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News KY Legilature's GQP supermajority at work

iRONic

iRONic

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Just like in Wisconsin, just like in North Carolina...

Democracy is a liability to those who don't believe in it. The snowflakes need to be in control, it's just this democracy stuff is unfair and mean, hurts the feels.

Yeah never mind the multitudes of innocent people being killed by police - the burning issue here is the tender feels of a LEO when someone flips him the bird. Repugs, you never fail to amaze with your zeal for nonsolutions to problems that don't exist, while ignoring actual glaring problems. You people are worse than worthless.
 
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“I asked him about this and said, ‘If I file this, people will question why am I filing this?’ Has nothing to do with anybody potentially leaving,” Stivers said during the committee discussion.
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Oh really? Stivers, who has been in the KY Legislature for 23 years, just now decides, after they elected a democrat for governor, and while one of their Senators is 79 years old, to push this bill. It never occurred to him in any of the previous 22 years. Just a coincidence that he's considering this bill right now which he ensures everyone is in the broad public's interests.

Face it. Every single thing the GOP does these days is about keeping the GOP in power. They don't even bother to govern. Who cares about governing? Let's just pass more bills to help us stay in office...so that we can pass even more bills to help us stay in office.
 
woolfe9998 said:
Oh really? Stivers, who has been in the KY Legislature for 23 years, just now decides, after they elected a democrat for governor, and while one of their Senators is 79 years old, to push this bill. It never occurred to him in any of the previous 22 years. Just a coincidence that he's considering this bill right now which he ensures everyone is in the broad public's interests.

Face it. Every single thing the GOP does these days is about keeping the GOP in power. They don't even bother to govern. Who cares about governing? Let's just pass more bills to help us stay in office...so that we can pass even more bills to help us stay in office.
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I think they are specializing in performance art, not so much in governing.
 
 
Just like I'd never burn an American flag unless it was made illegal and unconstitutional, I'd never just insult a police officer unless it was made illegal and unconstitutional.

Republican cancel culture snowflakes sure don't like it when their feelings get fucked, eh?
 
It is quite possible that all of these attempts to screw democrats and to benefit republicans could easily backfire. Pulling stunts like this in KY, and with other states screwing around with their voting access could backfire ending up benefiting democrats more so than republicans. In Georgia, I doubt anything republicans do or try to do will deter Stacey Abrams from getting out every single black voter to the polls, where on the republican side they may not have someone so dedicated and determined as a Stacey Abrams. And in Kentucky, taking this process away from the governor and putting it into the hands of the people could elect a democrat as senator just as easily as a republican. Every one of these little dirty tricks from republican controlled states could end up harming the republicans more than the democrats in the end. And lets face it, this would not be the first time republicans ended up screwing themselves by introducing gimmicks and trickery to the process. Republicans may think they are smart and savvy with trying this baloney but they forget one thing.... the determination of the people. I say good luck republicans, good luck with failure.
 
iRONic said:
The measure would remove the Democratic governor’s ability to make his own choice if a Senate seat opened up.
At least we had Gov. Beshear during the pandemic.

Under the legislation, anyone who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response” would be guilty of a misdemeanor and face up to 90 days in jail and fines.
That taunting bill shits all over the 1st Amendment though...
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Calling all antifa...

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sportage said:
And in Kentucky, taking this process away from the governor and putting it into the hands of the people could elect a democrat as senator just as easily as a republican.
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Nope. McGrath got buried by Moscow Mitch.

KY has YEARS to go before we can even APPROACH purpleness.
 
iRONic said:
That taunting bill shits all over the 1st Amendment though...
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See this post and a couple after it:

Alabama un-bans yoga but still bans the word Namaste

https://time.com/5946284/alabama-yoga-ban/ Yoga has been banned in Alabama schools since 1993 when the ban was pushed by conservative cancel culture. To make the bill more palatable to anti-cancel culture conservatives, no foreign words can be used when describing yoga poses, and are banned...
forums.anandtech.com
 
The police bill is, thankfully, unlikely to pass or survive scrutiny. It's so vague and anti-First Amendment that even most conservative courts would say it goes too far. The disturbing part is more that politicians thought it might work.
 
woolfe9998 said:
Oh really? Stivers, who has been in the KY Legislature for 23 years, just now decides, after they elected a democrat for governor, and while one of their Senators is 79 years old, to push this bill. It never occurred to him in any of the previous 22 years. Just a coincidence that he's considering this bill right now which he ensures everyone is in the broad public's interests.

Face it. Every single thing the GOP does these days is about keeping the GOP in power. They don't even bother to govern. Who cares about governing? Let's just pass more bills to help us stay in office...so that we can pass even more bills to help us stay in office.
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Sounds like the perfect plan for establishing a fascist state/nation, of which the Repubs will have to do in order to stay in power and rule the nation from a minority party status.
 
More GQP shens here in Getlucky;

On Monday in the Bluegrass State, the Republican-controlled state legislature voted into law a proposal that drastically limits the power of the state's governor to fill vacancies that might arise in the US Senate.

www.cnn.com

Analysis: How Mitch McConnell beat Democrats in Kentucky (again)

Mitch McConnell may not be in control of the Senate anymore, but he's still making moves -- and winning political fights -- that prove he remains a major power player in his home state of Kentucky.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
 
iRONic said:
More GQP shens here in Getlucky;

On Monday in the Bluegrass State, the Republican-controlled state legislature voted into law a proposal that drastically limits the power of the state's governor to fill vacancies that might arise in the US Senate.

www.cnn.com

Analysis: How Mitch McConnell beat Democrats in Kentucky (again)

Mitch McConnell may not be in control of the Senate anymore, but he's still making moves -- and winning political fights -- that prove he remains a major power player in his home state of Kentucky.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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Leave it McConnell to pitch that 'ol Repub missive: "Well, it's not really a partisan thing that I'm doing here, yet what I do is just a coincidence that the Democrats and only the Democrats always suffer from my decisions and endorsements."
 
Commodus said:
The police bill is, thankfully, unlikely to pass or survive scrutiny. It's so vague and anti-First Amendment that even most conservative courts would say it goes too far. The disturbing part is more that politicians thought it might work.
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Like a lot of their blatantly unconstitutional bills, I think the politicians know they won't work, but because they have the vocal crazies screaming "do this or else I'll fucking kill you and rape your dog and my cousin!" (it is Kentucky after all...) that they do the dog and pony show. And every so often they do get ones that go their way (granted, much like Brexit, it tends to blow up in their faces because they weren't expecting it to work and then dealing with the ramifications of it reveals why it was stupid beyond the viciously hateful aspects).
 
Hey Georgia, peep dis;

Kentucky on Wednesday became the only state in the country with a Republican-controlled legislature to expand voting rights after a bitter presidential election that tested the country’s democratic institutions and elevated ballot access as an animating issue for both parties.

“Kentucky actually had probably, until this point, the most restrictive laws in the country on voting,” said Michael Adams, the Republican secretary of state, who was the leading force behind the bill. “And that’s what we’re trying to change.”

www.nytimes.com

Why Kentucky Just Became the Only Red State to Expand Voting Rights (Published 2021)

Republican lawmakers and the state’s Democratic governor backed a new law that proved the exception to the trend of G.O.P.-led legislatures moving to restrict ballot access.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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