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The upside is that Grassley is about 105 years old.
I can’t see how this kind of thing could boost Trump. The people who want this already voted for him whereas a lot of the people really angry about it didn’t vote at all or weren’t old enough to vote.
We just have to pray that we’ll survive until sanity prevails and that federalism - often an impediment to progress - will keep at least some states from going over the edge and will then be the basis for reform that can help the one’s that do.
Still, I periodically scan Zillow for condos in Ontario or maybe Ireland.
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Stop the fucking planet, I want to get off. Rise of the right everywhere and fuck all to stop them.
Bye bye women's rights, bye bye environment, bye bye workers' rights, bye bye human rights, bye bye basic human decency, hello 1950s rose tinted cuntdom when men were men, a man's home was his castle, wogs knew their place and no blacks, no dogs and no Irish either.
Hurry up, climate change, and fucking bury the lot of us because right now I feel like Ford Prefect telling the Golgafrinchans that it doesn't matter a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys what we do any more.
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you're right- though I think this is worse than the 50's. In the 50's you could Like Martin Luther King believe "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"> hard to do that now. And today's contempt for scienc didn't exist in the same way. The desire for the educated to be wilfully ignorant is something new, I think.
There have been more Supreme Court justices confirmed amidst sexual misconduct allegations than Supreme Court Justice women of colour
In Turkey Trump's allies the Saudis have apparently murdered a Washington Post journalist in their consulate.
In Czechia
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It is astonishing that I keep reading articles suggesting that we now have John Roberts as the voice of moderation and reason, the great liberal hope. Who are the fucking morons who write this shit?
The only actual non-horrifying thing I can think is to remind myself that Anthony Kennedy was a right-wing nutjob, too, and not the great independent minded voice of reason that the Both-Siders in the media always portrayed. No more than John McCain was. They may have voted against evil a couple of times each, but 95% of the time, they wanted to go right along with it.
Kavanaugh will be worse than Kennedy, but - Roe v Wade aside - he won't be as big a shift as pepole think. The Roberts court has always been a right wing shithole. It's just couched in more reserved terminology than Kavanaugh will use.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Postyou're right- though I think this is worse than the 50's. In the 50's you could Like Martin Luther King believe "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice"> hard to do that now. And today's contempt for scienc didn't exist in the same way. The desire for the educated to be wilfully ignorant is something new, I think.
Only just a few months ago I was reading about how the American chemist Martin Kamen, of Russian Jewish decent, had to fight for years to clear his name. The guy was an absolute genius, worthy of a Nobel prize.
The Dems need an FDR type. Somebody who will not take shit from the Republicans and welcomes their hatred. Bipartisanship be dammed.
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Originally posted by anton pulisov View PostNah, you had the red scare in the fifties, where well educated people actively sought to destroy the lives of anybody vaguely left wing or different.
Only just a few months ago I was reading about how the American chemist Martin Kamen, of Russian Jewish decent, had to fight for years to clear his name. The guy was an absolute genius, worthy of a Nobel prize.
The Dems need an FDR type. Somebody who will not take shit from the Republicans and welcomes their hatred. Bipartisanship be dammed.
it's hard to believe that now.
But as Ursula LeGuin said ""We live in capitalism. It's power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." -
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