Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that individual states can't be bullied by the federal government, I wonder how long it will be before some of the feistier red states start reinstituting Jim Crow. Since the Voting Rights Act is now gutted, how can a state like Alabama resist just declaring Black people to be non-citizens? If the states are no longer bound by the constitution, how can Mississippi resist the siren call of bring back slavery?
I’m having a harder time than usual laughing at this one, not because it isn’t funny but because I have a real sense that a Rubicon has been crossed. The understanding that immigration policy and law falls solely within the purview of the federal government has been settled law for over a century. So more than Dobbs or the voting rights or the affirmative action cases, this feels like SCOTUS is really taking off the guardrails and they don’t care who sees them do it.
Yeah, this ruling looks like the kind of "states rights" ruling that Ross Barnett and Orval Faubus always wanted. The Democrats need to come up with an FDR-type strategy to rein this Supreme Court in. Strong anti-corruption laws for SCOTUS Justices and Congressional investigations into the current Justices' relationships with their billionaire sugardaddies would b a good start.
Abbott and Paxton are my two least favorite politicians. In a country with so many shitty politicians you think it might be hard to choose two in particular. No sir. Abbott and Paxton.
I had a job that took me to Texas now and then. After a while I refused to go. Back in the heyday of Tom DeLay. The home office asked me why. I said it was a shit hole. Evidently they'd been there because they didn't have any problem with my excuse.
I'm got a new government program I'd like to propose - Drones for Insurrectionists. Just like it sounds.
I think that if, back in the day, we would have droned them Bundy fucks we wouldn't quite be in such a predicament.
Just you all wait: we'll soon have scalping gangs like in Blood Meridian. Then we'll see who the real cannibals are...
Also, FUN linguistic FACT: the "tl" consonant that every white person says like the last sound in "wattle" (invoked above in our host's "Quetzalcoatl") is actually the same unvoiced lateral fricative ya find in Welsh or Icelandic. Push your tongue against your alveolar ridge & press airflow around it on both sides. Hey presto! now you're a world traveller!
Next stop: the surprising variety of phonemic clicks in langauges such as Xhosa!
Consensus among attorneys appears to be that the Supreme Clusterfuck has finally rendered the post-Civil War Constitution dead and buried with this Texas decision. They laughed when I said, post-Roe, that the Clowns were working toward legalizing slavery, but that’s not too far away from today’s reality.
The 5th Circuit has re-imposed a stay on Texas’s ridiculously unconstitutional law. It was apparently too much for even that radically reactionary circuit.
“ BEAUREGARD: No, Jeb, they’s f’um Hay-ee-sha where they gawt thet voodoo what makes ‘em woana eat folks up like they was poultry or biscuits or somethin’.”
I see you’ve been sneaking peeks at Victor Orban’s No. 1 fan again, Roy.
I can't recall hearing "conservatives" talk about how being here illegally incentivizes people to stay out of trouble. To a great degree the experience involves doing your work, paying most taxes, and laying somewhat low. You can't vote (contra conspiracies), run for office, or formally run companies. You can't necessarily seek redress under the law. I'd call them second-class citizens, but that would be a step up. I'm not saying it's terrible, although it can be. But the long pig here is the sweetest in the world.
Just noticed how the rich n' powerful treat our legal system, that actual judgements are relatively unimportant compared with your ability to defer them forever, is also how the rich n' powerful treat money. For normal workin' folks a loan is a burden, an obligation, a thing that hangs over you and maybe even keeps you up at night, but for rich folks, a loan is basically just free money. Maybe you'll pay it off, maybe you won't, maybe when it finally comes due you'll pay it off with another loan - yeah, that's how the real winners do it!
Maybe our economic, legal, political systems are actually designed for this, to advantage people who have a very specific kind of blindness, the inability to see more than two years into the future. Greg Abbot is a winner tonight, who cares if his bullshit law gets invalidated sometime in 2028?
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that individual states can't be bullied by the federal government, I wonder how long it will be before some of the feistier red states start reinstituting Jim Crow. Since the Voting Rights Act is now gutted, how can a state like Alabama resist just declaring Black people to be non-citizens? If the states are no longer bound by the constitution, how can Mississippi resist the siren call of bring back slavery?
I’m having a harder time than usual laughing at this one, not because it isn’t funny but because I have a real sense that a Rubicon has been crossed. The understanding that immigration policy and law falls solely within the purview of the federal government has been settled law for over a century. So more than Dobbs or the voting rights or the affirmative action cases, this feels like SCOTUS is really taking off the guardrails and they don’t care who sees them do it.
Yeah, this ruling looks like the kind of "states rights" ruling that Ross Barnett and Orval Faubus always wanted. The Democrats need to come up with an FDR-type strategy to rein this Supreme Court in. Strong anti-corruption laws for SCOTUS Justices and Congressional investigations into the current Justices' relationships with their billionaire sugardaddies would b a good start.
Abbott and Paxton are my two least favorite politicians. In a country with so many shitty politicians you think it might be hard to choose two in particular. No sir. Abbott and Paxton.
I had a job that took me to Texas now and then. After a while I refused to go. Back in the heyday of Tom DeLay. The home office asked me why. I said it was a shit hole. Evidently they'd been there because they didn't have any problem with my excuse.
I'm got a new government program I'd like to propose - Drones for Insurrectionists. Just like it sounds.
I think that if, back in the day, we would have droned them Bundy fucks we wouldn't quite be in such a predicament.
Roy, you use your tongue purtier'n a twenty dollar whore 😜
Just you all wait: we'll soon have scalping gangs like in Blood Meridian. Then we'll see who the real cannibals are...
Also, FUN linguistic FACT: the "tl" consonant that every white person says like the last sound in "wattle" (invoked above in our host's "Quetzalcoatl") is actually the same unvoiced lateral fricative ya find in Welsh or Icelandic. Push your tongue against your alveolar ridge & press airflow around it on both sides. Hey presto! now you're a world traveller!
Next stop: the surprising variety of phonemic clicks in langauges such as Xhosa!
Consensus among attorneys appears to be that the Supreme Clusterfuck has finally rendered the post-Civil War Constitution dead and buried with this Texas decision. They laughed when I said, post-Roe, that the Clowns were working toward legalizing slavery, but that’s not too far away from today’s reality.
The 5th Circuit has re-imposed a stay on Texas’s ridiculously unconstitutional law. It was apparently too much for even that radically reactionary circuit.
"sits in an old-fashioned high-backed oak cane wheelchair"
Oof.
Carry on, carry on...
I thought for a moment they were talkin bout Hessians
How many cleaning ladies in a gaggle?
SEVEN, maybe?
After all that dialect-talkin', Roy's computer ran out of apostrophes. Also Abbot's code-switching, perfectly done.
“ BEAUREGARD: No, Jeb, they’s f’um Hay-ee-sha where they gawt thet voodoo what makes ‘em woana eat folks up like they was poultry or biscuits or somethin’.”
I see you’ve been sneaking peeks at Victor Orban’s No. 1 fan again, Roy.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/why-is-haiti-uniquely-miserable/
I can't recall hearing "conservatives" talk about how being here illegally incentivizes people to stay out of trouble. To a great degree the experience involves doing your work, paying most taxes, and laying somewhat low. You can't vote (contra conspiracies), run for office, or formally run companies. You can't necessarily seek redress under the law. I'd call them second-class citizens, but that would be a step up. I'm not saying it's terrible, although it can be. But the long pig here is the sweetest in the world.
HELP!
Bern’s stalking me!
Just noticed how the rich n' powerful treat our legal system, that actual judgements are relatively unimportant compared with your ability to defer them forever, is also how the rich n' powerful treat money. For normal workin' folks a loan is a burden, an obligation, a thing that hangs over you and maybe even keeps you up at night, but for rich folks, a loan is basically just free money. Maybe you'll pay it off, maybe you won't, maybe when it finally comes due you'll pay it off with another loan - yeah, that's how the real winners do it!
Maybe our economic, legal, political systems are actually designed for this, to advantage people who have a very specific kind of blindness, the inability to see more than two years into the future. Greg Abbot is a winner tonight, who cares if his bullshit law gets invalidated sometime in 2028?