:agony-turbo: :agony-turbo: i am howling
Wow, only 3 months after taking office. Feels kinda like she lied about who she was to get elected.
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I stole my joke from the top comment in a r/politics thread. The theme of the thread is that the GOP ratfucked the situation. The redditors ignore any idea that she might have been the problem all along.
Personal connections with the country club fascists that set those campaigns up.
This is what happen when you value "big tent" over principled ideology. The Democratic party will let in anyone and shit like this is the result you get.
I honestly can't imagine what it would take for someone to get kicked out of the Democratic party. Except for MAYBE some :long-corbyn: esque thinly veiled excuse of one of the "Squad"
If one of us got elected to some minor post while pretending to be a lib but went full Hexbear the moment they were in office, I'm pretty sure they'd get canned.
She's been elected as a Dem before. Although I guess it's possible she already decided to change and kept up the lie till after she won.
Switching parties in office should be explicitly illegal, like, it should trigger an immediate election, but woops
I don't think there are any laws in the US regarding parties. It's all just informal rules. Even primaries are unofficial.
Up until recently, some states didn't even have to honor their popular votes when doing the electoral college. That's how Ron Paul got 1 electoral vote in 2016
Well then they would just vote against the party but stay in the party.
This is why most bourgeois democracies actually use party whips to prevent that
Not in the US though. The whips on the Dem side at least lack the leverage and party structure to properly discipline going outside the lines, or they simply don’t care, otherwise we wouldn’t have people like Synema and Manchin
North Carolina State Rep. Tricia Cotham (D), an EMILY’s List-endorsed lawmaker from a heavily blue district in the Charlotte area,
Interesting that she's representing a heavily blue district. She has to know she's not getting re-elected. I wonder what other gig she already has lined up for when her political career is over. I'm also wondering if that was always part of the plan. I'm not usually a tinfoil hat person, but I'm smelling a conspiracy here.
This is why "revocable at any time" is such an important part of any socialist form of government.
If an individual suddenly stops representing the people they were elected to represent then they immediately forfeit their position.
I wonder if her constituents can do a recall vote. I assume it would take a while to make it happen, and by then she could already do a lot of damage.
I fucking hope so, I'm in NC and this shit sucks. What's crazy is that if we had per Capita representation here we'd be very progressive (all seats determined by raw votes are always strongly democratic/progressive), but the district maps are so fucked that every urban center is split in insane ways. There's places where 3 neighbors could be in 3 different districts if they're in an urban center.
Or in Charlotte's case, they put it as a single district with a single representative and have the suburbs like 6 reps.
Compare the district map
With a population map
Asheville, Boone, Carboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, all great places. Though the cost of living in and around them has been absolutely skyrocketing lately as we get more California and NY transplants (coupled with terrible local laws on use of housing stock as short term rentals).
If you only ever visited those places you'd never know that the state Senate was so violently reactionary.
Charlotte, great place
lmao I wish. It's so fucking boring here, it's a car dependent hell-hole, but also its roads' orientation is literally the worst out of 100 major cities. And politically, we got rid of the mayor that tried to protect trans rights because the state pushed back. She was already a neolib afaik, but the person we replaced her with is even more of a neolib.
Charlottes economy is so finance based the most progressive elements you’ll get are unironic girl bosses. Everything else is mulch beneath CMPDs boots
Fair, Charlotte still isn't nearly as reactionary as any of the rural areas that surround it. Also "progressive" in America is still almost always neolib. The other cities mentioned are also primarily neolib too, the city councils in the smaller ones are almost completely controlled by developers and landlords.
The people in those areas are for the most part good though, the reactionaries tend to congregate in the bigger suburbs and rural farms (as owners and leasers, not actual farm workers)
They call this packing and cracking. You either pack all the urban dem voters into one district, or you carve the urban center up so that the suburban psychos outnumber them.
That's too bad. It seems like one of those obvious things that all states should have, and yet
Apparently she's been sleeping with the GOP state House speaker for a while now
Democratic dick game is weak and that is why we can't have abortion anymore.
Comments on this article, plus following the twitter link the commenter posted and reading the thread
If Florida and North Carolina are no longer able to provide abortion care—something that Cotham’s party defection makes all the more likely—the closest clinics for people residing in southern states are in Virginia, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas, and Illinois—though Republicans are now starting to come after interstate abortion travel as well, so having a health care oasis nearby by may soon become irrelevant for much of the population, anyway.
There was a point that I, young dumb and liberal, wondered why we didn't just cede abortion to the states rights people. Stop spending so much money and time trying to make it a national thing, redirect that to relief efforts to get people the time off and travel funds they needed to go somewhere where abortion was actually legal.
Of course these fucking Christo-fascists aren't content to police their own borders. Of course they're going to reconstitute modern day equivalents of "slave catchers" to persecute and emmiserate their poor/control women's bodies in every corner of this country. You can't compromise with fascists. I realize that now.
I'll leave this tweet thread here. It can be shared with libs so there's a greater chance they can grok what's coming and that Voting! won't work to stop the GOP justices on the supreme court. Biden and the democrats should have moved heaven and earth to pack the court. But of course they didn't. The thread is about the right to privacy. For brevity and clarity I edited it. If you want links - they are in the thread.
Roe v. Wade is based on the "right to privacy." If the majority opinion by SCOTUS suggests that the constitution does not protect the right to privacy... that affects a WHOLE lot of other decisions. Buckle up - this is the beginning of a lot of potential ugliness.
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Lawrence v. Texas: Decided in 2003, the court used the Right to Privacy to determine that it's unconstitutional to punish people for committing sodomy. The Roe ruling could open the door for criminalizing homosexuality.
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Griswold v. Connecticut: Decided in 1965, this case protects the ability of married couples to buy contraceptives without government restriction. This isn't just about abortion. Next up, contraceptives.
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Loving v. Virginia: This 1968 case, which threw out laws banning interracial marriages, was decided based on the right to privacy. If a state wanted to prohibit who people could marry - there is no protection from that without a right to privacy.
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Stanley v Georgia: This 1969 case found that there was a right to privacy around possession pornography. If a state wants to outlaw pornography or certain forms of adult pornography, it could do that without the right to privacy.
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Obergefell v. Hodges: The 2015 opinion that legalized same sex marriage used the right to privacy and the equal protection clause to do so. This could open the door for a state to try to test same sex marriage laws.
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Meyer v. Nebraska: This 1923 ruling allows families to decide for themselves if they want their children to learn a language other than English. This could open the door for racist states to try to outlaw learning their family's languages.
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Skinner v Oklahoma: This 1942 ruling found that it's unconstitutional to forcibly sterilize people. The Roe ruling could open the door for criminals, disabled people or BIPOC folks to be forcibly sterilized.
Okay. That's a quick overview of the judicial chaos that could occur in the aftermath of striking down Roe v Wade. All of these decisions might no longer be settled law and states could try to test them by creating laws designed to test the courts.
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:the-democrat:: Surprise, I am actually :the-republican: because you "bullied" me
:shocked-pikachu:
:maybe-later-honey: But but Bernie Bro, we need conservative Democrats for "key :i-voted: ".
Y'all I just don't have it in me to find any humor in the absurdity anymore.
Her LinkedIn strongly implies that she's a Presbyterian, so she's not even a member of a pro-life church.
There goes my usual method of determining which Democrats are likely to be pro-life sleeper agents.
Sorry. I guess I use that term for convenience's sake. I probably ought to stop.
Presbyterians run the gamut, though. PCUSA is mostly OK with legal abortion, PCA is definitely not.
Another moment in "what the fuck is even the point of having political parties if people can just fuck off and do their own thing like this with no meaningful repercussions?"
"The United States is also a one-party state, but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere, First President of Tanzania
"The Amerikkkan uniparty dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is like a unibrow which has been carefully waxed in the middle by capital to keep up the appearances of being two independent eyebrows, for the purposes of kayfabe." - Tachanka, some loser on Hexbear dot net
