Ron DeSantis, I am sorry to tell you, has signed a law banning lab-grown beef in his state. “Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” he said in a statement, gesturing toward the shadowy, unnamed cabal (The UN, perhaps? The World Economic Forum?) that will one day surely force us to eat bugs for its sick satisfaction.
Eh, a stopped clock is right twice a day. Sometimes, it’s ok to agree with the other side.
It’s all opinion anyway. There’re plenty of folks who will eat the engineered meat (or whatever). Like everything else that’s personal opinion, I won’t stand in anyone’s way to live their opinion.
Well I’m not saying Big John is wrong. I’m just saying that he’s being derpy. It’s certainly not the end of the world. It’s just sad and displays a lack of judgment. It especially plays into climate denialism.
I’m trying to figure out how much, and what kind of monkey wrenches state legislatorcan can throw into the how elections are run? On one hand usually the state legislators’ doings and going-ons is pretty well covered by media in the state. Whereas county board of elections always just seemed to plug along, w/o the amount of scrutiny that the state legislature gets. This gets into framing the question how much can a legislature screw with how their members get elected, vs actually running to get the votes?
This can/will be an interesting learning curve on monkey business.
I’d suggest maybe writing him to see his position(s) on climate change and environmental issues. As with every scenario, there are such varieties of positions.
Thanks for the links. I do not doubt Fetterman’s commitment to climate justice. I’m just saying that, in this particular instance, his words and deeds do not align. It’s bad optics, bad politics.
I don’t think anyone is 100% anything. One can still be an environmentalist but realize that not all things on the wish list are feasible or even realistic.
But that’s just the thing. The environmental justice movement is nowhere near insisting on everyone eating bugs. It’s just a silly baseless libel directed specifically at the environmental (climate)justice movement.
Oh, someone probably said it somewhere that some nincompoop on the Right picked up or mangled or did whatever. Now it’s become part of the narrative, as ridiculous as it sounded then and still sounds now. Discrediting stupidity will never go out of style.
They decide the voting locations, hours of operation, how many voting machines to set up at a particular location, whether or not a voter can vote, and whether a mail-in ballot will be counted. They can make it a whole lot harder to vote in some areas.
For example, in the last presidential election, there were numerous cases where voting locations were moved out of a town to a remote location inaccessible by public transportation. Other voting sites were put in non-wheelchair/handicapped accessible buildings, voting locations on campuses and in majority black towns were closed and consolidated in white districts, etc.
It’s weird that the most prominent women politicians on the Right are all just batsht crazy. MTG, Noem, Lake, Stefanik, Lara Trump, Anna Paulina Luna, Virginia Foxx, Mace, Tenney, Boebert. Odd. Not enough sanity in the entire group to fill a thimble.
Yes I understand that, but by having the state legislature instigating these crappy moves they’re more exposed to the press in the state vs at the county level.
That really hasn’t slowed down those states at all. The only thing that has an impact is a State Supreme Court with enough Dems or traditional Repubs to shoot down the worst offenses or the DOJ using the Voting Rights Act (what’s left of it) or a lawsuit by Marc Elias.
ETA Mostly the legislature puts the dscriminatory structure into law, insulating the County Boards and such when they implement those voter suppression tactics.