All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[BeastieRunner]

fascincating.

especially with the highlighted part, (2 dems? not surprised), I think all the tax haven stuff needs to be called out, whoever is doing it, wherever they are doing it.

I just want democracy to be expanded and more full inclusion of everyone who is technically considered "a citizen". I'm mindful that even the "50 state standard" that people are used to now was not the case before Alaska and Hawaii were finally voted into the union. Democratic leadership in particular needs to take this topic seriously. In the era of people in the Republican party embracing Evangelical/hard right/Trump outlooks as their "Standard", where anything policy choice wise that is considered "moderate" gets you labeled as a RINO and a primary challenge, with McConnell's obstructionism being looked at as a point of pride and normalcy, Democrats can't fool themselves into thinking that by just playing "the game" as normal as possible, automatically centering the ultra-favored white conservative "middle" gets those votes on your side scarcely works anymore if at all, and frequently doesn't work at the state level at all. People are voting for the Q people because of the racism, sexism, etc., it's not all about, "well, I dig the tax breaks, so I feel Marjorie and hold my nose.."

Oh I feel you on that.

There area few updates to my post in reading more.

Texas and Florida opposed PR statehood in 2017, too.

If a second state is added, Minnesota lose 2, California 2, Washington 1, Florida stays the same, and Texas gets 2. Which actually favors the GQP.

If a third or 4th are added, then it swings back to a wash and then a lean depending on the voting body of the time. Regardless of the lean, Texas and Florida would lose more Reps. The rest are in the middle, so it would depend on the lean of the Congress of the time more states are added.

One state keeps minority rule in power, 2 or more ... and the you will see the end of minority rule in the US.

The Atlantic a great article about this today.

Reading up on the admissions clause will also show that splitting a state like California and Washington (the 2 recent states that have tried to get it on the ballot and failed miserably) will be hard-pressed to get in and will have to lean heavy on government aid.

[Jack Dracula]

While it could?

It also bakes an "Will I Ever Have To Answer For This?..." out into the cake.

I can't help but think that most of the Republicans in question would gladly take advantage of such an out.

Yes, and that's where they're failing in their responsibility to uphold the constitution and preserve the democratic process.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I don't know if it's been commented on here yet, but the State majority leader in Michigan, Mike Shirkey, recently claimed 1/6 was staged. And you know there's probably thousands or millions of Americans that believe the same thing. And the Republicans in Congress will validate the belief by not acting to hold anyone accountable for 1/6.

Staged by who? Lemme guess....ANTIFA? Qpublicans are undergoing all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid holding Trump accountable for what happened on 1/6.

[babyblob]

Staged by who? Lemme guess....ANTIFA? Qpublicans are undergoing all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid holding Trump accountable for what happened on 1/6.

My aint is still going on about how this was Antifa. And The Dems dont want witnesses called because the GOp will call in theirs to prove it.

The pics of people in the offices and such, photoshopped, the vids of them bragging about it? Deep Fakes, the posts of them talking about what they did? Hacked accounts. That law maker from West VA who got arrested, he is a Dem plant who works for Antifa. Yes he did what he said but he is not a Trumper or GOP. That will come out.

it is unreal.

[BeastieRunner]

My aint is still going on about how this was Antifa. And The Dems dont want witnesses called because the GOp will call in theirs to prove it.

The pics of people in the offices and such, photoshopped, the vids of them bragging about it? Deep Fakes, the posts of them talking about what they did? Hacked accounts. That law maker from West VA who got arrested, he is a Dem plant who works for Antifa. Yes he did what he said but he is not a Trumper or GOP. That will come out.

it is unreal.

Tell her Antifia is lead by the Oathkeepers.

[Hellion]

In all seriousness, is Antifa even real? I've only ever heard the name invoked as a GQP deflection tactic when discussing BLM protests or 1/6.

Also, we're only 75 years removed from WWII, why would anybody think fighting against fascism is a BAD thing? I mean, that's kind of what the "Greatest Generation" was famous for doing.

[babyblob]

In all seriousness, is Antifa even real? I've only ever heard the name invoked as a GQP deflection tactic when discussing BLM protests or 1/6.

Also, we're only 75 years removed from WWII, why would anybody think fighting against fascism is a BAD thing? I mean, that's kind of what the "Greatest Generation" was famous for doing.

The people on the 6th thought they were fighting against fascism in the name of their glorious leader.

[Tami]

The people on the 6th thought they were fighting against fascism in the name of their glorious leader.

Something I found disturbing and mystifying is how the Capitol Attackers kept calling the Police Traitors, yet they were the ones who held an allegiance to a man [not even a very smart one] instead of to the country, the Constitution.

I wonder if any of them will ever get that light bulb working that gives the realization that what they were doing was traitorous to the country.

[Hellion]

The people on the 6th thought they were fighting against fascism in the name of their glorious leader.

But aren't they supposed to be fighting against communism and socialism instead? That's a rhetorical question; I know these nutters are too stupid to differentiate.

[WAKANDA FOREVER!]

My aint is still going on about how this was Antifa. And The Dems dont want witnesses called because the GOp will call in theirs to prove it.

The pics of people in the offices and such, photoshopped, the vids of them bragging about it? Deep Fakes, the posts of them talking about what they did? Hacked accounts. That law maker from West VA who got arrested, he is a Dem plant who works for Antifa. Yes he did what he said but he is not a Trumper or GOP. That will come out.

it is unreal.

Haldol, Risperdal, probably not Zyprexa

[numberthirty]

Yes, and that's where they're failing in their responsibility to uphold the constitution and preserve the democratic process.

If they are most likely going to do so in either instance, what's the point of attempting a political back flip where your figurative neck will be the one that's at risk?

[Jack Dracula]

If they are most likely going to do so in either instance, what's the point of attempting a political back flip where your figurative neck will be the one that's at risk?

Fulfilling the oath each of them took to uphold the constitution? Preserving the society they and their own families are part of?
Why ask questions you already know the answer to?

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" ran a profile of Dave Daubenmire, a former candidate for U.S. Congress in 2010 for Ohio’s 18th Congressional District who’s also a rabidly homophobic former high school football coach who was fired after repeatedly coercing players to participate in prayers and lost a lawsuit filed by the ACLU by several students and their families back in 2004. Daubenmire falsely claims he won that lawsuit as one of many instances where he bears false witness, despite of the fact that his self-righteousness motivated him to found “Pass the Salt” Ministries. Among the many, many patently deranged things Daubenmire has said through the years are that he wasn’t content to run for office, but wanted to “lead a revolution against those who oppose his ideals”, claiming that the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing was the government “doing a dry run to see how martial law would work”, that Chemtrails are a thing and are chemical weapons sprayed on the populace to cause cancer and autism, and that President Obama is “either mentally ill or demonically possessed” and that all Democrats are “Children of Lucifer”. While you probably find all those statements enough to merit him certifiably insane, again, this guy’s a grade A bigot towards the LGBTQ community, having said that LGBTQ adults are “better off dead” and “homosexuals are gobbling up our kids”, declared “the most dangerous lifestyle in America today is homosexual behavior”, that Hillary Clinton “screams lesbian”, longs for the good old days “when being gay was a mental illness”, and has whined about how he’s tired of being “sodomized by the left”, and that gays have “stolen his manhood”.The less said about the bottomless pit of intolerance that is Dave Daubenmire, the better.

On this date in 2016, and in 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Rick Morris, a three-term member of the Virginia House of Delegates who was a big supporter of the anti-abortion fanaticism of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, such as Virginia’s mandatory ultrasound bill, but also a Personhood bill that would have claimed life starts at conception. He cares so much about the human right to life that he also voted for legislation return the electric chair to a list of acceptable means to execute prisoners. He's also voted against not just gay marriage, but even adoptions by LGBTQ couples. In 2017 because Morris took to the floor of the Virgina State Legislature to compare abortion to slavery... and it seems that Rick Morris was arrested in September of 2016 on 11 separate charges of domestic abuse and child abuse, after he decided to go medieval on his 11 year old stepson with a belt, and trying to force him to stand in a corner for... oh, three days at a clip. Morris refused to resign, but at least had the sense to not run for re-election in the 2017 Virginia elections.

On this date in 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled the former U.S. House Representative from Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, Patrick Meehan, who you might not have realized was a Congressman since he was elected in the Tea Party Wave of 2010, and you might not have heard about how his district as gerrymandered by Republicans to guarantee his re-election several times. People may not have paid much mind to his voting record, which was an His voting record was an embarrassment of conservative ideology, but again, other than votes against women’s issues and an obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act, there was nothing in there to make Meehan stand out from his Tea Party brethren. That held, at least, until reports surfaced that Meehan harassed a woman about four decades his junior because he thought she was his “soul mate”, and then after she won her case against him, he used taxpayer money to settle the case and tried to keep the whole thing hushed up. Meehan actually tried blaming his predatory behavior on the stress he was enduring because the Affordable Care Act continued to exist (really, he said that).



It was on this date in both 2019, as well as 2020, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Keith Wheeler, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives first elected in 2014 who first got on our radar back in 2016, when he co-sponsored legislation in Illinois that was designed to throw single mothers and their children off of government assistance if the child’s birth certificate did not have a father listed, which opponents pounced on for its misogyny at targeting single mothers, but also noting that there are a lot of reasons a mother might personally not want a biological father listed on a birth certificate, like if they were the victim of rape, incest, or sexual assault. When confronted over his sexist bill, Wheeler responded to the media by running and hiding, refusing any comment on why he felt his “small government” solution was necessary.

When we take a wider look at Wheeler’s voting record, we’re far from reassured that he has the people’s best interests at heart:

• May 19th, 2015: Wheeler votes against HB 217, a ban on gay conversion therapy on minors, in spite of it being considered a human rights violation by many international humanitarian groups.
• April 21st, 2016: Keith Wheeler votes against HB 5576, a bill which would have guaranteed that insurance companies would have to cover birth control on their insurance plans.
• May 30th, 2017: Wheeler votes against SB 81, an attempt by Illinois Democrats to raise the state’s minimum wage.
• October 26th, 2017: In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, Keith Wheeler still votes against HB 4117, an attempt to ban the possession of bump stocks in the state.
• February 28th, 2018: Wheeler votes against HB 1465, an attempt on raising the age limit on people who can purchase assault weapons to 21, in the wake of several mass shootings carried out in schools around the country.
• May 30th, 2018: Wheeler votes against SJRCA 4, refusing to support the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois.

Keith Wheeler has rapidly risen to be the Assistant GOP House Floor Leader in Illinois and spent a lot of 2020 whining about Covid-19 precautions being mandated by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whining about “the burden it places on businesses” to enforce something as simple as wearing masks. Regrettably, with all the ass-backwards priorities of Keith Wheeler, he was regrettably re-elected to a fourth term in office in 2020 with 56% of the vote.

We await to see what he does to spit on working class people next, because he frankly can’t help himself.

[Jack Dracula]

In case anyone was wondering, the policemen who pushed the 75-year-old man to the ground giving him a concussion and walking past his bleeding body? They're good.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/bu...sed/index.html

To serve and protect.

[Amadeus Arkham]

lol.