Bahnd Rollard

Yah… After Nixon closing the Boston naval shipyard in retaliation for not voting for him, Massachusettes has done a fairly good job at isolating itself from federal shenanigans.

They will have a rough time when the dept of education gets completely doge’d but they will fair better than many other places because this is not their first rodeo.

Aww, shazbot.

Calling it now, insider trading (If that wasnt obvious already, look at the market 30 min. before the announcment)

Again?

That’s not what what happened.

I dont care how it happened, I heard it being reported on my local radio station, and all I got was that it was a rumor. Thanks for enlightening us with the details.

We lucked out on monday, the talking heads were spreading rumors about 47 flip-flopping on the tariffs, so it didnt free-fall like I expected.

My bet was that we hit the circuit breaker before thursday, otherwise I owe a colleague of mine a sandwich.

In the same way that Nero was an enviromentalist, burning Rome to the ground meant that fewer people were throwing shit in the Tiber, im sure the fish appreciated that.

We know, but we can choose to carry on anyway in spite of it, revile in the absurdity, dance in the moonlight and be very very French.

Happy thoughts my dude.

Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)

Woot

At the time of posting, he is ~5 hours out from the record.

Edit, 3 hours, I cant read clocks…

Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

14…yall know half this shit is still valid or required.

Paper checks and faxes are still in use and Japan got rid of floppy disks in govt right before plague. (Shit, that was 5 years ago…)

WHAT DECADE IS IT!?!?!

I guess it is in a traditional sense, but they are very infrequent these days due to the senates rules and their collective lazyness.

IIRC the current version of the filibuster is a combination of two rules (procedural rules of the senate, not laws).

1. Votes on bills cant be done while a senator is talking.
2. You cant force them to give up their speaking time (which is how ever long they want it to be) unless 60 members of the senate vote to get them to stop.

Back in the day, you actually had to be talking the entire time, but in the senate’s lazyness they changed the rules to streamline the entire process. Someone to just say they are going to filibuster something and they have the vote, to see if the matter gets dropped or not. I think its a squares vs rectangles sorta thing, a filibuster is done with the intent to kill a bill by not allowing the voting process to go forward, this appears to be doing the same before they brought anything to vote on. The outcome is still the same, the senate does nothing.

IANAL, but because this was done on a third party encrypted chat app, doesn’t it also violate the federal records act or something? If this was any other administration they would have been launched out of a cannon for that alone, not just the breach in security.

Color me suprised that it wasn’t the War Thunder forum this time…