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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Doesn't North Carolina have a democratic governor who can veto this stuff now? Hm... now I wonder if they're doing what Congress did re: Health care repeals. Submitting bills they know will be vetoed so they take their stance without having to own it. Unless there's enough Republican presence in NC's congress to override a veto.
Also:
edited 11th Apr '17 5:29:40 PM by sgamer82
Colbert might have been onto something when he called him tiny. This guy must be at least part-dwarf because, damn he can dig a hole fast.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
On constitutional amendments, I occasionally fantasize about stealing Germany's 1st basic law provision.
On the Article that IFwanderer linked, well, I'd recommend reading it in full, but this excerpt stands out to those asking about the "I can have a beer with him" attitude. (It also says something about authoritarianism.
But another answer hides in plain sight. The often-cynical negotiation between populist electioneering and plutocratic governance on the right has long been not so much a matter of policy as it has been a matter of show business. The media scholar Tim Raphael, in his 2009 book, “The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance,” calls the three-minute commercials that interrupted episodes of The General Electric Theater — starring Reagan and his family in their state-of-the-art Pacific Palisades home, outfitted for them by G.E. — television’s first “reality show.” For the California voters who soon made him governor, the ads created a sense of Reagan as a certain kind of character: the kindly paterfamilias, a trustworthy and nonthreatening guardian of the white middle-class suburban enclave. Years later, the producers of “The Apprentice” carefully crafted a Trump character who was the quintessence of steely resolve and all-knowing mastery. American voters noticed. Linda Lucchese, a Trump convention delegate from Illinois who had never previously been involved in politics, told me that she watched “The Apprentice” and decided that Trump would make a perfect president. “All those celebrities,” she told me: “They showed him respect.”
edited 11th Apr '17 6:06:06 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesThis is a song about the American South. There are many of these types of songs, but I always felt they didn't go far enough. This one goes to far.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CJovhhVq8
Lehrer is always relevant.
edited 11th Apr '17 6:25:21 PM by megaeliz
x6 That's already their official title, even in Georgia. Maybe I should switch careers to priest though. What's that? Second estate when the USA starts calling Estates General instead of Congress?
edited 11th Apr '17 6:25:12 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesAnd even if you wanted to write off every man, woman, child, and cute fuzzy bunny in the area, turning a giant swatch of land into an unlivable, irradiated hellhole is not a great long-term strategy.
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The traditional term would be "blackguard," but "antipaladin," "paladin of tyranny," and "paladin of slaughter" could all work depending on what kind of image you're going for.
edited 11th Apr '17 6:31:08 PM by rikalous

SCOTUS overrules and modifies its precedent alot. It just doesn't say its doing that (to make things extra fun for us surely). O'Connor's Casey opinion essentially rewrote Roe, changing the procedural scheme fundamentally, while she wrote that she was firmly sticking to the established case law. It went from absolute bar (dependent on time) to "undue burden" (read: invitation to loopholes). Obergefell can be "distinguished" and watered down as a majority on the court sees fit.
edited 11th Apr '17 5:28:04 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives