Gotcha, no idea other than don’t do what they’re doing.

I did, but mostly because I already have a bunch of stuff set up and it’s not going to change the costs any.

The fact that he spoke at length exceeding a record previously held by a segregationist and that people are discussing what happened and why says he did something of note. What have you done to the same effect?

I can specifically say that the quorum rules where used in MN to deny the Republicans a speakership and they tried to go around them with some theater vote that was shot down. If such is available then I would expect them to use it federally but right now the executive balance is on a tear doing everything they want through unilateral action, you can’t procedure your way out of that, so actions have been focused of court challenges for a large part. Budget matters, yeah Schumer is a vitch and caved, if people had shown up to elect a Dem Congress or President that wouldn’t even be a factor to deal with though, ounce of prevention > pound of cure and all that.

Personally I would say they should do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film) but that’s a way off… I didn’t ask for a book at any point. I asked what should they, the people in congress, be doing outside of what Sanders/AOC are going around the country, or Booker speaking for a day straight against the current nonsense, what would you propose they do other than to RTFM?

When you have a couple hundred billion this is couch money. Good to hear he lost but that this is even possible is a problem.

Well then how about this, rather than just throwing a book of stuff out and telling us to divine what it is in your mind, you just state what it is that members of Congress, with a minority in both houses, no presidential power, and a screwed SCOTUS, are supposed to be doing at this time then? You’ve said that blocking appointments and filibustering the Senate is useless theater, so what exactly would you propose?

Ah, so they should abandon government roles and formal resistance to go throw maltovs in the street…

Such as?

Oh? And what pray tell would the .ml solution to the situation be that is going to be so effective?

Really what else can one do besides obstruct and sue hoping to stop the tsunami of chaos that this admin embodies?

It’s impressive and somewhat concerning what people will pay for a name. Historic as it is Napster died long long ago

I’m sure there’s something at the state level, found a local ref here. Seems to be one of those laws where it’s illegal if they already wanted a reason to mess with the driver.

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/aitkin/latest/aitkin_mn/0-0-0-802

Around here they refer to it as ‘unreasonable acceleration’.

There’s bo courting of bigots, and no want to engage with them. Every notable push for progressive policies has come from the dem side, shocking ad that may be for those watching from the fringes. The nearest we’ve been able to manage so far is the ACA which started out with more substance but you can’t exactly upend the whole system in one go.

This last time around even if a day one rewrite was ready to go people where so hell bent on ‘punishing dems’ for Isreal’s actions that they where willing to let the current show take over and make things far worse.

Much more like we would love to help with these leftist plans, but when the people asking for them storm off in a huff if they don’t get promised a day 1 soviet utopia they’re seen as entirely unreliable. When the ‘left’ run off because ‘you blue maga are no better than fascists’ how is anyone meant to even try and help them?

I know there’s the saying to the effect of “don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” but with these two I don’t suspect they’re at all exclusive of each other.

Did they get doge efficiency updates installed?

Not an untrue title, nice find there.

Battle of who do you want to give all your usage data to so they spam you with ads?

There’s a reason why they’re cheap, never used Walmart ones but the Amazon tablets required extra fees just to not be a permanent billboard on the lock screen.

Ah, see that’s where not reading is a problem. Just saw star link competitor and remembered something a recently about China looking to launch a similar system.

Odd they would phrase it as a ‘starlink competitor’ then though rather than ‘a new ISP bid’. Wireless systems with directional antenna relays are not really new, not sure if any use laser particularly but the concept is essentially the same.