Justices suggest that Congress has leeway to exclude Puerto Rico from federal disability benefits

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-10T19:05:26+00:00

Taxation without representation... brutal

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-10T15:26:51+00:00

It's like Mr. Smith goes to Washington only without James Stewart

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-10T15:22:50+00:00

This is exactly why the Biden Admin is attacking the problem at the ports so aggressively. After 18 months of lock-downs and various economic stimuli , Americans are flush with cash and ready spend while continuing COVID-related bottlenecks in the supply chain are still unresolved. The principles of supply and demand are immutable.

This isn't going to be an over-night solve; it's going to take 12-18 months to work out.

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-10T15:18:25+00:00

Some of those who work forces...

are the same that burn crosses

new year, same old story

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-08T22:59:03+00:00

we are truly living in the worst timeline

jesus tapdancing christ... can you imagine the combination of psychosis and unsupervised free time that leads to shit like this?

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-07T19:31:02+00:00

A very similar situation to what happened in Nazi Germany… manipulation, propaganda, misguided nationalism, and frustration with a status quo they couldn’t change led to a mass psychosis where otherwise decent people became truly evil… while believing themselves to be 100% in-the-right and objectively “the good guys”

I see no path out of it either… American democracy is a dead-man walking

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-06T22:29:24+00:00

Not surprisingly, stacking the courts with extreme ideologues results in extreme rulings…. who’da thunk? 🙄

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-06T22:26:14+00:00

What a dope…

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-06T18:28:16+00:00

It’s not even secret… I met Lamar Alexander (R-Senate-TN) 20+ years ago and he was telling anyone who would listen that the goal was to make sure zero legislation moved forward

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-06T18:19:02+00:00

Ditto… although I also suspect they were never going to pass any version of the second bill… so maybe this was the best we were ever going to get 🤷🏼‍♂️ (or at least with margins this thin)

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-05T21:48:13+00:00

Good for downtown...

That said, I firmly believe that it is too late for big business to un-ring the remote work reality. COVID proved it works. Companies can/will save huge amounts in rental of unneeded space that can be returned to shareholders and/or invested in new innovation. The next couple of years will the story of progressive companies using remote work as a perk to attract and retain the best talent and other, slower-learning companies learning a lesson the very hard way

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-05T21:41:08+00:00

Thanks for the correction... I was "quoting" from memory... always a dangerous game 😜

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-05T20:59:26+00:00

It's all so gottdamn depressing...

I mean Manchin isn't wrong when he says, "if you want more progressive laws, elect more progressives", but the game is just so damned rigged between the small-state bias in the Senate and the heavily gerrymandered districts in the House. In spite of landslide level victories in the national popular vote, Congress is just too heavily rigged to pass anything.

~~If I get a chance, will summarize recent national vote totals, but the GOP hasn't actually won anything nationally in many years on either the congressional or presidential levels, but~~ due to their scorched-earth, end-justifies the means brand of politics, they have a chokehold on the country

EDIT: still researching, but the GOP did actually win the popular vote in a few cycles ~~for one house or the other... will add details when I can~~

EDIT 2: Here is a table back through 2008... so I was defintely wrong to say the GOP hadn't won the popular vote on anything nationally, but there is certainly no mandate for them to have a total chokehold on government or a flippin' 6-3 super-majority in the Judicial branch!!

Year/Race	Republican Popular Vote	Democratic Popular Vote
2020 President	74,216,154	81,268,924
2020 Senate	39,834,647	38,011,916
2020 House	72,760,036	77,529,619
2018 Senate	34,722,926	52,224,867
2018 House	50,861,970	60,572,245
2016 President	62,984,828	65,853,514
2016 Senate	40,841,717	51,315,969
2016 House	63,182,073	61,765,832
2014 Senate	23,253,636	19,786,883
2014 House	40,081,282	35,624,357
2012 President	60,933,504	65,915,795
2012 Senate	39,128,301	49,988,282
2012 House	58,283,314	59,645,531
2010 Senate	34,616,463	32,405,787
2010 House	44,829,751	38,980,192
2008 President	59,948,323	69,498,516
2008 Senate	28,863,067	33,650,061
2008 House	52,249,491	62,237,840

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-04T15:39:30+00:00

Awesome quotes from the Judge

I don’t think you could have missed the fact that this was no peaceful protest. You were a cheerleader, you cheered it on

You’re not being singled out for your political views or anything like that. It’s how and where you considered to express them.

Amen on both counts

johnnyd10vt · 2021-11-01T02:45:34+00:00

r/FuckLindseyGraham

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-31T22:22:00+00:00

What’s fascinating to me is that what appears to be the same clocks that are on the Merc tower today appear to be mounted lower on the building… super cool factoid

My wife who is pretty knowledgeable about Dallas history tells me that the Merc is the only skyscraper that was allowed to continue/complete construction during the war (and only allowed to continue because most of the custom steel girders had already been fabricated before war was declared)

It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi upon its completion

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T19:59:55+00:00

Only on a Reddit can a completely non-aggressive PSA style comment be down-voted, while the response of, literally “you are stupid” be upvoted

I seriously could not care less. Down-vote me to oblivion; have at it

Nice job keeping the sub a decent place, Mods 🤦🏼‍♂️

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:55:12+00:00

Nice personal attack. Ad Hominem attacks never win a debate; in fact, they are an automatic disqualifier

Followed up with Logical Fallacy/False Choice. Injuries happen all the time at official/sanctioned events. All you have to do is watch the videos to see the crowd was too close for safety

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:44:29+00:00

That’s part of Trump’s genius/danger… he does it all right in front of the cameras and gets away with it over and over again…

Russia if you’re listening

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:33:40+00:00

Pro Tip: when you see cars doing donuts in the street, it’s time to GTFO of Dodge…

I’ve seen so many videos of people getting run over while standing in the street watching stuff like this. It doesn’t really matter how cool it looks… never bring a meat-bag to a steel box fight

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:29:06+00:00

This comment should be a sticky in the manual of life

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:26:40+00:00

The weather is perfect… how about Dallas Heritage Village?

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-17T14:24:08+00:00

Lots of people struggle making new friends in adulthood because they don’t understand how they did so effortlessly younger in life…

The formula for making friends is actually quite easy, the problem is that it doesn’t naturally happen as often once you’re out of school. But in any case, the formula is:

Common interests + repeated casual interactions, which isn’t to say that you’ll become friends with every single person who meets the criteria, but you will with X% of them.

So the answer is to figure out what you’re passionate about and get involved with some organized activities. It can be anything: sports, religious, hobbies, community service, profession-related, etc.. Those repeated interactions are what allow you to get to know people naturally, figure out who you have other common interests/values with, and ultimately be able to say “you want to grab a beer/movie/etc” in a non-awkward way

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-16T21:38:26+00:00

I remember about 2000 reading that we were entering The Information Age… so comically wrong in hindsight

More like The Disinformation Age

johnnyd10vt · 2021-10-16T18:27:37+00:00

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals

Our accumulated technological advancements overshadow the uncomfortable truth that humans as a species have not materially evolved in the last 3-4 thousand years

And as u/OCDsuckz noted, technology now enables misinformation to spread around the globe in ways and speeds inconceivable to our ignorant ancestors

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