Any time a meme says “basically” there’s a good chance they’re just making stuff up. The term lobbying wasn’t created by Americans, it originated in the UK, referring to the lobbies of the House of Commons. It dates back to the 1600s.
▪️The modern growth of lobbying is a direct result of the rise of the administrative state regulating virtually every aspect of business. Microsoft famously had almost no lobbying presence in Washington in the early ‘90s. Then the govt went after them hard on antitrust charges, and they instituted a massive lobbying arm in DC.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/122197microsoft.html
▪️The reality is that it’s nearly impossible for large businesses to succeed without lobbying. If they try to mind their own business and ignore govt, like Microsoft did, they won’t be left alone in return. So lobbying exists, not only to gain special favors from govt, but to keep them from coming after you.
▪️The leftist perspective is that lobbying arises from corporate money influencing politics, but the reality is it originates due to the favors and punishments that the administrative state (and those who control it) can dole out. Without that power being lorded over, there would be no one to lobby.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
