Is this where we're officially chatting now?

Yeah I bet the other chat turns into the welcome channel

That's smart. Too chaotic otherwise.

Yea that's the plan. So I just limit permissions on the original channel and throw in some rules with a pin?

You can just make sure only you can text in it

@RobertGrulerEsq that’s what I would do. Maybe make everyone click agree to the rules lol

@Auto Congress has the power of the purse. They propose the budget, that's where a lot of their power comes from ($)

That’s what I have seen on other channels

Too many libertarians here to have rules, I reckon.

I kid. I kid.

@RobertGrulerEsq but congress doesn’t have the police or fbi or the military so what’s stopping the president with them from just waltzing in and saying this money is ours now!

I think that is what all those "peaceful transition of power" questions have been about!

@Zuluzeit I am not a libertarian just a fan of people who want to have smaller government. Anyone who believes that gets my vote 😂

Robert are you voting libertarian/trump/nobody coz I know you’re definitely not voting Biden(at least from the this you said)

I like to keep a mystical aura about myself but I think you know where I'm leaning on this one!

libertarian constitutionalist here so yea smaller the better...

i don't care who anyone votes for just as long as they vote

All but 2 republican and 3 democrat senators voted yea on that crime bill. Painting Biden as some kind of rogue draconian hawk is kind of facile, imo.

In Australia it’s a crime not to vote. I don’t know what the penalty is though.

i watched a video of a woman in australia get arrested for something they posted on facebook. sounds like an interesting place

@RoberGrulerEsq yes, it's very mysterious. I haven't the foggiest. Lmao

@Zuluzeit I think it’s the dishonesty. The “of you don’t vote for Joe, then you ain’t black”. Okay Joe. Sure.

I am very nervous that a lot of the powers of Congress have been given over to the President and Trump has only sped up that erosion

@Nido what powers?

thats great you want to build your wall but you bypassed Congress by declaring a national emergency and took the money you wanted

@Zuluzeit Biden has a much girthier record on justice reform than just the 1994 crime bill, but I see your point.

what is stopping President Biden from going "national emergency, climate change" or "national emergency, healthcare"

and doing whatever he wants

we already know nobody is going to stop him

@Nido none of that sounds new to me.

@Gypsy_Warlord but in regard to justice reform, specifically, the crime bill is a partisan wash.

you might be right, but I can't think of any other scenario where the President asked for funding for something, Congress said no and he did it anyway