A reminder that the courts can still try and screw this up and have a history of trying to overturn citizen initiatives. so on your ballot also be sure to vote to not retain the judges when you vote this November if you’re in Arizona.
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I used to maintain a list of every time the Republicans of Arizona attempted to stop voter initiatives after they’d been successfully passed.
Tried to stop legalizing medical marijuana by suing
Tried to stop the creation of an independent commission for drawing districts by suing. They’ve taken the commission to court on at least five separate occasions and lost (using taxpayer money of course)
Initiative to pay teachers more was dismantled and never took place
That’s just the top of my head. They also famously made voter initiatives harder to pass. But people still vote for them
Ok, not exactly. California allowed voters to vote on banning gay marriage statewide since San Francisco made it legal in the city. That passed (thank you Mormons) resulting in gay marriage being banned. People sued and it went all the way up to the Supreme Court where they legalized gay marriage, overriding what the voters wanted.
This had a happy ending for courts screwing over voters. I think courts screwing over Arizona voters could only end poorly.
Of course it’s not just racism. You got to throw in sexism and other kinds of discrimination. This is not just targeting elderly white people, all this certainly it is targeting many of them. It’s also targeting younger white people, and men, for example.
The other thing we should never forget is that Washington is full of sleazy politicians. In 2016, Trump was campaigning as a reformer, and people were hoping that maybe he would magically address some of that corruption. Of course he didn’t, but he played on that hope, as reform candidates always do. And once people buy into him, it’s easier for them to stay bought in than it is to admit that they got played.
Yes, Trump’s shit talking was extremely entertaining during the Republican primary. He brought that up against one of the most despised establishment figures in Hilary Clinton and it was a recipe for victory.
How strange that for the party of Law and Order, all of their “heroes” are criminals (Trump, this lady, the Missouri couple with the guns, Kyle Rittenhouse…)
After what they’ve done, they’re not full people anymore. Somewhere in the range of 80-95%. Facing the consequences of what they did, introspection, and making amends could restore them to fully actualize human existence.
Amazon: Now that homelessness is a crime, and we don’t pay our employees enough to afford a home, we are allowed to have slaves under the 14th amendment.
I’m semi-expecting that before I die there will be a push for some sort of “Right to labor law”, which will allow companies to involuntarily force the unemployed into their employment at prison wages (after all, we wouldn’t want the unemployed to give up their dreams, right? So we need to incentivize them to go out and get a real job)
That makes more sense. I was in elementary school when season 1 came out and she would’ve gotten the VA job for production right at like age 18/19 with no resume for such a major project.
tbf they can worship anything they want. My problem is not so much with having faith but with the mass control, kid rape, women killing part of things, that comes from organized religion. When someone gives a dude the power to talk like god it’s never good. Why do people need to have other people teling them how to think all the time?!!! Idiocracy
Organized religion for the most part is a good thing as it tends to control the masses, setting boundaries as to what is right and wrong. Now we have digital pacifiers, the latest means of mass control.
Voting as a block, the six rightwing justices who wield the supermajority threw out the supreme court’s own 1984 opinion in Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, which has required the courts to defer to the knowledge of government experts in their reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws.
The NRLB’s complaint against Amazon “should be dismissed because the General Counsel’s interpretation of the Act and requests to the National Labor Relations Board in this case implicates the Major Questions Doctrine and associated principles of non-delegation and therefore violate Article I of the United States Constitution,” Amazon’s attorneys wrote in their response, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.
The NLRB complaint “should be dismissed”, they added, because the agency’s procedures “violate Article II of the United States Constitution” by involving “the exercise of significant authority by an Officer of the United States who is improperly insulated from the President’s removal power”.
We’ll have a king. No politician can save you, even if they wanted to.
No matter how lopsided the vote, they’re going to try again. They’ve had four years to review how they failed last time and fix the parts that failed. Even if they fail again, they will try again every cycle.
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