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Patrick says

There should be a website with a place for the public to discuss each Congressman and his/her votes.

@Patrick - want to build it? I'll help.

You're running a virtual machine for this site, you can add another website as well. Well I think you can with nginx - I know you can with Apache. You'd just have to get another domain name, you can even sign up for a free one, but it will be rather ugly as a name.

I already have them all on patrick.net, at least the ones before the midterms, and was hoping people would comment on Congressmen here.

Patrick says

I already have them all on patrick.net, at least the ones before the midterms, and was hoping people would comment on Congressmen here.

You need an easy way to access each congressman by name, perhaps by map and zipcode.

Primarily, you have to hold people's feet to the fire as well about what they claim, ESPECIALLY in politics. Somebody who consistently produces incorrect information needs to be flagged, and they should be able to respond to the criticism, but with at least a 3 day timeout so they can properly come up with a defense of their statements and reasoning. Either correct their post (or article), or explain why they were unfairly criticized, and that puts the OTHER person on the defense.

Let people freely discuss what they believe and feel and so on, but when it comes to facts and data, people have to back it up, and people that FALSELY accuse people of presenting false data and facts, they get into the hotseat as well. Slow down the conversation intentionally in order to force people not respond hastily.

Most people who are wrong, are simply misinformed or ignorant and there's nothing wrong in that - people are misinformed and they make mistakes, but in politics, there's PLENTY of people who will just straight up fucking lie. Russia hacked our election after all, how did they do that? <<Crickets>>

https://patrick.net/post/1340336/2021-07-29-thread-for-vax-deaths-maimings-and?start=4579#comment-1934725

The NYT gave Congressman Tom Massie (R-Kentucky) 3 pages in last Sunday's paper
And they could not find anything bad to say. Which is why he is my favorite Member of Congress. A Jeffersonian.

It is a very long article so I won’t post the rest, but you can see the guy is smart, sharp, and he isn’t afraid of anyone. Note: he is simply honest about the fact that the electricity to fill up his Tesla comes primarily from coal in Kentucky; in your neighborhood it might come from nuclear, natural gas, or oil. Most people think the Tesla is “clean” but that electricity has to come from somewhere.

Support his PRIME Act that would allow local farmers to sell meat locally without a lot of federal rigmarole that has put many out of business. He also is drafting a similar Act for selling fresh milk locally. And he wants to end the Department of Education. He was a speaker 2 weeks ago at the Attack on Food and Agriculture I hosted.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/11/massie-judiciary-committee-investigation-biden-fda-covid-boosters/

Rep. Massie, Judiciary Committee Launch Probe Into Reports Biden Admin Pressured FDA Over COVID Booster Approval

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie sent letters Monday to senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine officials, letting them know the House Judiciary Committee will be investigating allegations the Biden administration interfered in the FDA’s authorization and licensure of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Daily Caller first obtained the letters to Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, both of whom resigned following President Joe Biden’s announcement in August 2021 calling for adults to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, which Massie says “put undue pressure on FDA health officials to quickly authorize the vaccinations.”

Nice, but does anything ever happen as a result of these investigations? I suspect not.

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1649864472910020608?ref_src=patrick.net

The extra money is all grift and laundering to campaign donors.

Patrick says

The extra money is all grift and laundering to campaign donors.

ALL the money is.

My brother lives in a tiny town, and there was a push to get "high speed broadband" there. As soon as they fulfilled MINIMUM obligations, it was over.

On the upside, he has gigabit internet, same as I have:



Play that, and it's straight off my computer. It's not on a video site, well, that exact version isn't. It's in the public domain so, I'm not pirating anything... here.

Plan 9 From Outer Space - widely regarded as "the worst film ever made", but trust me - it's not anywhere NEAR that bad. At least it's entertaining. That's not to say it's good, and if anybody sits down to watch this... wreck, I'll explain any questions you might have about it, it's a little confusing because Bela Lugosi died before the film was even made, and there is a standin for him, which looks nothing like him, and it's kind of hard to recognize it's supposed to be the same character.

I really wish Ed Wood was born in 1990, he would have had a lot of fun with this crap. He had no money, desperately wanted to make films, was a terrible writer and director, and could never find funds. Today, he wouldn't need funds.

Haha, I have a bunch of IP addresses. Realize your lack of anonymity - although I will respect it.

135.180.X.X
185.189.X.X
24.251.X.X
24.27.X.X
67.169.X.X
71.381.X.X
73.92.X.X
75.233.X.X
98.118.X.X

I'm only pointing this out to show people how easy it is to track people. With exact IP addresses (which I have) I still cannot track down an exact address, just a general location, but the government can.

Who is in Buffalo? I see one person there who is. These are all American locations. One is in NYC. An IP address is like a phone number, it really doesn't change. Even if you have a dynamic IP address, it never changes. To be absolutely fair, this is my exact IP address:

143.244.220.150

But you will get nothing out of it other than my general location, and my fucking government knows exactly where I am. Fuck you intelligence agencies, and I absolutely mean that. You are traitors to the constitution.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rewriting-history-friday-september

Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky), is on top of the problem of war criminals embedded in the U.S. health agencies who are trying to engineer genetic medical treatments into our fresh food supply. Yesterday, he successfully introduced a budget amendment prohibiting the USDA from doing any more mRNA research:




It’s great news. Keep it up!

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1722121806889287978

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll616.xml

iheartmindy

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a corrupt government that considers anyone that questions them and their rigged elections as “terrorists” to be able to shut off my vehicle at will, just saying…

Patrick says

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a corrupt government that considers anyone that questions them and their rigged elections as “terrorists” to be able to shut off my vehicle at will, just saying…

Now add to that the ability of the government to accuse a citizen of fraud because during a refinance, that citizen gave an estimated property value on the loan application that exceeded the tax assessment amount. How targeting a man by finding a girl somewhere who will claim she was sexually harassed by that man 30 years ago? The tax laws and business rules are so convoluted that any man or business can be found in violation if that is what a corrupt judge wants. The fascism is already here.

Patrick says

The extra money is all grift and laundering to campaign donors.

I saw an article yesterday, that out of the 6 billion BIden gave to install Battery chargers around the country in 2009, one of his first decrees.
Not a single charger has been installed from that money.

Tenpoundbass says

2009

You may want to correct the year.

Not sure how that works as far as Biden calling up National Guard such as 500 troops.

Is there funding he could use within the Pentagon such as in a National Guard existing account ?

I could see Biden Administration just moving money from one account or program to funding the National Guard troops deployed in Texas without having to get emergency funding approval from Congress.

Patrick says

Not so if:
Your main income is government checks, especially inflation adjusted transfer payments or defined benefit pensions
Your business services those who's main income is government checks
Your run a business whose major customer is government

Congress critters knows that net tax consumers outnumber net tax payers, so borrow and spend is here to stay as a policy for both parties.

Patrick says

He forgot "Laundering Your Money Back To Politicians"

Patrick says

Why limit it to just food?

richwicks says

Why limit it to just food?

Constitutionally, nothing that does not move across state lines can be regulated by the Federal government.

HeadSet says

Constitutionally, nothing that does not move across state lines can be regulated by the Federal government.

That was true until 1942.

Then SCOTUS said the opposite.

An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce ... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed: "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was 'production', 'consumption', or 'marketing' is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us. ... But even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect'."

The Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution's Commerce Clause, in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which permits the U.S. Congress "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause. Although Filburn's relatively small amount of production of more wheat than he was allotted would not affect interstate commerce itself, the cumulative actions of thousands of other farmers like Filburn would become substantial. Therefore the Court decided that the federal government could regulate Filburn's production.

The Supreme Court has since relied heavily on Wickard in upholding the power of the federal government to prosecute individuals who grow their own medicinal marijuana pursuant to state law. The Supreme Court would hold in Gonzales v. Raich (2005) that like with the home-grown wheat at issue in Wickard, home-grown marijuana is a legitimate subject of federal regulation because it competes with marijuana that moves in interstate commerce:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

It was limited a bit by the Lopez decision. But that's it.

If Wickard was ever to be fully overturned, then something like 90% of certain federal activities would become legally invalid. So, it probably will never happen w/o a Constitutional amendment.