Nope
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FYI, that account is the Andy Borowitz of NYT headlines.
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So we can’t tell the little children that two men or two women love each other but we will drag them in t see a gynecological exam so they know the little fetuses are human despite looking like tadpoles.
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Several far-right platform planks were part of the existing 2020 platform, including calls for the repeal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, for stripping the state legislature’s power to regulate the “wearing of arms,” and for ending birthright citizenship.
The 1965 VRA is technically in Rick Scott’s sight.
Regarding ‘birthright citizenship’, a lot of minority Republicans should thank God that they live in this timeline.
It’ll take a lot to get rid of ‘bc’, but modern day Republicans undoing a party accomplishment, is very ‘woke’.
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Nope.
That opportunity died, when California didn’t secede.
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Not too surprising that Japan is behind the curve on LGBTQ rights. You have to look at certain Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia to find a more rigid and conformist society than Japan.
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Technically they did call 4 it.
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True story, with slightly different wording my sister-in-law just gave me this line last week.
Filed under “odd things people believe” category.
As you have repeatedly pointed out, Invy, we fucked up in the year 2016.
Oh, we can overcome this but not with mentalities which cannot separate defeatism from concern and determination.
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I think that 1 of the things that irks me (I ignored it in the past) is that Texas n Florida are big states and they have sizable #'s of Democrats and blue leaning independents.
Telling those people that they have to relocate or they’re on their own, is a great way to damage the full faith of the USG.
Then there’s Mexico…
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You left out “pro-life.”
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Not hardly. Texas has “land grant” colleges. They’re funded by revenue from large grants of land that they own, courtesy of Abraham Lincoln. They don’t need federal dollars.
I thought Pantex was closed many years ago. Assembly is now done at Los Alamos. Pantex is just a Superfund site (at least, when we still had a Superfund.)
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Yes. The U of Texas and Texas A&M share the money in the Permanent University Fund, which comes primarily from oil revenues from their land, in the Permian Basin (the Midland-Odessa area).
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My career was in doing medical research at a “land grant” University here in Tucson. The University of Arizona gets no income from land. The income is does get is from the state government and outside grants to us researchers (however I am now retired) and also from tuition. Maybe it is different in Texas. Then again if Texas did secede they’d hafta coin their own money as US currency would be no good there.
One more detail… when I was a freshman at the U of A in 1968 the University got 47% of its funding from the state. That funding steadily decreased year after year. When I retired in 2012 the state’s funding was under 7% of the funding for the university. The rest had to be made up by tuition increases and from grants to researchers. My lab sent 45% of our grant money to the university. Then there were salaries for grad students and for me. After that we could get supplies and equipment…if there was money left.
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I didn’t read the platform. Does it say say the ADA was overreach by Washington…specifically the mandate for wheelchair accessibility?
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Real men drink Superfund runoff for breakfast!!! Grrr!!!
I agree. They may have Heroic Fantasies about Civil War Mach 2, but the GQP will settle for The Troubles: American Bugaloo. The NYT will wring its hands over the uptick in domestic terrorism and carefully point out that the Democrats bear a great deal of the blame: after all, they keep making the GQP angry.
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Poor poor goobers… "Won’t somebody help that poor man?
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