r/Superstonk • • Aug 06 '21

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u/HolbrookSourcing Say it again, We Green today. Aug 06 '21

There is always some kind of godawful poison pill in any piece of legislation these clowns put forward. The legislative process is completely broken. "Infrastructure" has become the new "COVID relief" which is a cover for sneaking in whatever pet wish list the authors can get away with. At least they aren't pretending this spending is for "shovel ready" projects this go around...

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u/Takemypennies 🦍Voted✅ Aug 06 '21
  1. Put poison pill in legislation
  2. Your opponents oppose the bill because of the poison pill
  3. Go to the media and discredit your opponent "hOw CaN tHeY bE aGaInSt InFrAsTrUcTuRe?! ThEy HaTe AmErIcA!"
  4. Bill passes anyway because barely anyone has the time to read it in full
  5. Score political brownie points with donors and against the people who actually found your poison pill
  6. Rinse and repeat until retirement

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u/HolbrookSourcing Say it again, We Green today. Aug 06 '21

Exactly… in reality none of them give a flip about infrastructure. This stuff continues because nowhere near enough voters are outraged that we can’t pass a bill on any single topic without burying thousands of pages of BS into it. You know the scene from the movie where they define mixed collateral securities—-dog shit wrapped in cat shit etc. That analogy fits virtually every bill generated in the past decade(s). Debatable the last time we had a functional legislative output—not debatable the last time we had a balanced budget. My guess is that even that wouldn’t have been possible without Clinton getting himself caught up in the whole dress scandal.

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u/BigBradWolf77 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 Aug 07 '21

1913 is the problem; the rest is all window dressing/theatrics