Or… the ones after him didn’t bother to finish the job, because they wanted it to fail.

It’s not like FDR was elected right before Reagan or something here.

He ran on something quite different… Remember, he was running a campaign long before 2013… Like… 2007.

The Supreme Court apparently disagreed, both in this specific case and more generally when the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference doctrine.

The SCOTUS disagreed because that’s what their oligarch told them to decide. Not because of any actual legal framework or reasoning involved.

Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details

One slight point, this isn’t how they get legislative drafts. Legislative drafts come from thinktanks like Heritage, ALEC, Vote Blue, etc.

Oligarchs write legislation, and then find a congresscritter that owes them a favor. They “lobby” for it, ie they stop into the congresscritter’s office, drop the envelope with the text, drop a check for their campaign fund, and then the congresscritter gets it to pass.

NYS pays more in federal taxes than we get in Federal dollars.

I think we’ll be ok.

The FCC has authority to punish whomever is the enemy of Reich Wingers, and Trump more specifically. Nothing more, nothing less.

Can the FCC punish a social media company for censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can the FCC punish a social media company for not censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can telcos be punished by the FCC for the same two things above? Yes.

It’s all about punishing the enemy, not logical consistency.

Bottom line: precedent, rulings, laws, etc have no bearing on the courts.

What matters to the courts is paying back for the favor of appointment. Which means they will rule whatever our oligarchs tell them to rule.

Always has…

It was happening before the ACA as well.

So, the problem was never fixed.

It got us the privilege of HAVING to pay insurance companies, who make up reasons to deny, delay, and depose.

And if the individual can’t afford it, we funnel tax dollars to those same corporations, who make up reasons to deny, delay, and depose.

Its a cash grab for the insurance industry, really.

Democrats at best had a tenuous veto proof majority for not even 2 weeks.

They had the house, the senate, and the POTUS. That’s “veto proof”. And it was for nearly two years.

If you mean “filibuster proof”, the filibuster is just a made up rule by the senate. A rule they could have, and should have, discarded the moment they took the senate.

Money.

Lots of potential tax revenue with cannabis.

First line of my /etc/profile:

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/

You spin up a root zone for your tld, and you point your machines at it, and whomever else is interested in using your TLD. Or, you pay ~50K to ICANN, and meet some technical requirements (Last I checked, its like 8 zone servers, in 5 different geographical locations, response time maximums, etc).

Alternativley, you can also work with OpenNIC to do this, as they already have a number of OpenNIC resolvers, root zones. For this, your name servers you run need to meet their Tier I requirements.

And thats a good thing! It’s known as a right to free association. You can choose who you hang out with, and who you do NOT hang out with.

Be your own admin. The option is there, and let’s you control the admin.

So, what you propose just isn’t feasible.

Who is the one who gets John Doe? First come, first serve, and never again available?

Nobody calls the internet federated because the switches transfer your data

Actually, a lot of people refer to the internet as federated, because most all of it is very decentralized, and independently managed.

Take IP routes… The BGP table is a giant exercise in federation. Any transit provide can blackhole your traffic, or just refuse to accept the announcements (ie, a lot of places reject North Korean BGP announcements, for example).

DNS is another example of a federated system, a number of countries operate the root servers, who merely hold pointers to where to get answers for a TLD, which in turns just provides answers on who can provide answers for a domain.

You can even create your own TLDs, and use them!

Its a giant, federated system. The apps sitting on top of it are not so much anymore.

Why can’t we just buy domain names for like 30 year periods?

You can. I think ICANN has agreed to limit it to 10 year maximum, to reduce domain squatting, though.

This is a HUGE problem in the IT sector… A lot of folks come up with “new, better, and more agile” systems for core tech, like DNS. What they fail to account for are all the lessons learned, and problems solved over the decades the system has been in use, and fail to understand a lot of the “complications” stem from people being complicated.

I somehow made the DNS system break someday, as I was able to “buy” an already-registered domain

This could happen on a blockchain, as well. All it takes is to control a majority of the miners. One reason I laugh when people claims btc or other ponzicoins are “distributed”, since most miners are controlled by China at the moment.