One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

[Wildman]

We all know how American Unions fuck over the American worker.

Day 16 of strike, union holds a rally
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) -- On day 16 of the Sun Tran strike, there is no end in sight.

On Friday Teamsters Union 104 held a rally at the Ronstadt Center. Dozens and dozens of union members (THUGS) showed up, along with teamsters with unions from California and New Mexico.
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not only "worker"(S) but every citizen of Tucson who depends on the buses to get to work, doctors appointments shopping, etc., are being victimized by the fucking teamster union and their thugs.

 

[Iceweasel]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

LOL...look at this steamy pile of shit. It's all the left has, smears. Look how the hit piece starts out...


The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.


Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.


Nearly 90 percent of the Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the far right of the conservative spectrum, described by Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution as “a radical insurgency — ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime [and] scornful of compromise.”

Really? So it's a vast right wing conspiracy when the left has zip to run on given the current state of affairs and didn't get support last November, while the right was fired up. Typical lowclass blame the other guy liberal horseshit. And they'll gobble it up all day long and beg for more.

90% are on the far right of the conservative spectrum? Scornful of compromise? You mean as opposed to labeling anyone that disagrees with you as Neanderthal and evil like the good liberals do? All that is based on what exactly, other than butthurt?

Try finding something worth supporting instead of smearing shit on the other guy. Remember, the longest journey begins with a single step.

 

[Darkwind]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

Yeah.....except they did none of that.

 

[Iceweasel]

In 22 States, a Wave of New Voting Restrictions Threatens to Shift Outcomes in Tight Races

The last large-scale push to curb voting access was more than a century ago, after Reconstruction. Until now.

Rather than simply throwing out you usual drive by bullshit, how about backing at least some of it up? In what world is better voter ID laws a bad thing? You like illegal voting? Well, it worked pretty good here when the Democrats stole the gubernatorial election with the help of ACORN by throwing in the illegal votes on the third recount. Why are liberals so goddamn corrupt?

 

[warf]

You like illegal voting? Well, it worked pretty good here when the Democrats stole the gubernatorial election with the help of ACORN by throwing in the illegal votes on the third recount

Did you make that up?

I don't know of a single case of voter fraud that has been proven.

 

[kaz]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

No, I want the Marxist utopia Democrats want us to have where a ubiquitous state cares for us and provides all our needs for us while we live in wealth and bliss all our days

 

[Wyatt earp]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

LOL...look at this steamy pile of shit. It's all the left has, smears. Look how the hit piece starts out...


The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.


Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.


Nearly 90 percent of the Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the far right of the conservative spectrum, described by Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution as “a radical insurgency — ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime [and] scornful of compromise.”

Really? So it's a vast right wing conspiracy when the left has zip to run on given the current state of affairs and didn't get support last November, while the right was fired up. Typical lowclass blame the other guy liberal horseshit. And they'll gobble it up all day long and beg for more.

90% are on the far right of the conservative spectrum? Scornful of compromise? You mean as opposed to labeling anyone that disagrees with you as Neanderthal and evil like the good liberals do? All that is based on what exactly, other than butthurt?

Try finding something worth supporting instead of smearing shit on the other guy. Remember, the longest journey begins with a single step.

Like I have always said Ice they vote for the prom king or Queen in mass.

Conservatives vote for policy ...

They are low information, ignorant voters and then hold protests ...like the minimum wage, so fucking stupid.

Hey dumb shits vote .....

 

[Iceweasel]

You like illegal voting? Well, it worked pretty good here when the Democrats stole the gubernatorial election with the help of ACORN by throwing in the illegal votes on the third recount

Did you make that up?

I don't know of a single case of voter fraud that has been proven.

You don't know is supposed to be meaningful? No, I didn't make it up, I was here and lived through it.

 

[nuhuh]

The advantage of having a system run by one party is that the results of their efforts are on display for everyone to grade.

Yeah and that's why Dems have lost so many State Houses recently.

Yeah, the heat is on. Republicans get to show the world their financial acumen for four years, before getting kicked to the curb....again.

 

[2aguy]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

The right to not pay a union just to work...and the right to carry a gun for self defense...Thank you Scott Walker...

 

[warf]

You don't know is supposed to be meaningful? No, I didn't make it up, I was here and lived through it.

Maybe you just think you lived through it. There was not one case of voter fraud because of ACORN. There were some phony registrations that ACORN reported. But no votes cast. Not one.

Phony registrations occur in every voter registration drive. But Micky Mouse and Donald Duck never actually show up at the polls.

 

[Iceweasel]

You don't know is supposed to be meaningful? No, I didn't make it up, I was here and lived through it.

Maybe you just think you lived through it. There was not one case of voter fraud because of ACORN. There were some phony registrations that ACORN reported. But no votes cast. Not one.

Phony registrations occur in every voter registration drive. But Micky Mouse and Donald Duck never actually show up at the polls.

Wrong, dumbfuck. You don't get to will it away.

7 charged with voter registration fraud
SEATTLE (AP) - King County prosecutors filed felony charges Thursday against seven people in what a top official described as the worst case of voter-registration fraud in state history, while the organization they worked for agreed to keep a better eye on its employees and pay $25,000 to defray costs of the investigation.

The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court.

 

[blackhawk]

Detroit enough said.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Loserterian control of everything will mean no infrastructure, no science institutions, no investment in r&d, no public school to send your children to if you're not rich. No leadership at all when it comes to improving their own fucking country!

They'll praise the nobility as old europe use to as the middle class is sold off until they're as poor as dog shit.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Detroit enough said.

Detroits problem is a break down of civilization! No tax base, no jobs, no ability to pay for police, and the educational system sucks. Do you want to do it to the rest of this country?

 

[Stephanie]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

oh brother. the same old tired DNC talking points. OBSTUCTED women's health care. get a load of the LIE. I live in a state with a Republican Governor. My health care hasn't been "obstructed" one bit. You know why? I PAY for my own health care. you all should try it sometime
when you have some proof of all that let us know. Until don't move to a state with a Republican governor. simple

 

[warf]

The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court.

How many of those fraudulently registered voted? None!

There was fraud by those hired to register voters. Actually they defrauded ACORN.

As I said, there is no voter fraud.

If you can't tell the difference that is your problem. Unless you are using the typical right wing tactic of changing the subject in the middle of a discussion.

 

[Stephanie]

The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court.

How many of those fraudulently registered voted? None!

There was fraud by those hired to register voters. Actually they defrauded ACORN.

As I said, there is no voter fraud.

If you can't tell the difference that is your problem. Unless you are using the typical right wing tactic of changing the subject in the middle of a discussion.

that is so much BS. we saw districts claiming 100% for Obama and they had a Republican Senator who they forgot to add in while defrauding the rest of the people. You want to talk about a LIE. how you all think anyone will buy that is astounding

 

[Stephanie]

here ya go. but SNOPES wants you all to know. THEY jumped right on that machine that was out not Calibrated right and fixed it. so you all hear you have NO WORRIES about voter fraud. YEAH RIGHT. it's become RAMPANT and the people better start keeping an eye on things

SNIP;
Origins: On 22 October 2014, a conservative blog in Illinois published Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan's account of an early voting glitch. According to Moynihan, his attempt to cast votes for himself and other Republican candidates on 20 October 2014 in Cook County, Illinois, resulted in a votes being recorded for Democratic opponents instead:
"While early voting at the Schaumburg Public Library today, I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent," said Moynihan. "You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat."

While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race. He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate's party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race. It is unknown if the machine in question (#008958) has been removed from service or is still in operation.
Moynihan also tweeted about his polling place experience on 20 October 2014:

open your eyes and SNOPES Has become another biased site leaning towards the left
snopes.com: Rigged Voting Machines Changed Republican Votes to Democratic?




Read more at snopes.com: Rigged Voting Machines Changed Republican Votes to Democratic?

 

[rdean]

One party system: What total Republican control of a state really means

The U.S. Constitution gives the states almost total control over how Americans live and vote. Republicans appear to have grasped the importance of this, but most Democrats have not. Since losing the White House and Congress in 2008, the GOP has focused time, money and talent on gaining control of state governments.

Their efforts have paid off. In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, older, white and upper-income voters, including many Tea Party supporters, turned out in force, while Democratic constituencies, including many young and minority voters, stayed home. The result is that Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and legislature in 24 states, 70 of the nation’s 99 state legislative chambers, both chambers in 30 states, plus Nebraska’s single chamber, and 31 governor’s mansions.

Republican control of states--what are the results? Many of these states wasted no time in adopting radical elements of the Republican agenda, such as:

Gerrymandering
Voter suppression
Loose gun regulation
Suppression of civil rights
Cut funding for public school education; eliminated teaching positions
Eliminated preschool
Cut funding for higher education
Banned use of climate-change science
Reduced unemployment benefits
NC repealed Racial Justice Act
Eliminate earned-income tax credit for poor
Imposed higher sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest
Extended tax breaks for wealthy
Tax cuts for wealthy
Budget deficits
Obstructed women's healthcare
Squashing unions and oppressing workers

The author wrote: "Unless this changes radically, what the Republicans have done in the past five years may be just a prelude to what’s ahead."

Is this the kind of country we really want?

How anyone could think this is funny, I don't know. It's not funny, it's tragic.