Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a proclamation on Tuesday acknowledging Emma Weyant as the winner of a women's college swimming event after her recent loss to a transgender athlete and accused the NCAA of destroying opportunities for women.
if the NCAA had any courage, they would dangle the "death penalty" over every Florida athletics program as a message to any other state governor involving themselves in college athletics.
the NCAA are scum also, so I am taking a "let them fight" position with the assumption that desantis would see his base evaporate at the prospect of no Florida teams being allowed to compete or recruit for football, basketball or baseball for even a fraction of a season.
but realistically, the NCAA will just ignore him in true lib fashion, thinking this problem will go away on its own.
The dem senate can confirm KBJ themselves. A dem fuckup is possible because it's always possible but the dems have an easy layup. But their base really needs this dog-and-pony show so that they feel oh-so smug in their moral superiority and for a little while they can ignore they brutal reality that the GOP will still have total control over the court via their 6-3 majority.
Power is the only thing that matters. And that will always be true no matter how smug the dems get.
Fourth, I do not think that liberals understand the difference between influence and power, and the liberals get confused seeking influence rather than power. The conservatives on the right wing, or the fascists, understand power, though, and they move to consolidate power while the liberal pushes for influence.
Kwame Ture was so incredibly on-point with his analysis, every other day I read something that reminds me of this particular essay.
And he just kept getting “more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined to destroy American imperialism” in the infamous Colin Powell clip (can turn in subtitles if no speaker, very short clip)
Last year was the last hope for the dems to fix the court. I know it's as unlikely as science fiction but Biden and the dems could have packed the court. In the course of her career KBJ could pen 100 or 100,000 fiery, powerful, impassioned, etc (ad naseum) dissents but none of them will matter because she and the other dems on the court will have no power for quite a long time. Surely a decade at least.
She's 51 so it's also possible that she'll never be on a court with a dem majority. I expect dark days for the US and I think that's the powerless future she and the other dem justices will have.
if the NCAA had any courage, they would dangle the "death penalty" over every Florida athletics program as a message to any other state governor involving themselves in college athletics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA)
the NCAA are scum also, so I am taking a "let them fight" position with the assumption that desantis would see his base evaporate at the prospect of no Florida teams being allowed to compete or recruit for football, basketball or baseball for even a fraction of a season.
but realistically, the NCAA will just ignore him in true lib fashion, thinking this problem will go away on its own.
there is no point in having power if you don't use it against reactionaries to protect people.
Coincidentally, tonight lib comments and posts about KBJ had really gotten to me. Even r/politics post titles are annoying me. Here's a 12k upvote example - Ketanji Brown Jackson schooled GOP senator who ranted about gay marriage | "Well, senator, that is the nature of a right." : politics
Schooled, huh? Sigh.
The dem senate can confirm KBJ themselves. A dem fuckup is possible because it's always possible but the dems have an easy layup. But their base really needs this dog-and-pony show so that they feel oh-so smug in their moral superiority and for a little while they can ignore they brutal reality that the GOP will still have total control over the court via their 6-3 majority.
Power is the only thing that matters. And that will always be true no matter how smug the dems get.
Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism, 1969:
Kwame Ture was so incredibly on-point with his analysis, every other day I read something that reminds me of this particular essay.
And he just kept getting “more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined to destroy American imperialism” in the infamous Colin Powell clip (can turn in subtitles if no speaker, very short clip)
What a wise man
It's been a long day for me so I don't have the focus or the energy right now but I'll definitely read that tomorrow.
We should all be doing that.
the smugness as a motivator is fine I guess if it motivates them to vote / mobilize against bigots, but goddamn is it it annoying.
I disagree.
Last year was the last hope for the dems to fix the court. I know it's as unlikely as science fiction but Biden and the dems could have packed the court. In the course of her career KBJ could pen 100 or 100,000 fiery, powerful, impassioned, etc (ad naseum) dissents but none of them will matter because she and the other dems on the court will have no power for quite a long time. Surely a decade at least.
She's 51 so it's also possible that she'll never be on a court with a dem majority. I expect dark days for the US and I think that's the powerless future she and the other dem justices will have.
if she's anything like the rest of them except maybe Sotomayor she'll have plenty of power ruling in favor of capital over labor.