Just in case anyone was wondering what the deal was with the new stimulus bill.
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This stimulus bill actually proves that our congress is a lie.
Most people believe that bills are authored and presented by a congressperson, then read and understood by the rest of congress, and finally voted up or down based solely on merit.
In reality, bills are authored by lawyers working for lobbies who represent special interests and donors. Congresspeople present these bills on behalf of their masters. The rest of congress votes yes or no based entirely on party affiliation and/or the orders handed down by their own lobbyists, donors, special interests, etc.
This is how Washington has operated for decades. It's corrupt and evil, and everyone knows it. But they've always been able to shield themselves with a degree of plausible deniability. You can't prove they didn't personally author the bill. You can't prove they didn't read it before voting yes.
That works when the bill is a hundred pages long. But what if a bill is so comically long that it is impossible for only four congresspeople to have written it alone? And even more impossible that the rest of congress has read and understood it in the space of just a few hours?
This stimulus bill, at more than 5,500 pages, completely shatters their plausible deniability. It is not plausible that just four congresspeople legitimately negotiated a bill of this size. It is not plausible that every member of congress, or even any member of congress, has read and understood a bill of this size in just 2-3 hours.
The only remaining plausible explanation for any of this is the truth: four congresspeople, negotiating in secret, copy-pasted thousands of pages of legislative grift handed down to them by their lobbyist and special interest masters, and then almost every other member of congress rubber-stamped a bill they didn't read because their lobbyist and special interest masters told them to do so.
Congress has fully revealed their illegitimatecy. They should be forcibly disbanded.
I want to nominate this as the comment of the decade.
I don't think most of the people in congress even realize what they've done by passing this bill. They can no longer pretend to be operating as a legitimate legislative body. They finally put in so much pork that the corruption of the process can no longer be denied.
I'd nominate it for benevolent dictator.
The Powers That Be just showed you they can rig an election in broad daylight. It remains to be seen if they'll get away with it, but they think they did. In a post-democratic nation there is no need for them to be subtle anymore.
They literally spell it out for you on the Washington DC license plate. You are being over-taxed and that money is being used to buy the favor of those that hate you.
Tulsi said the bill was 5500 pages long and they only had a couple hrs to read it. Imagine WTF is in there...
At a miimum from what I've seen, ridiculous amounts of bailouts to special industries, having the Smithsonian build 2 new museums (one of latinos and one for women), something like $1 billion in foreign aid, provisions to crack down on online piracy and saying:
Everyone gets a museum except you white men. I bet those 2 new museums are going to be as ugly as the other diversity museums.
That line about the Dalai Lama is just a petty "fuck you" to the CCP. ( and it warms up mine shadenfreude )
The communist dictatorship declared they will "find" the next Dalai Lama themselves.
Sure, and I have no issues (and indeed encourage) people to screw with the CCP as much as they want. But what the heck is that line doing in a coronavirus bailout bill?
No politician should ever vote for a bill they have not read and understood. It would do a world of good if just once one of these bills included the following in bolded size 52 font:
"Any congressperson who votes to ratify this bill is guilty of a felony with a mandatory penalty of five years in prison."
Any congressperson who failed to read this but voted for it anyway would serve as a valuable cautionary tale for their peers to actually do their fucking jobs.
I like this idea. Similar to the "we require one bowl of green M&Ms to be left in the green room" to make sure that the venue has actually read and followed the instructions that (IIRC) Van Halen gave them.
It doesn't even matter if you get money directly. Every dollar printed and given away also chips away at the value of every dollar you hold or earn.