Bigot bills rarely make sense.

Don't bother looking for logical consistency in right wing legislation. It isn't there, and drawing attention to their hypocrisy will drive you insane cuz none of them care.

The only thing that's ever consistent is the cruelty: the goal is always to hurt some out-group. Often at the cost of hurting themselves, but so long as the out-group is hurt too, they don't mind falling on their own sword to make it happen.

"Thank you for coming in, parents who are either so antagonistic to their child or so checked out of their life you don't know a fundamental aspect of their being before a teacher does.

I am required by law to tell you something about your child, but I am barred by the same law from saying what it is. Hopefully you go home and just feel bad about yourself rather than becoming violent with your child. I love that my poorly paid job now makes me complicit in this."

Nah, that's fine just so long as they're not Republican ones.

ETA: Oh, wait... I guess there IS such a ban.

This is the result of stupidity from the top down. Actually, the maliciousness of the stupidity is why I use the word moron. Any decency and reason is not required for the best of you (assuming you are American), and so you cannot avoid a worsening situation unless radical action is taken to stop it.

Take that for what you will. I see a country that accepts the violence that is being perpetrated against it from its rulers. A population of battered wives that make excuses for the abuse to continue.

I say this as a person that does not currently live under the fear of someone kicking in my door at 3am and putting a gun in my face. I like to think I can do better, but maybe I'm full of shit.

Cuellar was pardoned by Trump and clearly captured. What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?

Party leadership showed

[Citation needed]

There's a pretty strong push from her primary opponent this year - he's winning over local Republicans in conversation by focusing on medicare/Medicaid expansion.

Edit: have to be clear he isn't winning any Maga votes, but iffy republicans that were MGPs "base" since they were already dissuade from voting red from how batshit Joe Kent was.

Which is why it is so unbelievably grievous that these assholes decided to cast votes in favor anyway. They are simply declaring their transphobia in order to attract the worst kinds if voters in their districts while the centrists shrug and say "oh well". Meanwhile anyone with a heart is just seething with impotence at the injustice.

Fuck these useless democrats.

I guess that makes the democrats voting for it okay then.

Welcome to the rotating villain strategy. First time?

And those other 207 democrats have denounced them, and the DNC leadership has decided to defund their future campaigns then?

Centrists blame voters for less.

While barring members might go a bit far, does the Democratic Party not have planks to its platform? Or is it really just anyone "not republican"?

Beyond that, the idea that denouncement of members is too divisive is kind of a lark on a place like Lemmy.

Yes. I'd rather have hardliners, or even tyrants, that care about humanity over the libertine fash supporters

It’s a good point

"Everything you're unhappy about is your fault for not being involved enough" - people who already have what they want and didn't have to lift a finger to get it.

It's less about replacing the government and more about getting everyone currently involved out of it.

Technically replacing ... in a roundabout way.

You have less faith in your fellow Americans than I do. The key thing to remember is that any amendments proposed in a constitutional convention still need to be returned by 3/4 of the states. That alone will keep anything crazy from being passed.

That would be preferable to staying chained to demons. Conservative hellholes would collapse within a decade, leftists strongholds would thrive long enough to recolonize the ashes and form a stronger union.

I just hope I'm given enough warning to go someplace that wouldn't be hell beforehand.