So I guess 2016 claimed its biggest victim yet - America

Why was Townsend curious about furries in the first place, you might wonder? Hilariously, it all comes back to socialism. Townsend, along with other Arizona conservatives, spent much of the past week accusing the leaders of the #RedForEd movement of being socialists who are trying to trick teachers into joining their revolution.

Replying to her on Twitter, a furry who goes by @peppercoyote pointed out (accurately!) that public education is an inherently socialist concept. Another furry calling himself @andreuswolf observed, “Imagine going to all this trouble to get elected to the state legislature of Arizona only to get logically destroyed by a furry.”

“please educate me as to what a furry is,” Townsend replied.

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Rookie mistake. In future, just Google it, Kelly.

Update, 8:30 P.M.: Because we live in strange times, Kelly Townsend (or someone with access to her Twitter account) is now engaging with furries on Twitter, asking them to design a “fursona” for her. She also inexplicably tweeted a photo of coconut-and-lime scented wax cubes with the caption “You know this is all wrong…”

In case they get deleted, here are the screenshots:

Update, 10:00 P.M: Things have taken an unexpected turn.

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Late to thread, but isn’t Dr. Dre also a staunch Republican?

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No Google hits, so I must have misremembered.

Maybe you meant Flavor Flav?

He’s next-level rich thanks to Beats, so it’s sort of an understandable thought.

That can’t be constitutional.

Or do get caught and pass it anyway. Who’s going to stop you?

If you look at the proposal, it’s not obviously racist. It just says that the Medicaid work requirements don’t apply to counties with high unemployment rates. Notably, the legislator who came up with this idea lives in a low-unemployment county, so his constituents wouldn’t derive any benefit.

In fact, most high-unemployment counties are in the Upper Peninsula and northern part of the state, which is rural and mostly white. Surprisingly, Detroit doesn’t qualify. That’s because it is in the same county as many prosperous suburbs. As a result, most blacks in Michigan wouldn’t qualify.

So on paper, the law is written to benefit rural people at the expense of urban populations, which is not unconstitutional. But since it happens to mostly benefit white people, it could be challenged on the basis of the Civil Rights Act (which considers possible unintended consequences).

Well they can’t just come out and say “White people don’t have to do this labor crap”, even in Trump’s America. Is that how the proposal isn’t obviously racist, even though it mostly benefits white people and negatively affects blacks in Michigan?

There are lots of laws that primarily benefit white people, sometimes to the detriment of others. Farming price supports, for example. Are they racist? I don’t know, but they definitely aren’t unconstitutional. That’s what I was getting at.

But “not unconstitutional” doesn’t mean free from scrutiny. The law could be challenged on other grounds if it passes in current form, and given all the sudden attention I suspect it won’t.

“They have this belief that there’s this massive group of people that are abusing the system,” said Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-Ann Arbor). "Quite frankly, I think if we’re going to break it down a little bit, I think much of that belief that’s held by folks is based on racism.

“And that racist aspect is so clearly reflected in this proposal. Like — it’s OK that I have Medicaid as a rural, white person, but it’s not OK that people in Detroit have Medicaid, or that people in Flint have Medicaid, because ‘they’re lazy,’ because ‘they just abuse the system.’”

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/05/12/michigan-medicaid-work-rules-would-apply-pretty-much-just-to-black-people-new-analysis-finds

I think there is a post around here somewhere that says something like it’s not fair to claim that some many people in the GOP or who voted for Trump are racist, in addition to other things. I suspect the bulk of the GOP believes exactly what is said above, and yes, when they picture lazy people abusing the system, the image is not white.

There are a lot of people who like to make themselves feel better for past GOP votes or for the GOP votes of friends and family members by pretending that anyone who’s voted for the GOP since the 60s wasn’t behaving in a racist manner.

I mean, it’s a pretty tall order. It’d be dead easy to slip up and accidentally mark a city councilman or something at some point along the way. There’s just so many daggone city council slots!

Since most city council race are non-partisan. How would you know if you slipped up? Same thing for judges?
What about voting for a Democrat who then became a Republican? How about Republican who became a Democrat.

This whole thing seems harder than figuring out which bathroom to use.

I mean man, I keep a giant spreadsheet and read the candidates’ mail while hiding in their trash cans. It’s the only way to be sure.

Forget it, y’all, it’s Michigan.

Beautiful state, but its politics are exceptionally dysfunctional even for modern America. It’s literally Detroit (and Flint, and a few first-ring suburbs that are effectively Detroit) versus everyone else. The state government makes a game out of fucking over Detroit, and Wayne County is nuts. It’s one county for Detroit and almost all of its suburbs. Makes no damn sense. And again, the city gets fucked for the benefit of the burbs.

Detroit isn’t blameless in this – there’s a good 30+ years of bad tax law still hanging around its neck – but it’s a horrible situation.

Some Texan pastor verbally blew the President during his speech at the Israeli embassy opening today. Disgusting just listening to it. So bizarre that he was even there, since he said all Jews are going to hell in the past. My mind wants to explode just thinking about that.

It’s so fucking ridiculous how they’ve latched onto Trump. Doesn’t he pretty much embody the idea of an Anti-Christ?

GWB I could understand, because at least he paid lip service to them. But Trump? I mean, if that’s the best you’ve got and you say “Well, he’ll stop abortion” then I can see them holding their nose and supporting him, despite his sins. What I simply cannot fathom is the near-idolatry they heap on him.

He represents almost everything they (supposedly) loathe.

You and I both know these evangelicals are not Christians. They’re in the faith because it makes them tons of money and trump is pipeline to power. They are the ultimate heresies and trump like you said, is quite possibly the anti-Christ.