Discussion: House GOP Proposes Fines For Livestreaming After Gun Control Sit-In

Right. Because we should never ever see how the House ‘works’.

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Heaven forbid that the people should see what happens in Congress!

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The best hope for America is that Republicans eventually go “too far,” which I would define as abusing their powers to the point that large numbers of their base actually notice and speak out.

Unfortunately, by the time that happens it could be too late to salvage much.

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Some rules just beg to be broken,this one screams for it.

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And it’s the PEOPLE’S house!

Good grief. Glad all those soldiers died for out freedoms.

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In a free country, information about citizens is protected by law. Information about the government is open to the public.

In a police state, information about the government is secret and he citizen’s lives are open books.

Such total information inversion is necessary to facilitate the crimes of government and to prevent those crimes from becoming public knowledge

As summed up by Al Gore
"By closely guarding information about their own behavior, they are dismantling a fundamental element of our system of checks and balances. Because so long as the government’s actions are secret, they cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people must be transparent to the people. "

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Ryan could use a good punch in the mouth. What gall!

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Stricter gun laws? NOOOOOO, because FREEDOM!

Stricter livestreaming laws? YEEESSSSSS, because FREEDOM!

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President Obama never liked them much.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Looking ahead to his final State of the Union address in 2016, Barack Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer that he was “celebrating, just celebrating the last time I ever have to talk to these bastards.”

“I’ll be going over some of the accomplishments of the past seven years and outlining some of the challenges for our nation that remain ahead,” the President said, in an interview taped for NBC’s “Today” show. “But inside, I’ll be like, ‘Good Lord, I never have to so much as look at these horrible people again.’ “

Asked which member of Congress he would most enjoy never looking at again, Obama responded, “That’s tough. It’s a toss-up between Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell. But the beautiful thing is, I don’t have to choose, Matt. After tonight, I don’t have to look at either of them.”

When Lauer reminded Obama that he might still have to engage in face-to-face conversations with McConnell during his final year as President, Obama visibly shuddered. “God, let’s hope not,” he said.

Over all, the President suggested that his ambitions for his final State of the Union were modest at best. “Just to be able to look out at that sea of bastards for the last time ever—well, it doesn’t get sweeter than that,” he said.

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Shouldn’t they be giving themselves a raise or naming a Post Office?

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I’m out of words in this season of a tangerine buffoon, so Borowitz it is.

WASHINGTON The Borowitz Report —President Obama’s proposal to give workers six weeks of paid leave is meeting strong opposition from a group of people who annually receive thirty-three weeks of paid leave.

Members of the group heard the President’s proposal on Tuesday night, one of the few nights of the year when they are required to report to their workplace.

The opponents of paid leave, who show up for work a hundred and thirty-seven days per year and receive paid leave for the other two hundred and twenty-eight, were baffled by other moments in the President’s speech.

For example, they were confused by Obama’s challenge to try to survive on a full-time job that pays fifteen thousand dollars, since they all currently hold a part-time job that pays a hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.

@sysprog @old_curmudgeon

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The various discussions about Party fixing or plans for organizing, in my mind, pale before the various and likely to be completely unaddressed institutional break-downs of which the FBI intrusion is the most glaring and the exploding, border-less social media technical shenanigans.

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will there be fines for not meeting more than 10 hours a month or shirking fund raising phone duty?

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The first step in the GOP campaign to restore the Constitution, one Amendment at a time:

freedom of speech: Check

the right of the people peaceably to assemble: Check

the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances: Check

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What do they do if the Democrats don’t pay the fines?

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IDK but them Republicans seem to like old school solutions so any member of the House who doesn’t pay their fines will be locked up in the House jail, or put into stocks on the House floor, or garnishment of wages with increasing interest rates attached, all better to fund the Republican’s winter conference’s liquor bill.

And here’s the answer of the GOP to big government.

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It makes me sick to think that the house of reps is going to be a lost cause for at least the next 4, more likely 14 years due to weapons grade computer assisted gerrymandering. Just another solid base for the Republican hegemony’s efforts to secure all power, stifle all democratic process, and remove the US from the forefront of progressive nations. Once the Repugs stack the SCOTUS the loss of rights will start coming fast and furious.

The real blame goes to the 46% that didn’t vote. Oh, they have excuses, but no good reasons

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