower gdp by about 1% over the coming decades. Within the White House, economists disagree with such estimates. Instead, they argue that a more even distribution of incomes would put more cash in the hands of poorer people who generally spend a greater share of their earnings, thereby boosting growth.

The most stinging criticism from the left is that the bill will fail to close all those loopholes. As it stands, someone who strikes it rich on properties or stocks can put those profits beyond the reach of the Internal Revenue Service so long as they hold on to their assets. If their heirs cash out, the basis for their capital-gains level would be the value of the assets at the time of inheritance. The fix for this is relatively simple: tax capital gains at death. This was a key component of Mr Biden’s initial tax plans. But after much lobbying, the proposals now in Congress make no such change. “If you’re not going to tax at death, then you really do have to worry that the general increase in capital-gains taxes will be counterproductive. You’ll have fewer and fewer people selling their assets. Revenue could actually decline,” says Alan Viard of the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think-tank.

Political calculations may also lead to an expansion of loopholes. One surprisingly progressive part of Mr Trump’s 2017 tax reform was a $10,000 cap on deductions of local taxes from federal tax bills. That, though, was unpopular in high-tax states such as New York and California. Democratic representatives from these states may prevail in getting the ceiling lifted for these deductions. The benefits of this change would flow mainly to the rich.

These revenue shortfalls magnify another problem. According to the abstruse rules of reconciliation—the legislative process by which this bill could pass—new expenditures must be roughly matched by new revenues. Yet Mr Biden promised during his campaign to raise taxes only on people with incomes of more than $400,000 (a pledge which, narrowly defined, the proposal honours). How to find the extra cash? Much of the answer comes from the increase in corporate tax. This, however, is an inefficient form of taxation, a roundabout tax on shareholders and a deterrent to investment by companies. Adding in state levies, the House bill would push America’s corporate taxes over 30%, among the highest in the rich world.

“If the United States wants to significantly increase spending, we should fund that in a less economically harmful way,” says Erica York of the Tax Foundation. One option, used by almost all rich countries except for America, would be a federal value-added tax on consumption. A carbon tax would be another. A third—more experimental—would be a wealth tax. But none of these ideas ever truly figured in the months of negotiations leading to the bill. America remains exceptional. ■

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "From whatever source derived"

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How to Raise a Son That Undoes the Quatrains (Defeating a False Prophet)

Nostradamus, is a Leipziger Man, as portrayed in The Big Lebowski, as the Jackie Treehorn drawing. Unable to repress an erection, if without quatrains, a four point predictable media pattern with a fifth, their unseen erection, they can't practice meditation, yet have a priapism.

Such dictators and murderers as Jefferson Davis, Karl Panzram, JP Morgan, Adolf Hitler, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Lodgemaster, William Morgan, share their blood.

To remove it, you have to be the harder caretaker, yet the kinder parent. Make sure you raise them with Dr. Seuss, their first book "Red Fish Blue Fish", immune to schizophrenia, the mortician's trade, their job if harassing through glee, a draft or conscription, illegal under American custom established by Martha Washington, a woman who married an Injun, George Washington, guided by the O'Neills, to create a Constitutional Congress, offering freedom to whomever had a round head, a Mestizo, slavery otherwise, for the flat top.

Your kid was doomed, anyways, if he met a Leipziger, a remedial husband or wife.

But otherwise, the Leipziger's penis doesn't work, he has hard-on for you.