“Overwhelmingly”, yet if issue 1 was in place and people were voting to get rid of it, they wouldn’t have reached it’s threshold. Shows how undemocratic it would have been.
Hopefully SCOTUS makes the right decision once they acrltually review the case. The ATF has no right to decide themselves that 80% kits are suddenly illegal.
I’m on the west side of one of the main islands and it’s been brutal hot and windy for days.
Most of Hawaii is at incredibly high risk for fire, both urban conflagration and intense wildfire. The west side dry areas are a tinder box of invasive grasses and haole koa. The housing stock is termite bitten, ancient single wall, with open vents, and most people having tons of crap stored around their houses.
If fire got into a west side community like Nanakuli or Maili, it could be upwards of a 90% loss. Once fire gets into a neighborhood, the structures act as fuels, as well as any combustibles stored around the structure. It doesn’t help that most Hawaiian homes are on stilts increasing airflow.
Building on stilts, good for flooding, bad for fire. Pretty crappy trade off.
Though, if the stilts were concrete with 2-4hr fire resistant undersides this might help the fire “pass underneath” the house and not “climb up” the concrete stilts. It would also provide some time to evacuate in the event of failure.
We know he’s guilty, he knows he’s guilty, the judge, lawyers, jury, etc. all know he’s guilty. We knew it on jan 6 and we know it now. The time for a trial was years ago. And now that it’s here it’s dragging ass. How many examples of blatant disregard for the law is it going to take for this flap jowled pig fucker to see a prison cell? Jeeeesus christ
Not just women, children too. Part of how this was sold was as a “parent’s rights” thing to enable preventing minors from having abortions without parental consent.
‘If I didn’t want my daughter to have a baby I wouldn’t have impregnated her in the first place.’
I think that if you’re in a position to make policy and your opponents are writing jokes like the one above, then surely you should be thinking about what you’re doing… except I cannot feature that they’re really that stupid. One thing I have heard recently is the idea that segregationists are segregating themselves by trying to make red states impossibly toxic to live in for anyone from the outgroups.
That’s true, but also it’s important to remember that part of that goal is to brutally suppress certain out groups. Yes they want trans people to flee, so their child doesn’t have a chance of learning that transitioning is a life path open to them. They want gay people who can’t pretend to be straight gone so every bisexual can be pressured into a hetero relationship. And when those who can leave are gone the women will be forced into submission, sometimes as child brides (multiple Republican states including West Virginia have rejected laws to ban child marriage with parental consent). The trans and gay people left will be criminals forced into sex work (conservative politicians and demagogues utilizing queer sex work isn’t just an old joke, it’s a lot of stories we tell each other). And the people of color and poor white people will be pushed into labor at young ages with low wages.
Beyond the social stuff, Ohio isn’t right to work. Unions can require membership as a condition of employment here. That right is always at risk and once Democrats are driven away it’ll be gone quite quickly.
Issue 1 was bad and I’m glad to see that the voters rejected it. That they did highlights the growing disconnect from Republican politicians and Republican voters on key issues like Abortion and Marijuana.
Ohio GOP hasn’t cared about the rule of law for as long as I can remember. More famously, they were ordered to draw fair voting maps multiple times running into 2016, and kept submitting maps that didn’t even come close to passing muster, including submitting the exact same map twice AND submitting the current voting map.
Republicans purposely made this seemingly decent legislation complete shit. It makes sense to have a higher threshold for constitutional amendments. But 60% makes it nearly impossible. And this did not require its own 60% bar to pass. And it required getting signatures from all districts instead of just half which would mean only larger organizations could do it. All of it was bullshit. They went for a very thinly veiled power grab and the people told them to fuck off. Well done Ohio.
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