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The House passed a bi-partisan bump from $600 of COVID stimulus to $2000. Yet if the Senate is to make it a reality, Democrats might be forced to also vote on repealing Section 230 and investigating election fraud.
Needless to say, they won’t. This is either going to
Biden: Trump administration falling “far behind” on vaccine distribution
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Newsom recall effort gets major cash donation
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This is still a longshot but you can’t run statewide in CA without having a ton of money. They know have enough to start.
WHY DOES GEORGIA EVEN HAVE RUNOFFS?
Mitch McConnell has one more trick up his sleeve for 2020. How will he handle the House sending him a COVID stimulus bump from $600 per American to $2000? Pass it? Poison pill? Nothing? Robert Howard of Georgia State University explains why Peach State elections are complicated. Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show helps us craft a better Section 230 as the senate debate repealing it.
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Kamala Harris gets vaccine
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I’m glad she felt comfortable.
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In regards to people leaving California, I can completely relate!
As a recent expat of the Bay Area, the housing prices were just insane in 2018 and from what I've been hearing hasn't come down to earth.
I moved out of the South Bay in 2018 and to Kona, Hawaii and I'm paying LESS in housing even AFTER utilities and tax (yes even rent here is taxed which is completely unfair).As with all things with the good comes the bad.
When the choice for housing is between an urban hellscape with (normally) ridiculous traffic vs a tropical paradise with comparatively nothing for traffic, there really isn't a choice at all.
To be fair the cost of food is not even remotely close with food being insanely more expensive here and gas is only slightly more expensive here which is saying something.
Sending good vibes and aloha. - ISLANDER STEVE
The coming and going from California seems to be a right of passage. A lot of people move here. When it’s good, it’s really good. But it’s also annoying and expensive. Sort of like New York City but without the need to gaslight yourself into believing that snow is “fun” or “magical”
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I hear folks are leaving California. As a California native I say Don't Let The Door Hit You on the Way Out.
I took this on I-15 North nearing the Nevada border in April 2019 - GARY
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Oh for the love of God, you’re excited about 1.2 million people flying!?!?! Guess how many flew this time last year? 45 million! Anyone who believes that the economy is going to bounce back to January 2020 is naïve, doesn’t understand how the economy works or is trying to inflate stock prices. - OPENBAYOU
Man, I’m just trying to survive out here.
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“A free market with a guaranteed minimum quality of product”
This is an oxymoron.
We’re dealing in absolute terms here, but if you want a guaranteed standard of quality... you’re compromising on the freeness of the market.
...and if you want a completely free market... you wont be able to guarantee a minimum standard.
Here’s the thing, though, both ideals... are a lie.
Heavy regulation promises minimum standards, and fails to give them. What it does give is the opportunity for monopoly and corruption.
A completely free market promises “The best possible product at the lowest possible price”, and fails to give either. What it does give is one or two brands capitalizing on being “a sure thing” and a hundred others selling you... essentially “Weed flavoured oregano”
What you want is a compromise and, generally speaking, with every good and service where both competition is encouraged, and false advertising is punished... you’ll get a good compromise. It just takes time, effort, trials and failures to get there. - SCALE
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So the bold prediction (in jest by a listener) of Trump running as a Democrat in 2024 sparked off a half baked idea I had back in November. What would be the odds of Trump pulling a Roosevelt and running third party? Would the Libertarian choose Trump as a calculated move to get enough of the vote to be guaranteed a ballot spot in the 2028 election? - SEAN
Trump took over one half of a national power duopoly as a game show host in 2015. It’s fruitless to wonder if he would consider the patronage of the Faygo-brand political parties of the world.
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If Trump is going to hold an event competing with the inauguration and he wants to have any chance of stealing any thunder at all, he's going to have to do something downright bonkers. My money is on spilling the classified tea. How amazing would it be to live in a world where the departing president of the USA announces aliens are real, and trots out Brognar from the galactic council with all three of his heads, and half the country refuses to believe a word of it because of who said it? *Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif here* - TOM
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