POLITICS: what have you done for us lately?

[aedes]

So originalism and precedent are just different forms of 'fuck you'?

[friendship]

These are nice sentiments but. Unless. People start voting against the right in massive numbers and then pressure the middle right (we have no real left in this country) to stop the electoral college nothing will change.

Probably not even then, given the intensifying systemic disenfranchisement.

[friendship]

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/11076487 ... ure-theory

If SCROTUS endorses independent state legislature theory, which they are absolutely going to do, then any partisan legislature can throw out election results they disagree with. This was the only thing stopping the GOP from tossing state votes for Biden and handing the election to Trump in 2020. It will be the end of what passes for democratic representation in this country.

American ILFers: please, please, please email and/or call your Representative, your Senators, and your Governor and ask them what their concrete plan is for avoiding this catastrophe. Let me know if you need any help contacting them, I am happy to show you.

If this goes through, there will be no chance of civic recourse for any of the other insane shit these Christian Nationalist fucks are ramming through. This is our last chance to avoid fascist rule in the USA.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, I'm no legal/constitutional scholar, but the Supreme Court is pretty fucked up right now.

[Blackened Soul]

...

this is the result of a 20+ year problem that should have been looked at due to the year 2000....
Every time you would being this shit up to people they'd be like, no, you are being paranoid, you are too extreme, this could never happen.. congrats guys.. it's happened. Thanks for continually electing milquetoast democrats that just use the right to get donations but never stand up.. or even will said "republican" when talking about these issues....


On a side tangent on this.. as to why and how.. go to:7:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTWxFwuQtM

[friendship]

...

this is the result of a 20+ year problem that should have been looked at due to the year 2000....
Every time you would being this shit up to people they'd be like, no, you are being paranoid, you are too extreme, this could never happen.. congrats guys.. it's happened. Thanks for continually electing milquetoast democrats that just use the right to get donations but never stand up.. or even will said "republican" when talking about these issues....


On a side tangent on this.. as to why and how.. go to:7:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTWxFwuQtM

Bingo. I've been harping on this with every step towards fascism the GOP has taken since Bush v. Gore and most of the time I was met with incredulity. Well, some of us have lived through circumstances in which the worst case scenario comes to pass, and some of us have lives where "everything works out in the end." The latter roll their eyes at you until calamity arrives, and then they ask, "how could this have happened??"

[Gone Fission]

Lead in from anchor/host to reporter covering yesterday’s mass shooter: “What have we learned?”

Not a fucking thing.

[Chankgeez]

Sadly, true.

[Chankgeez]

Not sure how I feel about this interview:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxgXDe1Ed9I

[Velcro Bottom]

How 'bout a no party system, no gods, no masters.

Smash the state.

[Gone Fission]

Oh, the vanity wank candidates are coming out already?

First-past-the-post elections mean they’re useless as anything but spoilers unless one of the two major parties fails to field a candidate. It may suck, but you usually lose a game by flagrantly ignore what the rules say must be done to win.

[Chankgeez]

TODAY: FLORIDA; TOMORROW: THE WORLD THE U.S.A.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwnsVTM-YA



Also, I'm gettin' Andrew Giuliani vibes:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8OaHxjQUc

(EDIT: I also like how Inside Edition still hasn't corrected the "Guiliani" typo over a year later. )

[Chankgeez]

… stays in Bali?

[Blackened Soul]

That isn’t true, that shit always leaks all over the floor and then people track it in and everything is covered in sticky goo

[Chankgeez]