@Free_Press Individuals, who are defendants in fraud trial(s) better shut the fuck up publicly fantasizing about "rigged elections", like Trump did in 2016 before the election, when polls (accurately) predicted he was gonna lose to Hillary — which didn't happen due to Putin's interference & habitual/traditional "Republican" voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, intimidation & other regularly practiced methods of fraudulently obstructing the electoral process.
The dishonesty exhibited by #Christofascist loon #MikeJohnson is truly boundless. His flavor of Christianity is based on hate. All his views are about discriminating against, and suppressing the civil rights of vulnerable communities he doesn't like. His worldview is objective nonsense that inciudes believing the Earth is 6000 years old, that climate change is a hoax, that homosexuality is responsible for gun violence, and that abortion is to blame for a labor shortage.
Liberating the metal from the statue of a insurrectionist and racist for better purposes seems like a great idea to me. The Washington Post has some excellent photographs of this moment.
This article is a gift. It poses some great questions about how the past and the future are tied together. Probably a good read for people who seem to forget the “Unite the Right” rally.
Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace- https://wapo.st/3FEaVd3
@RollingStone Notorious "Republican Attorneys General Association", which notorious Paxton is a member of, appears to also be the "GOP's" morality police, as despotically aggressive as its Iranian counterpart.
@marcelias Alabamian "legislators" stubbornly defend their racist serial electoral fraud obsessions.
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“Maps like the ones [voting rights groups] propose would also create majority-minority districts ‘in greater numbers than they otherwise would have been’ if race hadn’t been used,” the state argued, quoting from the Harvard ruling. “But the Constitution forbids using race ‘to discriminate against those racial groups that were not the beneficiaries of the race-based preference.’” In other words, the courts’ cure for unconstitutional racial gerrymandering would itself amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering in Alabama’s eyes.
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@LouisIngenthron That's all? DeSantis & his co-conspirators just need to redraw the map?
That's all they get for violating the Constitution/ Reconstruction Amendments????
Hasn't justice been tempered with mercy for too long already, to the blatant disadvantage of people of color in southern ex-slaveholder states, which ratified the Reconstruction Amendments to regain congressional representation, only to habitually violate those Amendments in those states after having infiltrated Congress again?
The Republican debate was a spectacle of sadism and self-regarding piousness
Barring some dramatic reversal, none of the people on the Republican primary debate stage on Wednesday night are going to be president in 2025.
The eight candidates who made their confused cases to the Republican primary electorate are all flailing in the race, trailing the absent frontrunner, Donald Trump, and fighting among themselves for who gets to lose to him.
@marcelias The militant Confederates, hiding in the coat of Lincoln's former party, want to overturn the message of 1865. They didn't learn a thing from defeat, despite only regaining congressional representation after they ratified the Reconstruction Amendments.
And they've been exploiting the northern leniency, amnesties & will to reconcile/ "heal" ever since.
Lincoln & Grant shouldn't have vetoed the Stalwarts' plans for the post-war ex-Confederacy.
>The bill would prevent local governments from regulating changes in state codes such as agriculture, finance, insurance, labor, natural resources and occupations.
@pivoinebleue The long shadows of the Confederate rebellion, pestering America's democratic majority to this day:
"The Confederate rebellion was an assault by a minority on the decision of the majority, as expressed in Lincoln’s own election, and in that way, it was really intended to question the entire principle of democracy."
(Exchange "Confederate rebellion" for "Capitol attack", and "Lincoln's own election" for "Biden's election" & note the similarity)
The number one killer of children in America is gun violence. Where is a Republican doing something about that?
The Republicans in NC described this bill as “pro-woman.” I can’t think of anything more NOT pro-woman than restricting their bodily autonomy in any way and interfering in personal medical decisions. The GOP again show they don’t GAF about anything other than being in control or life.
@TonyStark The rebels, misleadingly masquerading as "Republicans" are failing to disguise their anti-human slaveholder mentality & disgraceful heritage.
And they'll be going to hurt women affiliated with their organization, too.
You can bet — women won't forget. Nor will their loving partners, if there'll be harm.
@BigAngBlack "Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."
— Ulysses S. Grant, Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875) —