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  1. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

     


    It’s impossible to state how “hot garbage” that piece is. But I’ll just throw one curveball that wrecks the whole thing:
    Now do Buffalo grocery stores and El Paso Wal-Marts.

    Jesus tapdancing Christ, it isn’t JUST schools, schools are just the most heinous example. It’s as if sections of our highways periodically exploded and destroyed all the vehicles on them. One day, they destroy 5 sedans in Buffalo, filled with a mix of folks. We’re horrified, but I guess not horrified enough. The next day, one segment blows up in Uvalde and kills a school bus full of elementary school kids, to our profound horror.

    Abbott, Cruz, and their moronic sycophants would spend the entire time talking about “hardening school buses,” and “better bus driver training,” and other bullshit. NO, YOU MALEVOLENT FUCKSTICKS, IT’S NOT ABOUT THE SCHOOL BUSES, IT’S ABOUT THE REGULARLY EXPLODING ROADS. THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT’S ABOUT.

     

    Apologies for piling on to this completely worthless article, but I think it's important to note (not that most others are of any other mindset on this point) that the Ted Cruzes and Breitbart/GOP psychos do understand that logically their line of thinking would involving "hardening" every public space a potential shooter could target, but they simply don't care about non-school shootings (to be fair they don't truly care about dead elementary school kids, its just so beyond the pale that they have to actually engage with the aftermath in a real way. ) For dead grocery shoppers/church goers/etc., Ted Cruz/GOP psychos are entirely off the "tough shit its a consequence of our 2A rights" variety. At this point the "more policing" aspect seems to be almost entirely feature and very little bug. 

  2. 18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Don't underestimate RBG's fanbase, and women in general.

    And they can gerrymander to hell and back, but it can only take them so far - Texas is already a minority-majority state, and has been for years.  Hell, Texas wasn't expected to be a minority-majority state until right about now, but it switched years ago.

    And that's on top of all of the East and West Coasters moving in from out-of-state.

    How does the Mormon carry Texas in 2012 by 16 points, and Trump carries it by 9 over Hillary, who had a massive amount of people who hated her here?  

    Republicans are fucking around and driving moderates and younger folks away, and the loss of Texas would gut them (we still had a Democrat Lt. Governor into 1999, and many older Republicans used to be Democrats, such as Rick Perry).  And Florida is already there - went for Obama twice, Trump won it by 1.2%.

    Shit's changing too much for gerrymandering to help out.  There's a reason why so many Republican Representatives have retired the past 2-3 years.

    I sincerely hope you're right on the enthusiasm point, I'm just skeptical that SCOTUS will be the tipping point for a significant number of people given all the other shit this administration has done that should have people frothing at the mouth to vote. 

    I think we're in complete agreement on the gerrymandering point - the changing demographics are too much for this iteration of the Republican party to have popular support for much longer, so the Repub plan has been for some time now to stock as many lifetime federal judges on the bench as possible to scuttle any positive legislation the Democrats pass. 

  3. 9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The only problem in that scenario, is that it's going to drive D turnout big time out of anger.

    Trump showed in 2016 what happens when you can get people angry.

    I think people expecting some huge boost in turnout are going to be disappointed. The importance of SCOTUS and ahistorical nature of what the GOP did in 2016 is too obscure for most voters. 

    Even if it were to really rile people up, I think Republicans would take that tradeoff. Their plan for sometime has been to stock the judiciary with young right wing psychos and gerrymander like hell to maintain power in the face of changing demographics. They'd trade getting a supermajority on the court for the next 10+ years for invigorating the Dam base and reducing Trump's election chances without a second thought.

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