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Tulsi Gabbard Warns Against the Danger of New Domestic Terrorism Laws Tulsi Gabbard is speaking out against the dangerous push for new laws empowering surveillance against ‘religious extremists,’ ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ and even ‘libertarians.’ Wednesday, January 27, 2021 The January 6 attack on the US Capitol shocked the nation. Now, as so often occurs in the wake of tragedy, some Washington politicians are using the opportunity to push for an expansion of their power hoping Americans are too shell-shocked to object. A bipartisan group in Congress has introduced the so-called “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act Of 2021.” It would expand the surveillance and police powers of the national security state in the name of combatting dangerous extremism. ....
On Thursday night, Joe Biden rolled out a sweeping proposal for $1.9 trillion more in COVID-19 relief and stimulus spending. I believe we have a moral obligation, Biden said during a speech in Delaware announcing the plan. In this pandemic in America, we cannot let people go hungry, we cannot let people get evicted, we cannot watch nurses, educators and others lose their jobs, we so badly need them. We must act now, and we must act decisively. It’s a massive proposal, and any final legislative text based upon it would no doubt be hundreds of pages (if not thousands). But here are some of the package’s main provisions: ....
Along with these arguments in court or going long with these defenses that the president puts forward that could make future presidents more powerful than members of congress or the american people or the constitution intended for them to be. well, everyone is a hypocrite in washington when it comes to executive power. when their team is in the white house they re all for it. when their team has congress but is out of the white house, they re sus spipicious of it. people s opinions flip depending on whether their faction could be aided or hurt by a stronger view of presidential power. this contributes to what i like to call the one-way ratchet effect of executive power, even though people complain when their party doesn t have the white house, each president builds on the what the president before him or some day her has done, as people push things out to new limits and unprecedented areas, but then the next president takes that as a baseline and pushes it out even further. executive ....
This morning four pinocchios. it s the highest for false statements. prior to the tweet, the fact checker said he already passed 5,000 false claims since becoming president. you know, i watch like you do and most political reporters and assignment reporters, we look at the approval rating of the president. it has guardrails. mid-30s, mid-40s. somewhere in that range. and it just bounces around there cyclicly. but these lies don t hurt him any. why not? you know, i think his supporters are with him because they re with him because they like his bluster, they like his attitude, they like what he says about trade and about america being cheated and about standing up for a more traditional america. but i do think there s some corrosive effect. and i think you see some of it now. his approval rating now down to maybe 40 or so. it seems to have a little ratchet effect there. doesn t go much lower. the bottom hasn t fallen out ....