Patriot Act extension concealed in funding bill passed by House Democrats

On Tuesday, House Democrats overwhelmingly voted for a stop-gap government funding bill that includes an unannounced provision, buried in the legislation, averting the expiration of the police state surveillance Patriot Act.

[wsws.org]

We were against it before we were for it. A ton of material today coming at me is constantly throwing an old article from Caitlin Johnstone in my imagination. For the newer/ish members of the group, and we have had a rather decent jump in membership over the past couple of weeks, which I'll get to this weekend sometime, I offer this.

Dems And GOP Work Together Like A Boxer’s 1–2 Punch To Knock You Out

[caitlinjohnstone.com]

Add any aspect of our governing as she does the FCC’s vote and apply it. As you might find a correlation in the initial article above from WSWS. Neither party is fighting for us. They are fighting against us.

Along with the democrats new found love of the Patriot Act you get this.

{The Democrats’ claim to oppose money for the wall is fraudulent. The funding measure passed Tuesday places no restriction on ongoing construction and maintains current spending on the reactionary project. Nor does it restrict any other aspects of Trump’s fascistic assault on immigrants, including mass incarceration in concentration camps and record levels of child detention.}

All issues that have vastly left any sense of urgency from the MSM in wake of the past 2 fake Russiagate narratives. In which I strongly add what we are still doing in Venezuela today also. You might not know this, but just the other day we attempted another coup change in Venezuela. It failed miserably from reports.