XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:03:45 -0600, super70s   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-12-26 03:39:24 +0000, pothead said:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-26, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:16:43 -0800, Pluted Pup    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> As for the thread title, leftists have been promoting   
   >>>> dragnet surveillance of cities in America and the UK and   
   >>>> around the world by claiming the only thing wrong with it   
   >>>> is because it might be used by immigration enforcement.   
   >>>   
   >>> Two words:  "Patriot Act"   
   >>   
   >> The Patriot Act took away more rights to freedom than anything in recent   
   times   
   >> from my perspective.   
   >> And like classic government manipulation of the masses, they picked the   
   perfect   
   >> time to put it on the table. ie:9-11.   
   >> There is some good in the act but there is also some overreach as well.   
   >> In fact a LOT of overreach.   
   >> And while it did expire in 2019 I believe, the government is still using   
   some   
   >> of the main provisions as if nothing changed.   
   >   
   >Any politician who wants to let it expire entirely is going to be   
   >called a "traitor" and "weak on defense" by Republicans in their   
   >election rhetoric.   
      
   Democrats had no problem using it to their advantage as well so save   
   your conditional outrage.   
      
   >   
   >Like when they push through their big regressive tax cuts with an   
   >expiration date, come election time you're "raising taxes" if you let   
   >them expire as planned. Of course they never go into whose taxes are   
   >being raised -- the average joe or the millionaires/corporations.   
      
   You mean like the Obamacare subsidies and the Dems howling about not   
   renewing them?   
      
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