It’s ok - it’s really disgusting.
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McCrory must no be interested in running for public office in NC again?
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They have already selected the voters they care about and those they do not. This move is part and parcel with gerrymandered voter districts and voter suppression. Every time they get away with it they are emboldened. Crooks.
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GOP: We want to bring a touch of Putin to NC. Democrats should thank themselves that we let them … live.
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And a total fucking douchebag.
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You can bet had McCrory been relected the next step would have been to add 2 more seats to the court and make sure they were both Repubs. They just completed that neat little feat here in AZ with hardly a whisper.
Proud of those NCers protesting and getting arrested there - haven’t seen as much as I would expect on the news - too busy dissecting Trumps latest tweets and rally speeches
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I do not know the details of the previous example of anything like this happening, but it is not unheard of for the legislature to do that, when in normal session. Not a special session to do this sort of thing out of spite.
The GOP has a pretty crappy track record with this sort of thing. For instance, pretending stalling a SCOTUS nomination was the norm and not unusual. Also claiming various things that have happened once and then pretending the one special incident is the example of everything and makes it all ok.
Maybe people should be worried about camps.
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That’s a good comment. Right now the GOP seems to be going full out scorched earth like this is their last chance ever.
It’s interesting.
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They are trying to build an impregnable barrier against the coming minority majority world - and they are doing a pretty damned good job of it
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There was a lot of talk about them doing that after the election. Instead, they’ve decided to try to strip authority to hear some constitutional issues from the Supreme Court and give them, instead, to a special panel of Court of Appeals judges where they still have a majority (though most of the Republican judges on most of the courts seem to be almost as appalled at these antics as the Democrats).
Though the session is still young.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have some bills of attainder they’re getting ready to spring.
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The thing is, voters change. They move. They die. And they change their minds. And this kind of low trickery will change some people’s minds. Not all of them, not even most. But potentially enough.
Gerrymandering can be effective, but it’s not permanent.
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With Clinton at +2.8 million votes their refuge is gerrymandered voting districts and Red states. We need the 50-State Plan back and defense of voting rights to prevail.
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I thought that too 5 years ago - but I am becoming less sure. They are doing everything they can to change the rules faster than the electorate can keep up with- their efforts to prop up and perpetuate a Republican hegemony have been largely successful and unchecked for a few decades now. When they decided that nothing mattered except winning and began to ignore all of the normal restraints in a 2 party system, and decided that holding the entire country hostage to get their way was to become routine business (witness filibuster exponential increase and routine use of defaulting on the debt), I started to get the picture that this was not regular politics and pendulum swinging anymore. They consider it a holy war of some kind and ideology trumps compromise every time with these guys. This is not governance.
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He’s a sick goon, but NC elected him, so whose to blame?
NCSteve, thanks for the facts. Maybe things won’t end up as bad as I thought. We can only hope.
I was telling someone quite a few days back that the branches of government are very jealous of their power and very aware of it and really don’t like attempts to usurp it. That’s true on the federal level and the state.
The GOP is overreaching
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When you have one side that respects the system, and one side that doesn’t, then you no longer have a system. The Democrats better figure out quickly how to function in this new world.
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They will. Nobody is invincible and that includes the GOP and their president.
It’s always been that kind of world. It’s just gotten bigger.
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That’s a very pithy comment. I really like it.