American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

The U.S. is so absolutely, unabashedly evil, the only thing more pathetic is the fact that the majority of its slave/working class defends their shackles at the cost of their very lives.

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My Google-fu is really weak right now, anyone know of the state that Satanists had forced a religious freedom issue by placing a decoration in a public space alongside Baby in the Manger Christmas decoration that (I think) a city put up?

Pretty sure you’re thinking of Florida Man, I mean Boca Raton:

i agree, but it’s a complex problem in part because our identity system is inefficient and outdated. the DL is the de facto, national id card for no other reason than the number of drivers.

but it’s still a 20th century system. the responsibility of maintaining records and the issuing of most ids belongs to state government not the federal government. so, we’re talking about a patchwork of multiple, local governments with multiple bureaucracies, databases, various requirements and catch-22’s galore. the process for establishing or reestablishing an identity, replacing ids when lost or destroyed can be an expensive, time consuming, bureaucratic nightmare.

no, this topic isn’t new at all. it’s been done in one form or another over the decades.

the federal government using a national id system with unique identifiers instead of relying on the states or individuals to maintain or carry identity documents which can be lost, destroyed or forged? good idea. however, like i said, this isn’t new. they talked about using SSN as a national identifier as far back as the 70’s and 80’S and when the technology got better. they started talking about biometric data. in a more modern example, the obama administration and a bipartisan group of senators proposed using biometric data which was part of immigration reform. why link it to immigration reform? well, because every time this topic comes up. you have libertarians, privacy rights advocates, etc coming out the woodwork talking about “1984” and “big brother”.

[details=Spoiler]https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssnchron.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-case-for-a-national-id-card/2013/02/02/49d4fb80-6cb5-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html?utm_term=.fc5b088bb675
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1974927,00.html[/details]

sure, but like universal healthcare. american exceptionalism is also one reason why we don’t have it.

or maybe using the courts to lower an unreasonably high bar is an easier solution than trying to convince a paranoid faction of legislators that the government won’t use the technology to conduct experiments in mind control. it’s just an observation.

in theory, but once i lost my DL and went to the DMV to get a replacement. they asked me for additional documentation even though they were looking at my DL on their monitor. lol.

Canada signed TPP deal and USA is left behind. Trump throws 30% tariffs on solar panels. Most countries are hesitant to have new trade deals with Trump for good reason.

Also at the cost of healthcare and national debt, everyone gets 60 bucks a month for those that make 50K-75K. It is essentially an extra meal a week. Big whoop. Corporations walk away with billions. Average Americans walk away with scraps. Also, they make not get anything with healthcare cost goes up.

Tax cuts will be hardly even noticeable and Republicans even know this. They passed their plan and now they don’t even talk about it at all.

There…and with that, found a hilarious update from last year:

“Build your wall… We’ll just tunnel under it.”

I feel bad for Mexico.

Quite literally every single one of their social problems was created by and is perpetuated by the United States.

Faux so blunt on the lies and misleads they now just say who cares about the facts after just lying. I now just feel bad for people who live in the bubble. They really are a special kind of stupid.

Pretty much the only person who doesn’t do this on Faux is Smith who’s segment tells the actual facts and truth most of the time or what I now just call the watered down sprinkle version of CNN on Faux… you know the people with show dedicated to those things called facts and real news.

Problem is, Shep Smith is the token “other voice” of Fauxbutt News so that they can still carry the excuse of them being ‘fair and balanced.’ (though didn’t they dump that tagline a while back?)

The Art of the Deal.

When’s the wall? When’s the swamp gonna get drained?

This is just a joke, but it’s just plausible enough that it sucked me in for a moment.

President Snowflake was crying in Davos about how mean the media can be lol

FIND THIS MAN A SAFE SPACE

Did this dude just say CNN tells the truth?

Son I got news for you: You can’t trust any mainstream “news” outlet as far as you can fact-check them yourself.

THEY ALL LIE.

“President Trump once made Stormy Daniels spank him with a Forbes magazine with his photo on the cover — and sit with him for hours watching “Shark Week,” the porn star told a political operative, according to a report.”

I HOPE ITS TRUE CUZ ITS TOO HILARIOUS.

If that’s your standard for mainstream news, I’m presuming that you’re applying the same standard but even more so to non-mainstream media, as there’s less fact-checking being done out there.

I’d differentiate between lying and getting a story wrong, but hey generalities are tight.

I agree, always double check sources