Or medication. Israel is one of the world’s largest producers of generic pharmaceuticals.
Iscar cutting tools, from Israel, are quite popular in the shop that employs me.
Proposed friendly amendment: Delete " pussy-grabble" (including the space preceding it) and leave the rest as a description that could apply to either.
“The producers would like to inform the audience that those who have been investigating the people running the investigation, have been investigated.”
:smack:
Here’s a stupid Republican idea: It’s not the job of anyone in congress to say anything at all when the president blatantly, obviously lies. They don’t have time for that. too busy. Not their job to make sure that the truth is told by the holder of the highest political office in the land. Nu-uh. Someone else’s job
The media. Ya, that’s the ticket, it’s the media’s job. The same media that we call “fake news”.
CNN article puts it thusly: in an opinion piece:
Is nobody as pleased as I that our beloved financial institutions are protected from frivolous and damaging lawsuits from scofflaws and malcontents? I, for one, welcome our new vampire overlords! Well, maybe not “new”, perzackly…
Or stop chatting on ICQ. Oh, wait…
The Republican party is not serving the public; they’re serving their voters and their donors. Everyone else is vermin.
There is a lesson in the demise of Senators Flake, Corker, and perhaps Heller and McConnell. If people think that voting for an extremist authoritarian party is going to work in the short term and that they can be challenged when they go too far, think again. It’s not enough to support the extremists 90% of the time (Flake). It’s not enough to support them during the campaign when few other colleagues did (Corker). It’s not enough to go to unprecedented lengths to ensure his lone legislative success (McConnell). They have learned the hard way that they are dealing with people who fight for the sake of fighting. There is no diplomacy with these people. No reasoning with them. Authoritarians don’t really care what your credentials are. You are never free to voice your own thoughts, voice your own opposition. If someone opposes them, then they are treated like vermin just as their liberal opposition are. They become enemies of the state all the same. This is true for officeholders and this is true for voters as well.
Right now it’s the Republican party that is being held hostage, but it could one day be an entire country. Right now the crime for disobedience is losing a political office. In the future, it could be jail or worse. The Nazification of the Republican party is real, and if this isn’t stopped, it’ll be the Nazification of an entire country.
To be fair, we did set up a system where you only need 51% of the public to like you to stay in power. The GOP is currently exploiting the technical aspects of our democracy, and attempting to re-fashion them so they will never need to be refashioned (yes, I mean IMO they are attempting to gerrymander themselves a permanent majority).
You only need 50.01 % of the voters to stay in power. The Republicans can win with much less than a majority of the public.
With current gerrymandering, they don’t even need 50%+1, they can get away in many situations with less than 35% support.
Auto Dealers Are Pretty Happy The Senate Just Voted To Make It Harder For You To Sue Them (and banks too). Auto Dealers Are Pretty Happy The Senate Just Voted To Make It Harder For You To Sue Them
HIghlights - “Late Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that allows financial institutions to keep putting clauses in loan contracts—including auto loans—that prevents consumers from banding together to file class-action lawsuits against lenders. Auto dealers are particularly pleased by the vote, which passed 51-50 after Vice President Mike Pence weighted in to break a tie.”
and - “And after a staunch campaign by financial institutions—despite the major security breach of Equifax and the myriad scandals ensnaring Wells Fargo—Senate Republicans rallied 50 members of their caucus to pass a resolution that would ban the CFPB’s rule from going into effect.”
So your contract with the dealer will continue to have in very small print; no suing, only arbitration and only a single case at a time.
For a party that claims to believe that if people are unhappy about something, they should take action, they seem to spend a lot of time making it difficult for unhappy people to take action.
That sums up the republican philosophy perfectly and concisely. Well done.
They’re not even serving their voters. Many of the things the Pubs are promoting will either ultimately not benefit their voters or will actually hurt them. Their voters are too uninformed to know this.
The bankers and car dealers were unhappy with the possibility that they could be sued. Oh, won’t someone think of the bankers!
I don’t disagree with this at all and that scares the ever-loving fuck out of me. I think this needs to be shared far and wide. Some may say that it’s hyperbolic, but naysayers will not be convinced that it is not until it’s too late, I fear.
Absolutely. But at least in the past, they had the wits to at least bullshit us about serving the public. Now they just say “Ha ha, shit no, not my job to serve the public as a branch of government. I just support the dictator”
See, for example, the Night of the Long Knives. The Sturmabteilung thought that they had everything under control. Until they didn’t.
I’d just like to point out that sometimes, comparisons to Nazis are entirely appropriate and reasonable. Now is such a time, and the parallels are striking.
Well, we now know from the highest powers in the land that lying to your customers, and reneging on payment to your suppliers is not just OK. It’s smart business! It’s how you make lots of cash. And at the end of the day, THAT is the only important thing that matters. That, and if you get high ratings and standing O’s. That’s critical too.
How is that good business for the suppliers? Aren’t they “in business” too?