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Are we getting force vaccinated at Buccees now?

Sure… I mean, other than “some of the most significant domestic legislation in modern U.S. history”, like -

• The Affordable Care Act (ACA / “Obamacare”): A comprehensive healthcare reform law that expanded Medicaid, created health insurance marketplaces, and prohibited insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): An $831 billion economic stimulus package passed in response to the Great Recession, aimed at saving and creating jobs, investing in infrastructure, and providing tax relief.

• The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: A massive overhaul of financial regulation designed to prevent another financial crisis, which included the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

• The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: The first bill Obama signed into law, which loosened the statute of limitations for filing equal-pay lawsuits regarding wage discrimination.

• The Credit CARD Act of 2009: Fair lending legislation that established fairer practices for credit card companies, such as restricting arbitrary interest rate hikes and hidden fees.

• The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products.

• SCHIP Reauthorization: An expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide health coverage to millions of additional children from low-income families.

• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010: A landmark civil rights law allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.

• The New START Treaty: A bipartisan nuclear arms reduction treaty ratified with Russia to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers. 

Works great for us natives, for a couple hundred years plus now

The last time? Dems didn’t have control of all three branches like republicans just did.

The dnc leadership, the neo-liberals, are definitely slaves to the same masters, but you absolutely can’t earnestly say with evidence that both parties pass the same fascist policies. Pretending or claiming they are the same after the Trump presidencies shows immediately the claimant is either ignorant and just parrots divisive rhetoric they read on edgy social media outlets, or they’re actively pushing destructive narratives to divide what has been shown to be a very cohesive movement when it needed to be. Both parties do not appoint the same quality Supreme Court justices, they don’t pass the same types of laws, the presidents don’t behave the same or treat people the same. Are there problems with both? Absolutely, big ones. But they are not the same, that’s obvious to anyone with two brain cells these days.

Soooo, I have to man/he/him the name tag table for the next two years?

No. If woke 3 were actually a thing, and not just made up divisive rhetoric made up by groups that benefit from distraction and bigotry, it wouldn’t have a list of proscribed words out of revenge, it would have a list of bullet points for an agenda that is beneficial towards maintaining positive movement and growth until the 28 presidential elections, and the nation has already at large shown they’re over performative culture wars.

I think we’ll see more of it read into congressional hearings as a few people scratch the itch of wanting to be president in 28.

They’ll definitely need to preemptively address his ridiculous “hack” of rebooting the war on weekends to do stock manipulation and reset the 30 days of war powers.

It should be noted at least one Democrat has said they’re open to confirming Trump Supreme Court appointees, that being U.S. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, so far.

and you’ll definitely immediately see a party divided between who thinks they should do some investigation, lots of investigations, or none and just focus on legislation. There is a risk in just sitting all day on cspan doing investigations and getting no where, but legislation as you mentioned is likely to go nowhere other than showing on record who supports or doesn’t a particular policy or change, so there will in fact need to be some balance found if Dems are to hold congress and the senate and take the executive office in 28.

Trump still holds power of foreign policy, and war powers, and he will ramp up those abuses even further to change the narrative and punish the nation for slighting him, as any good narcissist can be expected to do.

We don’t have the water resources to fight fires with controlled flooding, or energy resources - flooding would come with its own ecological problems, affecting everything from plant life to animal to microbial, it would be an environmental disaster even if we had the resources and technology. Controlled burning is also good for nature, nature evolved for occasional burns, it feeds microbial life, it reboots life, it is necessary for many plants to even reseed. It’s cheap. It’s safe when done properly. It’s efficient compared to water. There are many more reasons, but these are the major ones.

I ain’t voting lubritarian

She’s about to knock one out of the nest.

Nah, more like the people from ml and how they narrate what’s going on in Ukraine and all things Russia, but German laws are a good point in how things can vary depending on where the user and instance are from

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There’s a lot of us that were banned for dubious or outright false, non existent reasons. It’s a smaller community so there’s not as constant a feed of new stuff, but that is better imo. It also means there’s inside jokes that most people who are constantly on here see. For a while it was beans. Just random pictures and puns about beans. Then deans. Lots of pictures of the dean from community. So if you see some random confusing stuff mentioned, it might be that kind of thing. There’s also some instances that are seemingly trolling, some that seem state sponsored and local to certain nations that have to toe the line of the authoritarian regime opinions. There are a lot of great people here already, so just be patient, explore, and slowly build up your feed by browsing all. Also look at how all is sorted, there’s a few different options there and you’ll figure out which ones you like more. I mostly stay in new, but if I’ve been gone a while I might browse the most popular over the last hour, 5 hours, or day.

The dogs woke me up twice last night to potty due to upset tummies from a transient virus or whatever, so I got like 2 bouts of 2 hours of sleep max. I literally couldn’t remember my home address as I was drinking my first cup of coffee trying to get my day started with ordering stuff online.

Neither do most people I know

This was peak comedy a few decades ago. Then someone evented wasssaaapppp.

Just once but my parents grounded me and took away my gameboy