Well, since corporations are people, too, maybe Georgia can suppress the sale of Coca-Cola within their state. If you don’t like it, suppress it.
The assumptions Justice Roberts has used in so many of his decisions are all falling apart in a most humiliating way.
I doubt she has much sway with anyone, TBH.
We could add baseball if they’d move or cancel the dang All-Star Game…
He can try and out-do Taney, and may just pull it (the sheet) off?
Be real. The Gaetz story involves a Florida Man US Rep, an off-the-charts Florida Man tax collector, and an underage sex scandal. Racism and voter suppression can’t compete with that.
/snark
I think we can look at the recent history to know that the GQP to a member don’t care about public opinion and probably not even the opinion of the business community. They are so wrapped up in maintaining their power by whatever means possible that they don’t care how popular or not popular their actions are.
Look at the Covid relief act - 70% of Americans approved of this and supported this, with a significant portion of GOP voters in the mix. Still, not a single GQP Senator voted for it and damned few Representatives voted for it.
Popularity of their actions is far less important than maintaining their power.
Oh, yeah, definitely, you fucking MAGAt assholes. Get in a pissing match with Delta. Please.
I’m not disagreeing with you. But (a) the Gaetz story is bonkers, and getting bonkers-er, and (b) Gaetz worked with Stone, who coordinated with Trump.
Gaetz will flip, and higher-ups will fall as a result.
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I suppose you’re right. They more important thing is that we shouldn’t let these companies get away with just a few nice words.
2018: Republicans lost the House.
2020: Republicans lost the Presidency.
2021: Republicans lost the Senate.
Please, GQP, proceed.
And you don’t think these laws they’re making will hold up in court? We need HR-1 so it’s not up to the courts at the State level. We need this to go through the Federal level and, without the passage of HR-1 and S-1, the GQP will never again lose another election: House, Senate or President.
Wisconsin is a perfect example of how the GQP has cooked the books. At the legislative level, there will never be a Dem majority.
ETA: And this is what that GQP majority in the legislature is able to do and not have to deal with any blowback:
I for one can’t get enough of bad news for Gaetz. And it’s not just about the popcorn. Anything that helps to turn the stomachs of erstwhile resolute Republican voters is a very big deal.
So NOW they are ‘condemning’ it? What a bunch of cowards.
I don’t share your pessimism. I think we’re going to pick up House seats in the midterms & increase our Senate majority by three or four.
Just one mildly informed woman’s opinion.
ETA: And you may be right about state legislatures / governorships. We’ll see. I don’t mean to diminish your horror at the assault on voting rights. I share it.
“We are shocked, SHOCKED to find that there are racists in the government of the state that has been our headquarters for 134 years.”
After your response went in, I linked an article about something that happened today in Wisconsin - I can’t relink it without ticking off Discobot.
As long as HR-1/S-1 passes, you would be correct (as long as it withstands the inevitable court challenges and doesn’t get suspended while those court challenges proceed). Understand, I want you to be right.
I have a district in Wisconsin that is so gerrymandered we will never see a Dem in the House. This is true in many other places.
No doubt. I’ve driven the backroads of Wisconsin during election years & yeah … a tough slog there.
And I think the jury’s still out on how Amy Coat Hanger Barrett & Keganaugh will vote on voting rights. We shall see.
But it wasn’t. Why else would these corporations make these statements.
this is technically true — but only because the bill as finally passed was literally thrown together overnight based on the provisions found in a bunch of OTHER bills (the original version of S202 just involved some changes to absentee voting), passed by both houses, and signed by Kemp within a span of 24 hours.
In other words, these companies were working with the legislature – not the governors office, and were completely blindsided when the bill was passed AND SIGNED without any significant opportunity to object to it.
Too bad they didn’t do something to punish those corporations. There’s nothing like striking out against a powerful corporation to show how committed you are to your position.
TPM has opened the Gaetz of Hell!