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Borderlands 3: Ascension Bluffs Crew Challenges Guide | Claptraps, Typhon Logs & Hunts Locations – Gameranx
Posted: September 20, 2019 at 3:43 am
The second major area of Borderlands 3 is the Ascension Bluffs, where your Vault Hunters will finally confront the cruel twins. The massive Broadcast Center is the focal point of this map, but youll want to explore every nook-and-cranny to uncover the many, many collectibles hidden throughout.
This is also a map with various other mini-quests you can complete. Youll have Crimson Radios and Hijack Targets to find. Both of these are well-worth doing, and usually involve a simple little puzzle. But, theyre also incredibly easy to find and getting close to their locations will instantly mark them on your map. With that in mind, we wont be covering those locations here. This is all about the trickier-to-locate Claptraps and Typhon Logs.
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For this guide, well cover where to find Dead Claptraps, Typhon Logs, Typhon Dead Drops, and Legendary Hunt locations.
There are three Typhon Logs in each area, and there can be one or more Dead Claptraps or Legendary Hunts to find. Below, youll find a map with locations marked for every collectible type, and text instructions with more details to help you track them all down.
Typhon Logs are one of the most valuable collectibles. Finding all three will unlock the location of the Typhon Dead Drop. This cache is full of good loot, so its worth going to each location.
Legendary Hunt: Just to the right of the Fast Travel Station. Go up to the hills to find the flying Skrakks nest. Just across the valley from the Crimson Radio.
Typhon Log #1: From the entrance area, follow the road up until you spot a white silo on the edge to the right of the road. The log is nearby.
Typhon Log #2: On a small platform to the right of the road leading up to the main Holy Broadcast Center.
Typhon Log #3: On a small ledge with a tree, just to the right of the two bridges in the large bandit camp, west of the Path of Sacrifice.
Dead Claptrap: On the bridge leading to the Holy Broadcast Center, look on the right for a container with three hanging lamps. The claptrap is on one of the poles.
Typhon Dead Drop: Located just behind the Catch-A-Ride station, near the entrance to the Path of Sacrifice / Holy Broadcast Center.
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Check out the Baton Rouge prep report for Thursday, Sept. 19 – The Advocate
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Football schedule
Editor's note: Games start at 7 p.m. unless otherwise listed; schedule updated to include Saturdays LSD game.
Thursday
Local/area
Kentwood 27, East Feliciana 6
Mentorship 60,North Central (5-1A) 0
Central Private (6-1A) vs. Catholic-Pointe Coupee (5-1A), n
Statewide
Benton 57, Huntington 30
Calvary Baptist Academy 37, C.E. Byrd 25
G.W. Carver 36, John Ehret 30
Haynes Academy 35, Ben Franklin 0
Iowa 14, Welsh 11
Opelousas Catholic 42, Port Barre 0
Pope John Paul II 10, Thomas Jefferson 8
Ruston 49, Airline 28
St. Louis 38, Kinder 37, 2OT
Friday
5A/4A
Belaire (7-4A) at Central (4-5A)
St. Amant (5-5A) at Denham Springs (4-5A)
Live Oak (4-5A) at West Feliciana (7-3A)
Captain Shreve (1-5A) at Scotlandville (4-5A)
Walker (4-5A) at Fontainebleau (6-5A)
Madison Prep (7-3A) at Istrouma (7-4A)
Brandon (Miss.) at Zachary (4-5A)
Catholic (5-5A) at University (7-3A)
Covington (6-5A) at Dutchtown (5-5A)
Northwest (5-3A) at East Ascension (5-5A)
McKinley (5-5A) vs. Southern Lab (6-1A) at Mumford Stadium
Woodlawn (5-5A) at Riverside (9-1A)
Broadmoor (7-4A) vs. Donaldsonville (9-3A) at Boutte Stadium-Donaldsonville
Plaquemine (7-4A) at St. Thomas More (5-4A)
Brusly (7-3A) vs. St. Michael (7-4A) at Olympia
Tara (7-4A) at Northeast (7-2A)
Baton Rouge area
Wossman (2-3A) at Baker (7-3A)
Thrive Academy (6-1A) at Glen Oaks (7-3A)
Dunham (7-2A) at Parkview Baptist (7-3A)
Albany (8-3A) at Springfield (9-2A)
Loranger (8-3A) at St. Thomas Aquinas (8-2A)
Jewel Sumner (8-3A) at St. Helena (8-2A)
Amite (8-2A) vs. Capitol (7-2A) at Memorial Stadium
Episcopal (7-2A) at Country Day (9-1A)
Port Allen (7-2A) at Livonia (6-4A)
Ascension Catholic (7-1A) at Slaughter Community Charter (6-1A)
Houma Christian (6-2A) at Ascension Christian (7-1A)
Varnado (8-2A) at East Iberville (7-1A)
Hamilton Christian (4-1A) at St. John-Plaquemine (7-1A)
West St. Mary (7-2A) at White Castle (7-1A)
Saturday
Local/area
Oklahoma School for the Deaf at Louisiana School for the Deaf, 6 p.m.
Ascension Catholic 3, Zachary 0
Zachary 12 19 18
Ascension Catholic 25 25 25
Istrouma 3, Baker 0
Istrouma 25 27 25
Baker 19 25 19
Team leaders: ISTROUMA: Fredricka Bradley (7 kills, 5 aces, 3 blocks), Leahmonet Morgan (5 kills) Genesis Lee (4 kills, 7 assists); BAKER: Naylah Rivers (5 kills, 5 aces), Skyla Preston (4 kills, 2 blocks). Team records: Istrouma 7-4; Baker 4-6
Central 3, St. Michael 1
Central 19 25 25 25
St. Michael 25 21 18 16
Team leaders: CENTRAL: Caroline Nunnery (14 kills, 4 blocks), Kaitlin Dilworth (9 kills, 2 aces, 6 ace, 11 digs); ST. MICHAEL: Lexi Gonzales (17 kills, 2 aces, 12 digs), Karleigh Bourgoyne (36 assists, 10 digs), Nicole Benigno (2 assists, 24 digs). Team records: Central 6-4; St. Michael 7-9
Central 3, Catholic-PC 0
Catholic-Pointe Coupee 22 15 15
Central 25 25 25
Team leaders: CENTRAL: C. Nunnery (13 kills, 5 blocks), J. Alvin (7 kills, 3 digs), M. Fralick (14 assists, 8 digs, 4 kills); CATHOLIC-PC: A. Vosburg (21 assists, 7 digs, B. Bizette (7 kills, 5 digs), J. Guidry (4 kills, 2 blocks). Team records: Central 5-4
Istrouma 3, Belaire 0
Belaire 14 11 18
Istrouma 25 25 25
Team leaders: ISTROUMA: Fredricka Bradley (13 kills, 5 aces), Brianna Battley (5 kills, 2 blocks), Alayshia Whitlock (8 aces). Team records: Belaire 1-5; Istrouma 8-4
Lee High 3, Live Oak 0
Live Oak 12 15 23
Lee High 25 25 25
Team leaders: LIVE OAK: Katelyn Teel (5 kills, 2 blocks), Kate Campbell (3 kills, 19 digs), Alyssa Holden (9 assists, 7 digs); LEE: Diamond Holliday (15 kills, 3 blocks, 5 digs), Trinity Bell (10 kills, 4 blocks), Trenity Lundy (19 digs, 3 aces), Johnice Hubbart (34 assists). Team records: Live Oak 5-11; Lee High 13-2
McKinley 3, West Feliciana 0
West Feliciana 8 19 20
McKinley 25 25 25
Team leaders: WEST FELICIANA: Daelyn Weaver (6 kills, 4 digs), Destiny Mitchell (6 kills, 2 blocks), Mallory Cutrer (5 digs), Hailey Walker (10 assists); McKINLEY: Tyrianna Arrell (20 assists, 2 kills, 2 blocks), Codi Watson (7 kills, 3 blocks), Kaelyn Hill (5 kills, 3 blocks), KeIra Collier (4 kills, 2 aces). Team records: McKinley 9-4
Parkview Baptist 3, Walker 0
Walker 10 10 11
Parkview Baptist 25 25 25
Team leaders:
Team records: Walker 8-8; Parkview Baptist 9-3
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Wanted: Volunteers to serve on new board overseeing animal services in Ascension Parish – The Advocate
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Ascension Parish will soon be looking for seven volunteers to take on a new role in animal services for the community.
They won't be fostering, rescuing or caring for animals although they could do that, too but serving on a new board to oversee parish animal services, in light of a property tax being collected for the first time this year for shelter operations and animal control operations, as well as building a $2.5 million facility to house both.
People who would like to serve on the board will go through an application process and interview with the parish council's personnel committee, which will make its recommendations to the parish council.
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Earlier this month, the personnel committee introduced amendments to current parish law to create the Ascension Parish Animal Services Board.
"With a new revenue stream, the board will be promoting pet care and neutering" as well as protecting animals from mistreatment, protecting people from uncontrolled animals and "being good stewards" of the new animal tax revenues in the parish, John Cagnolatti, committee chairman said.
Ascension Parish voters in December 2018 approved a 10-year, 1-mill property tax expected to generate about $1.3 million annually for animal services. Creating a volunteer board to oversee the use of the revenues is the next step.
The personnel committee's proposed amendments to parish law will be voted on by the full council on Thursday.
When temperatures plummeted this winter, workers at CARA's House, the animal shelter for Ascension Parish, set up diesel-fueled heaters in the
The board, as proposed, will be made up of:
The vision of the board has also been spelled out: that someday in Ascension Parish "all citizens, their property and their neighborhoods will be safe from the dangers and nuisances of irresponsible pet ownership, that someday animals will not suffer because of human abuse, neglect or ignorance, and that every pet born will have a good home and proper care all its natural life."
Reagan Daniel, president of the board for CARA's House, the animal shelter in the parish, said they "are very much looking forward to sitting down with the board and helping in the planning process."
Daniel said CARA's House staff and volunteers have been considering priorities for the new facility.
"One of our biggest needs is a climate-controlled facility," she said.
Currently at the shelter in Sorrento, dogs are housed in a building that must be heated in the winter by diesel heaters and heat lamps and cooled in the summer by a huge, industrial-sized ceiling fan as well as individual box fans at each kennel and big "circle drum" fans that can be moved around.
The cats are housed in temporary buildings that are air-conditioned in the summer and have heating in the winter.
The shelter is currently housing 200 cats and 125 dogs, Daniel said. Summertime is the shelter's busiest time of the year.
One of the factors, Daniel said, is the jump in "owner surrenders" of pets to the shelter, often because the owners are moving away or, sometimes, leaving on a vacation.
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Ascension Wisconsin to provide free medical exams, dental care Saturday at North Division High School – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Ascension Wisconsin's "Medical Mission at Home" event in Racine drew about 300 people in May. A similar event will be held in Milwaukee on Saturday.(Photo: Ascension Wisconsin)
Ascension Wisconsin, with the help of roughly 500 volunteers, will provide free medical exams, dental care and other services Saturday at its first medical mission in Milwaukee.
The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at North Division High School, 1011 W. Center St.
It will include free medical exams by primary care physicians, specialists in obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology and podiatry, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Dentists from the St. Elizabeth AnnSeton Dental Clinic, which is sponsored by Ascension Wisconsin, and from throughout southeastern Wisconsin also will be staffing the event.
Other services will include basic vision tests, blood tests and mammograms.
A similar event in Racine in May drew 300 people.
Some people dont seek out medical care, said Tim Waldoch, chief mission integration officer for Ascension Wisconsin.
We are doing this to bring medical care out to them, he said.
Volunteers will help people determine what services they need and will guide them through the event.
In addition, care coordinators will arrange follow-up care as well as help connect people with a primary care physician.
We are trying to set the stage for better care on many fronts, Waldoch said.
Financial counselors from Ascension Wisconsin and Covering Wisconsin also will be at the event to help people enroll in BadgerCare Plus, the states largest Medicaid program.
Adults with household incomes below the poverty threshold $12,490 for one person are eligible for coverage through BadgerCare Plus.
The cutoff for eligibility is much higher for children and pregnant women.
People with low incomes also are eligible for federal subsidies that offset all or almost all of the cost, including out-of-pocket expenses, of buying private health plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Those plans, though, are available for more people only during the annual open-enrollment period.
Waldochpraised Milwaukee Public Schools and North Division High School for their help.
We are taking over the place that day, he said.
Other organizations also are participating. And the event is drawing physicians and other volunteers who work for Ascension Wisconsin from as far as Rhinelander.
"This is something that people feel very proud of and want to be part of, said Kevin Kluesner, chief administrative officer of Ascension St. Joseph hospital.
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Moving on from prolific 2018 class, inexperienced Ascension Episcopal volleyball maturing quickly – The Advocate
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Its a new chapter for Ascension Episcopal volleyball, as coach Jill Braun described it, and that may sound like a typical sports clich you hear from coaches when a team is hit hard by graduation.
But for the Blue Gators, that phrase couldnt be more accurate. In fact, its more like a new book.
Because how do you replace eight seniors, six of who were starters since they were freshmen? Another, Addie Vidrine, started as a seventh-grader.
Over the past five years, that group helped Ascension reach the Division V state championship game four times, including last year.
Braun isnt pretending that she can replace that lost leadership. When she preaches to her returning players about creating their identity, she means it. The biggest hurdle the Blue Gators are having to overcome is just learning how to play with each other because many of them have never done so.
Weve talked all summer and into the start of the year that it was going to be a little bit of a slower start just as were gelling together and figuring each other out as a team, Braun said. Im really starting to see those things come to fruition in the last week.
Like I keep telling the kids, we dont have to be our best in September. We need to be our best in November. So its a process and a journey.
To Brauns credit, shes embraced the challenge of molding a new team with new personalities.
Change always promotes growth, Braun said, so I was definitely excited about this season.
The new personnel isnt the only change the Blue Gators are undergoing. After being a staple of the Division V final over the last half decade, Ascension has moved up to Division IV, which also features area powers like Notre Dame and Lafayette Christian.
The good news is Ascension isnt void of experience for this voyage into a higher classification. Abby Hall, a sophomore outside hitter who had 16 assists in a semifinal win against Central Catholic last year, returns. So does right-side hitter/middle blocker Jordan Berube, one of eight seniors on this years team.
Abby Hall has a strong arm on the outside, Braun said. Shes a six-rotation, all-around player. She brings that consistency as far as offensively and defensively. Jordan Berube has been great vocal team leader recently. She kind of keeps everybody in the game.
I actually have eight seniors again, Braun added. So they may not be very seasoned, but theyve been in the program for a long time. So were not rebuilding. Were just giving some kids some spotlight that have kind of been behind that group from last year.
Ascension has also added a gifted player to its rotation. Jenai Stevens, a 6-foot senior middle blocker, moved to Lafayette last year after attending The Dunham School in Baton Rouge. Stevens is a two-time all-district first-teamer and was the districts MVP in 2017.
Braun describes Stevens, a Division I-level prospect, as impactful. Her experience playing at a program like Dunham, which reached the Division V quarterfinals last year, certainly doesnt hurt.
(Stevens family) moved to Lafayette last winter, so she played travel ball here in the Lafayette area, Braun said. So she comes to us with a lot of talent.
There is one area where Ascension is particularly young, though talented. The Lady Blue Gators new 5-1 setter is Brauns daughter, eighth-grader Kira Braun.
Shes been very impressive, Jill said. She does play travel for me, but she has earned the right and done a fantastic job leading our varsity team this year even though shes in eighth grade.
As of Thursday, Ascension wass off to a 4-1 start, having won four straight matches after dropping its opener to Division III runner-up E.D. White. As Braun suspected, the inexperienced Blue Gators havent been perfect from the jump, but theyre quickly maturing.
I feel like this week we really progressed by leaps and bounds with the little things we were trying to get our offense running smoother, Braun said. We had some passing issues early, and we are doing much better. Ava Breaux plays in the back row as a (defensive specialist), and Annie Mouton is now our libero. Both of those girls have done a good job improving our passing in the last couple of weeks.
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Regional police jury group meets in Jackson | East Feliciana – The Advocate
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Elected and appointed officials from nine parishes gathered Sept. 11 for a Police Jury Association meeting at The Old Centenary Inn in Jackson.
In addition to East Feliciana Parish, Region VI includes Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington and West Feliciana.
Region VI President Louis Kent, of East Feliciana Parish, presided over the meeting, and Jason McCray, of East Feliciana District 3, welcomed attendees.
WAFB chief meteorologist Jay Grymes was the speaker and gave a brief history of how his career began in both academia and television. He addressed how storms could affect the area,climate change and water retention and flow.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin spoke regarding election security, and Toye Taylor, deputy chief of staff of Intergovernmental Affairs from the Governors Office, spoke about the Delta Regional Authority and flood mitigation. PJAL President Glenn Benton, of Bossier Parish, invited attendees to the PJAL Convention in Shreveport on Feb. 12-14.
PJAL Executive Director Guy Cormier gave a legislative update, praising those in attendance for their work that helped keep allocations for parish government, including on the Parish Transportation Fund, Hotel/Motel Tax and Fire Insurance Rebate. He also spoke about the Parish Government Risk Management Agency.
Cormier led the business session in which St. Helena Parish was announced as the 2020 host parish. Major Coleman, of St. Helena, was announced 2020 president with the secretary/treasurer also coming from St. Helena Parish. Region VI vice president will come from Ascension Parish. St. Tammany Parishs Pat Brister, was reelected to serve as Region VIs state Executive Board member. Members of the Resolutions Committee were also reelected. They are Livingstons Layton Ricks, St. Tammanys Pat Brister and Ascensions Kenneth Dawson.
One resolution was passed in favor of future legislation to create an Unclaimed Property Trust Fund.
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Borderlands 3 Ascension Bluff Gem Door – How to Unlock – GosuNoob.com
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Gem door in Ascension Bluff is one of the mysterious locked doors in Borderlands 3. Its a wooden door with a big orange gem in the middle. We found one in the northern part of the map, but weve heard theres more of them. There isnt a button prompt when you approach them, and the game doesnt even acknowledge the fact theyre locked. If youre wondering how to open Ascension Bluff gem door in Borderlands 3, keep reading, and well list all the things people have tried.
At this point, nobody knows how to open the locked door in Ascension Bluff. If you look at the map, youll see theres an arena behind them, so they definitely can be opened. The fact theres no prompt or message when you approach them makes us think theyll open automatically once the requirements have been fulfilled.
What those requirements are is anyones guess. Theres talk of Eridian writings being part of the requirements, but people whove deciphered them all can confirm that is not the only requirement. Getting a 100% completion on the map by doing the crew challenges, discovering named locations, completing side quests, opening red chests and such, doesnt seem to unlock them either. Some people have even tried shooting at them with the Eridian Fabricator (the gun gun), but nothing happened.
One thing that might work is completing the Eridian Trials. Were not sure what these are exactly they might be Proving Grounds arenas, or the quests that appear once youve deciphered all of the slabs on a given planet. Were going to keep investigating this issue, and well update the guide as soon as we know more. If you know something we dont, be sure to leave a comment.
Weve seen footage of people getting behind the door by driving their car off a cliff. Its an empty arena, and some suspect its going to be the location of a boss fight in a future DLC or update.
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Stubble burning: HC restrains Punjab, Haryana from imposing fine on farmers – Hindustan Times
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The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday restrained the Punjab and Haryana governments from imposing fine on farmers for stubble burning.
The high court bench of justice RN Raina, while passing the order, also roped in Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, and Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, to suggest measures to deal with the problem of stubble burning. The notice has been issued to the Centre as well to suggest remedial measures. Detailed order is awaited.
Both the governments have been asked to not to make any recovery of compensation from farmers for stubble burning, petitioners lawyer Charanpal Singh Bagri said after the hearing. The petition has been referred to chief justice requesting to treat the matter as a public interest litigation. During the hearing, the bench of justice RN Raina observed that while farmers are committing suicides, the governments are making recovery of fines from them without discharging its duty.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Bharti Kissan Union, a Ludhiana based pressure group, in 2017. In this petition, the union has sought directions for adequate compensation per acre to the farmers as they have been restrained from burning paddy straw, stubble and residue by various orders of the state governments. As per petitioner, those farmers, who burn paddy straw, are fined from 2500 to 15,000 and criminal action is initiated. Besides, red entry is entered in the revenue record, which result in farmers facing difficulties in availing welfare schemes. State policy is thus resulting in oppression of the farmers and discouraging them from paddy cultivation, Bagri had told court, adding that from time to time, this court has directed the state to take proactive measures by providing affordable and readily available solutions to save farming community, however, government has not been able to help farmers.
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Quote of the Day: Constitution Day – Ricochet.com
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Pro [from Federalist No. 10]:
The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character of Federalists.
Con [from Anti-federalist No. 7]:
The Congresss having power without control-to borrow money on the credit of the United States; their having power to appoint their own salaries, and their being paid out of the treasury of the United States, thereby, in some measure, rendering them independent of the individual states; their being judges of the qualification and election of their own members, by which means they can get men to suit any purpose; together with Col. Masons wise and judicious objections-are grievances, the very idea of which is enough to make every honest citizen exclaim in the language of Cato, 0 Liberty, 0 my country! Our present constitution, with a few additional powers to Congress, seems better calculated to preserve the rights and defend the liberties of our citizens, than the one proposed, without proper amendments.
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What then may we expect if the new constitution be adopted as it now stands? The great will struggle for power, honor and wealth; the poor become a prey to avarice, insolence and oppression. And while some are studying to supplant their neighbors, and others striving to keep their stations, one villain will wink at the oppression of another, the people be fleeced, and the public business neglected. From despotism and tyranny good Lord deliver us.
From Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court, you would never know that there was a real debate about the framing of the basic rules, by which we are supposedly governed. Before the several states ratified the base document, USA 2.0 if you will, there was actually a robust, substantive debate. After the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of nominally anonymous essays, broadsheets, pamphlets, to make the case for ratification. Another group of writers, operating under other noms de plume, vigorously contested the claims made by the new constitutions advocates. It turns out that the side, later styled the Anti-federalists by the winners, were prescient in their concerns about the whole enterprise, especially the effectively unconstrained third branch, the judiciary.
From the two quotes offered here, you can see the broad outlines of the two positions, and how both were right, at least in part. Look within the four corners of the Constitution, as submitted to the original 13 states, and you will find an implicit acknowledgment that there are no perfect human institutions. Hence both the separation of powers, the checks and balances, and the built-in processes to amend the Constitution, as a supermajority of the states deem necessary. The Framers of the Constitution, as distinct from the Founders who pledged their lives and sacred honor in signing the Declaration of Independence, mainly approached their task with a tragic, mostly a biblical, view of human beings and their creations. See the famous quote in Federalist No. 51:
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
So, how are we doing? Consider the school handout offered by the Census Bureau for Constitution Day, painting a picture with a few numbers. Among those numbers:
Collecting Taxes
About $6.23 [$147 in 2016 dollars] The amount of state and local government taxes collected per person in 1880.
About $4,951The amount of state and local government taxes collected per person in 2016.
Note that these are not federal tax dollars, but the real growth in the scope of state and local government. In part, federal taxes could not be compared across the same interval as per person because the federal income tax was not ratified until 1913. This points to all of us, collectively, voting over and over again for more and more government at every level, in contradiction to the basic assumptions expressed by both sides of the debate back in 1787-1789. We may truly get the government for which we vote!
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Othering the Hungarian Opposition – Visegrad Insight
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At his inauguration two years ago, Hungarian President Jnos der warnedthat there was a dramatic deterioration in the quality of political public discourse. If this continues, the Fidesz supported der said, [it] can destroy everything that we built up since 1990.
A studyconducted in 2017 found that 43 per cent of Hungarians blame Viktor Orbn, Fidesz, the government and government-linked media outlets for the decay of quality of public discourse. Earlier this year, the Association of Christian Intellectuals wrotein a press release that national public discourse has become increasingly rough, including public figures using vulgar and obscene expressions.
So far, all these warnings have been fruitless. Following the 2018 elections, one Fidesz minister replied to critics that democracy is a race, and consolidation is absurd. The European Parliament (EP) elections and the upcoming municipal elections have been a sufficient motivation for not holding back the well-oiled campaign machine.
The build-up and operation of this media machine is well documented. More importantly, a confrontational stance towards other parties is also a time-tested tool of Fidesz. The most consistent representative of this style is Zsolt Bayer, a proud founder of Fidesz, publicist, and writer.
In 2013, Bayer suggestedthat a large proportion of the Roma are not suitable for living among humans. In 2017, when talking about activists who protested against a law targeting NGOs, he saidthat if these, or their kind appear in the Parliament again () then you must drag them out on their snot and blood.
While Bayer was and still is one of the loudest pro-government voices spreading such violent narratives, pro-government circles have frequently been pushing similar opinions.
Opposition MEPs in the European Parliament, who are not voting in favour of Fidesz candidates, are attacked in a vocabulary that fits better for a civil war than for peacetime. In an opinion piece that appeared on Pesti Srcok, a government-linked online outlet, Pilhl Tams equated the opposition with spy agencies on the payroll of foreigners, representing the interests of large Western powers.
Tams: [They] are also not part of the Hungarian opposition, as they are not the opposition, but an enemy not only of the Hungarian government but the Hungarian nation, all of us.
In the last sentence of the article, Tamssuggested that the appropriate response is to treat them as enemies. To protect ourselves, all means are allowed.
The usage of such narratives is delegated to government-linked media outlets, to drum up voter support. However, Fidesz members are also prone to use demeaning tropes. The most prevalent example is the discourse around the Soros plan.
The discourse revolves around an international network of Soros-funded organisations that plan to flood Europe with migrants. This has become the main narrative of Fidesz communication since 2015.
As Viktor Orbn put it in a speech, Fidesz is fighting opposition candidates who are actually not candidates of political parties but of George Soros. This militant rhetoric dehumanises the opposition and dismisses them as anonymous chess pieces.
All these narratives have shared characteristics, which point to a similar process. Edward W. Said once demonstrated how the people of the East were conceptualised as the Other, something less than human, which in turn contributed to a colonial project and to the oppression of countless people.
The examples above show how in todays Hungary, a similar project is being implemented not only by government-linked media outlets, but also by elected representatives of the governing party. This othering of the opposition in Hungary has led to immense division among Hungarians. It can reach such a level of alienation that (constructive) dialogue will become unimaginable.
Faceless enemies
However, the opposition parties also share part of the blame. There were instances when media outlets not associated with the government, but also the opposition itself, engaged in a sinister tit-for-tat competition with government officials; both sides have tried to see who could dehumanise the others supporters more.
Greater partisan discourse in the Hungarian media has undermined information sovereignty, which is one explanation why Radio Free Europeis set to resume in the country.
Nevertheless, the burden of responsibility is not equal. The centralised nature of the Fidesz portfolio of media outlets and the consistent way in which the government drums up negative emotions, makes the situation imbalanced. Moreover, the government is failing to deliverequal chances for all media actors, and utilises public funds for partisan campaigning.
Given the continuous campaign-mode of Fidesz, the trenches of party politics will only become deeper. This until the opposing camps only see faceless enemies, and no longer fellow citizens on the other side.
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