Maybe we need a little more hyperventilating at this time. The 2 cases that SCOTUS snuck by right at the end of their session are now precedent - one says inconveniencing (a SCOTUS synonym for suppressing, apparently) a certain segment of voters is just too bad, and that other says that “charities” (thinly disguised Koch think tanks) do not have to reveal their donors. Remember when the thing that was supposed to fix Citizens United was the sunlight of transparency - well, apparently they were just kidding. I just have to say at some point we should all be hyperventilating but I guess the trick is knowing when that is. I am thinking sooner rather than later since all of the good ACLU lawyering in the world isn’t going to overcome a 6-3 conservative majority that thinks billionaires having to reveal their donations violates free speech while putting roadblocks in front of poor people trying to vote is A-OK and extra-Constitutional.
Have you considered therapy? It could help…
By Alito’s logic, the 2nd amendment should be judged based on the weapons available in 1787, so it should be perfectly constitutional to ban any gun more complicated than a musket.
Again.
(Two Democratic Senators from Georgia smile and wave)
There actually is a line of cases, including Supreme Court cases, holding that the Second Amendment only applies to arms of the type that would have been carried by an individual militia member back in the day. They have not defined that by the mechanics of the weapon, however, just they general type. So rifles and sidearms are fine, but cannons and machine guns are fair game for government regulation. If and when we ever get a good majority on that Court again, it might be fruitful to revisit that line of authority and consider whether it really makes sense to regulate a modern assault rifle in the same manner as a muzzle-loaded flintlock.
Again, we all know this is their plan, it has been for a long while…overturning the things that allow non-white, non-males an equal footing in the nation is what the Republican party has been about since the time of FDR, and before that it’s the same forces working against freedom in whatever party they landed in. No one should be surprised that they have become desperate in the face of loosing their majority power…evangelical Christians are slipping away, America is becoming more mixed and less religious and conservative, and that absolutely terrifies them. It’s the last gasp of desperate people who are afraid they will be treated the way they treated others for so long…the only question is if they manage to take the entire nation down with them, or if we get over this speed bump and build a better future.
Freaking out about it does no good, it is what it is…the question is what we are going to do to stop them from taking over and forcing a theocratic oligarchy dictatorship onto us.
Yeah, you’re right, I am just over -reacting.
Yes, you are…both of those are the nation being changed into something it’s not, to the detriment of our freedoms as citizens. That’s their plan, they are completely open about it if you pay close attention, and freaking out about the progress they are making towards it isn’t helping anything. You want to stop it? Convince people to vote against Republicans and show good reasons why they are anti-american…it’s easy to do with all the stuff they put out there.
Compared to complacency, it leads to more action.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but this is one of those, “Sounds better in the original German” situations.
But, I guess if you aren’t cognizant that there are people ready for a war, it’s easier to dismiss.
Of course, this phrase got general circulation when it was applied by Texas Journalist and genuinely funny woman Molly Ivins to the hideous Pat Buchanan “Culture War” speech at the '92 Republican Convention.
If “freaking out” means getting angry or motivated, I’m all for it.
(I have anger issues, and channeling it is difficult…)
When Brian Kemp brazenly suppressed the Georgia election in 2019, Stacey Abrams didn’t freak out: she coolly refused to concede, giving her standing to sue: and forced the state to remake it’s voting system into something auditable and less hackable.
And she organized: built a Get out the Vote operation, and a PR effort to make the need to vote, and obvious disparity in ease of access (e.g. long line) clear. And because we had the great good fortune for DTRump to depress the Jan.5 turnout, won the Senate.
She’s organizing to keep the Senate (as Warnock is up in '22) and become governor in '23 (GA Governor is an off year election, traditionally harder for Democrats.)
Freak out like Stacey Abrams.
Indeed.
I am repurposing it, in reference to the Weimar Republic politicians in the 30s who pooh-poohed the rise of NSDAP. Until it was too late.