American Politics XII: We Can Do Bad All By Ourselves

[Tarsonis]

Point is the Senator wasn't calling for Brown to be overturned as Vass said he was.

I read it the same way you are, though there is a ton of case law between oldest and brown that slowly changed the precedent. That is not the case here

I'm not defending the Senator's point, I'm just saying he isn't saying the bad thing Vass is trying to make it sound like he's saying.

[Tarsonis]

I am a meat popsicle.

Ahh Terran Marine…..

Nah, I just normally set it to random.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

BREAKING: Chuck Grassley's corn has grown 19 inches in the last week. What does this mean for the corn harvest and more importantly, the midterms?

I wonder if that is an ad placement in that photo?

maybe. or maybe he was just very excited about his corn ¯\_(o_o)_/¯

[The Jamesian Republic]

BREAKING: Chuck Grassley's corn has grown 19 inches in the last week. What does this mean for the corn harvest and more importantly, the midterms?

Seize the means of corn growth!

[The Black Forrest]

I wonder if that is an ad placement in that photo?

maybe. or maybe he was just very excited about his corn ¯\_(o_o)_/¯

Just seemed like odd swag. A ruler from Feeder Cattle real estate....

[San Lumen]

BREAKING: Chuck Grassley's corn has grown 19 inches in the last week. What does this mean for the corn harvest and more importantly, the midterms?

well there is some uplifting news. Good for him. Had no idea he was a farmer.

[Shrillland]

Alaska Supreme Court rules that only three candidates can appear in August byelection since Al Gross quit past the state's 64-day threshold

This makes Peltola's preference votes all the more important.

[Myrensis]

BREAKING: Chuck Grassley's corn has grown 19 inches in the last week. What does this mean for the corn harvest and more importantly, the midterms?

well there is some uplifting news. Good for him. Had no idea he was a farmer.

Likely he just maintains it for the subsidies. Because per conservative doctrine, so long as you're a farmer you can take all the money from the goberment you want, and it definitely doesn't count as socialism or government handouts because something something farmer freedom Jesus American flag apple pie tractor eagle country music.

[Shrillland]

well there is some uplifting news. Good for him. Had no idea he was a farmer.

Likely he just maintains it for the subsidies. Because per conservative doctrine, so long as you're a farmer you can take all the money from the goberment you want, and it definitely doesn't count as socialism or government handouts because something something farmer freedom Jesus American flag apple pie tractor eagle country music.

It's the old family farm, father's father before him and all that. His Grandson and heir apparent, who's also State House Speaker in Iowa, is poised to get it after him.

[Cannot think of a name]

Looks like school desegregation is on the chopping block now too.

I had a feeling that was next.

[Myrensis]

Looks like school desegregation is on the chopping block now too.

I had a feeling that was next.

Nah, they've been pretty clear that gay rights and contraception are next on their "Things that shouldn't exist" agenda. Much as they'd like to bring back segregation it's a much harder pull and they all ready failed pretty spectacularly at it in the 60's.

[Forsher]

So what is originalism then if not "we should interpret the consitution like it's 1789 rather than [CURRENT YEAR]"?

The problem with the "Current year" framing is that ultimately the constitution wouldn't mean anything, being always defined by whatever group happens to be in power and influential in the present. And for the record, the "current year" isn't always favorable to progressives like yourself.

Written constitutions are inherently tyrannical, so that's a good thing.

[Cannot think of a name]

I had a feeling that was next.

Nah, they've been pretty clear that gay rights and contraception are next on their "Things that shouldn't exist" agenda. Much as they'd like to bring back segregation it's a much harder pull and they all ready failed pretty spectacularly at it in the 60's.

They've been undermining integration of schools for a while now. At this point there functionally isn't much of Brown left so it'd be something they can knock off on their way to something else.

[Diuhon]

Looks like school desegregation is on the chopping block now too.

No, actually. He was bringing up another case that reversed decades old precedent, to point out that reversing precedent isn't inherently bad like the President is making it out to be.

I know you have a vested interest in having bad faith takes of anything the right does, but it does get old correcting your blatant misconstruings.

see, the gop has earned the assumption

[Senkaku]

I had a feeling that was next.

Nah, they've been pretty clear that gay rights and contraception are next on their "Things that shouldn't exist" agenda. Much as they'd like to bring back segregation it's a much harder pull and they all ready failed pretty spectacularly at it in the 60's.

I mean if they take the other branches of government I’m pretty sure it’s all gonna be on the table lol; public education has been a white whale of the right for a long time

[Big Jim P]

Nah, they've been pretty clear that gay rights and contraception are next on their "Things that shouldn't exist" agenda. Much as they'd like to bring back segregation it's a much harder pull and they all ready failed pretty spectacularly at it in the 60's.

They've been undermining integration of schools for a while now. At this point there functionally isn't much of Brown left so it'd be something they can knock off on their way to something else.

Leftist blacks have been calling for resegregation. After all the work the real civil rights activists put in to end it.

[Diuhon]

They've been undermining integration of schools for a while now. At this point there functionally isn't much of Brown left so it'd be something they can knock off on their way to something else.

Leftist blacks have been calling for resegregation. After all the work the real civil rights activists put in to end it.

and that's a problem, but next to bigots on the right egging them on for their own bigoted ends

well

[Senkaku]

They've been undermining integration of schools for a while now. At this point there functionally isn't much of Brown left so it'd be something they can knock off on their way to something else.

Leftist blacks have been calling for resegregation. After all the work the real civil rights activists put in to end it.

“Leftist blacks” are calling for that? Do you ever think about how you frame things at all

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Looks like school desegregation is on the chopping block now too.

I think his point was that precedent doesn't matter if precedent is bad, but it's worded poorly.

[Big Jim P]

Leftist blacks have been calling for resegregation. After all the work the real civil rights activists put in to end it.

and that's a problem, but next to bigots on the right egging them on for their own bigoted ends

well

Bigot begat bigots.

[Diuhon]

Looks like school desegregation is on the chopping block now too.

I think his point was that precedent doesn't matter if precedent is bad, but it's worded poorly.

his belief in states' rights has been a deeply held, if well-hidden, belief of his, articulated since at least his high school days, when he was an avid supporter of george wallace:

To be fair, blocking doors to prevent integration wasn’t on Cornyn’s list of reasons to vote for Wallace. But he was big on states’ rights. “With the Supreme Court’s recent rulings and increased federal legislation, the government has become increasingly dictatorial and oppressive while the state and local governments have become more weak,” he wrote. Here he is on law and order: “Mr. Wallace is convinced that no innocent man should be punished… [But] many criminals never receive the punishment due them because they have clever lawyers, or the case takes so long to go through the slow court schedules and lengthy appeals cases.” On the urban crisis: “The existence of poverty has been fact since the beginning of mankind. Statistics show us that it is not the poor element that riots and rebels, but others who hold complete disrespect for property and the rights of others (socialists?)” And, finally, on Vietnam: “It only seems reasonable that a cure (victory) for this Asian illness is most desirable even if the measures necessary are drastic.”

he's showing a bit of his hand now, because the logic this court has employed to overturn roe and casey can and will absolutely be used to overturn one gop bete noire after another

[Diuhon]

and that's a problem, but next to bigots on the right egging them on for their own bigoted ends

well

Bigot begat bigots.

and it is only fair that they all be crushed

[Diopolis]

Getting inflation under control and massive gas prices

And what can he actually do about those by himself?

Inflation is tricky but there's actually quite a bit that Biden could do to reduce gas prices, he's(or his admin is) just choosing to prioritize other goals. For example, the choice was made to sanction Russian oil knowing it would push gas prices up. The choice was made not to push hard for work from home, knowing it wouldn't help blunt gas price increases. There are reasons the Biden admin made both of these choices, but they are contributors to high prices and it's quite reasonable to have the opinion that lowering gas prices is a worthier goal than, say, sending a signal of how much we love Ukraine(because the oil sanctions don't seem to be hurting Russia) or trying to boost NYC property tax revenues.

[Big Jim P]

Bigot begat bigots.

and it is only fair that they all be crushed

Including the non-white ones?

[Diuhon]

and it is only fair that they all be crushed

Including the non-white ones?

of course

bigotry should not be tolerated, whatever and wherever its source