In other news,
A federal district court, in a 2-1 decision Friday, implemented Ohio state Senate and House district maps for the 2022 election that have twice been declared unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Thats some catch,
“We must presume state actors will work together to reach homegrown solutions,” the majority wrote. “And if they fail, then it is up to the voters to punish them if they so choose.”
Gerrymandered voters will fix this.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/05/27/federal-court-implements-statehouse-maps-twice-declared-unconstitutional-by-ohio-supreme-court/
― brownie, Saturday, 28 May 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
Good morning!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
“We must presume state actors will work together to reach homegrown solutions,” the majority wrote. “And if they fail, then it is up to the voters to punish them if they so choose.”aaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahqhahahahahahahahahahaha
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
Not sure this is heckling. Seems instead to be a citizen of this country exercising his first amendment rights to an elected official and being manhandled by the elected official’s security while said official smirks and then returns to his dinner. https://t.co/vaA8Ruhux4— kang (@jaycaspiankang) May 28, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Ted Cruz shouldn't be able to go out in public without bags of piss and shit raining down upon him.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
NEW this morning- Schumer and Pelosi have been urging Dems not to go after Manchin & Co when it comes to voting rights Schumer told outside groups not to bully Manchin ahead of S1 voteAnd Pelosi told steering members not to criticize individual senatorsw/ @marianne_levine pic.twitter.com/DsyRzaayZQ— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) June 16, 2021
Schumer and Pelosi will always have more in common with a MAGA guy who owns 4 dealerships in the exurbs of Oklahoma City than they do with the majority of their voters
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
not sure why milo thinks a year-old tweet is worth re-posting as if it's some recent revelation. among other things, last june manchin was still seen as an undecided vote on the BBB budget bill that was seen as the lynchpin of Biden's agenda, crucial to the overall success of his administration.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
The panicky look he gives his security
#BREAKING: Several hours after the #NRAconvention, Indivisible Houston board member @TheBenjaminHdz challenged Ted Cruz to support background checks & other reform measures during a dinner break.See the full clip.#TedCruzHasBloodOnHisHands #TedCruzChildMassacre pic.twitter.com/LxvnaGzZJN— Indivisible Houston (@indivisibleHOU) May 28, 2022
― jmm, Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
Vote https://t.co/wRhXRlhCmq— Ben (@kleinstille) May 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
Biden, via @courtneyrozen, speaking about gun control negotiations. “McConnell is a rational Republican. Cornyn is as well.”— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 30, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
god, just retire biden, fuck
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
it's 1985!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you know what i hate? all that artificial turf on baseball fields! come on, let's start playing on grass again
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
meanwhile mcconnell is laughing his ass off while he drinks blood he freeze-dried back before kent state
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
he doesn't even drink blood these days; he flatly presses his tongue against the prune-like texture for a few seconds, then he stares distantly for a while, with his tongue still out against the air
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
^^confusingly, that's biden doing that. mcconnell prefers the real blood and dreams of even more people dying unnecessarily on his watch
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
If you compare McConnell to some of the real Republican nutcases in Congress, he looks pretty rational. He's relentlessly evil, but he's a dispassionate and realistic judge of the best strategies to accomplish his evil ends while avoiding doing even a thimbleful of good. Whereas Marjorie Taylor-Greene just acts like she's missing parts of her brain.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
mcconnell is the rare, and classic, Lawful Evil (as opposed to Greene's Chaotic Evil)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Nothing lawful about cocaine trafficking.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
ofc, just because mitch is rational does not mean he won't happily dismember you and stuff the bloody pieces in a trunk, if he thought it would maintain his power. biden is just complimenting them to soften them up, which is a waste of time in their case, but it's part of joe's MO.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 30 May 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
Connecticut Dem Senator Murphy is on all the tv network news shows giving a ridiculously optimistic take on bipartisan gun control negotiations--
Murphy said: “[T]here are more Republicans interested in talking about finding a path forward this time than I have ever seen since Sandy Hook.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 May 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
"talking" ... I can't see him getting 10 Republican votes, or Manchin & Sinema
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 May 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
It's so dumb the GOP can't even get behind universal background checks/closing the 'gun show loophole.'
All the lobbying money should be behind it - it pushes people to buy new, it's a boon to gun store owners (if you want to sell a gun you take it to a shop and have them do the background check/transfer it, free $25-50 for the shop for doing one sheet of paperwork and a phone call). But they're absolutely shit scared of how their voters would respond.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 May 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
than I have ever seen since Sandy Hook.
Yes! they want to talk! and talk and talk! until the heat dies down and then they'll do fuck all. So it will all be just like after Sandy Hook.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 30 May 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
but that was just talk. this time, it's talk with a little bonus ingredient they like to call "can-do"
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 May 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
man and so much legislation and change happened in the wake of sandy hook too, things are finally looking up
― Clay, Monday, 30 May 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
the reality is that the Republican party has no future in power if any part of their current base becomes alienated. they cannot win squat unless they maintain the full allegiance of the gun nuts, white supremacists, dominionists, anti-abortion fanatics and neo-nazis, so the party is captive to the worst elements of the population. meaning the big business community is now captive to them, too.
time was when the Republican party confidently thought it could control its fringe, win elections, throw them a few bones and run the country as they pleased. now the fringe controls the party and no one has the courage to jump off the fascism train.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
What’s a Mussolini?
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
Maggie Smith's tea partner
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Worth $500 on Jeopardy.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
A hard read but an important one.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-leaders-children-uvalde-shooting/?fbclid=IwAR1JEcVZw_hF9ACRKjlp4iPGFdios6VwozJkqWMkUPELecFGk3U8_i22JYQ
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
sometimes i get caught in thinking about how we digest major news before it happens. you may have occasionally seen the first few run-on sentences of posts on the subject that usually end, several posts later, with me declaring that i'm going to get off the computer today and get to work on something more worthwhile.
just curious, though. when this SC roe v wade overturning comes out this summer (in late June, i expect?), does anyone think the decision's "rollout" and the public response to it will be any different than if it hadn't leaked in full months earlier? will the public response to the official decision be less passionate and raw because we've all been coping and adjusting and preparing for this new world for months now? will it be more passionate and raw because we all know what complete bullshit this is, that it goes against what most people in this country except for white christians want, and because there has been time to prepare a response to the decision that everyone knows is coming? or it will be about the same?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
(please don't get hung up on adjectives like "passionate" and "raw", please don't let semantics get in the way of what i think i'm clearly trying to get at, please substitute other words or ideas so that the question makes any kind of sense)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
I think it'll be plenty passionate and raw or whatever adjectives you prefer. Not least because in a lot of states — depending on how exactly the opinion is worded — it's going to set in motion the enactment of automatic abortion bans. So you'll have both the big-picture raw passion over the core issues, but also a whole lot of fervor in individual states as various kinds of restrictions are put in place and abortion clinics are forced to cease operating.
If anything, I think the leak has better primed everyone on all sides for all of those fights.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
yep, that's how I see things over here
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
NEW: K-pop group BTS will join press sec. Karine Jean-Pierre at 2:30 p.m. ET for today's briefing, "where the Grammy-nominated musical group will deliver brief remarks," according to a White House official. https://t.co/ydQFimPtiX— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 31, 2022
Calling out the BTS Stan Army is honestly not a bad midterm strategy.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
K-Corn Pop
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
The House January 6 Committee admitted temporary defeat, of a sort, to a panel of three Trump-appointed DC circuit court judges, who have temporarily blocked their efforts to obtain the Republican Party’s email-marketing data from the company Salesforce. Their intervention will make it impossible for the committee to obtain proprietary information—about how (and how well) the RNC used lies about the 2020 election to raise money and mobilize would-be insurrectionists—ahead of scheduled public hearings in June
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/29/politics/january-6-committee-rnc-data/index.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
Someone else start the June thread
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
The Fall of Roe v Wade: US Politics, June 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link