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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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Found myself nodding along... smiling... "finally they are getting it!"... 100% agreement.

Then at 0:37 he says "this President Biden." Record scratch.

Wait, what?! 

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Proposed:  We add the moniker “Christian Taliban” to this thread title.

Seconded.

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Hollywood stop calling him too? 

Reality stopped calling a long time ago. I'm guess right around Zoolander.

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Found myself nodding along... smiling... "finally they are getting it!"... 100% agreement.

Then at 0:37 he says "this President Biden." Record scratch.

Wait, what?! 

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Full article is worth a read. If by some miracle Beto were to win, the TX lege would 100% employ these same tactics. The GQP is systematically dismantling the way our democracy works at all levels of government. They can do this in Wisconsin because it's a highly gerrymandered state, and next year SCOTUS is likely going to remove the last safeguards against the practice.

 

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively handed the Republican-controlled State Senate broad authority over the composition of state boards and commissions, three and a half years into the term of a Democratic governor whose duties include naming board members.

The ruling allows a Republican member of the state Natural Resources Board whose term expired in May 2021, Frederick Prehn, to keep his position. Dr. Prehn had refused to step down, arguing that a replacement to his post has not been confirmed.

The court’s 4-3 opinion, which fell along ideological lines, turned on a technical question of when the seat on the board would be legally vacant. But its practical effect was to affirm a strategy devised by the State Senate to keep Republican board members in office simply by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

A similar move by the Senate has allowed Republicans who refused to resign to remain on the board that oversees the state’s 16 public technical colleges, which enroll 250,000 students annually. The Senate also has refused to confirm Mr. Evers’s appointees to the Board of Regents that governs the public university system. He appointed regents to replace ones who resigned when their terms expired. But the Senate could remove them should a Republican win the governor’s race in November.

The decision marked the continuation of a political environment in which Republicans have found a way to dominate, even without control of the governor’s office, through their entrenched control of the State Legislature.

Although Wisconsin is almost evenly split politically, Republicans have dominated the State Legislature through gerrymanders enacted in 2011 and, with the State Supreme Court’s assent, again in 2021. They also voted to strip some powers from Mr. Evers and the Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, weeks before they took office in January 2019.

“These are really hardball tactics,” said Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies elections and democracy issues. “It’s not unlike the United States Senate refusing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to hold open a seat for Republicans.

“It’s a different level of government,” he said. “But both of them are attempts to kneecap the executive.”

Mr. Evers denounced the ruling in a statement, calling it “politics at its most dangerous.”

“We do still live in a democracy, a very basic function of which is the peaceful and respectful transfer of power, even — and most especially — when you lose,” the governor said. “Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state.”

The Republican majority leader of the State Senate, Devin LeMahieu, called the lawsuit seeking to oust Dr. Prehn, who is also a dentist, a waste of time and state money.

“If Tony Evers had all his appointees, all his emergency orders and all his budgets there is no doubt the State of Wisconsin would be much worse off than we are,” he said.

Mr. Kaul, the attorney general, sought Dr. Prehn’s removal in a lawsuit he filed in August in a county court in Madison, the state capital. After the court found that state law offered no way to do so, Mr. Kaul appealed directly to the State Supreme Court.

The 33-page opinion of the court’s majority reached the same conclusion, saying the “plain language” of state law said that a board member remained in office until the member’s successor was named by the governor and confirmed by the State Senate. Under state law, the justices said, Dr. Prehn could be removed only for cause, and his seat would otherwise become vacant only if he died or resigned.

The state law at issue said explicitly that elected offices become vacant at the end of an official’s term, they noted, but made no similar provision for appointed posts.

The three liberal justices called the ruling nonsensical, noting that the State Senate had refused for more than a year to confirm or reject Mr. Evers’s replacement.

“Allowing Prehn to continue serving in office indefinitely makes him the final authority on whether he remains in office — not the Legislature, which specified by statute that his term expired over 13 months ago, and not the governor, who the Legislature gave the authority to nominate a replacement,” they wrote. “One unelected official should not be able to dictate his term in office over the will of the people’s elected representatives.”

They argued that the state law governing board members, which was enacted in the 1800s, allowed holdovers to remain in office to keep the government running because at the time the State Senate met only briefly each year. But that makes no sense today, they said, when the Legislature is effectively a full-time enterprise.

While the list of Republican appointees who have refused to leave their posts is small, the court’s ruling all but invites the remaining appointees to cling to their jobs, said Jeff Mandell, the president of Law Forward, a progressive public-interest law firm in the state.

“What this opinion means in reality, and the court undoubtedly knows this, is that officials appointed by a Democratic governor serve exact terms and no longer, and officials appointed by Republican governors serve indefinitely,” he said.

“The only way to fix this would be for the legislature to change the law,” he added. “This Legislature is not going to do that, and because of partisan gerrymanders, there’s no prospect for another Legislature to do that.”

 

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On 6/26/2022 at 12:01 AM, Jive Turkey said:

What’s funny is that Dobbs doesn’t protect “white life.” Well to do white Republicans will still get abortions. They’ll fly to California or New York to do it. Instead, there will be more poor women of color who will now have to give birth. 

abortion only became illegal because WASPs were concerned about getting outvoted by messican catlicks.  nothing new under the sun, yada. 

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I for one welcome the secession of Texas.  Can you take most of the south with you?  It would be really funny watching what happens.  You think inflation is bad now....LOL.

They'll just bring back slavery and plant cotton.

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Full article is worth a read. If by some miracle Beto were to win, the TX lege would 100% employ these same tactics. The GQP is systematically dismantling the way our democracy works at all levels of government. They can do this in Wisconsin because it's a highly gerrymandered state, and next year SCOTUS is likely going to remove the last safeguards against the practice.

 

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively handed the Republican-controlled State Senate broad authority over the composition of state boards and commissions, three and a half years into the term of a Democratic governor whose duties include naming board members.

The ruling allows a Republican member of the state Natural Resources Board whose term expired in May 2021, Frederick Prehn, to keep his position. Dr. Prehn had refused to step down, arguing that a replacement to his post has not been confirmed.

The court’s 4-3 opinion, which fell along ideological lines, turned on a technical question of when the seat on the board would be legally vacant. But its practical effect was to affirm a strategy devised by the State Senate to keep Republican board members in office simply by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

A similar move by the Senate has allowed Republicans who refused to resign to remain on the board that oversees the state’s 16 public technical colleges, which enroll 250,000 students annually. The Senate also has refused to confirm Mr. Evers’s appointees to the Board of Regents that governs the public university system. He appointed regents to replace ones who resigned when their terms expired. But the Senate could remove them should a Republican win the governor’s race in November.

The decision marked the continuation of a political environment in which Republicans have found a way to dominate, even without control of the governor’s office, through their entrenched control of the State Legislature.

Although Wisconsin is almost evenly split politically, Republicans have dominated the State Legislature through gerrymanders enacted in 2011 and, with the State Supreme Court’s assent, again in 2021. They also voted to strip some powers from Mr. Evers and the Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, weeks before they took office in January 2019.

“These are really hardball tactics,” said Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies elections and democracy issues. “It’s not unlike the United States Senate refusing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to hold open a seat for Republicans.

“It’s a different level of government,” he said. “But both of them are attempts to kneecap the executive.”

Mr. Evers denounced the ruling in a statement, calling it “politics at its most dangerous.”

“We do still live in a democracy, a very basic function of which is the peaceful and respectful transfer of power, even — and most especially — when you lose,” the governor said. “Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state.”

The Republican majority leader of the State Senate, Devin LeMahieu, called the lawsuit seeking to oust Dr. Prehn, who is also a dentist, a waste of time and state money.

“If Tony Evers had all his appointees, all his emergency orders and all his budgets there is no doubt the State of Wisconsin would be much worse off than we are,” he said.

Mr. Kaul, the attorney general, sought Dr. Prehn’s removal in a lawsuit he filed in August in a county court in Madison, the state capital. After the court found that state law offered no way to do so, Mr. Kaul appealed directly to the State Supreme Court.

The 33-page opinion of the court’s majority reached the same conclusion, saying the “plain language” of state law said that a board member remained in office until the member’s successor was named by the governor and confirmed by the State Senate. Under state law, the justices said, Dr. Prehn could be removed only for cause, and his seat would otherwise become vacant only if he died or resigned.

The state law at issue said explicitly that elected offices become vacant at the end of an official’s term, they noted, but made no similar provision for appointed posts.

The three liberal justices called the ruling nonsensical, noting that the State Senate had refused for more than a year to confirm or reject Mr. Evers’s replacement.

“Allowing Prehn to continue serving in office indefinitely makes him the final authority on whether he remains in office — not the Legislature, which specified by statute that his term expired over 13 months ago, and not the governor, who the Legislature gave the authority to nominate a replacement,” they wrote. “One unelected official should not be able to dictate his term in office over the will of the people’s elected representatives.”

They argued that the state law governing board members, which was enacted in the 1800s, allowed holdovers to remain in office to keep the government running because at the time the State Senate met only briefly each year. But that makes no sense today, they said, when the Legislature is effectively a full-time enterprise.

While the list of Republican appointees who have refused to leave their posts is small, the court’s ruling all but invites the remaining appointees to cling to their jobs, said Jeff Mandell, the president of Law Forward, a progressive public-interest law firm in the state.

“What this opinion means in reality, and the court undoubtedly knows this, is that officials appointed by a Democratic governor serve exact terms and no longer, and officials appointed by Republican governors serve indefinitely,” he said.

“The only way to fix this would be for the legislature to change the law,” he added. “This Legislature is not going to do that, and because of partisan gerrymanders, there’s no prospect for another Legislature to do that.”

 

Oh cool. Good to see the future of texas spelled out for us. Man we are so fucked. 

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Full article is worth a read. If by some miracle Beto were to win, the TX lege would 100% employ these same tactics. The GQP is systematically dismantling the way our democracy works at all levels of government. They can do this in Wisconsin because it's a highly gerrymandered state, and next year SCOTUS is likely going to remove the last safeguards against the practice.

 

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively handed the Republican-controlled State Senate broad authority over the composition of state boards and commissions, three and a half years into the term of a Democratic governor whose duties include naming board members.

The ruling allows a Republican member of the state Natural Resources Board whose term expired in May 2021, Frederick Prehn, to keep his position. Dr. Prehn had refused to step down, arguing that a replacement to his post has not been confirmed.

The court’s 4-3 opinion, which fell along ideological lines, turned on a technical question of when the seat on the board would be legally vacant. But its practical effect was to affirm a strategy devised by the State Senate to keep Republican board members in office simply by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.

A similar move by the Senate has allowed Republicans who refused to resign to remain on the board that oversees the state’s 16 public technical colleges, which enroll 250,000 students annually. The Senate also has refused to confirm Mr. Evers’s appointees to the Board of Regents that governs the public university system. He appointed regents to replace ones who resigned when their terms expired. But the Senate could remove them should a Republican win the governor’s race in November.

The decision marked the continuation of a political environment in which Republicans have found a way to dominate, even without control of the governor’s office, through their entrenched control of the State Legislature.

Although Wisconsin is almost evenly split politically, Republicans have dominated the State Legislature through gerrymanders enacted in 2011 and, with the State Supreme Court’s assent, again in 2021. They also voted to strip some powers from Mr. Evers and the Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, weeks before they took office in January 2019.

“These are really hardball tactics,” said Barry C. Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies elections and democracy issues. “It’s not unlike the United States Senate refusing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to hold open a seat for Republicans.

“It’s a different level of government,” he said. “But both of them are attempts to kneecap the executive.”

Mr. Evers denounced the ruling in a statement, calling it “politics at its most dangerous.”

“We do still live in a democracy, a very basic function of which is the peaceful and respectful transfer of power, even — and most especially — when you lose,” the governor said. “Today’s decision continues to underscore the erosion of democratic institutions at the hands of Republicans in this state.”

The Republican majority leader of the State Senate, Devin LeMahieu, called the lawsuit seeking to oust Dr. Prehn, who is also a dentist, a waste of time and state money.

“If Tony Evers had all his appointees, all his emergency orders and all his budgets there is no doubt the State of Wisconsin would be much worse off than we are,” he said.

Mr. Kaul, the attorney general, sought Dr. Prehn’s removal in a lawsuit he filed in August in a county court in Madison, the state capital. After the court found that state law offered no way to do so, Mr. Kaul appealed directly to the State Supreme Court.

The 33-page opinion of the court’s majority reached the same conclusion, saying the “plain language” of state law said that a board member remained in office until the member’s successor was named by the governor and confirmed by the State Senate. Under state law, the justices said, Dr. Prehn could be removed only for cause, and his seat would otherwise become vacant only if he died or resigned.

The state law at issue said explicitly that elected offices become vacant at the end of an official’s term, they noted, but made no similar provision for appointed posts.

The three liberal justices called the ruling nonsensical, noting that the State Senate had refused for more than a year to confirm or reject Mr. Evers’s replacement.

“Allowing Prehn to continue serving in office indefinitely makes him the final authority on whether he remains in office — not the Legislature, which specified by statute that his term expired over 13 months ago, and not the governor, who the Legislature gave the authority to nominate a replacement,” they wrote. “One unelected official should not be able to dictate his term in office over the will of the people’s elected representatives.”

They argued that the state law governing board members, which was enacted in the 1800s, allowed holdovers to remain in office to keep the government running because at the time the State Senate met only briefly each year. But that makes no sense today, they said, when the Legislature is effectively a full-time enterprise.

While the list of Republican appointees who have refused to leave their posts is small, the court’s ruling all but invites the remaining appointees to cling to their jobs, said Jeff Mandell, the president of Law Forward, a progressive public-interest law firm in the state.

“What this opinion means in reality, and the court undoubtedly knows this, is that officials appointed by a Democratic governor serve exact terms and no longer, and officials appointed by Republican governors serve indefinitely,” he said.

“The only way to fix this would be for the legislature to change the law,” he added. “This Legislature is not going to do that, and because of partisan gerrymanders, there’s no prospect for another Legislature to do that.”

The self-named 'patriots' cheer this type of action, however, because it is team-oriented strategy that is laser focused on the immediate 'win' and 'owning/subjugation' and completely miss that the NFL owners have once again boondoggled the taxpayers into paying for the giant toilet shaped stadium.

How far away are we from the plot of Running Man? Someone posted something about that recently. It's no longer fantasy fiction IMO.

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4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Sounds about right.  Liz will be out in her ass in favor of one of them. 

How insane is that?  She is the only adult it the room, yet she will lose.  In the words of Diamond Joe Quimby: “This stupid country.”

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13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Love to see Cheney going full Ray Patterson here:

 

Current status of the United States: a person named "Cheney" is our moral anchor.  And that person is going to be destroyed because of it.

Jesus tapdancing Christ.

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33 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick...

 

that's incredible. a confederacy of mental defectives. and Liz Cheney is somehow the paragon of truth and righteousness. WY deserves what it gets 🤡

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Harriet Hageman, the dark haired woman that's talking about 2000 Mules in the clip, is thought to be the frontrunner. The few hundred thousand rural dumbshits that are going to send her to Congress are also responsible for electing 2 Senators, same as California and its 40 million people.  Don't know if any of you realize it but the deck is rigged against sanity and we're fucked. 

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53 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Current status of the United States: a person named "Cheney" is our moral anchor.  And that person is going to be destroyed because of it.

Jesus tapdancing Christ.

And Dan Quayle.  

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7 minutes ago, Bojack said:

Harriet Hageman, the dark haired woman that's talking about 2000 Mules in the clip, is thought to be the frontrunner. The few hundred thousand rural dumbshits that are going to send her to Congress are also responsible for electing 2 Senators, same as California and its 40 million people.  Don't know if any of you realize it but the deck is rigged against sanity and we're fucked. 

Definitely need to have North California / Central California / South California be a thing.  I'd also welcome the great state of MonWyDakota, which would still have fewer than 3.4 million citizens, fewer than 1/3 of any of the resulting 3 Californias.  Shit is just fucking borked.  It's not just that MonWyDakotans are so few - it's that they're fucking insane.

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