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Page wrote:This will be the first inauguration I'll watch since 2009. Back then I skipped English class to watch it on the TV of the campus administration building, felt like an important moment in history that I shouldn't miss. Of course back then I was a teenage liberal who said cringey shit like "post-racial society" and I genuinely thought the wars would end.

I don't remember where I was on Obama's second, my guess is I was asleep because this was a time when I'd go the gym at 3AM.

Then in 2017, it was my first time back in America since moving abroad, I was with my wife and my mother-in-law came too, we went out for breakfast and then when we got to my parents' house they put on the TV. I said something to my parents along the lines of "This is fucking sickening, I can't watch this" which I think my MIL got the gist of despite not speaking English. The language barrier kept her and my parents from an awkward discussion. I left and my wife caught up with me after a few minutes of watching in horror.

Ifreann wrote:state governors don't all have the same powers.

Esternial wrote:

Ifreann wrote:state governors don't all have the same powers.

This made me imagine state governors as very bland power rangers.

The Untied State wrote:

Esternial wrote:This made me imagine state governors as very bland power rangers.

i raise you, magical girl governers

San Lumen wrote:

Anatoliyanskiy wrote:
tbh Larry Hogan is probably the best Republican state governor. Doesn't mean he's a good one, but I agree with more things he's done then other republican governors. Especially this.

I think its a great idea but I don't think its constitutional. You can't use an executive order to rewrite the state constitution. if one can then Evers in Wisconsin should do this as well.

Ifreann wrote:

San Lumen wrote:In no state can the executive amend the constitution via executive order. If they could there is no need for a legislature as they are effectively a monarch.

Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.

Shrillland wrote:

San Lumen wrote:
I think its a great idea but I don't think its constitutional. You can't use an executive order to rewrite the state constitution. if one can then Evers in Wisconsin should do this as well.

Meh, the legislature will just ignore him and go back to building districts that look like morbidly obese tapeworms as usual.

Page wrote:This will be the first inauguration I'll watch since 2009. Back then I skipped English class to watch it on the TV of the campus administration building, felt like an important moment in history that I shouldn't miss. Of course back then I was a teenage liberal who said cringey shit like "post-racial society" and I genuinely thought the wars would end.

I don't remember where I was on Obama's second, my guess is I was asleep because this was a time when I'd go the gym at 3AM.

Then in 2017, it was my first time back in America since moving abroad, I was with my wife and my mother-in-law came too, we went out for breakfast and then when we got to my parents' house they put on the TV. I said something to my parents along the lines of "This is fucking sickening, I can't watch this" which I think my MIL got the gist of despite not speaking English. The language barrier kept her and my parents from an awkward discussion. I left and my wife caught up with me after a few minutes of watching in horror.

San Lumen wrote:

Ifreann wrote:Well that's beside the point. The Governor of Maryland planning to do something by executive order doesn't mean anything for what the Governor of Wisconsin might do. At least as far as I'm aware, state governors don't all have the same powers.

No they don't but...

Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana wrote:

The Marlborough wrote:Tulsi Gabbard should unironically go for the GOP nom for the hilarity it would bring. Double points if she got it. Triple points if she won and became POTUS.

Wow I could vote for someone in good conscience finally

Vassenor wrote:

Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana wrote:Wow I could vote for someone in good conscience finally

And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

The Marlborough wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocate for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMOs, and some others) but on the whole, she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

The Marlborough wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

San Lumen wrote:https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_20e0b5d8-5060-11eb-b667-d37d56cd2cf0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

Governor Edwards of Louisiana has set March 20th as the election date for the two vacant congressional seats.

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/ ... 151817001/

Julia Letlow widow of rep elect Luke Letlow has announced she will run in district 5 and is the likely frontrunner.

The Marlborough wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

Shrillland wrote:

San Lumen wrote:https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_20e0b5d8-5060-11eb-b667-d37d56cd2cf0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

Governor Edwards of Louisiana has set March 20th as the election date for the two vacant congressional seats.

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/ ... 151817001/

Julia Letlow widow of rep elect Luke Letlow has announced she will run in district 5 and is the likely frontrunner.

Well, good luck to her, I guess. Nothing really to look at, they're both pretty safe seats. As for the other, I think(at this moment) it'll go to Karen Peterson, though it may be a runoff.

Arisyan wrote:

The Marlborough wrote:Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

but then you have Bernie Sanders who has virtually those same positions but without the SJW-ism.

Arisyan wrote:

The Marlborough wrote:Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

but then you have Bernie Sanders who has virtually those same positions but without the SJW-ism.

Arisyan wrote:

The Marlborough wrote:Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

but then you have Bernie Sanders who has virtually those same positions but without the SJW-ism.

The Marlborough wrote:

Arisyan wrote:
but then you have Bernie Sanders who has virtually those same positions but without the SJW-ism.

Tulsi doesn't have it either. Sanders I like personally but I do think he's a tad too idealistic when it comes to what it would take to govern a superpower/empire. He makes a great member of Congress and him pushing certain things forward should go down as an important period in American politics because it's even begun to shift the American right on economics (though not as much).

Kexholm Karelia wrote:PBS lawyer suggested sending children of Trump voters to 'reeducation camps' where 'they watch PBS all day'

San Lumen wrote:

Shrillland wrote:
Well, good luck to her, I guess. Nothing really to look at, they're both pretty safe seats. As for the other, I think(at this moment) it'll go to Karen Peterson, though it may be a runoff.

A runoff is likely in both seats though many Republicans said they wouldnt run in LA-5 if Julia got in therefore she likely wins outright

The Marlborough wrote:Tulsi Gabbard should unironically go for the GOP nom for the hilarity it would bring. Double points if she got it. Triple points if she won and became POTUS.

The Marlborough wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.

The Marlborough wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
And what is actually good about her positions? Or is this just a vapid "she said foreign wars bad so can do no wrong" spiel?

Legalize marijuana, end private prisons, support some form of a Green New Deal, advocating for greater accessibility for those with disabilities, free tuition for community colleges, UBI for stay at home parents, universal healthcare, yes less foreign adventurism. I don't agree with her on certain issues (nuclear power, GMO's, and some others) but on the whole she has some pretty good ideas and at the very least is someone I could say genuinely gives a shit.