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Is the US government even functional anymore?

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posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 05:27 PM
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a reply to: DBCowboy

What is this Spain in the 15th Century?

The Government does function though, if it didn't we would be complaining even more. The problem with the Government is not a function of it working or not, but rather of the local government communicating with the state and national levels of Government. Then we have those people who know about this lack of communication and have been exploiting it for their own means.

So maybe the concern isn't that the Government doesn't work, but rather how the people in it allow it to work.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 05:31 PM
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originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: DBCowboy

What is this Spain in the 15th Century?

The Government does function though, if it didn't we would be complaining even more. The problem with the Government is not a function of it working or not, but rather of the local government communicating with the state and national levels of Government. Then we have those people who know about this lack of communication and have been exploiting it for their own means.

So maybe the concern isn't that the Government doesn't work, but rather how the people in it allow it to work.


Government is superfluous. It's over-done.

It's a wig, on top of a weave, on top of a bad toupe'.

It's redundancy is redundant.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 06:54 PM
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a reply to: CIAGypsy

Is any government functional?

this is how it works...the two parties bicker and twiddle their thumbs for four years, then comes election season then they up the ante with stronger bickering and full on go snake oil salesman.

Rinse and repeat.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 07:10 PM
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I think it's funny how people to this day still adhere to their favored political party as if it were some religion.

The scorn they have for people who hate government and would rather be left alone is laughable.

Submit to those you vote for and worship. Give your money to the leeches who sit on their asses all day telling you what is right and what is wrong — what you can and can't do. Let them tell you how to live your life and watch your step as they live their lives in extravagance and above the law.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 07:48 PM
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a reply to: CIAGypsy



No .


tv.infowars.com...



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 07:51 PM
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a reply to: Flesh699

Nice meme.

Cant find much to back that up



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 07:53 PM
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Today, the man who was the (elected) head of the U.S. Government for 8 years, used a BULL HORN to address a crowd of 7, standing within 10 feet of him.

twitter.com...

Our government is still in recovery mode, after that guy messed it up for 8 years.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 08:00 PM
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originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: CIAGypsy

Everyone agrees that the US government is corrupt.

The sick, M Night Shyamalan twist is, some actually (while acknowleging the corruption) want to make the corrupt government bigger and more authoritarian.


Whatever it takes to avoid actually doing anything about it.



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 08:09 PM
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a reply to: carewemust

" Today, the man who was the (elected) head of the U.S. Government for 8 years, used a BULL HORN to address a crowd of 7, standing within 10 feet of him.
"


ALL of them were Hard of Hearing.................



posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 08:14 PM
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originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: carewemust

" Today, the man who was the (elected) head of the U.S. Government for 8 years, used a BULL HORN to address a crowd of 7, standing within 10 feet of him.
"


ALL of them were Hard of Hearing.................


Seriously? Then the Biden campaign is an Equal Opportunity user.




posted on Oct, 21 2020 @ 08:35 PM
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Is the US government even functional anymore?


1st line: No

2nd: No



posted on Oct, 22 2020 @ 01:05 AM
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a reply to: CIAGypsy

The government is a joke. It needs rebuilt.



posted on Oct, 22 2020 @ 01:53 AM
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a reply to: incoserv


This is, at the end of the day, our fault.


Hold up. It isn't the fault of We the People that corrupt party machines ensure elections get 'engineered' to keep the same operators in office for decades and decades.

Yeah, some people are careless in how they vote (or don't). But that is not the whole story, and I think people have generally not been aware how much corruption is present in the election processes.

Cheers



posted on Oct, 22 2020 @ 12:14 PM
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... ok imagine it wasn’t there. Who’s in charge, Facebook? Yeah good luck with that. a reply to: CIAGypsy



posted on Oct, 22 2020 @ 12:38 PM
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a reply to: CIAGypsy


Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch has uncovered a huge amount of information about corruption in government. And yet, heads don't fly, no grand juries are convened, everyone of these criminals is convinced they are immune from prosecution. Why? Because they are. The American people have been screwed over.

And here's the problem: Congress has too much power. See the last paragraph of Section 8, U.S. Constitution below. I doubt the Founding Fathers ever thought that an entire Congress would be corrupt and as determined to bring down this country. But here it is. Look no further than Adam Schiff. The man is outrageously corrupt and yet carries the weight of a Congressman. The United States is done IMO.



Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; — And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.




edit on 22-10-2020 by Phantom423 because: (no reason given)



posted on Oct, 22 2020 @ 10:19 PM
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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Xtrozero

The problem is that everyone apparently likes their personal Congress Critter and thinks all the rest are the problem.

I guess when we look at find specimens like Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee, they happen to be what their constituents want. Cumulatively, it all adds up.


Well that is the problem...I'm the head of xx as they sit there for decades in some pile of goo.




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