politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
They sure did. It all started when democrats wanted to play fair, and then lost out on opportunity when republicans went nuclear. I hate how it has to be that way, but us democrats need to be aggressive and not passive anymore. No more fucking around.
Excellent point…
Butter my buttcheeks.
Do we have an equivalent of RimjobSteve yet?
I could not fill those holes left behind by rimjobsteve
You are welcome, feel free to butter whenever
When they go low, kick them in the fucking teeth.
absolutely
But this year, the Court’s 6-3 supermajority continued to deliver. It ended affirmative action in university admissions, which the GOP has wanted to do for fifty years. It invented a new rule, the “major questions” doctrine, out of whole cloth, and used it this week to invalidate President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program – another decades-long dream of “Big Government Is The Problem” conservatives. And it chipped away at LGBTQ equality, ruling that businesses could refuse to offer services to gay people if those services could be considered “speech.”
Your claim about Major Questions Doctrine does not appear to be accurate.
Which part is not accurate?
After the Citizens United ruling deciding that money is speech, it's clear that bribery is the most compelling legal argument.
Now that SCOTUS has allowed it, expect "no Jews allowed" signs to start popping up.
I hear water makes things wet too. Oh, and the sky is made of air!
More like the Christian WRONG.
It’s odd that the author thinks Republicans put aside their differences and backed Republicans no matter what, while Democrats were seen as stiff and ideology-obsessed and cancelled their own. Republicans generally cancelled anyone who didn’t match 100% of the party line, and 2020-2022 felt like the Democrats put aside their dislike of Biden and instead went with “vote blue no matter who.”
Otherwise, great piece.
The Supreme Court is simply following the Constitution, as it should. It's refreshing to see.
I disagree with the use of "Christian Right" in the headline. This isn't really about religion. These positions have been GOP positions for a long time.
Affirmative action itself was racist by definition, because it discriminated solely based on skin color. It needed to go. There are problems with certain minorities making it into higher education, but that can be solved by changing how taxes are distributed to schools, not by letting unqualified people into college programs.
Student loan forgiveness was a joke from the start. If you didn't want to pay back the loans, you shouldn't have taken them. If the issue is the cost of higher education, then we should focus on passing legislation restricting the amount that can be charged for college tuition.
Regarding the cake issue, you can't compel speech, and last I checked, art was considered speech. So, decorating a cake in a specific way is speech that can't be compelled. This isn't 1850. There's more than one baker in town. If you don't like the policies of a particular bakery, go to the next one. The hyperbolic responses about "No Jews allowed" is ridiculous, because that would be religious discrimination, which is a separate issue. Also, it seems a little wild to accuse the Christian Right of not supporting Jews (Israel).
it seems a little wild to accuse the Christian Right of not supporting Jews (Israel).
They “support” them in a way, but not out of any real egalitarian or humanitarian reason. For some, supporting Israel is the same as attacking Islam. For others, they support Israel because they think that will hasten Armageddon. It’s not because they really like Jewish people or Judaism, I suspect a number of the Christian Right really just like that Jewish people have a place away from them to call home.
Yes - and certain groups of evangelical Christians behave like weird "Jews for Jesus" cosplayers (they call themselves "messianic jews")
Maybe try reading a little history there, apologist:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
Have you been residing on a different planet for the last few decades?