My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about. Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
Yeah we definitely know that in Ohio
More than 15 years ago, Iowans VOTED TO TAX THEMSELVES to clean up our poisoned water, but the GOP legislatures & governors won’t follow through!!!! Now we have 2nd highest cancer rate in the nation.
Missouri Republicans want to turn the state into a lavatory of democracy.
😂 lavatory?!
Governor needs to be impeached and convicted.
How is that legal?
The gop doesn’t give a damn about its voters once they are born
Doesn't seem to be an option to gift this article, but it strikes me that all Dems need do to win rural and small-city working class votes would be to do mass social media comically showing the non-elite folks who run this administration. Elites! The horror! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
This should work for all you huddled masses yearning to be free (don't ask how I got this subscription!): wapo.st/4eVNahl
Nice HAND GESTURE there too, motherfucker. Cannot possibly imagine why he has the knives out for DEI.
And before some Pollyanna goes, "w-WHAT? What could you POSSIBLY be talking about?!?" here you go (and be prepared for someone else to call it pure coincidence that an anti-DEI warrior would just happen to give the "OK" sign!): www.adl.org/resources/ha...
Jess, so glad you and David have started working together. Or collaborating. He is a great person who has been working hard here in Ohio, which shares similar issues as Missouri.
Replying with a heartfelt 🥴 from Indiana.
So the people VOTED for it and the gov decided to ignore the votes of his constituents -- the ONLY votes that should matter? Where are we going with this. Isn't this, maybe, one stop away from ANY already elected official deciding that no matter WHAT the final vote might be, it can be ignored?
The trend here is GOP governors taking the same approach as trump: they take election to office as carte blanche to rule as they see fit. Checks and balances are a thing of the past, as far as they are concerned. Winning their election was the last thing they'll ever need from voters, they feel.
The governor signed the bill that repealed the mandate. Google if you want to understand.
Stop voting for republicans!!!!
Stop voting for republicans.
Don't vote for Republicans because Republicans don't vote for you.
And these same people will re-elect him and keep voting for Republicans. It's almost as if they deserve everything they get. Seriously, the Governorship isn't gerrymandered; there is no other way to interpret it other than that this is what they want.
Why do they put these pukes in office?
4+ decades of undermining public education, crony-owned radio and tv stations broadcasting propaganda every day, profound gerrymandering.
Here is a list of products and services to boycott state of Missouri
Come on, this Repubtard can't have people being paid during the upcoming measles outbreak so carefully planned. Pro-life strikes again! The measles vaccination rate among kindergarten-age children in Missouri has dropped from 95% to approximately 90% since 2017, according to state health officials
Ohio here. Always impressed with David Pepper.
Some very powerful law firm has to sue to test the constitutionality of unilaterally repealing what voters have decided. Good chance of a win. Then take it all the way to John Roberts and when he deep-sixes it, the blood is on the Trump SCOTUS' hands. Again.
Kinda reverse! Not long back the Wisconsin (GOP) tried making their democratic governor useless. Think has lighting up now for him.
This has certainly been the case with the TN Super GOP Majority who has controlled the State of TN for years.
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KY voted NOT to ban abortions by a landslide and the AG Daniel Cameron said, “Nope, I don’t think so” and overturned it. And NO ONE did anything about!
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No worries; Missouri voters will find a way to blame democrats for their lack of paid sick leave. Or become scared of a socialist mayor in NYC. Or whatever horror story is sold to them about California on Fox News. It's what their governor is banking on. He thinks they're stupid. Is he right?
Yes
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Voters have no idea what they want. They elected the governor but wanted a policy entirely opposite of what he would approve of
Kind of the spitting image of Spiro Agnew, isn't he? 😂
The GOP demonstrating once again the kind of “social toilet” it has become.
Ignorant ques here, Jess, but how does this happen? The majority vote for something and it’s implemented. How is it removed by one person? And how is this legal?
There are a lot of reasons. Indoctrination probably tops my list.
And gerrymandering. The state reps and senators must have some very safe districts. Politicians choose the voters, etc.
Because he signed a bill brought by the Missouri legislators. The voters are deciding whether or not to try to bring a petition for a ballot initiative that would make it an amendment to their constitution - then the legislators/Governor could not change it or repeal it. 1/2
2/2 Here's the thing - the republicans framed the issue as a 'job killer' etc. Unfortunately, their bullshit propaganda tends to land with the public, in part because the opposition isn't anywhere near as loud in calling them out.
Yep. Decades. Maine state legislature passed Medicaid expansion 6 times. Six sustained vetoes. Then voters approved legislation expanding Medicaid via referendum. And Governor LePage tied up implementation for almost two years via the courts. Finally replaced the governor.
Missouri republicans have been “saving voters from themselves” for decades now.
The governor believes you don’t need no stinkin leave. Work while you’re sick you lazy bastards.
Yep. And it's terrifying.
Hence the phrase “we need a president to run the country like a business”
Dude should have stuck with selling cars.
The South has always had an authoritarian, autocratic, and to put it more plainly, fascist bent. Jefferson Davis wasn't elected, he was picked by the southern elites, and they convinced the poor white people that others were coming to take all their stuff and way of life. History rhymes.
Florida has also Beta-Tested much of the leaching away of civil rights and academic freedom.
So if you try to call the POS’s office today, the mailbox is full. I’ll bet it is!
Why they should no longer vote for #GOP leadership. Will they learn their lesson? Doubtful..
The south won the civil war part 2: reconstruction and the ENTIRE nation has been rebuilt in its fucked racist image. The US IS THE CONFEDERACY.
Interesting.
