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Thom's blog
The "Governed" in America Aren't Getting the "Happiness" They Deserve
 Why do other countries have extensive and functioning social safety nets and wealthy people who pay their taxes, and we have neither? We're told by the Declaration of Independence that our nation was formed to provide every citizen with the basics of what government can and should provide:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…"
The "governed" in today's America, however, aren't getting the "happiness" they want or even, frankly, that they need.
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The "Governed" in America Aren't Getting the "Happiness" They Deserve
Article: " Crime" by Equality Trust in the UK.
Law: " 14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868 " No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability".
Is this what the "big lie" leads to - GOP candidates stalking and trying to kill dems?
Crazy Alert! - Wyoming lawmakers propose ban on electric vehicle sales
Tweet: " I'll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!" by Ronny Jackson. Tweet: " Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance" by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Hour Two: How a major rightwing group pours "dark money" into US voter suppression- Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director - Documented / Attorney 
Covid vaccines & sudden death - what fact or fiction?
Republicans, in order to persue their BS claim of voter fraud, are punishing the military
Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
We were warned that shale oil and fracked gas were a short term solution...
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