What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

NovaSaber

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Wisconsin tries to out-racist Texas on education:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...ity-wisconsin-gop-proposes-banning-words-from

Wichgers, who represents Muskego in the legislature, attached an addendum to his legislation that included a list of “terms and concepts” that would violate the bill if it became law.

Among those words: “Woke,” “whiteness,” “White supremacy,” “structural bias,” “structural racism,” “systemic bias” and “systemic racism.” The bill would also bar “abolitionist teaching,” in a state that sent more than 91,000 soldiers to fight with the Union Army in the Civil War.

The list of barred words or concepts includes “equity,” “inclusivity education,” “multiculturalism” and “patriarchy,” as well as “social justice” and “cultural awareness.”
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Pocket

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Expulsion won't happen because nearly half of the people whose votes would be needed are in on it. But it absolutely must be pushed for anyway by the other half. The entire Republican Party are literally accessories to treason at best, and this needs to be the official narrative of the Democrats until something can be done about it. The only "something" I could see even having a chance of working is another civil war—that's what it took last time—but as I've said countless times, I am not only OK with that, I'd be among the first to enlist.
 
Rhinox

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That compounds the tragedy of injustice that is the hallmark of that case. Just a continual series of bad decisions.
 
Rust

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I wonder if Kyle's skin was a different shade if he'd have any qualms with referring to those shot as "victims"?
 

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If I was prosecutor, first thing I'd do is a call them victims. Thatd ibe grounds for a mistrial, which means he could be tried again under different rules.
 
Rust

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Were I of the belief Hell was a place of eternal punishment, I'd take solace in the fact Tucker Carlson would one day go there.
Instead, I take solace in the fact he has received his reward in full.
 
NovaSaber

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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...suing-have-been-injured-by-their-own-outrage/

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments around the State of Texas’ law that effectively bans nearly all abortions by allowing anyone, anywhere to sue anyone who performs an abortion for $10,000 or more. Justices appeared suspicious. During questioning by the Justices the Texas Solicitor General defended the law, SB8, by claiming those who are suing an abortion provider are suing because they have been “injured” by their own moral “outrage” to abortion.

The Economist’s Supreme Court reporter Steven Mazie describes the exchange between Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone and Justice Clarence Thomas:

“Stone just said that being really mad about someone getting an abortion (extreme moral or psychological harm) in Texas is enough of an ‘injury in fact’ to allow private citizens to sue abortion providers.”

Attorney, Boston Globe senior opinion writer, and former Supreme Court reporter Kimberly Atkins Stohr expresses shock over the argument:
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1455185450763685895

I really don't think Stone has thought this through.
 
wonko the sane?

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They actually passed one of their outrage points: they didn't think this through at all.
 
Corvus

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In case there was any doubt in regards to the depravity of Marco Rubio, we have these observations from Heather Cox Richardson.
Today, Time magazine ran a story by Molly Ball about business leaders who are starting to stand up for democracy. The lower taxes and less regulation Republicans promise aren’t much good without a stable democracy, some business leaders told Ball. “The market economy works because of the bedrock foundation of the rule of law, the peaceful succession of power and the reserve currency of the U.S. dollar, and all of these things were potentially at risk,” former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer said. “CEOs are normally hesitant to get involved in political issues, but I would argue that this was a fundamental business issue.”
Republicans disagree. Today, in a remarkable op-ed in The American Conservative, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) called “corporate America... the instrument of anti-American ideologies.” He accused Wall Street of “devoting hundreds of billions of dollars to advance corporate propaganda” that promotes Marxist tactics. Rubio wants to “require that the leadership of large companies be subject to strict scrutiny and legal liability when they abuse their corporate privilege by pushing wasteful, anti-American nonsense.”
In a passage that sounds much like that of a political purge, he warned readers of “the current Marxist cultural revolution among our corporate elite,” and said that “the ultimate way” to stop them “is to replace them with a new generation of business leaders who consider themselves Americans, not citizens of the world…. That is how we defeat this toxic cultural Marxism and rebuild an economy where America’s largest companies were accountable for what matters to America: new factories built in America, good jobs for American families, and investments in American neighborhoods and communities.”
In the op-ed, Rubio played to the Republican base by bashing China, but he could not outdo his colleague Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who said yesterday at a political rally that the U.S. should demand $5 trillion in reparations from the Chinese for “unleashing” the novel coronavirus and if they would not pay up, we should simply seize their assets in the U.S.
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wonko the sane?

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These republican idiots are either going to force a faschist government or a socialist one to exist.

Which is, frankly, amazing: as they don't actually know what either of those words mean.
 
Ungnome

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Marxist cultural revolution among corporate elite????????????? So the ones benefiting the most from capitalism are suddenly Marxists? What kinds of medication is Rubio on anyway?
 
Rust

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This is hilarious, and I say that truly as a victim helpless to do naught but watch as two monsters fight for the right to devour.

We have the Corporate Oligarchy pushing back against the resurgent Nationalist Fascist, not out of any actual principle for the betterment of all, but because National Fascism is bad for the global market which impacts their bottom lines.

Have to admit, never figured Nightmare Dystopian Future Government States warring to see who wins in the end was not on my Apocalyptic Scenario Bingo Card. Hell, we had Kavanaugh of all people arguing that the Texas Abortion ban (That circumvents state authority by allowing private lawsuits ie bounties) sets a dangerous precendent that can be used against Firearms elsewhere...and the mouth breathing lawyer for Texas remarking that it'll just fall to Congress to make sure those lawsuits can't happen.
 
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