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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:02 pm

I heared Texas gunna elect a Democrat governor this time fore shure...



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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:37 pm

Any day now. ;)
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:24 am

Colorado Republicans reject 3 election deniers for statewide office
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Post by Tero » Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:26 am

Trump/Cruz money gets Bobo re-nominated (the district is heavily Republican, so she will win Nov)
Coram pitched himself to voters as more focused on legislating than generating buzz among conservatives. But he was far outraised and outspent by Boebert.
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Post by Tero » Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:18 am

Colorado Senator race
Moderate Republican wins nomination. He wants to be the Republican Manchin. He has a good chance against Dems in Nov
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Post by Tero » Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:07 pm

Boebert will have a serious opponent in Nov, they will need to spend some money
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Post by Tero » Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:03 pm

How does one win an election in red states in districts that are about 50/50 as far as voters go? They throw in a lot of money into Fox Channel ads.
Then you mention abortion. And you must include "radical democrat" in the attack ads. And that is all there is to it. No taxes need to be mentioned, it is assumed.
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Post by Joe » Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:41 pm

Our local election deniers lost too. We even had one running for Coroner, though I don't know why we elect coroners. :dunno:
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:11 am

Corpses have rights to democratic examinations.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:19 pm

Trump: the gift that keeps on giving.

The EPA has been crippled. Trump era moves already blocked EPA from acting on air pollution past the "fences" of power plants.
When Donald Trump was elected president months later, he sought to repeal the CPP. His EPA could have done so by just changing its preferred policy or legal interpretation, as supreme court doctrine readily permits agencies to do. But the Trump administration wanted more: to permanently foreclose any remotely similar plan. So it based its repeal on the mind-boggling theory that CAA’s text unambiguously barred not only CPP, but any system of emissions reduction that couldn’t be entirely effectuated within the “fence-lines” of stand-alone power plants. That interpretation barred not only generation shifting, but also far less controversial techniques like biomass co-firing (mixing biological material into portions of what coal plants burn for energy). This extreme reading was belied both by the basic functioning of our integrated, unitary power grid, and by previous EPA and supreme court interpretations of all relevant language. If the increasingly reactionary federal judiciary upheld that strained construction as mandatory, it would be locked in until Congress enacted a new regulatory framework. Realistically, that might mean forever.

Unsatisfied with that temporary victory, the states and coal companies filed several petitions asking the supreme court to hear the case and permanently lock in Trump’s defenestration of EPA’s authority – lest they be injured by what Biden’s EPA might someday propose if the court doesn’t proactively clip the agency’s wings. Given that no regulations currently apply, no clever framing can disguise the obvious: they’re asking the court for a “super advisory opinion”, prematurely answering an abstract question to preemptively bind an ideologically opposite administration before it has a chance to govern.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:11 am

The regressive shits believe that the US Supreme Court has given them a new weapon to further their crusade: The 'deeply rooted in our history or traditions' doctrine.

'Alabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case'
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youths.

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

Critics have expressed fear that the legal reasoning behind the high court ruling could lead to a rollback of decisions involving such matters as gay marriage, birth control and parental rights.

The state is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction and let it enforce an Alabama law that would make it a felony to give puberty blockers or hormones to transgender minors to help affirm their gender identity.

In its historic ruling last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said terminating a pregnancy is not a fundamental constitutional right because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution and is not “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition.”

In a brief filed Monday, the Alabama attorney general’s office argued similarly that gender transition treatments are not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions,” and thus the state has the authority to ban them. Alabama contends such treatments are dangerous and experimental, a view disputed by medical organizations.

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Svartalf » Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:20 am

Can't do much about that, the tradition of Americans being holier than thou religious fanatic cunts is at least as old as the Mayflower
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:19 am

Svartalf wrote:
Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:20 am
Can't do much about that, the tradition of Americans being holier than thou religious fanatic cunts is at least as old as the Mayflower
There is no requirement that the country must be governed according to thinking that goes back to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is nothing more than a bald assertion on the part of the autocratically/theocratically inclined.

Though the US Constitution was largely (entirely, if you forget about amendments) composed in the 18th century, you will not find any provisions within stating that the government cannot interpret it in light of modern knowledge and modern concepts of tolerance and inclusion.

On the other hand, the Republicans are always willing to overlook items that they find inconvenient. For instance they seem to either interpret the 'promote the general welfare' clause in the US Constitution extremely narrowly, or consider it like the 9th Amendment--equivalent to an inkblot and therefore of no consequence. They concentrate their concerns for welfare on corporations and the wealthy, particularly the rentier class.

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Svartalf » Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:44 am

Well, we seem to have proof that the protections enacted in the first amendment are definitely not enough against the dominionists.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:11 am

Svartalf wrote:
Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:44 am
Well, we seem to have proof that the protections enacted in the first amendment are definitely not enough against the dominionists.
They don't believe the First Amendment is meant to deny the preemininence of Christianity, per DeSantis and co.

Meanwhile ...

'The Christian Right is winning in court while losing in public opinion'
There's an influential minority of Americans who envision the United States as a Christian nation. Lately, this group has been making significant progress in its mission. Recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade and protecting prayer in schools are chief among these victories.

These legal wins for the Christian Right, though, are happening at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to their views.

"This is the most disproportionate power that the Christian Right has had in my lifetime," says Robert Jones, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute — a nonpartisan group that conducts research on the intersection of politics, culture and religion.

More and more white evangelical Christians are now talking about the U.S. as a Christian nation in ways that verge on or outright embrace Christian nationalism — the idea that the U.S. is a Christian nation and its laws should be rooted in the Bible.

On the Sunday after the Supreme Court reversed a decades-old ruling that legalized abortions in the U.S., Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert spoke to a crowd at a church in Colorado. Among other things, Boebert complained that faith communities have long had to deal with laws in the U.S. that they don't agree with.

"The church is supposed to direct the government," she said. "The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our founding fathers intended it. And I am tired of this separation of church and state junk. It's not in the Constitution."

Of course, the Constitution does explicitly ban the establishment of a specific religion. It's in the First Amendment.

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