I really like this framing, but the point I’m making is that in addition to defending their own privilege, those who “cry out in defense of freedom” are also usually the same folks who want to tell employees they can’t have birth control in their health insurance plan, can’t marry their loved one if they’re gay, etc. If they just stuck to their own business, I’d be fine with it but they seem to inevitably look for levers to pull to bend others to their will and after this latest round of bullshit under TFG, I’m done with appeasing them because their feefees are so damned hurt.
You seem nice and I honestly don’t care what you think.
They’re also all over the WaPo op-eds trying to tell us that we should give them time to process their loss, shouldn’t judge or criticize them for not getting vaccinated, etc.
It’s like they’ve become the far Left and need safe spaces.
You don’t, and I honestly don’t care whether you think at all. It’s pretty clear you’ve never been in a criminal courtroom, or have learned absolutely nothing from it.
I’m all for that. For example, this guy has eight months to “process”.
I covered plenty of trials back in my newspaper days. Now go fuck right off.
Not mad at the sentences so far. 6-8 months ain’t a joke, especially not for a bunch of privileged white folks who’ve always thought the law was there to protect them from “others”.
I’ve not seen it, but apparently lots of porky white guys have lots to say about Simone Biles’ abilities, health, and personal choices.
Soon, from the Gulf States: “Why isn’t Biden helping us—masklessly and vaccinelessly—out of our self-inflicted humanitarian crisis?”
I think the foot soldiers don’t get it, but the GOP bigshots understand it fine – they just planned to be the victors and write the history wherein they would all be the “patriots.” Now they’ve failed, and just look like a bunch of crybaby rubes. Mostly because they’re a bunch of crybaby rubes.
Nope. She’s 67.
Having a right to have your say isn’t a right to get your way
The Trumpers have always treated The Trump campaign and presidency like the whole enterprise was The Sopranos. It was all a big bust out and they were all gonna win big. And Trump was Political Tony who was going to lead them to the big time.
In fact, watch kingpin David Chase describe it, presciently, in 2007. He casts mobsters as “everyday Joes” who get things done and should run the Government. Skip to about 2:56, if you want.
Except the 1/6 stooges forgot that the little guys are expendable in the outfit. Or maybe they are proud to be expendable. They got expended, in any case.
Well some may be, but a bunch of them whined about how expendable they ended up being and how their hero left them hanging out to dry.
True, but they’re going to have a very hard time succeeding through the state legislatures. As stated in the venerable Bush v. Gore opinion – which is, of course, a cornerstone of the modern conservative judicial philosophy:
When the state legislature vests the right to vote for President in its people, the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental; and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight accorded to each vote and the equal dignity owed to each voter. The State, of course, after granting the franchise in the special context of Article II, can take back the power to appoint electors. See id., at 35 (“‘[T]here is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated’‘’).
The right to vote is protected in more than the initial allocation of the franchise. Equal protection applies as well to the manner of its exercise. Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another. See, e.g., Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections, 383 U. S. 663, 665 (1966) (”[O]nce the franchise is granted to the electorate, lines may not be drawn which are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment"). It must be remembered that “the right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen’s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.” Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 555 (1964).
So they can change the rules in advance, but they can’t do it after the election. And good luck getting re-elected if they try to take away their voters’ right to vote for president.
That already happened the other day, one of the hurricane cities whining about needing more federal aid.
Good. I hope they say it loudly.
I know but I don’t think they said it loudly enough.
Why are so many of these “people” being let off with misdemeanor charges?
Some of this is what Jane Mayer covered in her New Yorker piece. The fact that a state legislature can take control of who the electors are they vote for President.
I saw Jessica Anderson, the director of The Heritage Action for America, an action committee blithely tell a C-SPAN interviewer that election integrity should be our number 1 concern. This chick is proudly spouting propaganda on C-SPAN, she was never challenged, just allowed to state that our election process is in jeopardy, and thus states have the charge to change the process or voters won’t have confidence in the process.
Such BS, they’re creating chaos where there was none. And now I’m wondering if this road being taken by Freedom Works, and other RW organizations was planned much farther out than the 2020 elections. It seems that this didn’t just appear out of thin air.