Being replaced.
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The whole insurance industry is practical socialism. We privatize the gain (filers can receive payment on a claimed loss), but we socialize the loss (everyone pays the premium which makes the claim payment possible). That works for all kinds of insurance whether health, property and casualty, or professional liability. That’s why socialism is bad?
Wall Street sure wasn’t crying “socialism” when their mortgage-backed securities cratered the economy and we socialized the loss by government dumping money into them. (And they privatized the gain when they got their sales commissions before and their bonuses afterwards!)
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The Republicans will continue to do this everywhere they have power, and this will extend their hold on that power. It’s going to take a large amount of work to make voting into a proper right, protected by law and unable to be interfered with. It’s really akin in scope to the Civil Rights movement, but it hardly gets any notice, which allows the Republicans to continue to undermine our democracy. The Democrats will vote in new voting rights legislation once they hold Congress and the presidency again, all Americans really should be working to make that happen as soon as possible just to make sure that we all have an equal voice in what happens to the nation.
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Once again, I am embarrassed by our legislature.
This is being fought against, but the right-wing nut-bars are in charge in Nashville.
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“Ah, hell, that ought to teach Taylor Swift to stick her pretty little head in our business. Bet she won’t do that again!”
Saw this article yesterday, and was apoplectic. To expand on your post, vote registration canvassers are legally required to turn in all registrations/signatures, even if it is signed as “Mickey Mouse”, which does happen. So, TN in its infinite wisdom, is legally requiring all registrations to be turned in, and at the same time fining or jailing canvassers who have fake registrations through no fault of their own. It is a perfect Catch-22.
One could even argue that Repubs in heavy Dem areas (and vice versa) could sign Mickey Mouse registrations to screw the canvasers and invalidate the entire registration lists.
Meanwhile. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows think this is A-OK.
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All the GOP understands at this point is raw power. Pure and simple. They don’t care about America. They don’t care about the Constitution. They don’t care about patriotism, and haven’t cared for decades. They’re basically like a less classy, dumber version of the Borg. They can’t be reasoned with, they can’t be negotiated with. They can only be stopped and destroyed.
My understanding is that it’s illegal to block one American citizen from voting. This is an attempt to block thousands of American citizens for voting.
We should prosecute the GOPer who sponsored this bill. I’m not kidding. Kris Kobach, Ron deSantis, Brian Kemp–freeze their assets, put them on trial, send them to prison for decades. THEN, and only then, will the GOP stop breaking the law.
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So there will be another law suit if this passes. I would hope that at some point the cost of this type of reckless legislating will fall onto the legislator that proposed it, and any other legislator that voted to pass it.
Just watched ‘Reconstruction: America After the Civil War’ a few nights ago. The tactics in America aren’t violent today, but the goal is the same: Disenfranchise everyone that opposes you.
Oh, and the documentary was quite good.
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Remember Jason Kander? I hope his nonprofit organization Let America Vote jumps on this bulls**t…
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The last time this happened, people from out of the area came into the states to register people to vote. Do we need to embarrass those states by doing it again?
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Our current crop of journalist are fundamentally incapable of dealing with disingenuous actors. If you are a politician your intentions can not be questioned and only your ‘word’ can be reported. Another politician has to accuse them of being disingenuous and only then can it be reported on but only as a ‘she said he said’ way.
The right knows this and uses it greatly to their advantage.
But, but, but – John Roberts said the country had changed, and that those darned ol’ pre-clearance provisions weren’t necessary any more…
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A few news teams have started calling GOPers out when they stray far beyond the truth, but even that isn’t the right way to deal with the problem. If people are using your broadcast to spread misinformation, you cut off their access.
Reporting both sides when one side is lying isn’t objectivity, it is spending half your time misleading your viewers.
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Any suggestion that he’s wrong about that is just another example of ugly reverse racism.
I hate to think what would become of our country if we stopped deferring to the opinions of conservative white male Catholic elites on any and all topics.
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Tennessee is a deep dark place in our country.
you have to live there for a while to see it.
It’s like Mississippi but with a bunch, not a lot, of uppity rich white folks and those inspired to be that way.
Strange place to say the least.
Feels and sounds like the 50’s & 60’s when dealing with the public.
it’s quiet dangerous to all outsiders.
Nashville has the image for tourism but it is really dark just miles down the road in all directions.
I lived near blackburns district and it was bizzaro world to say the least.
As always
Tennessee sucks!!!.
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Just keep mentioning that we know election fraud occurs because Republicans keep getting caught doing it. See North Carolina.
Glad I’m not in the land of cotton because old times there have never changed.
Run for office. Throw the GOP out on their well-fed behinds. Send them the way of the white camellias.
Can people even come in from out of state to conduct voter registration any more? Gotta protect against “outside agitators”, ya know.