So originalism and precedent are just different forms of 'fuck you'?
Re: SC(R)OTUS?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:54 pm
by friendship
Blackened Soul wrote: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.
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.
Re: SC(R)OTUS?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:54 am
by Chankgeez
Yeah, I'm no legal/constitutional scholar, but the Supreme Court is pretty fucked up right now.
Re: SC(R)OTUS?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:40 pm
by Blackened Soul
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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....
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....
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??"
Re: SC(R)OTUS?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:38 pm
by Gone Fission
Lead in from anchor/host to reporter covering yesterday’s mass shooter: “What have we learned?”
Not a fucking thing.
Re: SC(R)OTUS?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:43 pm
by Chankgeez
Sadly, true.
Re: I think Andrew Yang just almost said "two party sister".
Re: I think Andrew Yang just almost said "two party sister".
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:28 pm
by Velcro Bottom
How 'bout a no party system, no gods, no masters.
Smash the state.
Re: I think Andrew Yang just almost said "two party sister".
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:33 pm
by 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.
