Comments on: The legislature has become obsolete

By: Cappy

Cappy — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:47:22 +0000

“With money, everything is easy” Dad, 1982

“With lying, everything is easy” Joe Biden, now

By: Erisguy

Erisguy — Thu, 06 May 2021 10:48:05 +0000

Laws are just wordswhich derive their power from a people who believe in them and people who suffer shame and guilt from repudiating them. But laws are just words, and if they are not obeyed, exile, imprisonment, and death are the only options. So who will rid US of this unprincipled politician?

The consequences of action and inaction appear to be the same.

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 06 May 2021 10:34:21 +0000

One thing I read from time to time is that the Republican floor leaders (who are useless human beings six-ways-to-Sunday) are admired by members because they’re vigorous fundraisers. We have this institution called the Republican National Committee, which has a three digit staff. Why are our parliamentary floor leaders devoting their time to running fundraisers in any constituency but their own?

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 06 May 2021 10:31:38 +0000

It’s been a question on my mind for some time: how is a legislature supposed to operate effectively in an era of such rapid change?

By having sensible parliamentary procedure and an array of committees which correspond to each of the different components of the bureaucracy and to each of the different components of U.S. Code. We don’t have that because Congress is all about protecting each influential member’s quantum of turf (i.e. his opportunity for graft). It would help also if our legislators were not bags of manure. Kakistocracy is now.

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Thu, 06 May 2021 07:05:27 +0000

Speaking of King Joe, has anyone noticed the weird television ads touting his first 100 days and all his alleged triumphs? I don’t ever recall a president running what are in effect campaign ads AFTER Election Day. The ads have an unsettling “Dear Leader” vibe; all that’s missing is the children’s chorus. Like everything connected with Biden–from “I’ve got hairy legs” to his touchy-feely ways–there is an air of Creep about them.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Thu, 06 May 2021 06:17:28 +0000

}}} Biden has signed only 11 bills into law during his first 100 days.

TRUE… but those bills have spent 347 trillion dollars.

😛

(YES: Hyperbole for effect…. but not enough hyperbole and too much reality)

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 06 May 2021 03:28:40 +0000

Mike K- To see that Conrad Black is likely correct, one must see around the miasma inducing Fake polling that increasingly abounds.

It used to be in recent years that Pew and Harris were reliable, in addition to Gold standard Gallup and Rasmussen.

No more. Pew and Harris/Harvard, among others, are not.

You need to know who’s oversampling the Left, at the minimum. Internal data breakdowns should reveal this data.

And if they don’t release it, and if the party ID breakdown‘s don’t reflect, for example, the huge Pubbie bump in voter self-identifications in 2020 (because of Trump), and also reflect increased R voter registrations that were measured last year, then that particular poll can be dismissed.

Always remember why the Left was so shocked by the 2016 election outcome: they all Believed their own propaganda polling. No need to do likewise

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 06 May 2021 03:12:54 +0000

@Philip Sells:

What we got ain’t working. Won’t work. Can’t work. Not designed for the people we are now, let alone the technology we have now.

Out on the Dissident Right, Monarchy (with its own set of failure modes) seems to be it. The more cerebral ones like Curtis Yarvin have been thinking about how to leverage technological momentum as part of this, judo throw style. There are also plenty of Conans who think that the Unabomber wasn’t entirely wrong on all points.

Won’t know one way or the other until long after all of us here are gone from the scene.

Are you familiar with the Culture science fiction novels of the late Iain M Banks? He was your typical nasty Scottish leftist (but I repeat myself). In his imaginary universe, AIs were essentially Gods and humanity were their pets. Since this allowed limitless license and extreme violence around the civilizational edges, you might imagine that this was crack for him. Still, entertaining and imaginative fiction if one skims over some evidence of a very nasty cruel streak in the man. I found it interesting that a Progressive had to reinvent the Gods in order to bash the Universe into a form he could enjoy. It all involved essentially ‘free’ matter and energy, too — an important part of any Leftist’s arsenal 😀

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Thu, 06 May 2021 02:32:35 +0000

It’s been a question on my mind for some time: how is a legislature supposed to operate effectively in an era of such rapid change? Our system of government was built to operate slowly and (in various senses) deliberately. I think that it’s really not capable of reacting to social and technological change with the necessary speed. But what is the replacement method supposed to be? AI? Monarchy? It’s agonizing.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Thu, 06 May 2021 00:57:57 +0000

Given the way that Conrad Black was railroaded by the System — it was relentless until it got him right where it wanted, he of all people should know that they don’t and won’t give up easily.

Still, he’s been right about more things in life than I have, so there’s that.