America - The Official Thread

[Eunos_Cosmo]

You think that was an awkward conversation at all for Ted?

"Daddy's gonna use you as political cover for a really bad decision I made, can you just play along?"

Nah, I'm sure Ted didn't bat an eye.

 

[TexRex]

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), who was just seated in the United States House of Representatives when it convened on January 3rd, isn't very bright.

The message has since been deleted, which I imagine some of his kind believe is in violation of Section 230.

 

[Danoff]

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), who was just seated in the United States House of Representatives when it convened on January 3rd, isn't very bright.

The message has since been deleted, which I imagine some of his kind believe is in violation of Section 230.

When in rome...

I'm actually not super clear on the US legality of employers requiring a COVID-19 vaccine for existing employees. I think I read that it is legal to require that, but I didn't investigate much.

 

[TexRex]

The message has since been deleted, which I imagine some of his kind believe is in violation of Section 230.

That's my bumble. I was on the wrong Madison Cawthorn feed (his personal vs his "professional").

 

[GranTurNismo]

Cry more, lib.

 

[Joey D]

That's my bumble. I was on the wrong Madison Cawthorn feed (his personal vs his "professional").

Just wait until he finds out about healthcare and the flu vaccine. They are very upfront with you when you take the job that you must be current on all available vaccines unless you have documented proof of an allergy. You get a blood test done too so they know if you're lying.

It's entirely legal too since it's an HR policy and HR won't do anything that opens the company to a lawsuit.

 

[Keef]

That's my bumble. I was on the wrong Madison Cawthorn feed (his personal vs his "professional").

That's, uh, that's not how employment contracts work there bud.

Unless you're suggesting that employment is a human right and can't be infringed.................




It's official! The US has rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement.

 

[TexRex]

Just wait until he finds out about healthcare and the flu vaccine. They are very upfront with you when you take the job that you must be current on all available vaccines unless you have documented proof of an allergy. You get a blood test done too so they know if you're lying.

It's entirely legal too since it's an HR policy and HR won't do anything that opens the company to a lawsuit.

That's, uh, that's not how employment contracts work there bud.

Unless you're suggesting that employment is a human right and can't be infringed.................

It's legal if there isn't a law that prohibits it, the justness or righteousness of such a law notwithstanding. A legislator should grasp this concept.

 

[Danoff]

It's official! The US has rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement.

Gah! We're so concerned about the climate in Paris, but we can't even get power and drinking water to the people of Texas. Maybe if we didn't have wind turbines in Texas so that the people in Paris can be more comfortable, we wouldn't have busted pipes... [/s]

 

[TexRex]

****ing Ted Cruz...

 

[UKMikey]

That's my bumble. I was on the wrong Madison Cawthorn feed (his personal vs his "professional").

The guy literally owns an investment company called SPQR... you'd think he'd be more supportive of the Romans, yuk yuk.

Gah! We're so concerned about the climate in Paris, but we can't even get power and drinking water to the people of Texas. Maybe if we didn't have wind turbines in Texas so that the people in Paris can be more comfortable, we wouldn't have busted pipes... [/s]

I'm sure there's a Texas Cold 'Em joke in there somewhere.

 

[Populuxe]

****ing Ted Cruz...

Evergreen post. There will never be a time this isn’t appropriate.

Gah! We're so concerned about the climate in Paris, but we can't even get power and drinking water to the people of Texas. Maybe if we didn't have wind turbines in Texas so that the people in Paris can be more comfortable, we wouldn't have busted pipes... [/s]

Democrats just need to change their messaging. It’s not the Paris (France) Accords. It’s the Paris (Texas) Accords.

 

[Touring Mars]

****ing Ted Cruz...

Ah, come on man, I'm eating dinner here...

 

[McLaren]

Gah! We're so concerned about the climate in Paris, but we can't even get power and drinking water to the people of Texas. Maybe if we didn't have wind turbines in Texas so that the people in Paris can be more comfortable, we wouldn't have busted pipes... [/s]

Woah, calm down there Tedoff.

 

[Populuxe]

 

[McLaren]

Rough for week for Teddy.

In 2020, Mr Cruz was among the top 20 recipients of oil and gas money in the Senate. He was given $124,272 by the industry that year.

Much more telling, however, is that in 2018 - an election year for Mr Cruz - he was the top recipient of oil and gas money in the Senate, receiving nearly $800,000 from the industry.

Over the course of his career, Mr Cruz has received a total of $3,770,950 from oil and gas interests.
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Mr Cruz is one of numerous Texan politicians to receive massive amounts of money to represent the oil and gas industry in Congress.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has raked in an enormous $150m in oil and gas donations over the past six years, more than any other US governor.

Between Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and Mr Cruz, the three have collectively received more than $1m in industry donations.

The influence of oil and gas may have influenced some Texan politicians' attempts to shift blame for the widespread power outages on wind turbines.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-oil-gas-money-b1804908.html

 

[Biggles]

Anti-Trump Republicans weigh forming new party

The MSM are on top of this story ... well, at least Aljazeera is:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/19/anti-trump-republicans-weigh-forming-new-party

 

[TexRex]

Rough for week for Teddy.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-oil-gas-money-b1804908.html

Texas Republicans in the pockets of the oil lobby? That's unpossible!

Speaking of Crenshaw, I came across this earlier today:



I initially felt bad for laughing at it, but I remembered why I shouldn't...and then I didn't.

 

[Danoff]

Rough for week for Teddy.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-oil-gas-money-b1804908.html

He left is dog at home too:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/ted-cruz-flees-texas-for-cancun-ditches-family-poodle.html

Apparently the dog was being looked after by a security guard, probably tasked with checking in periodically. But if the house really is freezing, that's still not looking great. Someone drove past and got a shot of the dog looking forlorn out the door.

 

[TexRex]

 

[Joey D]

Ted Cruz's dog is named Snowflake? As in a liberal snowflake? The plot thickens on Cruz being an Antifa Communist Plant from Cuba whose dad really did shoot JFK.

 

[Dotini]

Ted Cruz's dog is named Snowflake? As in a liberal snowflake? The plot thickens on Cruz being an Antifa Communist Plant from Cuba whose dad really did shoot JFK.

The mob, the CIA, the military industrialists and the oilmen all wanted JFK gone. It was only naive schoolboys like me who shed a tear at his passing.

 

[Famine]

The mob, the CIA, the military industrialists and the oilmen all wanted JFK gone. It was only naive schoolboys like me who shed a tear at his passing.

Are you aware that you post exactly like a contextual spam bot does?

If you were a new/low post count user, had a blank or female avatar, and an IP/location mismatch, I'd be convinced enough that was a contextual spam bot post to hit the Spamban button.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Are you aware that you post exactly like a contextual spam bot does?

If you were a new/low post count user, had a blank or female avatar, and an IP/location mismatch, I'd be convinced enough that was a contextual spam bot post to hit the Spamban button.

I name this bot Spark-life.

 

[TexRex]

This Gun Shop Says It Won't Do Business With Biden Voters

A Michigan-based ammunition shop is refusing to sell to any customer who voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. "We've had a few potential customers call this morning to ask why they have to check a box stating they did not vote for Joe Biden in order to purchase our ammunition," Fenix Ammunition tweeted yesterday morning.

The answer: "Joe Biden ran on a campaign built on the most radical gun control platform a major party candidate has ever had, including banning the online sale of ammunition." This, says Fenix, is "essentially, a plan to bankrupt our company."

In a series of follow-up tweets, the company stressed that it was perfectly willing to give up potential sales to people who voted for Biden. "We're dead serious," Fenix tweeted. "We don't want your money, and you shouldn't want us to have it because we're going to use it to make more ammo, sell it to the citizenry, and do everything in our power to prevent Joe Biden's administration from usurping the rights of Americans."

"We have no problem talking to Biden voters and educating them on what they did, but they have to be willing to acknowledge their ignorance at the very least," it continued. "We're not going to sit here and debate with you. We're a 2A company and these are our first principles."

Fenix Ammunition's announcement has provoked a wave of positive attention from the right. Many are applauding the company for sticking up for its beliefs and declining to do business with people it sees as a threat to its business model.

"Private company," tweeted perennial MAGA gadfly Jack Posobiec, the implication being that because Fenix is private, it can do what it wants.

He's right, of course. Fenix is perfectly within its rights to reject customers who voted for Biden, or for any other reason related to a person's politics.

So is Twitter. And YouTube. And Facebook. And Reddit. And so on…

Yet when it comes to these private companies rejecting customers based on their ideological beliefs and political statements, Posobiec and many, many others on the right have been whining and objecting nonstop. They insist it violates their rights, somehow. They champion proposals to force these private actors to carry speech they disagree with and cater to customer bases they find objectionable. They support federal action to punish private businesses for not being politically "neutral."

So which is it when private companies get political—a brave and respectable act, or something that should be totally disallowed and result in anyone who tries it getting destroyed?

Conservatives can't have it both ways.

This sort of blatant hypocrisy is nothing new, of course. Both the right and the left seem to think that people discriminating to their team's benefit (or the other team's detriment) should be allowed while the other side doing it shouldn't even be legal. And I don't expect that pointing out the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of this stance will change many a partisanship-stunted mind, alas.

As for us libertarians, however, we'll just be over here supporting free speech, free enterprise, and freedom of association no matter the underlying politics of the people exercising these rights, from tech execs who shun associating with certain shades of right-wing thought to the firearms and ammunition peddlers who won't sell to Biden supporters.

 

[Keef]

The mob, the CIA, the military industrialists and the oilmen all wanted JFK gone. It was only naive schoolboys like me who shed a tear at his passing.

JFK smoothed over the Cuban Missile Crisis like not many other presidents could've done and would've done many other great things had he been given the time. Maybe he wasn't hard enough on the commies but offing him was one of America's colossal mistakes that set us back decades.

@TexRex When I bring up the "private company" idea to conservatives concerning Twitter et al, it blows their ****ing minds. They literally get angry. They don't get it. You can see the gears crunching. As a former libertarian, I know the actual physical brainpain of not understanding basic concepts of reality but also as a libertarian the idea that Twitter can screen its own platform is so plain that I don't understand how anybody can not understand it.

Unless they've been brainwashed of course, which also offends them and they refuse to accept. I've genuinely lost at least one good friend due to this argument. Haven't heard from him in four months. He's probably still preparing for the communist uprising.

 

[TexRex]

@TexRex When I bring up the "private company" idea to conservatives concerning Twitter et al, it blows their ****ing minds. They literally get angry. They don't get it. You can see the gears crunching. As a former libertarian, I know the actual physical brainpain of not understanding basic concepts of reality but also as a libertarian the idea that Twitter can screen its own platform is so plain that I don't understand how anybody can not understand it.

"Twitter is bigger than some governments. Social media is the new town square."

 

[TenEightyOne]

Twitter can screen its own platform is so plain that I don't understand how anybody can not understand it.

It's not screening according to the authorised discourse, which is very evidently The Wrong Kind of Freedom.

 

[Danoff]

This Gun Shop Says It Won't Do Business With Biden Voters

I'm pretty sure I know the republican narrative well enough to realize that this is a violation of the 2nd amendment.

 

[EngieDiesel]

I'm pretty sure I know the republican narrative well enough to realize that this is a violation of the 2nd amendment.

Given that they're asking for information irrelevant to the purchase of a firearm as well, I imagine it also violates a few laws regarding privacy and data collection. Even more so if the shop owner gets it into their head that it'd be a good idea to share the list of people who checked yes to other shops so they can refuse service to those people as well.