HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The largest Republican majority in the Pennsylvania state Senate in nearly 70 years is wasting no time in flexing its conservative muscle, advancing bills that ultimately could test whether a veto by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf can withstand an override vote.

In the Senate's first full week of the new two-year session, a Senate committee advanced legislation that would kill Philadelphia's sick-leave law, and any other municipal law like it, and punish sanctuary cities by withholding state grant dollars.
More committee votes are planned, including on legislation to make it harder for public-sector labor unions to collect member contributions through paycheck deductions.

PSUsarge wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:people #$!&@ on Trump voters without attempting to understand them and their situations.

Not really understanding the urgency to understand these voters who numbered 3 MILLION fewer than the people who voted for the candidate who lost, and who lost thanks almost entirely due to our peculiar selection process.

"Understanding" the views of a relative handful of ...unusual...voters in MI, PA, & WI seems well down the priorities list. People who genuinely "understand their situations" almost certainly did not vote for drumph. If you "genuinely" understand your situation, you would not vote for drumph, because, equipped with your capability to genuinely understand something, you could probably also identify a reckless liar/person who may be clinically mentally ill, and so would not vote for them, given the potential adverse consequences and despite misgivings about alternatives of demonstrated capacity.

Feels like, based on the weightiest facts of that outcome, what is more important to understand is the peculiarities of that process, whether or not anything is, or even should be, done about it.

1) Okay so because 2% more people voted for HC the other 63 MILLION people shouldn't be understood?
2) Both parties knew exactly how that peculiar selection process worked. One did a way better job at playing the game than the other, who had the advantage of decades of experience.
3) Trump and his voters would get a biblical amount of shit for making the same arguments about the electrical college if the situation were reversed. Sour grapes argument, regardless of validity.
4) I do feel I genuinely understand their situations and didn't vote for Trump, so there you go. But HC offended those people repeatedly and Trump lavished them with (probably empty) promises of a return to prosperity. They chose to vote for the guy that might be a lot of bad things but seems to "have their back" when nobody else appears to vs. the woman who called them a basket of deplorables and basically ran her entire campaign on that fact that he was unfit to be President rather than trying to highlight her own fitness.

Youseff wrote:but maybe I'm wrong, please help me understand why these Trump voters still insist Obama is a Muslim and yet believe Trump, a man who has exhibited literally no knowledge of the scriptures, is a good Christian, god fearing man. Trump voters will be reviled as some of histories greatest fools.

Youseff wrote:
related, this IS THE MOST TERRIFYING SHIT IVE SEEN

https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/8 ... 6745127939
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ACLU now says it has received 290,000 online donations totaling $19.4 million since Saturday morning. Average per year is $3-4 million

pacino wrote:Trump/Democrats nowhere close on infrastructure plan because the Democrats want to build stuff and Trump wants to have some tax credits and loopholes for private companies who may build stuff then control the profits.

Bucky wrote:done!

just tell me what this "OIF 2" thing is in case someone calls me on it!!