Bawse Dawg
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How badly brainwormed do you have to be to think Republicans top priority is the well being of the every-man?
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Agreed. Just look at what they’re campaigning on.
View: https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/1585013333262204929?s=46&t=_SA00uqLSwSmSRN_sIr-wA
View: https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1444484819312787459?s=46&t=_SA00uqLSwSmSRN_sIr-wA
View: https://twitter.com/andrewjbates46/status/1585222813811904513?s=46&t=_SA00uqLSwSmSRN_sIr-wA
View: https://twitter.com/meidastouch/status/1585078547504582657?s=46&t=_SA00uqLSwSmSRN_sIr-wA
But inflation, gas prices, soft on crime, something something something REPUBLICANS! It’s amazing to me how short our memories are. Our country keeps going in circles because conservative media floods the zone with ****. This drives the narrative and drowns out any counter narrative. While voters with attention spans of goldfish swim in circles wondering why problems never get solved.
More tax cuts! Dang it that didn’t work.
More guns! Dang it that didn’t work.
Oh I got it, more tax cuts!
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LOL! I’ve lost track of how many times posters have called @Al-O-Meter a troll recently. I called it months and months ago and I’m glad others have caught on.
Two more stories reminiscent of the rise of fascism:
news.yahoo.com
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'Constitutional sheriffs' movement urges law enforcement to intervene in election process
Experts are sounding the alarm about a potential source of election interference ahead of the 2022 midterms: a growing coalition of far-right “constitutional” sheriffs who are gearing up to insert themselves into upcoming elections.
Man Arrested After Break-In at Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate’s Campaign Office
Phoenix Police DepartmentA 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a break-in at the Phoenix campaign headquarters of Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for Arizona governor, local authorities said Thursday.The suspect was identified as Daniel Mota Dos Reis by the Phoenix Police...
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This was said by a Republican member of congress on Wednesday on national tv. “wHy ArE rEpUbLiCaNs So AnGrY?”
View: https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1585368823590313984?s=46&t=qNKGcAKvOfWyQ3IRs_Ed4Q
View: https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1585368823590313984?s=46&t=qNKGcAKvOfWyQ3IRs_Ed4Q
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Using the state to intimidate or punish businesses into falling in line is a huge part of fascism.
View: https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1585385979938234368?s=46&t=BGzjI1UAL1Gitr6-qaboCg
View: https://twitter.com/tomcottonar/status/1586167045745684480?s=46&t=BGzjI1UAL1Gitr6-qaboCg
DeSantis punished Disney. Trump, Ben Shapiro, and Fox News prime time hosts have all suggested using the powers of the state to punish businesses.
View: https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1585385979938234368?s=46&t=BGzjI1UAL1Gitr6-qaboCg
View: https://twitter.com/tomcottonar/status/1586167045745684480?s=46&t=BGzjI1UAL1Gitr6-qaboCg
DeSantis punished Disney. Trump, Ben Shapiro, and Fox News prime time hosts have all suggested using the powers of the state to punish businesses.
That's just small government in action.
Red
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This almost surely will involve its own thread, when the time comes…
thehill.com
If the Supreme Court agrees with the GOP-controlled legislature, it will be a godsend to the Republican Party in two critical respects. First, it will allow gerrymandered GOP legislatures to self-perpetuate and to approve voting rules that disfavor all other parties. Governors, who are necessarily more politically moderate than gerrymandered legislatures because they must appeal to statewide constituencies, and state supreme court justices, who are either appointed by those governors or face their own statewide elections, would have no ability to counter those actions.
Secondly, Article ll, Section 1, of the Constitution uses similar wording for the appointment of electors to the electoral college, i.e., “Each State shall appoint [Electors], in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” A Court holding in favor of the legislature would provide legitimacy to the type of efforts made by GOP extremists in the 2020 election to present alternate slates of presidential electors. What a gift to Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, who labored so hard to get legislators in at least two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, to submit alternate elector slates to the electoral college favoring President Trump. Justice Thomas has a glaring conflict of interest in this case and must recuse himself, even at the risk of marital discord in his home.
Although a ruling for the legislature would be a major coup for the GOP, it would be a hammer blow to the rule of law in America. The idea that a state legislature, acting on its own, could set important substantive rules for the conduct of federal elections, is a rude affront to the very fabric of our constitutional system of checks and balances.
Those who wrote the Constitution were driven by the idea that governmental power should be divided among the three branches of government – executive, legislative and judicial – so that each branch could act as a check on the power of the others. The legislature passes legislation, which only becomes law with the approval of the executive, and the state courts have the power to rule upon it. It’s as simple as that. The framers of our Constitution would be dumbfounded to think that our high court could even be considering such a rogue scheme as the legislature is peddling.
Will the Supreme Court impose a Republican government on the US?
If we are to have a thoroughly Republican government, let it come through a fair contest at the nation’s ballot boxes.
thehill.com
If the Supreme Court agrees with the GOP-controlled legislature, it will be a godsend to the Republican Party in two critical respects. First, it will allow gerrymandered GOP legislatures to self-perpetuate and to approve voting rules that disfavor all other parties. Governors, who are necessarily more politically moderate than gerrymandered legislatures because they must appeal to statewide constituencies, and state supreme court justices, who are either appointed by those governors or face their own statewide elections, would have no ability to counter those actions.
Secondly, Article ll, Section 1, of the Constitution uses similar wording for the appointment of electors to the electoral college, i.e., “Each State shall appoint [Electors], in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” A Court holding in favor of the legislature would provide legitimacy to the type of efforts made by GOP extremists in the 2020 election to present alternate slates of presidential electors. What a gift to Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, who labored so hard to get legislators in at least two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, to submit alternate elector slates to the electoral college favoring President Trump. Justice Thomas has a glaring conflict of interest in this case and must recuse himself, even at the risk of marital discord in his home.
Although a ruling for the legislature would be a major coup for the GOP, it would be a hammer blow to the rule of law in America. The idea that a state legislature, acting on its own, could set important substantive rules for the conduct of federal elections, is a rude affront to the very fabric of our constitutional system of checks and balances.
Those who wrote the Constitution were driven by the idea that governmental power should be divided among the three branches of government – executive, legislative and judicial – so that each branch could act as a check on the power of the others. The legislature passes legislation, which only becomes law with the approval of the executive, and the state courts have the power to rule upon it. It’s as simple as that. The framers of our Constitution would be dumbfounded to think that our high court could even be considering such a rogue scheme as the legislature is peddling.
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It is obvious the founding fathers did not anticipate the rise of the 2-party system, which allows for heavily stacking the various branches of government with like-minded people with the same goals, whatever those may be. So if you get a heavily republican SC and legislature, then regardless of the executive, they can collude to "republicanize" the nation, and there is little that can be done to stop it. The same thing could happen the other way around as well, of course. The only hope is that enough representatives of the other party are elected to form the required check on the others, but when that doesn't happen, then you get what you have now, an over-reach bordering on fascism to firmly establish a single party as the controlling power. We will then be one step away from full demagoguery and tyranny. Wouldn't take much at that point for them to change the rules about terms, and entrench themselves permanently, from the president on down, especially if this power with the state legislature is upheld. Gillead here we come.This almost surely will involve its own thread, when the time comes…
Will the Supreme Court impose a Republican government on the US?
If we are to have a thoroughly Republican government, let it come through a fair contest at the nation’s ballot boxes.
If the Supreme Court agrees with the GOP-controlled legislature, it will be a godsend to the Republican Party in two critical respects. First, it will allow gerrymandered GOP legislatures to self-perpetuate and to approve voting rules that disfavor all other parties. Governors, who are necessarily more politically moderate than gerrymandered legislatures because they must appeal to statewide constituencies, and state supreme court justices, who are either appointed by those governors or face their own statewide elections, would have no ability to counter those actions.
Secondly, Article ll, Section 1, of the Constitution uses similar wording for the appointment of electors to the electoral college, i.e., “Each State shall appoint [Electors], in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.” A Court holding in favor of the legislature would provide legitimacy to the type of efforts made by GOP extremists in the 2020 election to present alternate slates of presidential electors. What a gift to Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, who labored so hard to get legislators in at least two states, Arizona and Wisconsin, to submit alternate elector slates to the electoral college favoring President Trump. Justice Thomas has a glaring conflict of interest in this case and must recuse himself, even at the risk of marital discord in his home.
Although a ruling for the legislature would be a major coup for the GOP, it would be a hammer blow to the rule of law in America. The idea that a state legislature, acting on its own, could set important substantive rules for the conduct of federal elections, is a rude affront to the very fabric of our constitutional system of checks and balances.
Those who wrote the Constitution were driven by the idea that governmental power should be divided among the three branches of government – executive, legislative and judicial – so that each branch could act as a check on the power of the others. The legislature passes legislation, which only becomes law with the approval of the executive, and the state courts have the power to rule upon it. It’s as simple as that. The framers of our Constitution would be dumbfounded to think that our high court could even be considering such a rogue scheme as the legislature is peddling.
Red
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Agreed. I was quoting part of the article itself. Normally I would have used quotation marks. I’m slippin, lol…
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