But it’s not. SC is simultaneously increasing the power of red states to impose their “values” while decrease blue states power to regulate.
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So you’re saying no longer any advantage to live in a blue state like California or NY versus red state like Texas? I thought, for example, someone wanting an abortion in a blue state would still be able to get one whereas only red states were regressing because they now had that freedom.
Not quite. Definitely advantages in areas. I’m just saying SC is trying to chip away at states rights of blue states while increasing government power in red states.
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Sadly, I agree that both things are happening.
Good article in the NY Times today about how Congress in the 1980’s would at least “fix”, through subsequent legislation, some SC rulings where the SC decision was just a narrower interpretation of the applicability of a statute rather than a constitutional matter. Such changes probably reflected the majority view in the US. Zero chance this Congress will pass any such corrective legislation even if polls showed it was supported by the majority of Americans. The SC seems to have paramount power in the current environment. Scary, if you don’t agree with their direction.
There is definitely a similar amount of righteous indignation and superiority on both sides, and everywhere on the internet. I guess it goes to show you how meaningless that feeling is I guess.
I wouldn’t agree that the sides themselves are similar. And I wouldn’t say that supporting Trump is conservative. It’s unfortunate that so many Republicans hitched themselves to the devil.
I don’t think liberals, in large numbers, have gone a similar route, but maybe they will.
Cipollone has agreed to participate in a transcribed interview behind closed doors on Friday with the 1/6 committee.
I hope that by this point they have enough leaks or testimony about Cippollone saying ____ that they will get to any substance quite quickly. They have to be looking at the calendar.
You replied to my comment where I was illustrating how bonkers your claim was. (“Liberals tried to kill a Supreme Ct justice.”) It was both misleading and inaccurate. If correcting clear falsehoods falls into the “talk down conservative thought”, then conservative thought is worthless. All ideas should be able to stand up to the basic realities of the world.
I can’t remember trying to run off any dissent. I certainly don’t believe that expressing my political ideas while also requiring people to operate within the realities of the world is ‘running off dissenters’.
Uh, I remember 2007 just fine. Conservatives from 2007 certainly don’t seem to resemble moderates of 2022.
I want you to imagine a world where one political party has gone completely off the rails and it’s voters have followed them. How would you expect the opposition party to behave? How would you expect them to describe the actions of the off the rails party?
Are those actions that much different than the liberals and moderates of today? Could it not actually be accurate that the GOP has lost it’s mind and is no longer operating in reality? Or is that a notion that you are completely unable to accept as possible?
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So he will say things like he cautioned Trump not to go down to the Capital and Trump didn’t go….that makes them both look sensible.
I don’t expect any new bombshells from his testimony. At best his input will hopefully support some of Hutchinson’s testimony which would be a positive development, of course.
Next hearing announced: Tuesday morning, 10am ET.
36% of likely voters still think that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 election (as of yesterday), so perhaps yes.
It is hilarious to watch interviews of people attending Trump rallies today asking them what happened on January 6. Some of them have no idea what that means, some think it’s when the election was held, some think there was a peaceful protest. You can see in their eyes they actually mean it if they don’t know why that was an unusual day.
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Sort of like asking that same group of people to explain CRT?
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Stuart Rhodes wants to testify live with the J6 Committee. That could be really interesting. He is willing to waive his 5th amendment rights as well.
Not. A. Fucking. Chance. 99.99% likely he’ll make it a gong show.
Reminds me of my favourite American quotation:
“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
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The problem is some people think educated = “did my own research” via social media,
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Word is he didn’t invoke the 5th or try to weasel out of anything by claiming executive privilege. And he also didn’t contradict anyone else’s testimony.
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No way they would let Rhodes turn this into a clown show. That guy knows he is screwed and is just looking for any way to save himself.
I hear Bannon is thinking about finally speaking up too, but I assume that is just grandstanding since he’s scheduled for trial soon anyway.
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I am shocked to discover that Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and Alex Jones, along with the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, might have all been involved in a plan to keep Donald Trump in power.
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I’m not sure what I’m more shocked by: that all these people who tried to overthrow the government failed to capture even one member of Congress or one staff member of Congress despite all their apparent planning and coordination, or that all of this rhetoric was being spewed for days and weeks prior and no one in government ever decided “ok, this is too much, it’s time to take action against it” and did so.
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