Just in case anyone was wondering what the deal was with the new stimulus bill.
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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.