To: America
From: Republicans
SUBJECT: Fuck you.
Dear America,
Per our previous email.
Signed,
Republicans.
This is a good example of why conservatives, and all Republicans, are garbage people.
I said this on twitter but this is why people can shut the fuck about the vote being “pointless” or democrats being exactly as bad. They are bad, but only one side overwhelmingly said no to a bill that would do absolutely nothing other than save lives. There was nothing else attached to it for them to disagree with.
Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a nationwide public emergency, following violent protests over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
Rajapaksa said in a government gazette notification late on Friday that he took the decision in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and essential services.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police and military on Thursday outside Rajapaksa’s residence in a suburb of the capital, Colombo.
Police arrested 53 people and imposed a curfew in and around Colombo on Friday to contain sporadic protests that have broken out over shortages of essential items, including fuel and other goods.
The Indian Ocean island nation of 22 million people faces rolling blackouts for up to 13 hours a day as the government scrambles to secure foreign exchange to pay for fuel imports.
The country’s lucrative tourism industry and foreign workers’ remittances have been sapped by the pandemic, and public finances were hit further by deep tax cuts promised by Rajapaksa during his 2019 election campaign.
Ordinary Sri Lankans are also dealing with shortages and soaring inflation, after the country steeply devalued its currency last month ahead of talks with the International Monetary Fund for a loan programme.
An alliance of 11 political parties has urged Rajapaksa to dissolve the cabinet and form a government with all parties to deal with the crisis, local media said, in a nation where both India and China are competing to build influence. …
In a state marked by inequality and staggering housing prices, nearly 20% of community college students report experiencing homelessness
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