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Lmao who is stupid enough to buy their guns and ammo with a credit card? Thats how the get you.

I think a big part of it is that suppliers, unlike scalpers, have to worry about the stickiness of prices on both sides. They don't want to raise prices now only to have to lower them later when demand cools; they would rather have consistent pricing not only for reputation reasons but also for their own financial projections. So they try to price their products for the steady-state of the market. That means that they are slower to react to surges of demand than scalpers, who feel free to change their prices extremely rapidly. If the surge in demand is sustained enough to change the baseline level of demand, prices will eventually go up, just more slowly.

'Surge pricing' i.e selling tickets on line like in an auction would accomplish the same thing and allow the actual supplier (the artist) and not the scalper to capture the consumer surplus.

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1791558207996895335

The reason why Taiwan's legislators are fighting is because the Legislative Yuan wants to expand its power, which infringes on the interests of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Currently, the Taiwan government is controlled by the DPP, while the courts are independent, but the Legislative Yuan is controlled by the Kuomintang (KMT) and the People's Party. Because in the past eight years, the DPP also controlled the Legislative Yuan, leading to the Legislative Yuan completely following the government's orders, losing its supervisory function. The KMT and the People's Party drafted an expansion of powers bill, allowing the Legislative Yuan to check and balance the government, but it infringed on the DPP's interests. However, the rules of the Legislative Yuan are that the side with more votes wins, and the side with fewer votes loses. The DPP cannot use legitimate channels to stop the vote, so they want to use violence to solve the problem. Therefore, the fighting began.

What are the contents of the Legislative Yuan Reform Bill 5?

1. Normalizing the President's National Intelligence Report: The President should submit the National Intelligence Report to the Legislative Yuan before February 1 each year and make a report before March 1. The new President should submit the National Intelligence Report within two weeks of taking office and make a report within one month. That is to say, if the bill passes before May 20, the new President, Lai Qingde, will have to go to the Legislative Yuan for a National Intelligence Report before June 20.

2. The Legislative Yuan's investigative powers and the right to hold hearings: The Legislative Yuan adds two new chapters, "Exercise of Investigative Powers" and "Exercise of Hearing Powers," which clearly define the rights of legislators to investigate and summon related persons. Can exercise investigative powers and the right to review for bills or matters of major relevance.

3. Contempt of Congress: Legislators, in exercising their investigative powers, may require government agencies, units, corporate bodies, and groups to provide relevant documents, books, and other materials within five days, and may question related personnel as necessary or order them to testify. Serious government officials may be referred for impeachment or disciplinary action, and those who make false statements may be sentenced to up to one year in prison, detention, or a fine of less than NT$200,000.

4. Strengthening the Legislative Yuan's consent power: When the Legislative Yuan exercises its consent power, it does not go through discussion and is submitted to the plenary session of the committee for review. After the review, it is proposed to the plenary session for a roll-call vote, and if more than half of the total number of legislators agree, it is passed.

5. The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Yuan are elected by a roll-call vote of legislators.

So the suspect appeared to had been a pro-russian far-righter at first
but he apparently uh became a bit more leftist because in 2019 he supported the social liberal candidate and condemned Russian invasion of Ukraine
So my conclusion is that he was just some old guy that went right than leftist and uh snapped and shot the prime minister

Birch Bayh was one of the true greats of the Senate. He practically wrote two constitutional amendments that became of the Constitution and really wasn't far off from getting another two. One of a multitude of reasons I'm glad I wasn't alive to see the 1980 election, because this one would've really hurt.

2 real responses to this, really? This pandemic killed 7 million people globally. Meanwhile there are 37 responses of some piece of sh*t Rep calling another piece of sh*t Rep a beach blonde butch bitch

     This isn't useful for pushing a partisan narrative, so interest is low.

How many elections do we have to go through, where some think that Florida is in play?

Well that sound Nice, Maybe this is Trump playing on Biden unpopularity and trying to get some minorities (Latino, african and jewish votes) to look at him in a more positive way?

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There are five other seats (Stampin, Bintulu, Petra Jaya, Bandar Kuching, and Sibu) with populations above the national average, so we shall see if those come up in the final report.

Rumors already spreading of ten new seats for Sarawak. Miri and Hulu Rajang were reported on earlier, all the densely populated seats mentioned above except Petra Jaya have been namechecked as seats to be carved up, two more (Baram and Kapit) are similar to Hulu Rajang, and Kota Samarahan and Serian I honestly have no clue about, they're not especially overpopulated or rural. We shall see.

On the state assembly front, GPS secretary-general Alexander Nanta Linggi says the Sarawak government is putting in a proposal for four new state seats to be added within the existing parliamentary constituencies of Kanowit, Kapit, and Hulu Rajang, all underpopulated, on grounds of their being large and rural. Nanta being the MP for Kapit has nothing to do with this at all, oh no.

Strengthens the case for Kapit being broken up – this would bring it up to four state seats to be broken into two parliamentary seats of two state seats each. Hulu Rajang we all knew was coming. It seems probable that two seats are being added to Kanowit which would allow it to be broken up too, and the newly enlarged PDP might be getting away with a few extra seats out of all this.

It's suspicious but I don't think that's enough evidence to conclude there was an error.

Haley couldn't even clear 40% in Travis but she somehow got 65% in a deep red rural county whose neighbors went for Trump by insane margins?