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Chippopotanuse t1_ivoyt8p wrote

Yay Kansas. Seems like republicans went a little too far with the whole abortion thing. A few weeks ago, Kansas, voting “in dramatic numbers and by an overwhelming margin, rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state.”

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dhork t1_ivp4qcb wrote

I wonder how Mitch feels about stealing Obama's Supreme Court appointment now. I bet if he put Merrick Garland up for a vote back then, there would have never been a reversal of RvW. There would have been a lot more complacent Democrats who didn't bother voting, and he would be preparing to take the gavel away from Chuck right now.

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smokinJoeCalculus t1_ivp5tc6 wrote

I'm sure he feels great. Why wouldn't he?

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Indercarnive t1_ivp69oi wrote

Seriously. As nice as this election was for democrats it still doesn't give them any ability to stop the Supreme Court from ruling States can do whatever they want with elections next year.

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NPD_wont_stop_ME t1_ivqbss5 wrote

Republicans are so big on states rights but blue governors and legislatures aren't gonna take kindly to that shit. If Republicans wanna push the envelope, overturn elections and steal Congress then hopefully Democrats adapt because there really isn't any other choice. It's that or we allow ourselves to be steamrolled by the fascists.

I really dread that Moore v. Harper ruling and at this point with our far-right 6-3 SC it seems like a foregone conclusion. It would be more practical to think about solutions / workarounds and I'm sure there are politicians in DC that have thought about this. Time will tell.

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theedgeofoblivious t1_ivrz0oc wrote

Republicans aren't big on states' rights.

If prioritizing the state over individual rights gives them the outcome they want, they say "States' rights."

If not, they wield the Federal Government just as much as Democrats.

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processedmeat t1_ivplp1a wrote

Would you have win a 4 year term or a lifetime appointment. Tough decision

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smokinJoeCalculus t1_ivpnhow wrote

> Would you have win a 4 year term or a lifetime appointment.

Not sure I understand, apologies.

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processedmeat t1_ivpoohg wrote

I'm agreeing with you just putting it another way.

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TUR7L3 t1_ivpra3c wrote

Did you mean rather?

>Would you rather win a 4 year term, or a lifetime appointment? Tough decision

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AdkRaine11 t1_ivr0328 wrote

We should work on age and term limits. Wizen old people, going back to Washington, year after year, to curry favors from lobbyists, inside trade and make decisions that effect other people organs that they buried years ago.

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--zaxell-- t1_ivqdbix wrote

Because he's 170 years old and even turtles shouldn't live that long.

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theLoneliestAardvark t1_ivp99ev wrote

If Trump had quietly gone away and not endorsed a bunch of objectively bad candidates and elections deniers GOP would have won the election and abortion would be largely irrelevant. Dr. Oz almost won in Pennsylvania despite not being from there, having zero political experience, and making constant gaffes. Herschel Walker still might win in Georgia despite being possibly the least qualified Senate nominee from a major party ever.

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Draano t1_ivpckcm wrote

> If Trump had quietly gone away

If Trump did this and just invested Fred Trump's $400m in the S&P, he'd be an actual billionaire rather than being in the red and constantly on the grift. But noooooo.

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hails8n t1_ivpoqhi wrote

“You’re a loser, Donnie! A loser!”

  • Fred Trump probably
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nobutsmeow99 t1_ivpzkr6 wrote

I hope TFG sees this comment, i imagine it’d be very triggering & I daydream about being there to point and laugh😂

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--zaxell-- t1_ivqfpcs wrote

I'd say he would never read this far down in the Reddit comments, but it's not like he has Being President to take up his time, so maybe...

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thatoneguy889 t1_ivp99gw wrote

Your first mistake was assuming McConnell is capable of feeling shame.

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earhere t1_ivper19 wrote

He probably feels really happy that he has a supreme court that will do whatever republicans want them to do. They're going to go after gay marriage and contraceptives next. He literally said that.

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jonathanrdt t1_ivp5ih3 wrote

They could also have used a series of cases to gradually weaken Roe with better reasoning. People would not have reacted so strongly. GOP created an unaccountable monster that got away from them. They love that mistake apparently.

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DepletedMitochondria t1_ivpihig wrote

He and his donors feel great. They know their agenda is unpopular but are getting it passed through the courts regardless.

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W0666007 t1_ivpr7ml wrote

He put in a court that is going to allow the GOP to fix elections for decades to come, he feels great.

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Draano t1_ivpgx6g wrote

Many people were wondering "What does Trump have on all these guys, that they'd all roll over for him?" Must be some serious kompromat. In retrospect, I think Trump just said "I'll give you a supreme court that's guaranteed to dump Roe vs. Wade, and you can all claim a huge victory forever." And that happened. He put people on the court who have no business being anywhere near a bench, let alone the highest court in the nation. No great wall, no beautiful health plan, no tax returns, no magical vanishing plague - nothing he promised the nation occurred. But he delivered on his behind-closed-doors promise.

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DeusSpaghetti t1_ivqcz1t wrote

Trump nominated them for the SC. The entire Republican party confirmed them and put them there.

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DeusSpaghetti t1_ivqd35c wrote

Trump nominated them for the SC. The entire Republican party confirmed them and put them there.

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Squire_II t1_ivv9vai wrote

> I wonder how Mitch feels about stealing Obama's Supreme Court appointment now.

Unless a conservative dies in the next 2 years (or 2 months, depending on the GA runoff), McConnell is going to spend the rest of his life seeing a 6-3, or worse, SCOTUS that he made happen. If he had to give that up in exchange for a Senate majority for a few years he wouldn't ever make that trade because he's one of many working towards a long term goal and judicial capture is a major factor in making permanent minority rule by Republicans a possibility.

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nonlawyer t1_ivqarxg wrote

> and Maryland, California and Massachusetts, all of whom are sold democratic controlled have had Republican governors in the recent history.

Vermont just re-elected its Republican Governor with nearly 70% of the vote. 70%! In Bernie Sanders’ state!

If things were remotely normal people would be talking about Phil Scott as an obvious presidential contender. But everyone knows he couldn’t win a GOP primary since he’s not foaming at the mouth to burn trans people at the stake or whatever

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Maxpowr9 t1_ivrdxj3 wrote

Reminds me of 2018 where Republican Governor Charlie Baker won by a bigger margin than Senator Elizabeth Warren did that year.

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derpbynature t1_ivy17rc wrote

To be fair, a Vermont Republican and a Kansas Democrat are probably both rather moderate, out of necessity.

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lilaprilshowers t1_ivrrbu4 wrote

My theory is that people like a governor who can veto the worse excess of their own party. Phil Scott vetoed a bill to legalize sex work which of course, had it passed, would have turned Vermont into the sex tourism destination for the entire East Coast.

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thisgirlnamedbree t1_ivqsmmt wrote

I'm in Maryland, and Democrat Wes Moore overwhelmingly beat his challenger Dan Cox for governor. Cox is a Trump supporter endorsed by Agent Orange. Even though we are considered a blue state, there's pockets of conservatives, and the county I live in is one of those pockets. Also, the outgoing Republican governor, Larry Hogan, was a moderate who couldn't stand Trump.

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Maxpowr9 t1_ivre2ex wrote

Same with MA. Republican was a Trumper and he got soundly defeated.

The northeast loves its Rockefeller Republicans but they are basically extinct now.

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivqw0gr wrote

And Joan Finney before Sibelius. Dennis Moore was in House of Rep about 10 years. He was a Dem. People do make good decisions sometime. KS is not the monolithic R stronghold that media types want to portray often especially urban areas.

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivr61mq wrote

Are you a Kansan?

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Unlucky-Apartment347 t1_ivr8qug wrote

Sharice Davids (female, openly gay, Native American) was elected to a third term in HOR despite the extreme gerrymandering that was done to her by the Republican legislature last session post census. And yes Johnson, Sedgwick, and Wyandotte counties are urban. Maybe doesn’t fit your idea of urban but they are. And no pundits were expecting the recent abortion vote. So not so monolithic.

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Cereal_No t1_ivtoy5m wrote

Mist isn't wrong though (am Kansan here). With our political system generally valuing land mass more than population at this point (nationally), Kansas is and remains a GOP stronghold on both the state and federal levels due to how consolidated democratic areas (Wichita... barely, and the KC metro) are. Granted, more often than not its not foaming at the mouth Trump country (I think Brownback was a good lead off to move us away from that) but there is definitely republican dominating ideals in our politics and governing. We thankfully tend to have strong non-elected public servants who know how to work within confines to get things done in responsible and egalitarian manners generally, plus home rule, helps to counter act the crazy talking points like "Sue Joe Biden" (for what exactly?) with no standing.

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meatball77 t1_ivro3uc wrote

The Oklahoma governors race was actually competitive this year. That's insane.

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jonathanrdt t1_ivp40r7 wrote

As in many states, the popular vote represents urban areas.

See 2018 by township. The blue is mostly urban and city suburb.

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Draano t1_ivp4ozh wrote

Yeah. Thank God that land can't vote.

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jonathanrdt t1_ivp5vdg wrote

The land is over-represented in every other respect: state legislatures, congressional seats, senate seats for low pop states.

That land has a megaphone in our government.

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atomicmarc t1_ivpesxg wrote

It can't. But most of that land is also now owned by corporations. A lot of it isn't even populated, which is why I think there has to be a better way to illustrate demographics.

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Draano t1_ivphxd9 wrote

Maybe dots in those areas that would represent population. So relatively empty spaces would have a small dots far apart and cities would have lots of dots jammed together.

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circe811 t1_ivpbp0n wrote

Yes. That's where the people live. Crops don't vote.

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LesseFrost t1_ivqnswq wrote

Damn it's like every person has a vote. Who the hell cares what the land with nobody on it thinks?

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lafayette0508 t1_ivqd9c6 wrote

...yes? the votes are where the people are - what's your point?

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WatRedditHathWrought t1_ivpub7p wrote

Here’s the thing about that vote though. The republican Kansas legislature put that up for vote in primary and deliberately convoluted the wording in hopes of misleading democrats and independents. In all likelihood they confused the fuck out of anti-choice voters.

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tidytide t1_ivqmwfh wrote

I wish we could have a say in things like this in Texas… 😒

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tallguyfilms t1_ivpohuc wrote

It was not a few weeks ago, it was three months ago.

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