What is common amongst the institutions with the most inflated prices?
It is that they are government funded/managed.
Short sighted/malignant economic interventions obstruct the invisible hand of the free market.
@kdandy888@grok give me a lost of technologies that took over jobs that people used to do, and as a result brought great beenfit to the world and humanity
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
Confused on what's happening with the NDAA?
You aren't alone. Here's where we stand, explained in simple language.
Congress doesn't vote on a bill like the NDAA all at once. First they vote on the rules for the debate. The rules determine which amendments get a vote, how much time each side gets, and what order things happen in. Nothing else moves until that rule passes.
A small group called the Rules Committee decides which amendments get included and which don't. They can kill an amendment before it ever reaches the floor, just by leaving it off the list. That's what happened to the amendment from Massie and Khanna to strip Section 219, the Israel military integration language. No debate. No vote. The committee just left it off the list.
Normally the rules themselves still pass. It's usually treated more as a formality and the full House rubber stamps it, then the real bill moves forward without anyone getting a say on the parts that got blocked. This time it didn't work that way though. The rule vote failed, 198 to 224.
Members from both parties were angry enough about the process that they voted the rules down.
That's rare. It means the House can't start debating the NDAA at all right now. The bill is stuck before it even reaches the floor.
Massie gets another shot at his amendment once House leadership writes new rules and brings it back.
The Senate has its own version of the same problem, but it works differently over there.
Before the Senate can debate a bill, it needs 60 votes just to open debate. That vote is called a "motion to proceed".
On Tuesday, that vote failed, 50 to 46. Senate Democrats blocked it, mainly over the war with Iran and the size of the defense budget. A few Democrats had also asked for a real debate on Section 1217, the Senate's version of the Israel language, but Iran was the headline reason they gave.
So both chambers are frozen, for different reasons. The House can't proceed because it voted down its own rules. The Senate can't proceed because it couldn't get 60 votes to start debating at all.
In neither chamber has anyone actually voted for or against the Israel provision itself. It's sitting inside two stalled bills while the fights around it are about something else.
It's not over. Senators and congressmen seem to vote the way they want regardless of what the people they represent want, but that shouldn't stop us from trying. I'm calling my representatives again today, and tomorrow, and the next day. It's that important.
This week the Senate will vote to merge our military’s most sensitive & secretive capabilities with Israel. This merger is buried within the massive NDAA and they’re hoping you won’t notice.
Merging our military with a foreign country is a treasonous betrayal of our sovereignty.
Call your senators & tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (section 219) is taken out.
Tell them that we will never support merging our military with a foreign nation.
The senate switchboard number is: (202) 224-3121.
My amendment to strip section 219 from the NDAA was rejected last week by the Rules Committee without even a debate, but their rule for the NDAA didn’t pass the House.
When we reconvene, I will offer my amdt again to strip the merger of our military supply chain with Israel’s.
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BREAKING: The United States House has rejected Thomas Massie’s amendment to stop the integration of the United States military with Israel’s under Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the NDAA.
Have any of the neocons cheering for the war to resume taken the time to explain exactly how we defeat Iran militarily, what that would cost us in terms of blood & treasure, what we gain from doing so, & what Iran looks like with no government?
Please, enlighten us as to how the Bush-era war propaganda will totally work this time.
🇮🇱 Israel does not represent Jewish people, and Ben-Gvir certainly does not speak for Judaism.
Look at his latest statement targeting an entire nation:
“Lebanon, all of Lebanon, should become our playground. ALL OF LEBANON should be our TARGET... Let a thousand Lebanese mothers weep, and not one Israeli mother weep.”
I can’t believe that you are blind to the fact that the isreali govt is destroying the US from within.
They are so clearly parasites rigging elections and controlling media narratives to keep their billions in aid and military support.
I actually cannot believe you don’t see it.