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FCC To Officially Rescind Net Neutrality Rules On Thursday (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to publish on Thursday its December order overturning the landmark Obama-era net neutrality rules, two sources briefed on the matter said Tuesday. The formal publication in the Federal Register, a government website, means state attorneys general and advocacy groups will be able to sue in a bid to block the order from taking effect. The Republican-led FCC in December voted 3-2 to overturn rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content. The White House Office of Management and Budget still must sign off on some aspects of the FCC reversal before it takes legal effect. Congressional aides say the publication will trigger a 60-legislative-day deadline for Congress to vote on whether to overturn the decision. U.S. Senate Democrats said in January they had the backing of 50 members of the 100-person chamber for repeal, leaving them just one vote short of a majority. The December FCC order will be made public on Wednesday and formally published on Thursday, the sources said.
You have only been here too long when you pour hot grits down Natalie Portman's trousers.
There are real differences between the major political parties.
There are, but they are implementation differences, not necessarily moral ones.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Yep, what one fool rams through--bypassing Congress--via his pen and his phone, the next fool can undo with his pen and his phone. A wise man once said “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”
Neither one. They're both engaged in screwing it up for most people. Not for themselves, of course.
There are definitely differences, though. The Democrats (at present) aren't as utterly corrupt as the Republicans. I suspect that'll turn around with the next pendulum swing. Because American voters just can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that putting the rich in power will not result in a generally favorable outcome for everyone else.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
The sad part is the Trump voters are the ones who are getting screwed, not the "libtards". The "libtards" tend to be upper income, so they benefit financially from corporatist policies. It is the Trump voter who gets screwed, but they are too dumb to realize it. They are going to freak out when Trump bans bump stocks.
Thank the Democrat's Super Delegate system which all but forced the "Entitled" candidate to win the primaries, denying the Democrat voters their preferred choice in the 2016 Election, Sen. Bernie Sanders. In 2016 the democrats learned the lesson the Republicans mostly learned in 2008 with Sen. McCain (it was his turn, though few Republicans were enthusiastic about him as their candidate), and finally learned in 2012 when the party was divided over the religion of their candidate Gov. Romney - an eminently qualified, successful leader that was openly mocked for correctly identifying "Russia" as the greatest threat to America in the 2012 debates, only to be proven right after the 2016 election.
Hillary ran a new kind of campaign, and in the end her over-confidence had her making what, in hindsight were some poor choices - she focused on fundraisers and massive vote advantage in the final phase of the election in states like California, while ignoring states that she felt confident she would win, only to learn her massive fundraising and popular vote advantage were meaningless when the Electoral Votes were tallied. She went home to walk in the woods, her opponent moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with less money raised and fewer votes cast for him - but those fewer votes were all where they needed to be.
Ken