@izzythepush,
Quote:Baldimo is a transphobic bigot. He is intolerant of those who are different.
Disagreeing with their way of life isn't bigoted and doesn't make one a bigot. I've never said anything hateful about transpeople, you just don't like that I disagree with them. You happen to say some of the most hateful things on this site.
Quote:He also thinks his pathetic need to have to have a gun so he can pretend to be a man is far more important than a child's right to life.
My right to own guns has nothing to do with the death of children. The very fact you attempt to use children to limit a Constitutional Right is what is pathetic and unConstitutional. How are those knife and acid attacks working out over there?
Quote:So yes, he is evil, he supports bigotry, hate and discrimination.
No I don't, that is what you think because I disagree with you.
Quote:These are all choices he has made, he doesn't have to be like this. So it's no wonder that decent people don't have any truck with him.
You want an echo chamber, not an exchange of ideas or a difference of opinion. Truck with me? UK slang?
Quote:The difference between the "Left's" intolerance is that he sulks because nobody wants to talk to him.
I don't sulk, there are plenty of people on this site that I have discussions with. The hateful rhetoric comes from your ilk.
Quote:His bigotry causes events like Sandy Hook and the murders of people like Nikki Enriquez.
What happened in Sandy Hook that had anything to do with bigotry? As for Nikki Enriquez, I've never heard of her but looking up info on the story, it looks like you are wrong as usual. She wasn't killed because she was trans, she was killed by a serial killer who liked to kill sex workers. The story you share doesn't even mention the fact that she was 1 of 4 women killed by this monster:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/03/border-patrol-murders-laredo-juan-david-ortiz-weapon/1515525002/
So stop spreading propaganda and making false accusations against people you disagree with, her death had nothing to do with being trans and I do not support the death of transpeople. Saying a do is a bald face lie!
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:
I would disagree. Who encourages people to place those they disagree with on ignore?
IDK but you gona tell me, right?
Come to think of it, I might have some of them on ignore...
Another DNC leader, this time in CA, is resigning due to sexual harassment allegations:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-democratic-party-chairman-eric-bauman-resignation-20181129-story.html
Quote:Bauman’s decision to resign follows a report from The Times on Wednesday that said 10 party staff members and political activists accused him of making crude sexual comments and engaging in unwanted touching or physical intimidation in professional settings.
You will notice this news has come forward after the elections, not during, when it would do the most damage. Leave it to the MSM to protect their own.
@Olivier5,
Quote:IDK but you gona tell me, right?
I might have some of them on ignore...
You are one of the people I'm talking about. Thanks for proving my point.
@Baldimo,
Hey, I never said I was tolerant. Like everyone, I have my limits, my 'boundaries'.
Michigan Republicans used a dirty trick to circumvent voters and gut minimum wage increase
Voters were getting ready to approve progressive economic reforms in Michigan, but it didn’t happen
MATTHEW CHAPMAN
NOVEMBER 29, 2018 7:12PM (UTC)
Democrats had a fantastic Election Night in Michigan. In addition to re-electing Sen. Debbie Stabenow and gaining two extra House seats, Michigan Democrats elected former state Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer as their next governor, picked up seats in the state House and Senate, and passed ballot measures legalizing recreational marijuana, establishing an independent redistricting commission, and expanding voting rights.
Another large goal of progressive activists, however, was to establish a minimum wage increase and a right to paid sick leave. That did not turn out quite as well because of a dirty trick played by the GOP-controlled legislature.
Initially, voters were gathering signatures to put two measures on the ballot: Michigan One Fair Wage, which would raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour for both tipped and nontipped workers, and MI Time To Care, which would require employers to give workers 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Republicans in the legislature responded by passing these proposals outright two months before the election.
That might sound like a win for progressives, but, in fact, it wasn't. Had these laws passed as ballot measures, they would have required a 3/4 majority in both the state House and Senate to be amended or repealed. By preemptively passing these proposals as regular bills, Republicans took them off the ballot — and allowed themselves to significantly roll them back by a simple majority if they wished.
That is now happening.
On Wednesday, just weeks after the election, Republicans in the state Senate passed legislation that would gut both the minimum wage and paid sick leave laws before their enactment next year. Under the new, modified version, the minimum wage increase would be rolled out over 11 years instead of 3, and not apply to tipped workers (thus defeating the entire point of the slogan "One Fair Wage"). The new paid leave bill will also exempt businesses with less than 50 workers, increase the number of hours employees must work for each hour of paid leave to 40, and cut in half the minimum accrued hours per year from 72 to 36. If the state House passes it too, then Republicans can get it onto the desk of lame duck Gov. Rick Snyder before Whitmer takes office.
Senate Democrats are outraged, and One Fair Wage organizer Pete Vargas has called the maneuver "blatantly unconstitutional," and "just plain wrong." Republicans may even face court challenges over their attempt to circumvent the referendum process.
But regardless of how it turns out, the whole affair is yet another demonstration of how far Republicans will go to circumvent voters and get their way — even in the wake of an election that has thoroughly repudiated their agenda.
@izzythepush,
Thank you Izzy for standing up in support for transgendered people.
I didn't mock anyone, prove I did.
@neptuneblue,
Even when progressive initiatives do get on the ballot, and large majorities of voters approve them, Republicans often do all they can to block or sabotage their implementation or revert them altogether.
In Maine, for example, Governor LePage and Republican legislatures long blocked and delayed the implementation of instant runoff voting, and voters had to approve it a second time in a referendum to overrule them.
In South Dakota, voters passed an ambitious lobbying/ethics reform in 2016, and the Republicans responded by literally declaring a state of emergency to overturn that vote.
Here's another new example - though the piece also points out that Democrats in DC were similarly guilty of sabotaging the implementation of the voters' will:
Quote:An Insult to Missouri: Politicians try to undermine a constitutional amendment passed in a landslide this month.
The voters of Missouri this month overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment with the aim of making their state government work in less partisan, less corrupt ways.
The amendment bars lawmakers from accepting lobbyists’ gifts worth more than $5. It also bars former state officials from accepting a paid lobbying job for two years after leaving office. And it changes the process for drawing state-legislature districts to be fairer for both parties.
Some 62 percent of Missourians voted for the amendment, known as Clean Missouri. And yet, in the three weeks since Election Day, top Republicans in Missouri have started a cynical effort to weaken the new law.
The day after the election, the Republican speaker of the Missouri House, Elijah Haahr, said that he wanted “to strike up conversations with African-American lawmakers who have expressed misgivings that Clean Missouri could reduce the [number] of black lawmakers,” Jason Rosenbaum of St. Louis Public Radio reported. That’s a classic strategy for Republican gerrymandering: Effectively guarantee black-held seats in exchange for reducing the overall number of Democratic seats.
Last week, opponents of the amendment created a political group to undermine it, Tony Messenger, a metro columnist for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has noted. The group has the Alice-in-Wonderland name of “Fair Missouri” and $150,000 in initial funding. Its goal is to place a new measure on the ballot that would sabotage parts of the amendment before they can take effect.
“This is about preserving the power to gerrymander legislative districts,” Messenger wrote. It is, he added, an “absurd insult to Missouri voters.”
It also fits two larger — and disturbing — patterns. One, local legislators of both parties have recently shown a willingness to undercut citizen-passed initiatives, Sarah Holder of CityLab has noted. The city council in Washington is a good example: Dominated by Democrats, it overturned a wage increase for restaurant workers a mere four months after voters approved it. That move was also — to use Messenger’s phrase — an absurd insult to voters.
@nimh,
Quote:Even when progressive initiatives do get on the ballot, and large majorities of voters approve them, Republicans often do all they can to block or sabotage their implementation or revert them altogether.
Tell me again about CA Prop 187 and CA prop 8?
CO has TABOR, Tax Payer Bill of Rights, and the DNC leftist politicians are doing everything in their power to overturn the will of the people.
@Baldimo,
Yeah,but you still didn't answer what nimh said about voter initiatives in Maine, South Dakota and Missouri.
@Blickers,
It seems to be part of the new political game that has been played over the last decade or so, I've been talking about it since Prop 187 in CA back in the late 90's. The voters pass something and the politicians think they know what is better for them, so they either change the law or don't back the people's vote when and if it goes to the courts. It's not new and it's not specific to the GOP as I noted in my 2 CA examples in that post.
GM warned Trump that his China tariffs would hurt jobs. He now complains that it's happening.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-trade-war-trump-blames-gm-for-job-losses-caused-by-his-tariffs-2018-11
Still proud of Trump?
Stacey Abrams and voting rights advocates are suing to reform Georgia's election system
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/29/1815989/-Stacey-Abrams-and-voting-rights-advocates-are-suing-to-reform-Georgia-s-election-system?detail=emaildkre
Georgia has the fox guarding the henhouse... What could go wrong?
Dems fight to protect the sanctity and validity of the voting box.
