"We the people" folks must be ready to protest right?
Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.
People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.
Next election on the ballot.
Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.
Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.
It kinda seems like the US' democracy is completely worthless.
Each state has its own Constitution, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.
Wait... You guys don't even have paid sick leave....?
We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it.. especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
and they've taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it'll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
And people get shamed for using it.
Freedom to work while you're sick!
I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol
Yeah, but all the millions of the temporarily-embarrassed future multi-millionaires side with the obscenely parasitic rich, because my word, they might be part of the parasitic class too some day, and just imagine if a fraction of their wealth were to go toward someone getting reasonable health care coverage w/o being tied to a business, or having decent sick leave!
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Republicans aren't fit to govern.
Republicans aren't fit to ~~govern~~ breathe
Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.
They are not smart people.
I swear a whole lot of men vote Republican because of marketing - meaning, some of them seem to think their penis will turn into a vagina if they vote Democratic.
Keep voting Republican, Missouri.
Missouri is not a victim, this is the exact experience they desire.
Roughly 60% of Missouri residents, during the 2024 election, voted for a traitor, felon, and fascist.
Aggressive ignorance is the new American pastime.
Absolutely bonkers to go “40% of the state voted against Trump, therefore everyone here wanted and deserves to have the measure they passed by 58% overturned.”
Also there are a lot of misinformed voters, who were told that things like P2025 are just jokes to "trigger the left".
Being a misinformed voter is a choice.
They are not poor victims.
They are lazy asshats that wanted to believe obvious but comfortable lies, over having to do 10 minutes of work and dealing with uncomfortable truths.
I'm sick and tired of this handwringing for the poor, willfully ignorant voters who couldnt be bothered to question a single thing, or listen to anything that challenges their preconceived notions.
Not everyone is a terminally online leftist like us. You have to sell politics to the average hillbilly, not the average leftist theory reader.
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Why do they want to trigger the left
I also hate the excuse - and I just heard Spicer use it most recently - about how donvict/Republicans are "just" triggering the left.
That is their fucking excuse for so much, and even IF they were "only" triggering the left - why the fuck are supposed adults in government spending any time at all trying to trigger the left? How is that even in the least bit responsible?
Even the excuse, taken at face value, is complete and total bullshit.
40% of the state did not vote against fascism. Your response is disingenuous and maliciously misleading.
33% of the state did not even bother to show up and vote. Not voting is tantamount to approval of either option.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/Nov2024OfficialVoterTurnout.pdf
Ok but then 60% didn't vote for fascism either, you'd have to compare it as 27% against, 33% don't care, and 40% for.
40% of people who voted didn’t vote for fascism. Using the votes of someone’s neighbors to determine whether or not they deserve healthcare is deranged.
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Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.
They couldn't force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.
The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.
Hopefully they don't pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.
you can spell missouri without misery.
They just won't let you
"But they represent the people".
Or, better yet - "we cannot have mere MAJORITIES of those people in the cities overriding the good people (read: white people) living in the hinterlands of the state/country - land should be just as important a factor as the number of people in a region..."
People still think votes matter? We lost that back in November.
Nazis don’t believe in voting.
Yeah, they're afraid of the backlash of recent events. They're nothing empathetic, or altruistic about it.
One of the worst states in the country easily
There's a reason it sounds an awful lot like "Misery".
Its the Florida of the midwest
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this is definitely LAMF
Missouri voted for a Republican government.
Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?
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