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[Vyse Inglebard]

North Carolina just got a bunch of legislative wins. Some highlights:

RIOTING PENALTIES​

House Bill 40: “Prevent Rioting and Civil Disorder.” Cooper let this bill become law without his signature in March. It is effective for any crimes committed on or after Dec. 1, 2023. The law increases penalties for rioting, or inciting rioting, that causes serious injury and property damage, including if a person causes more than $2,500 in damage during a riot or serious bodily injury, or if the person causes a death while rioting.

GUN LAW
Senate Bill 41: “Guarantee 2nd Amendment Freedom and Protections.” The bill was the first successful veto override this year, and ended a requirement to get a permit to buy a handgun. Another part of this bill loosening gun regulations goes into effect on Dec. 1. The newly effective law allows concealed carry permit holders to carry guns at places of worship that also have schools. Republican Sen. Danny Britt of Lumberton, one of the bill’s primary sponsors, said during debate that it would make it easier for church-goers and other worshipers to protect themselves, The N&O previously reported.

TALKING ABOUT RACE AT WORK
Senate Bill 364: “Nondiscrimination & Dignity in State Work.” This new law regulates how state employees can discuss topics like race and gender at work, including in hiring interviews. The law bans state government workplaces from “promoting” certain concepts, or using them in training, including that:
▪ someone is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive because of their race or sex
▪ someone bears responsibility for past actions by those of the same race or sex
▪ “any individual, solely by virtue of his or her race or sex, should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”
Much of the language is similar to a previous bill that did not become law, which would have banned the same discussions in public schools. Republican lawmakers overturned Cooper’s veto. When Cooper vetoed the bill, he cited racist comments made by a lawmaker on the House floor. Cooper said that the legislature shouldn’t be “pretending that bias and racism don’t exist,” and said the legislation “attempts to eliminate training that can help us understand the unconscious bias we all bring to our work and our communities.”

ELECTION LAW
Two sections of Senate Bill 747: “Elections Law Changes,” which was vetoed by Cooper and overridden by the legislature, take effect for new offenses. The parts of the law starting Dec. 1 make it a misdemeanor for someone to impersonate a “chief judge, judge of election, or other precinct official while in the discharge of duties in the registration of voters or in conducting any primary or election.” It also adds the same charge for “any person other than the State Board or a county board of elections, or any employee of the State Board or a county board of elections, to affix or print any identifier for the purpose of tracking the form on any absentee ballot request form.”

HEALTH CARE TREATMENT OF MINORS
Sections of Senate Bill 49, “Parents Bill of Rights,” are law as of Dec. 1. Republican lawmakers overturned Cooper’s veto of the bill that regulates how LGBTQ+ topics can be discussed in schools, including a student’s use of a different name or pronoun. The section that became law Dec. 1 is about something else: parental consent for medical treatment of minors. Health care practitioners need documented parental consent, or face a fine of up to $5,000.

Notice how a lot of these were because Republicans overrode faggot Governor Cooper's vetoes. Almost like growing a pair of balls and saying "no" to tyranny instead of losing with dignity actually works!

 

[mandatorylurk]

Over 100 republican faggots voted to kick him out before he was ever convicted. The party cannot be saved, let it turn into the MAGA party instead.

 

[dustbuster]

Over 100 republican faggots voted to kick him out before he was ever convicted. The party cannot be saved, let it turn into the MAGA party instead.

My rep was one of those faggots.
Someone point me to a credible primary challenger and I'll write a $10,000 check on the spot.

 

[tehpope]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-shifting-away-from-bidenomics-talk-as-public-remains-skeptical-on-economy-5539313

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-shifting-away-bidenomics-talk-public-remains-skeptical-economy

A word once a badge of honor for President Joe Biden might have turned into a political liability. "Bidenomics," a term used to describe his economic doctrine, is being used less, and the press is beginning to take notice.

In recent weeks, President Biden has refrained from uttering "Bidenomics." It has been absent in nearly all of his public appearances this month, from his prepared remarks in Colorado, where he touted the Inflation Reduction Act, to his speeches at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in California.

The last time President Biden touted the term was in a Nov. 1 speech in Minnesota, where he mentioned it four times and compared it to the American Dream.

"Folks, Bidenomics is just another way of saying 'the American Dream,'" President Biden said then.

But it has not entirely disappeared. Instead, President Biden's re-election campaign has used the "Bidenomics" branding in subtler forms. During the Colorado event, there were signs with the label. The term is also inserted into the title of President Biden's events or speeches. His team has used it in social media messages.

“In Colorado, [Biden] highlighted how Bidenomics is creating jobs and opportunities – unleashing over $7 billion in new investments across the state,” the White House wrote on X (previously Twitter) on Nov. 30.

Mainstream media outlets, including NBC News, have noticed that the White House has removed the term when President Biden talks about the economy.

A chorus of prominent Democrats and many of President Biden's allies and supporters have warned that the "Bidenomics" branding would backfire because many Americans are still financially struggling and might link their challenges with the economic message.
"Whatever stories Americans are told about the strength of the economy under President Joe Biden, they are not going to be persuaded to look past the issue of their own living standards," liberal economist James Galbraith wrote last month.

A plethora of polls have highlighted the same thing: A majority of U.S. voters do not like "Bidenomics."
According to a new Gallup poll, 67 percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the economy. A recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll found that just 44 percent of respondents approve of President Biden's handling of the economy. Just 14 percent of U.S. voters say they are better off financially now than when President Biden took office, a new Financial Times-University of Michigan monthly survey learned.

"With less than a year to go until the presidential election, Biden continues to receive tepid ratings from the American public. His overall job approval rating is still at his personal low and is in historically dangerous territory for an incumbent seeking reelection," Gallup wrote in its summary of the latest polling data.

"In addition, political independents’ record-low rating of Biden is striking. Biden’s even weaker ratings on the economy, foreign affairs and the Middle East suggest that his performance in these areas is dragging down his overall job performance rating."

The White House insists that the U.S. economy is heading on the right track, alluding to various data points to support these claims.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told reporters in North Carolina on Nov. 30 that "inflation has now come way down" and "now wage gains are really translating into more real income."

"So my hope is that Americans gradually will see that things are getting better," Ms. Yellen said.

The headline numbers have pointed to a robust economic landscape.
In the third quarter, the GDP growth rate clocked in at a better-than-expected 5.2 percent, although government spending contributed 1.5 percent to the final print.

Despite the Federal Reserve’s rising interest rates, the labor market remains solid, with an unemployment rate below 4 percent and millions of new jobs in 2023.

However, the higher cost of living continues to affect voters’ perception of the economy.

The headline inflation rate remains above 3 percent, down from the June 2022 peak of 9.1 percent. However, cumulative inflation since January 2021 has been more than 17 percent. Plus, there have been many other factors pointing to a struggling population.

Real wage growth has tumbled approximately 3 percent since 2021. In addition, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, real (inflation-adjusted) average hourly earnings rose by 0.2 percent in October, but "real average weekly earnings decreased 0.1 percent over the month due to the change in real average hourly earnings combined with a 0.3-percent decrease in the average workweek."

A new analysis from the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee found that Americans require an additional $11,400 today to afford the same living standards they did in January 2021.
Lending Club data found that 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Consumers might be tapped out, too. Credit card debt topped $1 trillion in the third quarter, the personal savings rate is below 4 percent, and pandemic-era savings have been exhausted.

President Biden acknowledged that families are still enduring a rough environment.

“We know that prices are still too high for too many things, that times are still too tough for too many families,” President Biden said on Nov 27. “But we’ve made progress.”

 

[St.Davis]

Someone should tell Laura that this is the exact kind of shit that people point at to get others to hate jews.

You can't bitch about censorship and cancel culture to the extent this woman has, turn around and do this shit, and brag about how when you're in an imagined position of power you'll do your utmost to fuck someone over the exact same way you've been screaming about for years having been done to you without people shitting on you for being a massive hypocrite.

Listening to that video, I noticed two things. Primarily, I've heard about as bad coming out of the mouth of Nick Fuentes, a guy she was somewhat recently still affiliated with. Secondly, someone ought to tell Miss* Loomer word's gotten around what fucking "goyim" means in hebrew.

We're at the point where it only makes sense to work from a "Friend-Enemy Distinction" mindset. You should absolutely fuck over your enemies and use every dirty trick against them. I don't like it, but sadly principles are presently something only losers have. This applies only to your enemies who will use the same tactics against you though.

Goyim is the plural form if goy. It means "peoples" or "nations". Not, as I know you're implying, cattle. The Jewish people call themselves "goy kadosh"; "chosen people", where kadosh means set apart or separated for a special purpose and goy means people or nation. They wouldn't call themselves cattle, would they?

Technically correct, but in practice the term "Goy" or "Goyim" has come to refer to "Non-Jews" in a perjorative sense since around the Hellenistic period. It doesn't directly translate to "Cattle", but the intended meaning of the term is, for all intents and purposes, "Cattle".

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

Over 100 republican faggots voted to kick him out before he was ever convicted. The party cannot be saved, let it turn into the MAGA party instead.

You'd think the GOP would have more respect for due process considering how quickly their enemies will falsely accuse them of rape just to ruin their lives.

I hope for their sakes a bunch of women don't come forward and say they were raped behind an Arby's 20 years ago because it just got a lot easier to expel them for it.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

It would seem that they are really planning for a Election Strain strategy.

 

[dustbuster]

It would seem that they are really planning for a Election Strain strategy.

At this point I say let them.
I want to see the entire GOP caucus thrown into prison forever for what they did this morning. "winning" in 2024 will let the democrats do that.
Enough with the charade that we have a party for average americans.

 

[MrJokerRager]

George Santos has been expelled from the House of Representatives because if there's one thing US politicians won't tolerate, it's corruption

His crime was thinking they would overlook a (R) breaking the rules.

That cunt Talib gets to stay in Congress along with the other cunt Omar.

But the faggot kike Republican gets expelled?

Right after declaring their love for Israel.

I am at a loss for how batshit insane and fully retarded that Congress has become.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

All ideological positions are but a second place, the main concern will always be pure power. If there need be, they will flip a narrative and insist that they simply never held a position or always held it no matter what the evidence.

 

[MrJokerRager]

All ideological positions are but a second place, the main concern will always be pure power. If there need be, they will flip a narrative and insist that they simply never held a position or always held it no matter what the evidence.

Nikkey Niimrajajapta Haley around October 7th -> TOTAL PALLY DEATH. TOTAL HUMMUS DEATH. WIPE THEM OUT. KILL THEM ALL.

Nikkey Niimrajajapta Haley about three or four days later -> we should import all those poor refugees from Gaza.

 

[tehpope]

It would seem that they are really planning for a Election Strain strategy.

Bold Move Cotton. I don't think it'll work this, the fifth, time. But let's see how many people forgot about 2020.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

But the faggot kike Republican gets expelled?

To be fair, George Santos lied about being Jewish, which is probably why the GOP went along with expelling him.

If there's one thing you don't do in the GOP, it's threaten their AIPAC money.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

If I was feeling generous I would say that they are setting it up as a contingency and not a main plan. It's a bit too early for the election, and the doctors being asked to talk about it aren't going into full fear porn as you would have expected and saw with the Wuhan Flu. The fact it targets children is what gets me the most, as if it is a play for power that makes it the most insidious to play into people's fears but it also means more homeschooling for people who are already mistrusting the system and less ideological hold on many people due to the failure of education.

Or maybe they really are that stupid and I am overthinking it.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Why is Hannity being sympathetic of migrants "fleeing their own countries?"

Now Newsom brought up DeSantis' declining support from Trump. God damn.


Looks like a school shooter.

Because he’s a beltway parasite in every way that matters. He believes in the same shit as all of them and any statement otherwise is performative.

 

[Polyboros2]

Santos's crimes were what they all do. This reaction is because he did it so openly, risking all of their grift.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

@Vyse Inglebard how much of a riot did this one cause?

The law bans state government workplaces from “promoting” certain concepts, or using them in training, including that:
▪ someone is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive because of their race or sex

 

[Sniperwoof]

I won't vote for Biden but I will stay home if Trump is dumb enough to pick Nimrata peepeepoopoo as his running mate.

That women is absurdly dangerous and shouldn't be anywhere near a position of power.

 

[ChrisIsGay]

Santos is a faggot drag queen. So good riddance lol.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I won't vote for Biden but I will stay home if Trump is dumb enough to pick Nimrata peepeepoopoo as his running mate.

That women is absurdly dangerous and shouldn't be anywhere near a position of power.

yeah she could be a real albatross like Lieberman was for Gore
I knew a lot of 18~20 who just got to vote and would have been on board for a gallon of libshit but The Video Game Ban Guy was enough to get them to sit home