Well…god, what the hell is wrong with modern repubs? Okay, everything but here’s one of their pet projects that is going to get people killed…in NC, the repubs just advanced a bill that would outlaw anyone from wearing a mask in public…no cancer patients, no immunocompromised people, no old people, no one…and you can bet that people are going to die and their reason for it? So criminals can’t hide their faces…another bullshit reason that these hard right assholes are using…but you know who is not included? The KKK…yep those right wing assholes are exempt along with the balaclava wearing militias that infest the whole state…but someone trying to not get the disease that has killed over 150,000 people in NC…nope…another good reason to never set foot in a red state…and this goes along with Florida repubs who are trying to outlaw vaccines in their state…so people, stop trying to twll me all the time there is no difference between dems and repubs…the repubs are actively trying to kill people…we aren’t…geez…
Tag Archives: North Carolina
This is new…
Well…have been doing a bunch of reading today and just came across a new ruling by a state court in North Carolina that struck down two new constitutional amendments on the grounds that the repubs control the legislature only because of an illegal racial gerrymander and therefore have no right to place the amendments on the ballot. Now, this is something I have been waiting for quite a while now…that the damage that repubs have been able to do across the country due to stealing elections, voter suppression, and gerrymandering is illegal and this is the first court (out of many, I hope) that has reversed some of this damage by the novel legal ruling that, by cheating, everything that is a result of this cheating is invalid. A ruling like this, if upheld, would take away the incentive that the repubs have to cheat since the poisoned fruit of that cheating could be reversed by the courts in their role of being a referee of fairness. Now, let’s extend that to the current squatter in the WH…if we could just get this ruling applied to idiot boy, his SC appointments, his tariffs, and all the other damage could be reversed since the Mueller report will show that trump was illegally elected and therefore is not entitled to any of the powers that come with the office. We can only hope that this decision stands and is expanded to ensure this country works as its supposed to….and then we’ll stop rewarding cheaters for their blatant rigging of our system…impeach…
This is how far they’ll go…
Well…we all know that the repubs can only win elections by cheating since their ideas are so unpopular with over 60% of the electorate…and cheat they do, gerrymandering, voter purges, and voter ID are just a few of the methods they regularly use to stay in power…but, in North Carolina they have come up with a new one in a little watched race….it appears that the repub candidate who is ahead by a little over 900 votes, has had people affiliated with his campaign, or maybe it’s the party go door to door collecting absentee ballots and changing the votes in them to repubs or, if they have dem votes and can’t be changed, just throwing them in the trash. This cheating is so bad that the repub controlled election board voted unanimously to not certify the election results…and the kicker is that the majority of the stolen ballots were from elderly black voters who certainly wouldn’t have voted for the repub….so they get a two fer…steal an election and be a racist piece of shit….anyone involved in this scheme, including the candidate who it appears did this same thing to win the primary needs to go to jail..after all, voter fraud is so damn important to the repubs…geez…
You want to see the real GOP?
Well…if you want to see the real GOP and what they would do to voting rights across the country, you just have to look at North Carolina. Today, the repubs there sent out a press release crowing that African American early voting is down by 10%….and showing that their voter suppression tactics of closing down polling places in AA neighborhoods and cutting early voting times really do work…as they intended…and you know, there is only one party that crows that they have kept people from voting and is doing it’s best to suppress votes all across the country. Why is this acceptable? Why isn’t this the lead story on every news show? I think people have gotten used to how rotten the modern repubs are and they don’t think this is a story…but, we all need to keep talking about this and vote these asses out of office…geez…
Finally, some wins on voting rights…
Well…with the repubs across this country doing everything they can to make sure dems can’t vote by many different types of voter suppression laws they have passed since the supreme court gutted the Voting Rights Act…saying that racism doesn’t exist anymore (yeah right)….it looked like they were going to be able to rig the election this fall. But, over the past few days, the courts have started to understand that these laws intent is not to prevent “voter fraud” but to make sure the poor, minorities, and anyone else that traditionally votes for dems can’t vote. The most egregious of these was North Carolina…big surprise…who called a special session the day after the supreme court ruled to blatantly use statistics on how blacks vote to make sure the new law would make it harder for them to vote….and the court slapped them down by saying that the new restrictions violated the constitution and immediately stopped them. The same thing happened in both Wisconsin and Texas this week so maybe the tide is turning and the rigging of the system by repubs will stop…and if they can’t cheat, they can’t win…geez…
Typical repub crap in NC…
Well…with the outcry by business for the repubs in NC to repeal the discriminatory HB2, the response today from the repub legislators there is just so damn typical…they won’t listen to their constituents or to the businesses that want the law gone but they will threaten businesses that are speaking out…who are exercising their first amendment right to speak out against the law with legislation that will retaliate against these business in any way they can…by rescinding tax breaks and any other means that they used to draw these businesses to their state….something that is blatantly illegal under the US constitution…but, as we have know for some time, no constitution means anything to them unless they can use it to hate and punish people they don’t like…if you had any question what the repubs are about, just look at the states they control…they operate like the thugs they are in every one of them…and NC is just the latest example….geez…
More NC…
Well…I know I’ve written about North Carolina an their stupid bill that allows discrimination against the LGBT community…that’s stupid enough that they passed this thing, but with the financial fallout reaching almost a hundred million dollars and counting, you would think that the idiot legislators there would have some feeling for the people who are losing their jobs just so the extremists there can hate…but you would be wrong to think that…just the other day, one of the chief haters responsible for the legislation just blew at the question of job and financial losses, just saying that he basically didn’t give a damn if “liberal” companies left the state and that tourists stopped coming…completing that thought with the real reason for the bill…to keep NC “straight” not to protect women as they lied the reason for it was…typical repub asshollery….they don’t care about anyone’s job but their own….I don’t like it when people lose their jobs but they elected these clowns…maybe now they will think about who they vote for…geez…
The fallout begins to crush NC…
Well…after the idiot repubs in North Carolina passed the anti LGBT law a few weeks back that allows discrimination against those folks…their even more idiot governor told the press that he had not seen any effect on business in the state…yeah, that was then…but now, just today, Deustch Bank pulled a 250 job expansion in the state that goes with Paypal’s 400 jobs that will not be coming to the state…and it gets even worse…in a state economy that does lots of convention and tourism business, the cancellations are now starting to be reported with at least 29 groups cancelling their trips to the state. What does this mean to the tourism industry? The estimate so far is that they will lose almost 90,000 room nights with the cancellations…if we use an average of just $100 per night that makes almost $9 million dollars that the state has lost already and that is just the start. How many jobs will go with the loss of that $9 million? At least another few hundred and the ball is just now getting rolling. I have sympathy for the people being hurt that didn’t want the law passed…with the last poll saying that over 60% of the people there didn’t want the law but the far right haters there just had to do it…it’s the only thing that these idiots know…hate….and I really hope the state continues to pay dearly for these asses actions…they are getting what they deserve…geez…
Some hope in NC…
Well…with the passage of the new pro discrimination law in NC…the backlash has been fun to watch with company after company telling their idiot governor that they will leave the state and him trying and failing to justify the law…and now, the democratic attorney general has said that he will not defend the law in court…and there have been a number of suits already filed by the ACLU and others…I’m not sure what that will mean to getting the law repealed but there is one observation I want to make here…on every issue of expanding the rights of all the people, so everyone has equal rights, the dems are on the right side and the repubs are always on the side of oppression and keeping people from getting their rights…and, some repubs are starting to realize it….I read a quote the other day that a leading repub was lamenting that the country is leaving them behind and he is not sure what place conservatives have here anymore…I’d like to say your bigoted, cheating ways have no place in the US anymore…and I hope we show them that at the ballot box in November…geez…
The common thread….
Well….during this election year, I want everyone to remember the common thread that runs through all of the anti LGBT legislation that is being passed across the country…they are all being proposed and passed by the repubs. Every person that cares about the civil rights of all of our fellow citizens must make these asses pay at the ballot box this November…it isn’t bad enough that the repubs wreck the economy of every state they control…now they want to wreck the lives of people they hate…Kansas just went so far as to pass a law that would give anyone 2,500 dollars if they “outed” any trans person using a restroom that matches their gender identity…now, I think that the repubs should be labeled a hate group for these kind of actions…and anyone…and I have friends that do this…that purposely ignore what these idiots are doing and vote for them should be ashamed…geez…