You are doing way better then a lot of Southern mothers. As a kid growing up in Louisiana my textbooks still called it the War of Northern Aggression, and we were fed a diet of drival about how slaves were only mistreated when they were "uppity" as if slavery wasn't mistreatment. We almost elected David Duke governor once - my dad still has a bumper sticker that reads "Vote for the Crook - its important." And when federal courts desegregated our city schools in 1980 roughly half my class went to private schools the next year. The White half.
3. An individual’s moral character or status as either
58 privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her
59 race, color, sex, or national origin.
That section means we can't discuss systemic racism, no matter what the facts on the ground are - and there are many.
5. An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex,
64 or national origin, bears responsibility for, or should be
65 discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of,
66 actions committed in the past by other members of the same race,
67 color, sex, or national origin.
That means we can't discuss making past wrong right as a moral foundation for fighting racism, and it means we can't discuss, much less act on reparations.
6. An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex,
69 or national origin, should be discriminated against or receive
70 adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity, or inclusion.
That means no more affirmative action hires, diversity expanding recruiting or minority set-asides in government contracting.
All of those are swipes at CRT indirectly, and all of them require diluting, whitewashing or dumbing down actual history.
Sinema is the one currently taking the heat. I suspect that there are other western Democrats who are uncomfortable with what the bill will do to their states.
If that's the case then they are as cowardly as she is and as Republicans are. Whatever the issues are, they pale in comparison to the havoc that will be unleashed later this year if this is passed.
What gets me is we aren't even voting on passage - we're just voting to talk about it. Republicans don't even want to do that. Sinema and Manchin don't even want to do that. And I don't have any faith in any plan McConnel might be talking about for the ECA - especially since he's not offering to allow debate on these measures in exchange for that one.
Republicans in 5 states now stand credibly accused - and under investigation - for forging documents with bogus "alternate" slates of Presidential electors. And not just forging, but forging from the same template with the same words and arguments. They did so because their guy didn't win a free and fair election. And had they succeeded they would, in fact, have significantly infringed the voting rights of a great many Americans. On Purpose. To retain political power.
Most people are not trained in making those kind of judgements, and even the ones who are don't have access to the information needed to make them effectively. even well meaning libertarians can't do this effectively in most cases.
Its running up the Hill for Twitter. There's been no legislation introduced to do this, and frankly the Republicans won't back it because it would prevent them from sending a mob to Capitol Hill - or forged slates of electors - when their candidates looses. After they believe they have secured permanent rule then they may take it up.
The fully vaccinated rate in the US is only 62.8%. Germany is 71.82%. The UK is 70.09%. France is 74.87%. Finland in 75.09%. And Sweden is 73.38%. Which means that in fact the US is doing worse then other nations. And there is likely a political/tribal identity component to that.
The other problem I see with your analysis is the countries you chose are relatively small and relatively culturally homogeneous. In the US, full vaccination rates by state vary from 78.4% in Vermont down to 48.1% in Wyoming. Here in Mississippi its 48.8%. And with the notable exceptions of very purple Maryland and Virginia, the leading vaccine states are helmed by Democrats. Republicans are not blameless, and the states that are helmed by them are doing relatively worse, which keeps the US from being a leader in vaccinations.
Who from the left carried rifles into a state house in protest of lockdowns and mask mandates? Who from the left is making death threats against public health officials? which politicians form the left are running websites to raise campaign donations calling for the firing of long serving public health leaders? Who from the left is going around screaming at underpaid waiters and baristas who politely try to enforce mask requirements in private businesses? Who from the allegedly left leaning Mainstream media is lying regularly about their own vaccine status to their viewers while peddling quack cures and denigrating vaccine developed by the last president? I could on and on.
You want us to have empathy for people who, nearly two years on, continue to voluntarily dismiss the actual science, to make - as you put it - the unethical choice to remain unvaccinated while demanding they be cured by an increasingly overburdened healthcare system? You want us to turn a blind eye to the enormous amount of needless death and suffering they have caused in the whimsical and naïve name of some alleged freedom? You want us not to judge?
That's rich. And sorry, no. We will judge, Just as the right judges us. Remember - to a vast many IRL Republicans and conservatives I'm at best and idiot and at worst a traitor for being an open and proud liberal. Marjorie Taylor Green - who is very popular in her very red Congressional district - wants people like me hunted and driven out of government (if not outright harmed) when Republicans take power. As long as that remains in play conservatives don't get to preach about the unfairness of being called out for their behavior.
Republicans weren’t gloating over the NYC outbreak. At least, no one I knew. We were worried for other people no matter their party affiliation.
You and I know very different Republicans. Because a great many were gloating about the outbreaks because they saw it as as yet another way to own the libs.
Now that liberals are getting the disease, they’re writing articles about how infection doesn’t make you a bad person. How utterly messed up must people have been, how smug and hate-filled, if that’s their reaction?
Those who remain unvaccinated, get COVID, and are now, again, clogging up the medical system begging for treatment are not bad people. They are making bad choices based on lies. Just as Republican politicians leading their states are making bad choices based on lies. That has been the case since the beginning.,
one of the big differences between liberals and leftists is that leftists aren’t going to become instantly loyal to a politician for doing one good thing when they’re still doing all sorts of bad things, or not doing any other good things.
in Red states where politicians have jumped on the antivax train, we may reasonably expect to see higher rates of infection, transmission, hospitalization, and ultimately death…
Top 4 states for covid hospitalizations - Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Note that while Louisiana has a democratic governor, he's being regularly opposed by a Republican legislature.
Agreed in part, dissent in part. Democrats do need to do a better job of bragging about their successes and reminding voters that they do actually get stuff done for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately if you don't change some minds some times, electoral politics won't allow you to enact policy.
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Further, Article 2, section 3 is pretty clear that the President shall faithfully execute the laws of the land.
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You are doing way better then a lot of Southern mothers. As a kid growing up in Louisiana my textbooks still called it the War of Northern Aggression, and we were fed a diet of drival about how slaves were only mistreated when they were "uppity" as if slavery wasn't mistreatment. We almost elected David Duke governor once - my dad still has a bumper sticker that reads "Vote for the Crook - its important." And when federal courts desegregated our city schools in 1980 roughly half my class went to private schools the next year. The White half.
The bad guys are way easier to find n the South.
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Someone should - and sue the airlines for tickets etc. Southwest would put the hammer on Greg Abbott quickly if they did.
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Exactly. Republicans have done it for 40 years with Roe V Wade, which makes the Texas law all the more stunning.
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You sure do like to fish with big nets I guess.
That section means we can't discuss systemic racism, no matter what the facts on the ground are - and there are many.
That means we can't discuss making past wrong right as a moral foundation for fighting racism, and it means we can't discuss, much less act on reparations.
That means no more affirmative action hires, diversity expanding recruiting or minority set-asides in government contracting.
All of those are swipes at CRT indirectly, and all of them require diluting, whitewashing or dumbing down actual history.
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Suppressing voting rights makes creating that sort of white washed past easier.
Yeash
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They don't have Manchin and Sinema for that one either, and absolutely no room for a filibuster carve out since its a reconciliation bill.
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If that's the case then they are as cowardly as she is and as Republicans are. Whatever the issues are, they pale in comparison to the havoc that will be unleashed later this year if this is passed.
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What gets me is we aren't even voting on passage - we're just voting to talk about it. Republicans don't even want to do that. Sinema and Manchin don't even want to do that. And I don't have any faith in any plan McConnel might be talking about for the ECA - especially since he's not offering to allow debate on these measures in exchange for that one.
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Fun fact - Mississippi and Alabama still celebrate Robert E. Lee's Birthday on MLK day.
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Republicans in 5 states now stand credibly accused - and under investigation - for forging documents with bogus "alternate" slates of Presidential electors. And not just forging, but forging from the same template with the same words and arguments. They did so because their guy didn't win a free and fair election. And had they succeeded they would, in fact, have significantly infringed the voting rights of a great many Americans. On Purpose. To retain political power.
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The kind of legislation aimed squarely at using the threat of voter fraud to institutionalize election fraud.
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Most people are not trained in making those kind of judgements, and even the ones who are don't have access to the information needed to make them effectively. even well meaning libertarians can't do this effectively in most cases.
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Its running up the Hill for Twitter. There's been no legislation introduced to do this, and frankly the Republicans won't back it because it would prevent them from sending a mob to Capitol Hill - or forged slates of electors - when their candidates looses. After they believe they have secured permanent rule then they may take it up.
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I'm beginning to think the federal judiciary really, really, wants to dodge this bullet.
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The fully vaccinated rate in the US is only 62.8%. Germany is 71.82%. The UK is 70.09%. France is 74.87%. Finland in 75.09%. And Sweden is 73.38%. Which means that in fact the US is doing worse then other nations. And there is likely a political/tribal identity component to that.
The other problem I see with your analysis is the countries you chose are relatively small and relatively culturally homogeneous. In the US, full vaccination rates by state vary from 78.4% in Vermont down to 48.1% in Wyoming. Here in Mississippi its 48.8%. And with the notable exceptions of very purple Maryland and Virginia, the leading vaccine states are helmed by Democrats. Republicans are not blameless, and the states that are helmed by them are doing relatively worse, which keeps the US from being a leader in vaccinations.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker
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As much as we may all want to believe otherwise, the feeling and the voting are very much intertwined.
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And what's not actually new is the unvaccinated will be sicker and more likely to die.
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Who from the left carried rifles into a state house in protest of lockdowns and mask mandates? Who from the left is making death threats against public health officials? which politicians form the left are running websites to raise campaign donations calling for the firing of long serving public health leaders? Who from the left is going around screaming at underpaid waiters and baristas who politely try to enforce mask requirements in private businesses? Who from the allegedly left leaning Mainstream media is lying regularly about their own vaccine status to their viewers while peddling quack cures and denigrating vaccine developed by the last president? I could on and on.
You want us to have empathy for people who, nearly two years on, continue to voluntarily dismiss the actual science, to make - as you put it - the unethical choice to remain unvaccinated while demanding they be cured by an increasingly overburdened healthcare system? You want us to turn a blind eye to the enormous amount of needless death and suffering they have caused in the whimsical and naïve name of some alleged freedom? You want us not to judge?
That's rich. And sorry, no. We will judge, Just as the right judges us. Remember - to a vast many IRL Republicans and conservatives I'm at best and idiot and at worst a traitor for being an open and proud liberal. Marjorie Taylor Green - who is very popular in her very red Congressional district - wants people like me hunted and driven out of government (if not outright harmed) when Republicans take power. As long as that remains in play conservatives don't get to preach about the unfairness of being called out for their behavior.
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You and I know very different Republicans. Because a great many were gloating about the outbreaks because they saw it as as yet another way to own the libs.
Those who remain unvaccinated, get COVID, and are now, again, clogging up the medical system begging for treatment are not bad people. They are making bad choices based on lies. Just as Republican politicians leading their states are making bad choices based on lies. That has been the case since the beginning.,
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Even then, hospitalizations and case rate were important.
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Bingo.
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Top 4 states for covid hospitalizations - Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Note that while Louisiana has a democratic governor, he's being regularly opposed by a Republican legislature.
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Agreed in part, dissent in part. Democrats do need to do a better job of bragging about their successes and reminding voters that they do actually get stuff done for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately if you don't change some minds some times, electoral politics won't allow you to enact policy.
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Article 1, Section 8:
Further, Article 2, section 3 is pretty clear that the President shall faithfully execute the laws of the land.
You know, the SHALLS that Congress writes.
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Agreed.