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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#117851: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:48:14 PM

Mississippi is objectively the worst state by being the poorest and least educated.

It's amazing a bill like this took THIS LONG to be made.

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#117852: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:49:35 PM

They're so dumb in Mississippi that it takes them forever to make a sexist bill.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#117853: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:52:11 PM

Despite all of Trump's faults and poisonous positions re: gender, he's probably *still* better on women than Cruz or Kasich.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
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#117854: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:53:14 PM

Mississippi consistently scores dead last among the 50 states in economy and education. (Well, maybe on rare occasions they might jump to 49th, or even 48th.) So no, this doesn't really surprise me... It exasperates and disgusts me, but it doesn't surprise me in the least.

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#117855: Mar 30th 2016 at 3:56:47 PM

Mississippi is the poster child for Deep South.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#117856: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:01:20 PM

Reminds me of that joke about the 50 state mottos that play up each state's stereotypes. Alabama, who usually ranks 48th or 49th in those best state lists, has as a motto: "Thank God for Mississippi".

Mississippi's is: "Come and feel better about your own state."

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#117857: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:04:07 PM

Though this abortion gaff has revealed an important statistic to me; that Trump's disapproval rating among women is well over 70%. No one can get elected with those numbers hanging over them; women are too crucial for anyone to win when a super majority of them dislike a candidate.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#117858: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:11:25 PM

Looking at the outline of that Mississippi Bill it just seems more a like a feel good bill for bigots than anything that could seriously last. A lot of it is stuff that's a given (like churches not having to marry gay people if they want) and the rest is stuff that has not chance of making it through the courts.

Seriously, at this point you'd think they'd try new stuff.

edited 30th Mar '16 4:11:44 PM by LSBK

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#117861: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:13:46 PM

At this point you guys should rename the state to something like Mississippistan.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#117862: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:13:46 PM

Yeah, 538's saying Clinton could flip Georgia and Arizona of all places if Trump doesn't turn it around with women voters.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#117863: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:17:56 PM

Just another dumbass Southern legislature passing bills saying they don't have to listen to the feds. Give it a few months and the courts will smack it down.

[up]And Trump leading the GOP could crush them in downticket races; if those women turn on the party wholesale.

edited 30th Mar '16 4:20:24 PM by Rationalinsanity

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#117864: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:21:30 PM

why a few months? this sounds like the sort of thing that needs to be fast tracked to the supreme court NOW

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#117866: Mar 30th 2016 at 4:30:27 PM

Its unlikely that this will get past state level courts, and its such a lost cause the federal appeals courts (let alone the Supremes) are likely to dismiss it out of hand if it gets to them.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Field Marshal of Cracked
#117867: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:01:12 PM

things like this is why I hate devolution of powers, it gives the crazes at a local level so much more power

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#117868: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:11:11 PM

Nothing gets fasttracked to the Supreme Court, it's the court of last resort. If the defendant or prosecutor (I honestly don't know if both can do it) don't like the ruling of the court they're in, they have to appeal at the next highest level. Once you get to the Supreme Court the case has gone through all others already. That's the basics of it, anyway.

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#117869: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:13:12 PM

@Major Corporations Being Increasingly Nervous: Everything has become too politicized and divided lately, and that divide is explicitly in regards to race, gender, and sexuality. There is no denying that there is a large minority of people who completely support Donald Trump as President. There is also no denying that Hillary Clinton's biggest supporters are minorities and women. This is a large divide that exists and appears to be at a breaking point given the violence of the past few years.

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#117870: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:19:16 PM

Hillary Clinton to be Interviewed by FBI Director Comey in mere days

Soon after those interviews — in the next few days and weeks — officials expect Director Comey to make a recommendation to Attorney General Loretta Lynch about potential criminal charges.

Looks like this ordeal is finally coming to an end.

As a result of a registration error committed by the District of Columbia Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders won't appear on the Washington D.C. ballot.

As if the hardcore Sanders supporters needed anymore reasons to be paranoid of the Dem establishment.

edited 30th Mar '16 5:38:08 PM by Demonic_Braeburn

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DocJamore Since: Jul, 2014
#117871: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:40:34 PM

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I thought that Citizens United was fast tracked by a special appeals court to the supreme court? As was the labor case that tied yesterday.

edited 30th Mar '16 5:42:28 PM by DocJamore

SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#117872: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:42:47 PM

A question based on something a teen Republican said to me:

He said that if we raise the minimum wage to fifteen or even ten dollars will kill small business. Now...is this true (and no, I'm not trying to be ignorant, I want to know the truth)?

edited 30th Mar '16 5:43:12 PM by SciFiSlasher

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#117873: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:47:11 PM

[up]Potentially.

On one hand, a higher minimum wage means more unemployement, particularly small businesses.

On the other, a higher minimum wage means the largest class has more money, which they'll spend on things like services small businesses provide.

Leviticus 19:34
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Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#117874: Mar 30th 2016 at 5:48:15 PM

They'll take a hit in the short term but the spending power the lower classes will get from having more money will more than make up for it eventually.

Oh really when?
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#117875: Mar 30th 2016 at 6:10:54 PM

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