Oh absolutely not, especially if we take any kind of historical view of how we got here it’s a ton of patriarchal rape culture bullshit that demanding we treat abusive monsters with politeness that led to this “bipartisanship over every other concern” idiocy we see all over the Democratic party

Still, Annie Andrews is shaping up to be a completely perfect example of this crap and it’s looking like we should start searching for somebody to primary her now. Call it internalized misogyny or a lack of class consciousness or whatever, but she’s perpetuating the crap that’s killing this country.

Not just awful men (arc), unfortunately

KELLY: I saw Nikki Haley, the Republican former governor of your state. She said last night South Carolina didn’t vote for you. They voted against Trump Republicans. What do you think? Do you think both can be true?

ANDREWS: I think we worked really hard to build a campaign that was for everyone. And we brought together people from across the political spectrum. I was so proud to earn the endorsement of former Republican South Carolina Governor David Beasley, also proud to have the support of Ralph Norman’s children, including his son, Warren Norman. And we built a campaign that was really laser-focused on the problems South Carolinians face, regardless of if you’re a Republican, a Democrat or an independent.

And that’s what the story from last night was - that people are tired of the divisiveness. They’re more concerned about what’s happening in South Carolina than they are about the party politics in Washington, D.C. And they saw in me someone who will be a fighter for South Carolina, someone who’s serious about solving these problems and, again, willing to work across the aisle. The only two senators I’ve talked to since I won my race last night are Senators Darline Graham and Senator Tim Scott. And Tim Scott and I are planning to get together next week because we’re going to work together to solve…

KELLY: Yeah.

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Don’t boo! Organize disruptive protests and force them to do what needs to be done

Emotional validation for Stephen Miller

They allegedly found a handful of idiots. This is the same DOJ that tried to put people in jail because their boss broke the reflecting pool and then couldn’t accept the blame, they’ll charge anybody with anything.

A press conference promising consequences isn’t consequences, but yeah maybe

Let’s just bring back literacy tests for voting, no way that could go wrong /s

Gotta go with the headline I was given, but while we’re critiquing it - considering every voter they talked to for this article thought the NYT story was stupid, “mixed reactions” is a hell of a euphemism

And how do we decide which candidates actually want to run for office and which aren’t serious? We normalize this kind of thinking and it’ll be a few months before government officials are saying anyone who isn’t a registered Republican isn’t a serious candidate.

Fwiw, I was pissed when I wrote my first comment and more of an asshole about this than was necessary, but that’s because this whole idea of restricting who can run for office is fucking terrifying.

Fairbanks doctoral student Eric Evans said he was frustrated the controversy was drawing attention away from more important issues, such as the war with Iran. He said he had yet to make a final decision on who to vote for in the race.

“I think it’s really, really unfortunate that the state Supreme Court of Alaska ruled on this months ago, and that this is what we’re talking about at this critical point in time, when, really, we should be talking about, how are we going to solve things?” he said.

Fuck the very notion of a spoiler candidate. If government officials can say who is and isn’t allowed to run for office we don’t have a democracy. Ranked choice voting is a complete solve for this non-issue, giving cops and prosecutors another tool to bonk dissenters on the head with will only make shit worse.

Hell fucking no, “ballot stacking” is a made up bullshit term pushed by dogshit wannabe tyrant political consultant assholes who don’t like voters having choices. If we’re going to be a democracy then anyone should be able to run for office regardless of their name.

It’s funny that the US government complains about other countries interfering in their elections considering they’re treating this guy like a failed CIA agent

Look, we know they’re a Chinese-speaking hacker, what else do you need to know? /s

Sucks that it’s more likely Hunter Foster has already been offered a job with a pay raise at some other Mississippi cop shop that likes his style. At least they finally released the fuckers’ name so people can try to keep tabs on him.

So, 2022 is actually after 2020, when

Nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana," Biden told voters at a Tuesday house party in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Asked by CNN if the former vice president supports legalizing marijuana, Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman, said Biden believes the drug should be decriminalized

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/joe-biden-marijuana-decriminalization/ (arc)

Biden lowered marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug.

Which isn’t what he promised to do while campaigning, and the difference between descheduling and rescheduling enabled this arrest and prosecution, which is exactly how Biden wanted it because he is and always has been racist fucking scum who has fought to preserve law enforcement’s ability to harass black people

he did a mass federal pardon for past federal

Uh huh

As far as bold acts of mass clemency go, it won’t lead to many people getting out of prison. In fact, it will lead to none. According to the White House and a report this week from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) there is no one currently in federal custody for simple possession of marijuana.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/15/don-t-expect-mass-prison-releases-from-biden-s-marijuana-clemency (arc)

e; Two more stories while I’m thinking about this,

In March, 2021, the Daily Beast reported that “dozens” of White House staffers had been “suspended, asked to resign or placed in a remote work program” because they had admitted to prior cannabis use. This action affected even those whose use had occurred in legal states.[13] When asked for comment, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that five staffers had been fired over the issue.[14] In addition, Biden himself, when asked to comment on US track and field athlete Sha’carri Richardson’s 30-day suspension from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a failed drug test, initially offered, “the rules are the rules.”[15] After it was announced that Richardson would be denied the chance to compete after the 30-day suspension was lifted, Psaki later suggested that the rules surrounding Richardson’s suspension be re-examined.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Biden_administration?wprov=sfla1

Joe Biden is and always was a fucking asshole

I voted for a guy in 2020 who said he was gonna deschedule marijuana but turns out he was a filthy liar so shrugs

The Trump administration appealed, arguing that treatments raised security concerns and “could no longer be justified.” A divided appeals court panel left the order in place.

About 600 inmates were receiving hormone therapy in 2025, the agency said in court records. Withdrawing care would have significant effects on their bodies and mental health, their lawyers said. The government has not detailed evidence of security problems linked to hormone therapy for transgender inmates over the 30 years it has been provided, they wrote.

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Hard to say what’s more galling, the self assured stupidity of just flatly arguing “giving prisoners healthcare is a security risk” with no examples or even hypothetical scenarios to back it up, or the fact that there was at least one judge dumb and hateful enough to go along with it in both the appellate court and with the supremes

Yeah, what they’re describing sounds like a hate crime against disabled people, what this lady did is just protesting a company with shitty business practices

I think this is just another corporations have more rights than people thing. If someone was blocking a delivery truck with a human driver to protest whatever company they worked for the cops would probably arrest them too.