I hate living in NC so much. By the numbers we should be a blue state. Our governor is a democrat because he’s elected by popular vote. Narrowly of course, but still our lawmakers should at least be close to a 50-50 split down the ausle. Instead we avoided a republican supermajority in congress by the skin of our teeth. And just as we’re breathing a sigh of relief SURPRISE this bitch decided she wanted to upend what little faith we had in our state government.
Republicans are always finding ways to subvert democracy but this is the most vile shit they’ve pulled yet imo. I can’t imagine anything more effective at keeping people from the polls like showing them no matter how they vote, even if their candidate wins, it’s all for nothing because their candidate was a plant.
There’s a difference between “ideas shift over time” which is democracy and “I pretended to be a candidate for the other party and then pulled a bait & switch when I got elected” which is fucking fraud.
Personally, if I were God Emperor (ie if it was up to me) this asshole would get 20 years.
There’s a difference between “ideas shift over time” which is democracy and “I pretended to be a candidate for the other party and then pulled a bait & switch when I got elected” which is fucking fraud.
Personally, if I were God Emperor (ie if it was up to me) this asshole would get 20 years.
Bait and switch is bad, certainly, my lord God Emperor, 20 years? Isn’t that excessive?
The cognitive dissonance just baffles me. He literally just got done saying you’d be committed for saying such a thing, then finds out it’s his guy saying it and apparently a boils down to “he fucked up” and “You can tell he mixed up his words”. Jesus fuckin Christ.
Which is also why it’s OK, because it’s mostly Texans the cops kill.
I do feel sorry for the immigrants though.
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Sorry this is bad taste, and I don’t really mean it. But for Fs sake, why do so many people support the insanity and inhumanity in states like Texas?
No, I think it’s incredibly difficult which is why I know people in Texas have it comparatively easy and can’t use the excuse of there being “no way of getting out”.
A person can escape out of North Korea, but not their family. People are tied to places for more than just their own lives being stuck there. It takes quite an incentive for most to move away from those they care for and who care for them.
Maybe you are not a Texan in your heart?
I don’t quite get why you can’t get out though. There is freedom of movement among all states of USA AFAIK.
I understand if you want to stay close to friends and relatives, but surely the possibility exist to move to a less dystopian state.
But as long as you are there, be sure to vote against the Republican insanity.
It can be a pretty big financial undertaking to uproot your life and move to another state. Not everyone has the savings to do that without severe risk to their basic needs.
Also it can be emotionally challenging to move away from your friends/family.
OK, I’ve been at the bottom here in Denmark, and I’ve moved twice across the country during that period. But in Denmark we get help you probably don’t get in USA.
I seriously hope things improve in USA, because it’s ridiculous that people have to struggle like they do in one of the worlds richest countries.
Lmao right? Texas alone is 3 times as wide as Denmark. If you were to move from say Dallas to Los Angeles, you’d be moving about 1500 miles, or 6 Denmarks.
Yeah, I’m broke. I had to wipe out what little savings I had just to move to another apartment down the street. There’s no way I could move elsewhere without the support of my family.
Blue states need to setup refuge camps for people like you rather than have states fight over who can give billion dollar businesses the best tax break.
Red states couldn’t outcompete and brain drain is a longer term strategy than corporate welfare.
Incorporating key elements of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the Executive Order requires Federal law enforcement agencies to ban chokeholds, restrict no-knock warrants, provide de-escalation training, and implement stronger use-of-force policies that include the duty to intervene and render medical aid.
To the feds “we are independent Texas Tough” , “Join the national grid? screw you!” , “our state, our decision to remove womans rights!” “Don’t tell me feds!!”
To Biden “pwease help us and secure our bowder… we suck at it”
bwahahaha what the actual fuck is this shit supposed to mean? honestly, citations, now, otherwise gonna relegate you to the pile of hyperbolic shitposters where you belong
That article is not support for your premise. If anything, it’s milquetoast bullshit. Nothing which supports Openly Militaristic Policing. First off, we can totally support the idea of better trained cops. Shit trained cops is 90% of the fucking problem. If cops can’t make it through rigorous training they shouldn’t wear the badge. Perhaps better trained police will step in when their mates decide to murder people more often.
The defund the police crowd painted themselves into a corner and now want to drag the Dems into it with them. Dems as a whole didn’t sign up for that shit; vague, nebulous war cries with no actionable objectives are the fucking problem, and you’ll never convince people that law enforcement is completely unnecessary. I even believe we could do away with a substantial portion of law enforcement if we’d fund mental health and rebuild sanitariums, but then you’re just returning to institutionalization as a ‘fix’ when it’s actually just imprisoning the mentally afflicted.
And here were are, once gain, explaining: there aren’t easy answers, and there are few right answers, but holy fuck are there a lot of wrong answers out there people just love to latch on to.
Since its implementation in March of 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has been a $10 billion human rights disaster. It’s also led, in many counties, to 1000 percent increases in unnecessary vehicle chases.
This is a Texas-initiative to create Texas-sized problems out of molehills. They group all sorts of arrests together into their OLS statistics regardless if it has anything to do with it.
What is President Biden’s involvement in causing these vehicle deaths of individuals uninvolved with any crime whatsoever?
Sure there are a lot of insane Abbot supporters but it’s a big state, for example you can’t paint Austin and Lubbock with the same brush.
“I was looking forward to that graduation, with his mother and father there, and it looks like the judge does not allow me to escape this scam,” he said.
Is it just me or is this some odd phrasing? Shouldn’t it be, “…with his mother and I there…” Almost sounds like he’s not the father which, to be honest, wouldn’t surprise me. Also, the judge never said he couldn’t go, so this is just one more lie from Trump.
As reported by AP, Merchan did not say Donald Trump would not be able to attend the graduation. He commented that it was too early to make a decision.
“It really depends on if we are on time and where we are in the trial,” Merchan said.
AP added that if the trial proceeded as planned, Merchan would be willing to adjourn for one or both days.
In other words, if Trump keeps his trap shut and doesn’t cause needless delays, then the judge would be willing to let him go, but what are the odds of Trump being able to do that?
In other words, if Trump keeps his trap shut and doesn’t cause needless delays, then the judge would be willing to let him go, but what are the odds of Trump being able to do that?
Trump begged PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can he have the day off from crime trial in May so he can attend the graduation of his beloved son what’s-his-name, no not Junior, no not Eric, the one what came out of Melania’s vagina while he was busy fucking a different porn lady he arranged payoffs for during the 2016 campaign?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE? Merchan said that May 17 is a long way away, and we’ll see. (Likely part of it is that we’ll see if Trump conducts himself like a good criminal defendant or if he acts like a gag-order-defying, court-disrupting hellion piece of shit. That could factor.)
. . . REAL TALK: If Donald Trump could tell America five things about Barron Trump that involve personal knowledge of the child — like maybe what music he likes to listen to, or who he has a crush on, a food he craves, anything, we might just keel over from shock. He doesn’t give a flying fuck about going to that graduation, and if he didn’t have court that day, he’d spend it waddling around a golf course, lying and saying he won another tournament.
There's an article in USA TODAY (in April 2nd edition I think) about how restrictive Texas abortion laws are forcing women to have babies born with Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder that forces the child to be born unable to breathe, having to be force fed through tubes and having to undergo major heart surgeries over and over again, not to mention all the medications they have to be given around the clock.
Most women in states where abortion is allowed choose not to have the child when they find out the baby has this condition. Unfortunately, it usually isn't detectable in a fetus until long after 12 weeks, and many states now ban abortion after six weeks' pregnancy.
I only wish that the horrors these self-righteous white turds are forcing on American women would visit them somehow, someday. And I think they will in the afterlife, for there can be no redemption for condemning babies to have to endure life as a series of unimaginably painful shocks and horrors.
"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. "
George Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf. Gave it two stars.
Secondly, are we really surprised at this point that the psychos on the far right are pissed off that a company is promoting peace on earth and good will towards men at Christmas? I’m pretty sure they just like being angry. That’s like, their hobby
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