Yellen, denied second term as Fed chair, announces resignation
Does not fill me with hope for the future of the Fed's independence.
Does not fill me with hope for the future of the Fed's independence.
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I won't deny that it's a stupid cartoon, but I think it's just brown hands because they're donkeys. It's consistent with his previous depictions of Democrats, at least.
What a bunch of sensationalist nonsense. The new fed chair is fine. That rag even said that Powell will be much of the same. Also the framing is really asinine. Since Yellen is no longer chair it's not like she'd hold a seat on the Board of Governors.
Agree on donkeys 100% as an innocent inclusion, but it's still... not the best look. Imagine if someone were to crop it poorly. Like, say, this, below! And then, say, post it on a particular popular subreddit where thousands of people would enjoy an opportunity to express honest opinions about the cartoon's meaning! Disclaimer: I'm not actually going to do that, but he's how easily that can be turned into something unimaginably racist.
Edit: You know what? The cartoon doesn't even make any sense. It'd be republican hands grabbing at the wallet of an average american and passing it off to corporations. I have no idea what the donkey hands are supposed to represent, which is where we return to a deceptive cropping and it looking racist as hell.
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Yeah, I'm wondering/hoping if the artist picks up on that and issues a redo or something.
Is it worth DMing him on Twitter, do you think?
I'm offended by the 100% incorrect partisan message of this cartoon far more than I am the artist maybe catching some flack for the imagery. Being even accidentally racist is no excuse for complete ignorance (on major legislation). This would be like, say in 2010 they drew a panel where John Boehner was heading up a death panel.
With a new sexual harassment story breaking every 6 hours, I just ask for two sacred cows. Please just make sure Obama and Robert Mueller stay clean. I need Obama to stay clean, so I can still believe in hope and the respectable politician. And I need Mueller to stay clean so I can still believe great justice can be delivered. If either of those guys ends up being dirty then maybe Nostradamus was right and the world actually did end in 2012 and we've been in a decaying timeline ever since.
Not gonna lie, that net neutrality thread's got me pretty fucking depressed. Between that and tax "reform," it seems to me that ever since the Virginia elections, the GOP knows their days in power are numbered, so they're going to use this remaining time to rape and pillage as much as they can possibly get away with, consequences be damned. It's terrifying.
I hate that the net neutrality thing is being framed as if protests can stop it. I'm glad people are vocally upset about it, but the reason it's happening this time is that trump won the election, and the fate of net neutrality was 100% sealed when that happens.
I feel like it's setting up blame to be on apathy of FCC protesters, not on Trump and the people that didn't vote for Hillary.
I feel like it's setting up blame to be on apathy of FCC protesters, not on Trump and the people that didn't vote for Hillary.
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Agreed. People need to realize that elections have consequences and staying home is literally the worst thing you can do.
Feels more like a bipartisan effort to screw over the American people.
Wheeler wasn't exactly all that great either.
How in any way is this bipartisan? Wheeler ended up listening to obama, who heard the protests.
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Efforts to crush net neutrality have happened under both Democrats and Republicans.
Before Trump came along the government was serving corporations, cracking down on freedoms and waging pointless wars. Trump hasn't exactly changed that but also didn't cause it. It is very unlikely that a Clinton presidency would have changed the net neutrality debate.
I get Democrats are pretty corporatist too and they had to be protested to change their minds on net neutrality, but they're also technocratic and so will listen to arguments, and they know the anti-corporatists are a huge part of their voting block, so there's a fear they have that Republicans absolutely don't.
Republicans have always been entirely 100% corporatist. That's the defining trait of the party. They're even right now trying to pass a bill that raises taxes on the middle class to fund tax cuts on the richest of the rich, for the expressly stated purpose of making their donors happy. I can't fathom how people can't see the difference between the extreme hopelessness of the republican party and the flawed but still occasionally ok democratic party.
That said, for SOPA, there was and still are a few hugely pro-isp democrats that will probably never be flipped, but there was some certain republican legislators too that could be flipped. This time it can only be saved by Trump, and Trump doesn't give a shit about how unpopular his policies are.
EDIT: Oh, and for the record, Tom Wheeler was making some steps forward even before the protests. He was just not willing to go all the way and reclassify ISPs to subject them to a ton of new regulations as needed for net neutrality. People were most afraid that his net neutrality rules he passed pre-protests that originally got rejected by the courts was a signal for ISPs to go crazy. That court decision could only be worked around by reclassification, which was the thing that Wheeler didn't care for until the protests.
Ajit Pai wants to destroy everything. There's nothing pro-consumer Ajit Pai wants to do. I can't imagine how people expect to change his mind from a place like that.
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I don't think this can pass without Democrats (who would probably demand something in return for their vote).
There's enough crazy conservatives who believe the entire concept of national debt is abhorrent to stop this
I'm not going to be surprised if both men get accusations lobbed at them for the reasons you mentioned. If you're going to weaponize assault as a powerful tool to take down your enemies, why not go after Mueller and Obama?
Heck, I suspect we will see them try to do the same to any 2020 nominee (which is why Biden cannot run; he may never have done anything but the implications will be there)
The one silver lining to net neutrality dying is knowing how betrayed all these internet trolls are going to feel when they have to pay extra for their hobby or watch their internet get throttled.
ISP's will charge Netflix, Amazon (Twitch), Google, whoever, money to not slow them down and those companies will pass the expenses to the customer.
Changing the entire structure of how the Internet is monetized isn't going to happen in 3 years. You're not going to have some kind of "pay per website" scheme.
Can't help but think all of this widespread sexual harassment stuff is taking the heat off Moore even if he's worse than most others. He's just another sexual harassment soundbite in the middle of all the other crap.
RIP net neutrality, can't wait for Netflix to increase by $10 per month while being forced to watch 240p video at peak times
RIP net neutrality, can't wait for Netflix to increase by $10 per month while being forced to watch 240p video at peak times
Moore is a pedophile. That's quite a bit more than just "sexual harassment"
A silly summation of a story that a few might be following on the side.
Did Rand Paul really get beat up over lawn clippings?
Did Rand Paul really get beat up over lawn clippings?
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So it's good policy, it makes their base mad, and we might get a concession of some sort out of it. That all sounds great — what's the catch?
That's a banger. After VA, lets just let the local people do their thing here. Moving myself to extremely cautiously optimistic.
This has to be coming from leadership, which means it won't have the votes from the HFC to pass the House without democrats . . . unless this is not legislation and simply another "norm" they want to establish in the Congress where they don't have to pass legislation explicitly raising the debt ceiling (which would be a functional difference of nothing because even if it's just auto-included in spending bills they have to say how much they're raising it by).
On a scale of 1 to Ralph Northam, how is he doing in this race
On mobile so too tired to pull quotes, but Trump mucking up the Census was always a huge concern of mine. Not surprised that's what looks like will happen.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/trump-census-pick-causes-alarm-252571
EDIT: beaten a long time ago!
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/trump-census-pick-causes-alarm-252571
EDIT: beaten a long time ago!
There's nothing legally preventing that, it would just depend on them actually doing the right thing.
He ended up supporting net neutrality! It's incredible you can even try a both sides argument where the difference between Wheeler and Pai on this issue could not be more stark. It's literally the difference between for and against.
Yeah, this looks especially bad after that Women for Moore crap.
...wasn't Wheeler chairman when the FCC voted on Title II classification in 2015?
So we're gonna interpret this as he wants to fight for his seat, right?
Both sides Blader, both sides.
Actually this demonstrates my frustration with the primary season last year and progressives in general. I would rather have someone who's open to persuasion on your side of the issue than tar and feather them for "flip-flopping" or accuse them as being just as bad as the hard opposition. Sure, it'd be nice if they supported/opposed whatever it is all along, but once they come around to that position it makes no difference functionally whether they always held that position or just recently.
To say these accusations of flip-flopping were applied quite selectively during the primary would be a massive understatement as well.
Do you ever just stop? Taking the heat off of Moore? Really? Smh. The sky is always falling apparently.
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