the John Lewis act is better than nothing, take the better than nothing, fight for the rest later- if the court strikes it down, ignore the court (claim the court acted unconstitutionally outside its bounds) and dare the Republicans to impeach.
I mean, this sums up the current Republican Party (in general, not just in Texas) pretty nicely. They literally argued that the people they represent should be forced to expose themselves to a potentially deadly virus that was ravaging the nation (this was before vaccines) if they wanted to vote in a Presidential election rather than be allowed to use an absentee ballot system that already existed and had been used in previous elections simply because they knew it would suppress opposition votes. They misled their own voters into thinking the threat was minimal or non-existent, and frankly couldnāt have cared less what happened to those people in the weeks after the election, as long as they came out to the polls in force on Election Day.
I would like to see a significant push to have all states mail out absentee ballot request forms to all registered voters ahead of every election. In states that did that in 2020 (Ohio was one of them, and the GOP still won convincingly here) there was record voter participation and somehow the state election boards still managed to count all of the votes and maintain high integrity throughout the process because professionals were in charge and people did their jobs with the respect due to the process. Of course that is exactly why so many states are now stripping those professionals of their responsibilities and inserting lapdog loyalists into the process. Yet another reason to say āFUCK THE GOPā, as if we needed more reasonsā¦
Do they only support it because they know itās never going to pass?
Because if it actually got close to happening, I expect all sorts of alarmed āDemocrats are being partisanā squawking to suddenly emerge.
Can we add abysmally stupid to the topic title? Oh. My. God.
JoshL
10790
Iād like to think heās just saying āclimate change is outside our control so we should do nothingā, which is also stupid, but really more evil than stupid.
Also, in case anybody is confused, BLM here means āBureau of Land Managementā.
But he actually asks if they can change the orbits verbatim. The tact with which the respondents just said āweāll look into itā was fantastic.
JoshL
10792
I donāt think Iāve ever actually listened to him speak before, so I donāt know how he speaks or phrases things. I can imagine this being something like, āIn order to fix climate change you would have to move the moon. Can you move the moon? No? So shut up.ā
But it could also just be him asking the forest service if they can move the moon because he doesnāt know if the forest service can move the moon. Such are the times we live in.
To be clear: both interpretations make him a terrible, terrible person, which we already knew he was.
Giving this idiot the benefit of the doubt? Lol. A drunken methāed up fruit bet is smarter than him.
RichVR
10795
JoshL
10796
I have that album on CD :)
Banzai
10798
Timex
10799
We could pay off the national debt by charging people a nickle to punch Gohmert in the face.
Two Forest Service workers are racing
For the good of all mankind
Both of them side-by-side
So determined
