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September 06, 2025
September 05, 2025
Why Good Laws Don’t Get Passed
Why Good Laws Don’t Get Passed
As Aristotle said, “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” Even in Aristotle’s time, humans realized enforcing well-designed laws was critical to the function of any empire. Today, the greatest empire is (arguably) the United States of America, and it happens to have one of the most complicated processes ever for enacting a law. And in the end it leaves people wondering, “Why don’t good laws get passed?”
First, what is the actual process? As a side note, there are many exceptions and minutia to the “basic” process that I won’t discuss for the sake of brevity.
A bill starts as an idea that an interest group wants to pass. The interest group then promotes the bill through activism until they meet a legislator. If they convince the legislator of the bill’s potential, the legislator introduces the bill, and the senate leader refers to the corresponding committee assuming the bill starts in the senate. Bills can start in the house as well, but they undergo a similar process with a few differences. For context, in the Senate, there are various committees that each have a specific purpose and are comprised of a small subset of the Senate.
The committee assigned to the bill is tasked with writing the bill in legal language and then afterward holds a vote. If the bill wins a majority, it is appointed a date to be voted on by the full Senate. If the majority of the Senate supports the bill, then the bill is passed over to the House.
In the House, the bill is also voted on. However, the House’s proponents of the bill often make some changes to the legislature for it to pass, causing different bills to be voted on in the two houses. Occasionally, the bill isn’t modified, but it almost always is.
Assuming the bill is modified, the House sends it to the conference committee, which tries to create a “compromise” bill including elements from the bills passed by the House and Senate. The compromise bill is then sent to the House and Senate, which each vote on it, and if the bill wins in both houses, it is sent to the president.
The president then has ten days to decide whether to pass or veto the bill. Congress can try to override the president’s choice if a bill is rejected, but the hearing requires a supermajority (2/3) to succeed. Yes, even after all this work, it is the president alone who decides the legislature’s fate.
Of course, I still haven’t explicitly stated why most bills, even good ones, fail. And the truth is, there is no single reason. The problem is the multitude of points of failure for any single bill. Even well-liked bills could be put in a hostile committee, filibustered, vetoed, bribed (I mean lobbied) away, or just about anything else that kills it. The sheer number of steps needed for a bill to become law makes it very unlikely to be enacted. In the end, only 4.5% of bills become laws.
But is such a tight process truly a bad thing? While the founding fathers may not have foreseen filibusters or committees, they intended the process to be complex. On the positive side, most defective bills are quickly and effectively weeded out, while uncontroversial bills, such as thanking groups of veterans, are swiftly passed.
Ultimately, the American system may be confusing, needlessly complicated, and occasionally reject great ideas, but it has proved itself by surviving the test of time.
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https://medium.com/@SJsenthil/why-good-laws-dont-get-passed-d40e7296f3ea.
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January 25, 2025
W.E.F. C40 SMART CITIES: Dystopian nightmare where elitist ruling class can literally SHUT OFF power, vehicles, food, internet and money anytime for any reason
W.E.F. C40 SMART CITIES: Dystopian nightmare where elitist ruling class can literally SHUT OFF power, vehicles, food, internet and money anytime for any reason
WEF C40 SMART CITIES: Dystopian nightmare where elitist ruling class can literally SHUT OFF power, vehicles, food, internet and money anytime for any reason
01/20/2025 // S.D. Wells
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has established C40, a program aimed at creating “smart cities,” which are portrayed as a dystopian society where the elite control all aspects of citizens’ lives through digital means.
In a smart city, every essential service can be remotely controlled and potentially shut down by the authorities, including food rations, electricity, transportation, and internet access, as a form of punishment or during emergencies declared by the rulers.
Shyam Batra, a candidate for Mayor of London, warns that the C40 initiative could lead to a situation where cities resemble “open prisons,” with strict controls over citizens’ movements, access to resources, and even their daily calorie intake.
The implementation of C40 is already underway in London, with plans to expand to other major cities, potentially involving the destruction and reconstruction of urban centers, as seen in the hypothetical scenario of Los Angeles being rebuilt for the 2028 Olympics. This suggests a broader agenda of social control under the guise of technological advancement and environmental sustainability.
The World Economic Forum (WEF), an independent international organization of elitists and globalists committed to taking over the world tyranny style, has created C40, a code name for smart cities.
Smart cities are a dystopian nightmare that the WEF is trying to implement right now, where everything is electric and can be turned off with the flick of a switch by the ruling elites, including digital currency, electric AI-controlled vehicles, smart-metered tiny homes, all public transportation, the internet, and all food will be rationed daily by the dictators, through a calorie-limited maximum amount allotted via text messaging. You can’t make this stuff up.
The candidate for Mayor of London, Shyam Batra, is blowing the whistle on how evil this plan really is, stating that all food, power, electricity, and banking can be turned off with the flick of one switch if the populace violates any rules. Did you just post some criticism of the government on social media? Read your incoming text message from the C40 dictator: “No food credit rations for you today; you violated community standards.”
Did someone say someone somewhere in the city has the flu? It must be the next pandemic. Read your incoming text message from the C40 Dictator: “Emergency notice: The entire city is on lockdown due to a novel flu virus outbreak. No power for electric vehicles will be available until further notice. Do not leave your home for any reason. Violators will be prosecuted and no food rations will be delivered to you.”
WEF has already signed up with London’s Mayor for London to convert to C-40, and all of the metropolitan cities of the world are next, if WEF has their way
A C-40 is basically an “open prison,” says Shyam Batra, like an infinite COVID-19 pandemic situation. There will be no jobs for anyone in the city that are outside of the 15-minute city, and there will be no vehicles, machines, tractors, or manufacturing plants that function on gas or diesel fuel at all. It’s a diabolical plan to control every facet of every person’s life, so don’t be fooled into thinking it’s just some cool, modern, green-friendly way to save the world from climate change. It’s undercover depopulation, and forced-vaccination at gunpoint will shortly follow in all C-40s.
More likely than not, Los Angeles is being burned to the ground right now to prepare to rebuild it as a C-40 city in preparation for the 2028 Olympics being held there. Expect more metropolitan cities to suddenly burst into flames in the next couple years to force everyone into compliance. George Orwell was right about everything. He somehow knew the future, or the W.E.F. is just following his fictional “playbook.”
Can you say “smart city” without coughing into your Fauci Flu face diaper? Tune your apocalypse dial to preparedness.news for updates on real news about surviving the Democrat-controlled energy weapons that destroy entire cities while mainstream media calls it “climate change.”
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Associated Press Report: Japanese carmaker Toyota set to end massive Olympic sponsorship deal
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Report: Japanese carmaker Toyota set to end massive Olympic sponsorship deal |
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FILE - Toyota President and CEO Akio Toyoda, left, and IOC President Thomas Bach pose with a signed document during a press conference in Tokyo, on March 13, 2015 as Toyota signed on as a worldwide Olympic sponsor in a landmark deal, becoming the first car company to join the IOC's top-tier marketing program. Toyota will end its massive sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee after this year's Paris Olympics, according to reports in Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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TOKYO (AP) — Vehicle manufacturer Toyota is set to end its massive sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee after this year's Paris Olympics, according to reports in Japan.
Toyota has a contract through the 2024 Paris Games, which was reported to be valued at $835 million when it was announced in 2015. It included four Olympics beginning with the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games in South Korea and ran through Paris.
It has been widely reported to be the IOC's largest sponsorship deal.
Citing “sources close to the matter,” Japanese news agency Kyodo said Toyota was unhappy the way sponsorship money was used by the IOC. The news agency, quoting the sources, said the money was "not used effectively to support athletes and promote sports.”
Reached by the Associated Press, Toyota declined to comment and said financial details were private.
Toyota pulled its Olympic advertising in Japan during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games in 2021. It said it was responding to strong public sentiment in the country against staging the Olympics and the IOC's push to hold them.
The IOC did not comment on the reports when contacted by AP.
“We have an agreement with Toyota until the Olympic Games Paris 2024,” the IOC said. “We continue to work closely together in preparation for Paris and we look forward to bringing these plans to life.”
Toyota is supplying 3,000 fuel-cell vehicles for the Paris Games to show off its green technology.
The IOC generates 91% of its income from selling broadcast rights (61%) and sponsorships (30%).
The IOC had income of $7.6 billion in the last four-year cycle ending with the Tokyo Games. The IOC's 15 so-called TOP sponsors paid over $2 billion in that period. The figure is expected to reach $3 billion in the next cycle.
“There's no sports property that touches as many bases as the Olympics in truly every country,” Rick Burton, who teaches sports marketing at Syracuse University, told Associated Press. “You have high brand recognition. You just don't have other sports properties that gives you that.”
Burton said the IOC was likely to find another vehicle brand if Toyota bows out. He said the best look would be finding a replacement quickly.
In addition to Toyota, the TOP sponsors are: ABInBev, Airbnb, Alibaba, Allianz, Atos, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Intel, Omega, Panasonic, P&G, Samsung, and Visa.
Japan officially spent $13 billion on the Tokyo Olympics, at least half of which was public money. A government audit suggested the real cost was twice that. The IOC contribution was about $1.8 billion.
The Tokyo Games were mired in corruption scandals linked to local sponsorships and the awarding of contracts. Dentsu Inc, the huge Japanese marketing and public-relations company, was the marketing arm of the Tokyo Olympics and raised a record-$3.3 billion in local sponsorship money. This is separate from TOP sponsors.
French prosecutors also looked into alleged vote-buying in the IOC's decision in 2013 to pick Tokyo as the host for the Olympics.
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Associated Press writer Yuri Kageyama contributed to this report.
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AP Summer Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
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https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/report-japanese-carmaker-toyota-set-052408465.html.
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