Yep, very weird, but just another instance of normalized weirdness in my fucked-up, Crony Capitalism Is The Only Way To Go country.
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Democrats are for campaign finance reform. Hell, the first bill the House inroduced this session was a big election reform bill with large finance components. It passed the House too, but naturally Mitch McConnell denied it a vote in the Senate.
Even without the Republican bottleneck there are limits to what can be done. Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo hold that money and campaign spending equals speech and therefore make it hard to regulate campaign finance without running afoul of the First Amendment.
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Not a Frum fan, but:
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A reminder for those who think that Democrats and Republicans are just the same.
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The National Park Service wouldn’t let them fill the baby Trump balloon with helium, claiming that the DC no-fly zone applies to blimps as well as more conventional aircraft.
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On the news today, they said it was because of the rain?
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A reminder for those who think that establishment Democrats and Republicans are all that different:
After Biden’s Sharp Decline, Investors Are Reassessing Other Blue Chips
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The WAPO article says “high winds”, though the windbag-in-chief hadn’t started yet,
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It’s been grounded since at least Tuesday, according to the Washington Post.
Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst cited the no-fly zone that includes downtown Washington for keeping the balloon grounded.
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It looks as if his parade planners couldn’t be bothered with bringing a squeegee or Windex to keep his security glass clean enough to be able to see out of/though hahaha
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1146916108806557697
It’s rather hard to believe in a god when certain personages aren’t hit.
ETA: don’t know why this won’t OneBox
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That article is about financiers, not establishment Democrats. Identifying the two begs the question.
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177 Comments in and only just thought of this now! Not tanks, but still…a nice metaphor for all that is Trumpism:
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Well Frederick Douglass didn’t show up, but we did learn that there were airports in the 18th century, so it wasn’t a total boondoggle… 
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Looks like it’s been deleted
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