At least heâs honest about it!
Heâs not for Jeffersonian Democracy, heâs for Jefferson Davis Democracy.
âŚand here you have it. âMove to another stateâ if you donât like the repressive sht weâre pulling. âNO we wonât give that state anything extraâŚitâs probably got sanctuary cities there! NOW let me tell you about GOD and religion and the godless democrats that are trying to screw you over!ââŚoh yeah weâre on to you you dirty olâ bastid fraud.
Why doesnât he move to another state or country? Perhaps Siberia?
This guy is not out of the range of a 2018 Blue Wave. This will not help him.
Republican Robert Pittenger Incumbent 58.2% 193,452
Democratic Christian Cano 41.8% 139,041
Total Votes 332,493
Source: North Carolina State Board of Electionshave the Republicans thought this through??? (no, just kidding. Republicans and thought donât belong in the same sentence) Because their ideology is that there basically is no national policy but everything is left to the states AND then, RW states implement hateful, mean-spirited policies while holding the door for their best, brightest, etc. to move elsewhere. And they do, taking economic growth, innovation, quality of life, anything attractive with them. And you know what else happens when you lose population??? loss of congressional seats. YAY!
Depraved shitstain doesnât actually know what âfederalismâ is.
Federalism, from a constitutional law standpoint, refers to the conferral of certain powers exclusively upon the states and certain powers solely upon the federal government which acts as one of the checks and balances that seemed like a good idea at the time in 1787 and whichâto the extent they still teach civics at allâkids are still taught to revere as a categorical good.
When Congress devolves power onto the states over how to spend federal dollars, that isnât an integral part of the way the Constitution works or even a Constitutionally important matter. Its not a thing that used to happen much before the New Deal (the land grant colleges being a notable exception). Sometimes, that kind of devolution itâs just a good idea because legislation falls into a shared sphere, as with the Interstate highway system. Most of the time, however, itâs the sign of a political cop out, a compromise to get the law passed over regionalistic objections, or, most often, a way for Republicans to hide draconian cuts to a federal program using the magic words âblock grant.â
Pittinger apparently didnât get the memo from Raleigh ⌠âixnay on the 'brain-drainayâ 
The 2018 mid-terms are going to be one hell of a doozy.
@canary02 Itâs their strategy: make more and more states living hellholes to drive out all the liberals/progressives so they can dominate the EC.
Messengers like this make our job so much easier.
Another GOP(Racist-AL): No need to move, just live âGoodâ as defined by Amerikan Jesus:
âFast and prayâ is a lovely prescription, but Iâve no doubt he wouldnât dare suggest Donnie skip a meal.
Trump: You can just move to other Red states like TX and FL and die painfully.
Move to another state
Actually, you may not be able to do even that. I donât know if this bill still includes doing away with state lines (or whatever they called it), but back during round one I recall experts saying that this could backfire by causing insurance companies to all run to the state with the least amount of restrictions. So, you may live in NY with protections set up by the state, but tough shit for you because the only place you can buy insurance is out of bumfuck Alabama and there ainât no rules down here.
The NC GOP platform could scare off the best and the brightest, the potential Stephen Hawking with a health problem or perhaps someone in a sexual minority who could contribute invaluably. Of course, none of these Republicans are bright enough themselves to grasp something so elemental.
Not exactly. The American people as a whole are in favor of Obamacare. Heâs trying to pretend he is doing something democratic by blocking them.
Nonsense. Thatâs precisely the problem the Republicans in the General Assembly have set about trying to fix. North Carolina has been on the winning side of a regional brain drain for about six decades. People like William Friday and Terry Sandford were no longer satisfied with merely sucking anyone with a brain out of South Carolina and, instead, set about creating a world-class university system, upgrading infrastructure, promote high tech industry, and generally going about trying to attract a bunch of smarty-smarty pants librrul yankee college types from all over the place and just about ruined the place. And oh hell, donât even get us started on Those People.
But with the assistance of the Koch Brothers, our General Assembly has been about its noble work of turning the state into a thing it never was but that they imagine it to once have been: Mississippi. Attacks on the University of North Carolina, vote suppression, budget cuts, Massive Resistance to Obamacare, tax cuts for rich people, laws to afflict Teh Gays (and whatever), anything they can think of to make the state stupider, meaner, poorer, and less welcoming to people from up north who donât even engage in ostentatious displays of pre-meal praying in restaurants.
This is clear evidence to me that the proposal is unconstitutional because it creates un-equal protection under the law regarding a federal program. If a citizen lucky to live or be born in one state can have his pre-existing healthcare condition cared for but that citizenâs cousin living in another state cannot - and it is solely because of the venality of the second stateâs legislature - doesnât that meet the definition of unequal protection, a violation of the Constitution?
âPeople can go to the state that they want to live in,â Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told reporters Tuesday morning when asked if people with pre-existing conditions could be charged much more under the American Health Care Act.
And there it is.