Good simple explanation above. This is bad.
This makes Dobbs seem like a minor glitch in the matrix.
By the way, all you third party voters who thought you were being so smart, morally pure and superior by voting for Ralph Nader in 2000, and Jill Stein in 2016?
Fuck you all the way off.
This week’s SCOTUS decision overturning the long recognized “Chevron
Doctrine” is the most consequential, certainly since the Dobbs decision that invalidated Roe v Wade, but in some respects, even more far reaching.
It has implications for the air we breath, the food we eat, the water we drink, and our ability to maintain a livable planet.
So if you haven’t read Democracy in Chains yet, do so, and let the lightbulbs go off.
Mmm. All the ‘morally pure’ voters get is an intense sense of impotent rage, the hatred of even those they admire, and 100% of the blame for being the 1-5% of voters (when only about 50% even show up to vote) in an election who vote third party, even if they might live in a state where they know for certain their vote won’t even be counted towards the Presidency in an electoral system where one party dominates over the other – plus the all the blame for everything else that happens afterwards.
Many third party voters are people who wouldn’t vote for either party in that election – they would have rather not voted at all than vote for one of the two candidates. It’s going to happen with RFK Jr. this year. He’ll pull some from either side, but many who vote for him are doing so because they very much don’t want to vote for the other two.
But, we all know third party candidates go absolutely nowhere, and therefore we are forever and hopelessly stuck in a system where we only have two choices. This year it’s Methuselah vs. Mephistopheles.
I know I’ll be hated for saying it – I did vote for Stein in 2016, but I have absolutely nothing to do with this Supreme Court decision. I live in friggin’ Texas, and I knew at the time there was no way Hillary Clinton was going to win the state that year. My vote was simply a protest against the perennial two-party electoral system. Stein won 0.8% of the vote in Texas that year and Trump beat Clinton by 9%, even with a Libertarian winning 3.2% of the vote in the state.
Impotent, yes, ‘morally pure and superior’, yes, but I refuse to accept any blame for the Supreme Court and their decisions.
I will vote for Biden this year. I would’ve voted for HC if she had a chance in Texas in 2016, and there’s very little chance Biden will win Texas in 2024, but the state is slowly (too slowly) turning into a swing state. My vote for the Presidency in an electoral system hasn’t counted for decades. Even local races always go to the Republicans. My own wishes politically never count for the Democrats nationally, too, who cycle after cycle elect a moderate instead of a true liberal. All I have is my impotent rage about not being personally represented, for being stuck along with everyone else in a rigid political system, and being hated for daring to question it.
https://x.com/waltermasterson/status/1806862413167305092
When the Polticians write a law that isn’t clear who should decide what it means? Should it be the government bureaucrats or the courts?
The bureaucrats are not described in the Constitution as relevant to interpreting law. That falls to the courts.
It appears that the Supreme Court has followed Consitutional law in this matter.
The talking head in the first video dislikes this and calls it ‘stupid.’
The faceless bureaucrat between you and your [pick any consumer products or service] is a jury-rigged court and an overworked, underpaid doesn’t even know your name public defender?
Yes, they are quite adept at manipulating it thus to remain within the language of the law. It’s the handing down religious edicts, fatwas, in the dark by an ideologically stacked unelected lifetime panel of actively partisan Opus Dei ~ Catholic Illuminati ~ vigilantes skirting the letter of the law that is illegitimate, unconstitutional, and contrary to The Founders Intent
They lack all credibility; there is no “law”, nothing “compels” us to “obey”
The talking head in the first video dislikes and calls everything stupid
I guess that Gorsuch’s mother was head of EPA, he thinks also knowledgeable about atmospheric chemistry. Like Trump and his uncle.
Neither Nader nor Stein had anything to do with Republicans getting into office. People have commented many times here, at Common Dreams & elsewhere with logic & facts about the corporate duopoly’s Lesser Evil Gambit, & have mostly been met with vicious hostility & emotion-laden irrational responses.
The reason we’re now in this horrific, dire situation is that for decades people kept falling for the gambit despite the warnings & exactly this utterly predictable end result, & were unwilling to either suffer through a very much lesser evil than this choice to bring the Democratic rulership back to sanity, or stop the whole process through massive civil disobedience. Because of it we now face the extremely likely inextricable combination of fascism & utter collapse of economy & ecology.