{"id":3024,"date":"2023-02-20T23:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2023-02-20T23:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T23:33:01","slug":"we-desperately-need-new-checks-and-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/20\/we-desperately-need-new-checks-and-balances\/","title":{"rendered":"We desperately need new checks and balances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Wire (which I listen to almost every day) had a very interesting episode on why pro-transgender laws continue to pass in red states. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/why-transgender-laws-fail-in-red-states-2-19-23\/id1576594336?i=1000600381676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/why-transgender-laws-fail-in-red-states-2-19-23\/id1576594336?i=1000600381676<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Spoiler: because Big Pharma gives them campaign contributions. <\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma wants to sell more drugs, whether people need those drugs or not. Rather than reining them in, Congress is helping them. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not the only form of government corruption. For the past several decades, the country has wanted Congress to stop illegal immigration, but they steadfastly refuse. Why? <\/p>\n<p>Somebody is paying them, and the corrupt media doesn&#8217;t even report on it. <\/p>\n<p>Our checks and balances have failed. We need new ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Wire (which I listen to almost every day) had a very interesting episode on why pro-transgender laws continue to pass in red states. https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/why-transgender-laws-fail-in-red-states-2-19-23\/id1576594336?i=1000600381676 Spoiler: because Big Pharma gives them campaign contributions. Big Pharma wants to sell more drugs, whether people need those drugs or not. Rather than reining them in, Congress is helping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/20\/we-desperately-need-new-checks-and-balances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We desperately need new checks and balances&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}