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Biden cabinet picks face GOP hurdles

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The foot-dragging could prevent Biden from having key team members in place on Day 1.

They're gonna use the pretext that the election is still in dispute as an excuse to block Biden's cabinet appointments.

Tillis Pushes Prison Time for Online Streamers After Pre-Election Hollywood Cash Blitz - The American Prospect

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Felony streaming legislation from Sen. Thom Tillis will be attached to an upcoming ‘must-pass’ omnibus government funding bill.

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Congress has once again put itself in a situation of having to pass a last-minute omnibus bill to fund the government and prevent a shutdown. These truly are must-pass bills since much of the government grinds to a halt without them, so they often get used as vehicles for controversial bills that can’t pass on their own. Senators and representatives work out backroom deals to attach their pet measures to funding for things like food inspections and airport safety and then dare their colleagues to object.

 

This time around, one of the measures being crammed into the omnibus is a proposal from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to turn unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material like an album on YouTube, a video clip on Twitch, or a song in an Instagram story into a felony offense with a possible prison sentence rather than a misdemeanor, according to Protocol. The text of the measure has not been publicly released yet, but it is expected to be broadly similar to past entertainment industry-backed attempts to criminalize unauthorized streaming, such as the provisions of the SOPA/PIPA bills in 2012 that sparked an unprecedented internet “blackout” protest or the Commercial Felony Streaming Act, which prompted Justin Bieber to say that its sponsor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), should be “locked up.”

Back to this shit again

Yep, hopefully everybody enjoyed Dems winning Georgia once, because they're gonna make sure that that never happens again.

I think a lot about that title card at the end of The Big Short that explains that Mark Burry's current investments (at least at the time the movie was made) were all based around water.

11 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

 

yah but it still hasnt finished the job on anybody who it needs to

Because they all have access to the antibody treatment, and I imagine Rudy will get it too if he needs it

The only surprise is that it took this long

If nobody's gonna lift a finger to do anything about it, what does it matter?

4 hours ago, CayceG said:

 

 

I cannot understand how these cold opens stretch to over 9 minutes. I ducked out after Mike Lindell and that felt like it just went on and on and on. 

 

Lorne fucking sucks. 

The Chappelle episode on the Saturday after the election was the first time I'd watched SNL all the way through in a long time and it was just absolute cringe the entire way through. The show is just coasting on everyone's nostalgia for whatever seasons they grew up on at this point, which is why there's like 3 former cast members in every sketch now. It's not good.

Me reaping, me sowing, etc. etc.

So did Twitter just give up on putting disclaimers on these?

Probably. Definitely a lot of guys in that age range at MAGA rallies too.

I really think that a big part of why specifically like 55-60-ish year old men being the core base of the absolute most toxic, bullying politics in the country are in large part an inability to cope with their dicks not working anymore. A bunch of these type of dudes already in the "masks are tyranny" crowd, getting COVID as a result of not wearing masks, and then getting ED because of it is probably not gonna lead to anything good.

Happy to see this passed, but it's also important to focus on STEM education. As in, no stems, no seeds, no sticks

New Jersey got hit basically as hard as NYC did during the initial outbreak, it was just completely overshadowed by NYC in the media coverage

Based on the Worldometer list, we're now up to 11 states where at least 1 out of every 1,000 people have died. New Jersey is getting close to 1 out of 500.

I can't really get a read on whether he really doesn't understand that what he's asking for is impossible, or if he's just counting on being able to keep his base convinced that this is possible to do were it not for malicious RINOs

Uh, so apparently that GAO letter does not actually have the all-encompassing power we were told it did

Turns out the actual advocates for Defunding the Police are the Republicans in the Senate who don't want to put any more state or local government aid in the next stimulus bill.

Congrats to Acting Attorney General My Pillow Guy

king

33 minutes ago, Joe said:

Openly bragging about her grifting.

Uh, yeah, I'm gonna need an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii to, you know, audit the Hawaii vote or whatever. 10 days or so should do it.

It'll be interesting to see what Pence does, since I can't imagine there was any reason why Mike Pence agreed to be Trump's VP in the first place other than wanting to be the next president after him. But I'm not sure Pence has any actual appeal with Trump voters other than "guy who was willing to stand alongside Trump."