I don't think we can catch up anymore at this point. Ignorance and carelessness of this virus has done its job. We could've slowed it down, but instead our government jerked each other off and lied to the entire country. All we've gotten is assurance in a time where assurance isn't needed and manipulative lies to try and save the economy over the people. This has felt like a last ditch effort to save the market rather than a last ditch effort to save our people. There's no way that this hasn't been spreading to tens of thousands of people already. These next couple of weeks are going to be a bumpy ride. The next few months our ride is going to crash. Ive become hopeless of the situation.
Edit: It's here. It's 6 miles from me now.
Hillary Clinton has had zero relevance in terms of any actual policy in this country since she lost her bid for President in 2016, and really not even since she ended her gig as Secretary of State in 2013. She hasn't done anything in that span other than write a book, tweet a few times, and spend time with her family, all of which are pretty normal things to do for any American citizen.
And yet, I STILL see people creating fresh slams against Hillary, new memes about her, more rhetoric about how good it is that she didn't win. This is YEARS after she stopped being important.
There is only one reason I can think of that explains why anyone still feels like Hillary Clinton is still relevant: that politics is a game where people win and lose, and the only thing that matters is that your side wins. This mentality IS NOT focused on the country as a whole, and I can't possibly imagine why fostering a deep division is really helping anything. It highlights that people view politics like they view sports, where all they really care about is winning, and what you do with that victory is not to use your gained power for good but rather to just gloat about the fact that you won.
Remember how Democrats kept on railing about Mitt Romney in 2015, two to three years after he lost? What, you don't? Well why not?! I mean, he ran for President, and lost, and I think the majority of Americans seem to be glad about that, so why is that any different from Hillary in 2019?? My response is that Democrats actually DO care about the direction of the country and want to win so that they CAN change the country for the better, and the fact that they left Mitt alone after he lost is proof of that. The fact that people still care about Hillary in 2019 is proof that these people don't actually care about the direction of the country, they only care that their side wins elections so they can feel better about themselves. Why else would Hillary still be relevant in 2019?
Edit: Lots of good dialogue here. Let me respond to some of the common points brought up.... First, the delta I awarded was on this point that she is "not relevant". I admit now that she IS relevant, but I still maintain that she is not any more relevant to current politics than any other retired Democratic politician. I don't take seriously this idea that she may run for office since she said so herself, and second-hand conjecture is not going to sway my opinion on that.
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More 3 series gens for fun:
This is a project I've been working on for a while, allowing you to browse for certain collector cars, project cars, off roaders, whatever, on a national scale, kind of like a hacked together SearchTempest for Facebook Marketplace.
These lists update regularly. The first post in a thread shows all vehicles from the past 30 days, and the replies show the newest finds. Let me if you find something you like, if you find a bug, or if there's another make/model you want to see. Thanks for looking!
While I've got your attention, be sure to check out my own subreddit /r/CollectorCarFeed, and come say hi in our Discord server!
In much of the rest of the world there are many cabinet departments (ministries) that the US doesn’t have like the Ministries of Science and Tech, Culture, Sports, Tourism, Infrastructure, the Environment, etc. Should the US re-organize its cabinet and into what?
Congress literally does not care what the majority of Americans think. Instead they only care what a rich few do. They're kept on a leash by their campaign donors and spend more time on average in office fundraising for the next election cycle rather than enacting laws. Nonetheless the fact that Congress members don't read the bills they vote on. Maybe if they didn't have to fundraise they could (probably still wouldn't but whatever). https://act.represent.us/sign/problem-fba
Also campaign donations will inherently lead to corruption. I base this claim on the fact that a significant majority 80-92% of the time, the person who wins an election is the person who received more donations and fundraising. https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/amp/
There have literally been times when Congress passed laws directly handed to them by businesses (aka private citizens).
Their approval rating currently sits at a crazy low 20% with 75% of us actively disapproving of them. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/06/01/politics/poll-of-the-week-congress-approval-rating/index.html
All of this contributes to my idea that I would even go so far to say that every sitting member of Congress in its' current iteration is corrupt beyond belief and is a hostile entity. An enemy of the United States, the Constitution, and the people. Our democracy is not representative of our actual population or our beliefs. Instead it's a puppet legislative organization, and if you follow the money it's basically a bunch of CEO's having a bid war for the future of our world.
Things that I think ought to be done which are also likely to be dumb and underthought.
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Outlaw campaign donations and outside interference in elections. Each candidate gets a set amount of money from the FEC in order to make their platform heard. Political ads paid for by non-affiliates of the involved candidates then also become illegal. Only those ads paid for by their affiliates can be aired or shown. Granted this would not affect journalism, if a scandal breaks it breaks, just not in the form of advertising.
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All forms of (edit: monetary) lobbying should instantaneously be made illegal.
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The dumbest idea. Try every member of Congress for perjury, on the idea that they lied under oath.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; th
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