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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
None of this is lost on the residents of California. They are proudly enacting policies in opposition to Trump's. The legislature became the first to vote to become a sanctuary state, and supported raising gas taxes and vehicle registration fees to improve infrastructure. While Trump gets the lowest approval of any new president after 100 days and the Republican Congress does worse, the politics of California are the opposite. A recent University of California Berkeley Institute of Government Studies poll found 57 percent of California's registered voters approve of the legislature's job performance. Brown gets 61 percent approval.
Never. The GOP voter base would happily vote for Sephiroth on an "I'll destroy the world by summoning Meteor" platform if he had the magical R next to his name, and they'd justify their mass-suicidal vote by saying "haha liberals! u mad that sephy's gonna kill u?".
edited 11th May '17 7:14:29 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryA couple of decades maybe? The handling of the ACHA by the media and Democrats seems like a good way in general to just handle things like this and turn people against them.
I don't like the cynical approach a lot of people here express, but realistically wide scale change like that will take a lot of time.
edited 11th May '17 7:17:20 PM by LSBK
One GOP lawmaker’s plan to save money: Turning non-English-speaking kids over to ICE
Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Ritze, right, on the floor of the House in Oklahoma City on April 17. (Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press) Republicans in the Oklahoma state legislature have a challenge on their hands: figuring out how to address a gaping, $900 million hole in the state budget without raising taxes.
Some lawmakers have proposed firing nonessential college employees. Others want to drop a film tax credit, saving the state as much as $5 million.
Republican Rep. Mike Ritze told CBS affiliate KWTV that he has another proposal in mind: rounding up the state’s 82,000 non-English-speaking students and handing them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
edited 11th May '17 7:31:22 PM by sgamer82
A Texas House bill would increase the prices of a taprooms own beer.
Why?
Because it would require them to sell their own beer to a middle man before they could purchase it back and sell it.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."82,000 students who will either flee or be forced out of Oklahoma. Students. As it, people who are getting educations. Educations they could use to help advance Oklahoma's hospitals, forensics, engineering, agriculture, industry, and economy all around.
I've heard of third world countries suffering brain drain problems, but this is the first I've heard of a state draining it's own brain.
That would actually cost more money. A lot more money. Everyone picked up by ICE has to go through the massively overstuffed immigration courts, and ICE has to deal with accommodation. Deportation (the whole process, not just the last step) ain't cheap.
Not only that, but as mentioned on the previous page, there are a ton of legal immigrants who don't speak English. Good luck dealing with an incident after you send some poor Indian kid to Mexico because you can't be bothered to figure out what language he's even speaking and where he's from.
edited 11th May '17 7:44:46 PM by Zendervai
"The thing about the top Republican brass is that they don't really care about their lower and middle-class white constituents' lives, just their votes. The AHCA proves that. When will the GOP voter base realize this?"
They are realizing it. That's one reason many of them voted for Trump (who was not the establishment's first choice, or their second... or their tenth...). He was always the "spoiler" candidate. That's why we now have an opportunity to turn some red states blue, assuming the Democrats can take advantage of it (not a sure thing).
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.![]()
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Damn the expense! Oklahoma has human rights that they need to violate, and a brain drain that they need to further accelerate!
Indeed. I'd go as far as to say that the red states are inherently parasitic.
edited 11th May '17 7:46:29 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Third-world hellholes will pity Oklahoma. But that doesn't matter as long as ICE makes the scary foreigners go bye-bye!

Of course, but my response was to the specific notions that we shouldn't impeach Trump because then we'd have President Pence (which is still preferable to Trump for the reasons given at the top of the page) or because leaving him in for the full term might improve the Democratic candidate's chances in 2020.