Hey the conservative SCOTUS do have LGBT+ relatives
I guess they are that comfortable in their class war position.
Hey the conservative SCOTUS do have LGBT+ relatives
I guess they are that comfortable in their class war position.
I can't imagine the hell that is being a gay person and having Clarence Thomas or Amy Coney Barrett as a relative.
I don't believe that image has anything to do with their relatives. Pedro Pascal simply added alternating images of gay and trans flags over the frauds who ruled in favor of the illegal hypothetical case.
Seriously, what are the odds that every and only the 6 conservatives have queer relatives and that they're half gay and half trans in that pattern? It's just a picture.
Iran-Contra war criminal Elliot Abrams nominated to the Public Diplomacy Commission
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html
@onemoment said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I can't imagine the hell that is being a gay person and having Clarence Thomas or Amy Coney Barrett as a relative.
Probably the same as being a black relative to Clarence Thomas who like him benefitted from Affirmative Action or someone whose life or health was saved do to an abortion and being related to the dumbasses who overturned Roe bS Wade.
De facto abortion is legal, rich people can get it safely.
Overturning Roe vs Wade only make it de jure and, punishable, unsafe, and illegal if you're not rich.
@Jabberwok said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I don't believe that image has anything to do with their relatives.
I let the great internet chase on their relatives to USians. And where the well is the Grindr whistleblower with the conservative politics list.
@Time-Control-Magician
I'm in for stupidity an incompetence but I can see a very high pitch dog whistle subtext on this.
Just how much of a bitch do you have to be to get booted from the Freedom Caucus? As bitchy as MTG, apparently:
https://secondnexus.com/greene-kicked-out-freedrom-caucus?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3MQp4nNPr3vlH3pkEVVd2nmSpnbGdG_7Wtmv_chV795rjg3ylhNE6L204#Echobox=1688751668
If Lauren Bobert loses her seat come next election I can only imagine the pettiness that’ll follow from MTG.
I wouldn't be surprised. Prices keep going up, but wages remain stagnant.
Myth: People who are homeless should just get a job and then they would not be homeless.
Fact: Many people who are homeless do have jobs, sometimes two or even three. The National Coalition for the Homeless estimates as many as 40%-60% of people experiencing homelessness nationwide are employed. However, a paycheck does not necessarily solve their homelessness or other challenges.
In Clark County, a full-time worker earning $13.50/hr. minimum wage would need to work 73 hours per week to afford a one bedroom apartment, at the fair market rent of $1,289. At 40 hours per week, a household would need to earn $28.75/hour for a two-bedroom, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC) annual 2020 Out of Reach Report.
In addition, it is difficult to find and keep a job while living in a car, tent, shelter, or outside with no place to bathe regularly, receive mail, do laundry, and feel safe enough to focus on employment responsibilities versus daily survival.
That doesn't even begin to cover the issue.
I live on SSI, and I absolutely couldn't afford to live on my own unless it was in low-income housing, which isn't easy to get into. There's often wait lists because it's in such high demand. Even in the rural area I live, the cost of a one bedroom apartment is around $1000 a month or more, and that's just the rent!
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I wouldn't be surprised. Prices keep going up, but wages remain stagnant.
Wage growth is actually outpacing inflation again since the latter has been falling for a while now. It just hasn't gotten as much coverage since economists were swearing up and down not that long ago that inflation would only decline if unemployment were up over 6%.
@Ubiq said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
economists were swearing up and down not that long ago that inflation would only decline if unemployment were up over 6%.
"We need a certain mass of dispossessed people to threaten to hire if you complain about better wages, now back to the production line to tool your life away." - Every Liberal Economist since 1840s.
This country is fucking rotten.
How does one become a judge if they're so offended by doing such a basic part of their job?
@Envy said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
How does one become a judge if they're so offended by doing such a basic part of their job?
Same way you become a doctor and decide you can’t induce an abortion because it’s “against your religious/moral beliefs”
Eventhough these beliefs are a crutch/contradictory.
Guess they must have some crack and weed too.
Evil Paraplegic.
Most modern Republicans wouldn't do well at Jeopardy, something Katie Porter uses well to her advantage:
https://www.comicsands.com/katie-porter-jeopardy-oversight-hearing-2662295721.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR16wwHTfWydQiCiNMSXq2K-8ffrO4CUtn657LdixSkfVVBw1r3wf_EpUcQ#Echobox=1689716147
Being forced to work for barely any pay, not knowing how to read or write, respecting the white man no matter what?
Fuck out of here.
Also laughing at the whataboutism in the following paragraph.
Apparently none of the blacks that fought back against racist whites trying to murder them for trite reasons should’ve done so. They should’ve just been good boys and girls and just let themselves be shot, clubbed to death, or hung from a tree.
I also sure hope those lessons explain how often white people during segregation were rarely charged let alone convicted for violence against a black person. While black people were far more likely to be railroaded and arrested occasionally sentenced to death for a crime against a white person.
Those monsters trying to break the education system are pure evil.
@JulieYBM Come on now, it's not like American school curriculum wasn't already filled with American Mythos and Exceptionalism.
Ronnie is just doing the next step on the reactionary white supremacist logic, putting the "White Man's Burden" in recirculation.
@pariston_hill said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
@JulieYBM Come on now, it's not like American school curriculum wasn't already filled with American Mythos and Exceptionalism.
Ronnie is just doing the next step on the reactionary white supremacist logic, putting the "White Man's Burden" in recirculation.
I'm aware, I just can't say the thing I wanted to say lol.
I only hope this backfires in the next generation. I don't have the source, but I've seen random kids get interviewed on school curriculum only to respond "I hate this state." That might be too optimistic though, I long as the elderly vote outnumbers them.
@onemoment said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
I only hope this backfires in the next generation. I don't have the source, but I've seen random kids get interviewed on school curriculum only to respond "I hate this state." That might be too optimistic though, I long as the elderly vote outnumbers them.
Well at least your skepticism brings you back down to earth. Now let me take you down to the bedrock
Minority Report in progress
Republican "limited government" and "freedom/liberty" in action.
@Envy don't fool yourself, Dems also don't care about the Police-Spy State that exists for the past 30 years.
If Bush and friends had spent more time taking Osama seriously instead of coming up with ways to steal the election in 2000 of good part of that wouldn’t exist.
@Time-Control-Magician if anything it was Clinton that didn't took bin Laden serious. Bush, post 9/11 took him serious enough to declare Crusade on the Muslim population - that in the US-EU axis is still in effect.
https://www.rawstory.com/kyrsten-sinema-2662347294/
It’s 2023 and we still have people who think that Sinema will play ball and not sabotage what democrats want to do.
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Love to have trans health care banned because my existence threatens the patriarchy.
Here's the kicker: It doesn't. The bourgeoisie is probing how far they can push back civil rights before revolutionary sentiment grow out of control because the recent capitalist crisis (2008/2020).
@pariston_hill said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:
Love to have trans health care banned because my existence threatens the patriarchy.
Here's the kicker: It doesn't. The bourgeoisie is probing how far they can push back civil rights before revolutionary sentiment grow out of control because the recent capitalist crisis (2008/2020).
Well, it certainly does in that it just goes to show that trans people prove that you don't need to feed back into the system that has maintained our centuries-long system of maintaining white supremacy. It's an intertwined status quo and people like me disrupt that flow, either because I'm trans or bisexual.
@JulieYBM Counter point. The White Supremacy structure and the cult of the status quo allows outliners they perceive as: i) wealthy; ii) subservient to the system; iii) reinforce the maintenance of the status quo.
For something completely different:
Tim Scott’s willful ignorance of what his party is all about got him in this mess. But still it’s somewhat comical DeSantis at this fucking point is doing everything in his power to turn even black conservatives against him.
Racial capitalism and coloniality of power without the need of abstractions.
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1189476655/as-these-farmworkers-children-seek-a-different-future-who-will-pick-the-crops