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I wouldn’t be surprised after the SC guts Roe v Wade this summer to see red states pass legislation designed to re-litigate Obergefell v Hodges (gay marriage), Loving v Virginia (interracial marriage), Griswold v Connecticut (contraception), and eventually Brown v Board (school de-segregation). And I am not even joking.

Leaving these key issues to be determined by state legislatures would definitely be taking us back to the 1950s… which is what MAGA apparently wants.


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Blackburn denounces Supreme Court contraception ruling from 1965

The more prominent Republicans criticize the Supreme Court’s Griswold v. Connecticut ruling on contraception access, the more the public should care.
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The Thriller said:
I wouldn’t be surprised after the SC guts Roe v Wade this summer to see red states pass legislation designed to re-litigate Obergefell v Hodges (gay marriage), Loving v Virginia (interracial marriage), Griswold v Connecticut (contraception), and eventually Brown v Board (school de-segregation). And I am not even joking.

Leaving these key issues to be determined by state legislatures would definitely be taking us back to the 1950s… which is what MAGA apparently wants.


www.msnbc.com

Blackburn denounces Supreme Court contraception ruling from 1965

The more prominent Republicans criticize the Supreme Court’s Griswold v. Connecticut ruling on contraception access, the more the public should care.
www.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com
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If we are going back to the 50’s then i hope they at least start taxing the wealthy like we did in the 50’s.


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fishonjazz said:
If we are going back to the 50’s then i hope they at least start taxing the wealthy like we did in the 50’s.


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Hahaha no silly, that'll never happen.

The oligarchs that fund Republicans love the low tax rates. They just use culture war issues like CRT, abortion, gay marriage, immigration, etc so the working class doesn't actually unite and form a strong coalition to bring back those 1950s tax rates and actually bring long-lasting change (like universal health care, paid leave, high speed rail, etc). Fox News knows this, that's why Tucker and the gang pretend to care when in reality they're faux populists living in mansions and yachts. Tucker and Trump wouldn't be caught dead spending 1 minute with the working class dummies they manipulate everyday.

So even if you gave MAGA full control of Congress and the White House (as they had from 2016-2018), they won't actually enact change that'll help people. They'll go back to stirring the pot with culture issues while passing another round of tax cuts for the rich. And because so many people are buried so deep in their partisan positions and echo chambers, they won't realize that they're being robbed of what little they have. I mean, notice how many MAGA voters dropped Trump after he failed to pass a "better replacement of Obamacare" and then passed tax cuts for the rich.

Give Republicans control of Congress this year? Don't expect anything that actually helps working-class people. Expect more Benghazi and Hunter laptop investigations and CRT witch trials. And Americans are too stupid/memories too short to notice.
 
Gameface said:
So the cycle is cycling? Blame Biden!
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There are reasons why we are where we are. I’m not psychic. The level of inflation is too high. The Federal Reserve has to get it under control which necessitates contracting the money supply. That always causes a recession. That part of the picture is super simple.

More complex is the question of what caused the inflation. If reversing inflation causes a recession then understanding what is to blame for the inflation is worth knowing, and we do know. The San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve (not a bastion of conservatism) did a study analyzing that question.

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Contrary to dishonest propaganda often posted in this forum, inflation isn’t being seen globally on the level it is being seen in the US economy, which rules out the cause being a thing that affected the world (i.e. it wasn’t COVID-19 or international supply chain issues).

Here is the direct quote from the Federal Reserve:
Estimates suggest that fiscal support measures designed to counteract the severity of the pandemic’s economic effect may have contributed to this divergence by raising inflation about 3 percentage points by the end of 2021.
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The Federal Reserve goes on to mention the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 specifically, saying that it:
resulted in an unprecedented injection of direct assistance with a relatively short duration. In contrast, real disposable personal income for our OECD sample increased only moderately during the pandemic.
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If the coming recession was caused by the need to combat inflation, and inflation was caused by the spike in real disposable personal income, then let’s look at who is responsible for the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021.

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The fact of the matter is that inflation would be worse, and the recession we will have to weather worse, if not for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema blocking Build Back Better. We aren't where we are because the cycle is cycling.
 
The Thriller said:
MY family is doing fine. And I really like the liberal judges. I’m not tired from all this winning…
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Me too. I actually have more money than I have ever had before (which isn't much but still), and healthier and happier than ever before. Going on a cruise next month!
 
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