Literally, an 8th grader could understand what I'm saying here

#47 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Your point is that these statements don't matter at all? That it does nothing for 200 companies to publicly say that this law does not follow American values?

Sure. You can believe that if you want. I think you are wrong, but such is life. The All-Star game getting pulled might be the most obvious and traceable effect, but this will affect the corporate view of Georgia. On average a few more will decide to do their retreats and conventions elsewhere. Not open up satellite offices there. Whether conservatives actually care about that? I doubt it. Racism and fear-mongering, nepotism and corruption seem to be much more important to them that economic success so maybe your point is a good one.

You mean like Dems telling men to not sexually harass women but then turn around and do it like Biden and Cuomo?

#3 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Al Franken got pushed out over him pretending to grope a sleeping reporter (as a joke). Cuomo is still being investigated and may also end up being pushed out.

And Biden has apologized for making women feel uncomfortable and has promised to change. Society has changed a lot in his lifetime. I for one believe him when he says that he will try to do better in the future. We will see what happens.

But, go ahead and deflect off Trump calling for his followers to boycott when he has no intention of doing so himself. Obviously sexual assault is more important than Trump's BS boycott. But, the conservative base is still idiotic for following that clown when he obviously just sees them as ignorant pawns to be manipulated.

Eb... I don't know what point you are trying to make? The companies came out about it after public outcry. If there had not been public outcry, then they probably would not have come out about it. And the All-Star game would still be in Atlanta.

Also, the All-Star game got cancelled AFTER THE BILL WAS PASSED as well. So, if you are claiming that these companies are not going to do anything because they didn't do anything before the bill was passed, then the All-Star game proves that you are wrong.

You might be right that they are just talking and will not take any action other than lip-service. But, that is just your opinion. Only time will tell. It could be that the All-Star game getting moved will be the only actual effect. But, with this much publicity, I kinda doubt it.

Also. since these were Trump supporters, were they out to overthrow him??? Think people, do try to actually use your 'grey matter'.

#7 | POSTED BY MSGT

That is the problem. Conservatives think that their chosen strongman is "the government".

Our government is defined by the Constitution (it is an important document... you should try reading through it some day). And he and his supporters were trying to overthrow the Constitution.

So, regardless of how you may "think" it should be, when you elect someone as President they do not own the government. It is not their property to do with as they please (unlike countries like Russia, you would probably feel a lot more at home there). They ALSO are required to follow the Constitution.

People like you should not vote. Since you seem not to have even the most basic of understandings of how our government works. Go find yourself a country with a dictatorship to live under. Leave our democracy alone.

It's not like these people didn't know what Georgia was up to. They choose to wait until after this passed before lifting a finger to make a pandering worthless statement.

#15 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Maybe for most of these companies, but the All-Star game was pulled out of Georgia. That is more than a "pandering worthless statement".

I hope he understands that he could have steered the GOP clear of Trumpism, and thus all of us. But he was too weak.

#17 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN

I very much doubt it. He was just riding the tiger. If he had been unwilling to support the descent into Trumpism he would have just been replaced with someone who was. (which ultimately, he was)

Trump is not the problem. Individual conservative politicians are not the problem. There are way more than enough -------- in this country to hold every elected position. The problem is that conservatives, the whole of the Republican party, CHOOSE to elect --------. Decide that -------- are the best people to represent them. That is not the fault of the --------. They are just doing what is asked of them. It is the fault of conservativism in general that they are putting -------- in positions of power and encouraging them to do these things.

People in GA are smart enough to know the "gun" didn't do these killings. An individual did.

#13 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Give up on your hypocritical BS. We all know you don't actually believe that. Conservatives were perfectly happy to go after Obama when a Fast and Furious "gun killed someone" (a border patrol agent).

Conservatives don't have an ideology. They just claim one when it is convenient. You are a slave to the gun lobby and the small-penis incel base, and claim "ideology" so you don't have to admit that fact.

The reason to ban the clubs is if they're creating noise or traffic problems, which they probably are.

#4 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

But they have been doing it for decades without problem. Then, people move in (either knowing that it was a thing when they made a choice to move in, or not doing their due diligence) and try to get rid of it.

It is like buying a house right next to railroad tracks, then complaining about the noise and telling the railroad they need to move the tracks.

I don't have a problem with people who have turned their life around being pardoned. I have a problem with the only people who get that opportunity being people who are lucky enough to be related to a person in a position of power (so usually white).

It is like the justice system being more lenient on white offenders. I am in favor of a more lenient justice system. But think it is worse for it to only be lenient to some people based solely on the luck of their birth. In that case I would prefer it be equally strict on all people.

"Sure most of those young people will die
#11 | POSTED BY DANNI"
This is the most anti-science sentence I have read on here. You think more than 50% of the 18-25 year old Springbreakers will die from COVID when the survival rate in this group is effectively 0%? Are you expecting a mutation?

#12 | POSTED BY FAMILY_VALUES

Before you accuse others if "anti-science", you might want to work on your "anti-reading-comprehension". Which I am going to assume is the problem, because it is slightly more likely that you are just too stupid to be able to actually read and understand a sentence than that you deliberately cherry picked a quote out of context (ie "the end of the sentence") and then trolled based upon it.

The relevant context was...

"Sure most of those young people will die and spread disease in other states..."

So, if you read THE WHOLE SENTENCE (assuming you have above a first grade reading comprehension level) it is apparent that she was not saying that most young people would die, but instead that most of them would spread the disease IN OTHER STATES (though the ones that died would also do so I'm other states).

Unless you actually think it would be possible for most of them to die AND THEN (after dead) spread the disease in other states??? Again, I am deconstructing the logic of a conservative here, so I realize it is dangerous to assume ANY base level of intelligence.

No links that say he is going to do it, or has done it. Just that it is being "considered". Or, more accurately, that CBP had requested (but not that their request was granted). Get back to us when it ACTUALLY happens.

Also, while I don't doubt the reporting, I thought you deplorables hated anonymous sources ("Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told The Washington Post"). Oh, never mind. I guess that was just when Trump was in charge. Now you LOVE those anonymous sources. Gotta love that conservative hypocrisy. So reliable.

They wouldn't dare. Ga is turning blue so I hear.

#22 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

It is absolutely disgusting. Even conservatives (like you) acknowledge the racism and injustice inherent in conservatives. Yet, you do nothing to try to change it, to fight it. You accept it as fact and think that it is an acceptable way for people to be. To treat these poor ladies as less than human, as sex objects, just because they are asian and female.

After Jan 6th I have a hard time feeling like conservatives share any values with me, that it is worth working with them at all. And things like this, examples that show that people like you are just disgusting human beings not worthy of respect or consideration by decent people, just convince me of that further.

The only glimmer of a "good day" is this freak will never again breathe free air.

#17 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

It is only a glimmer though. Because if the jury has a bunch of conservatives on it (this was GA, so it is likely) then they will probably relate more to him having a "bad day" (and going out to kill a bunch of minorities) much more than they relate to the (minority) victims and their families that this travesty was inflicted on.

Will just say he had "sex addiction" (like "affluenza") so was just not responsible for his actions. Will probably get probation and get no jail sentence, like they do in Texas.

Again as I asked earlier - you really want to claim that there was ZERO (is nonexistent) voter fraud in GA in 2020? Really, you want to make that claim?

#47 | POSTED BY FAMILY_VALUES

No one is claiming that. What you are doing here is called a "strawman argument". It is a logical fallacy where you assign your opponent an extreme or ridiculous position (that does not reflect their position), then argue that position is wrong. It is a weak minded strategy used by people who can't argue on the merits (you know... things that conservatives oppose like facts and reality).

Conservatives were so easily manipulated by North Korea before, he thinks he can do it with liberals in charge as well.

He will learn what a comprehensive foreign policy looks like. Just sucking up to or insulting Biden to try get your way won't have the overwhelming results like it did when childish conservatives were running the White House.

Sounds like a good business decision. It is obvious that conservatives screwed the power grid in Texas due to deregulation. There is not enough spare capacity so prices are bound to fluctuate. And a lot of fossil fuel power plants cannot decrease their output, resulting in very low, or even negative prices in times of low demand. So, put in a bunch of batteries to buy low and sell high. It worked very well in the Hornsdale facility in Australia. No reason why it would not work just as well or better in Texas. And, in Hornsdale they were owned by the locality so it chose to keep a lot of reserve in backup (in case of an outage). In Texas they are deregulated, so they can discharge their batteries completely if they want to, maximize profits for the installed capacity.

I like where this is going. I like that it is being talked about and debated. Being brought to the forefront and questioned. I will give Biden credit just for that.

But, I will reserve judgement until I see what comes out of it. It could just be a codification of unchecked hawkish executive power. But, I will remain optimistic that it will turn out to be something real and useful and good for our country in the long run.

Anyone who understands that we are a Republic and not a Democracy will not be a Democrat.
Anyone who believes the Country should be a mob democracy, will not be a Republican. Sometimes there are hard stops and this is one of them.

#7 | POSTED BY BOAZ

And, anyone who believes that the people should choose who runs the government through a fair election will not be a Republican. Republicans apparently believe that the leaders of the government should be chosen by a violent minority who have a "right" to storm the capital and threaten the lives of our elected representatives to try to overrule the choice laid out by the majority of voters in this country.

You can argue semantics of words all you want. But the ACTIONS indicate that liberals support a democratic republic, as our founders intended, and conservatives support a fascist dictatorship, which is what our founders were most afraid of. You do not hold the ideals on which our country was founded and based. Please go to another country (like Russia) that is more consistent with your ideals and leave this country to those who support the democratic ideals on which it was founded.

The world is full of immoral greedy thieves.

#6 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

And, for some reason, those are the types of people that conservatives have decided best represent their values and should make decisions for the future of this country.

I will leave it up to you to decide what that says about what type of people conservatives really are.

Which is why there will never be a viable 3rd party.

#68 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Not with our current system. Which is why I spent the rest of my post talking about how to change the system to allow what people are saying we need.

And pointing out that it is not just a pipe dream, because one state has actually implemented it.

So I respectfully utterly disagree with your statement. If we can get people pointed in the right direction instead of bickering over how to get one of the two parties to perfectly fit the needs and values of over 50 percent of the US population, then maybe we could actually move toward solving this problem instead just "arguing" about it. Though, don't let my desire to effect useful change diminish your enjoyment at arguing over actually accomplishing something.

Ranked choice voting would solve a lot of existing problems. Might create a whole new set of them but I'd be willing to try.

#60 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

Wow... It took till post #60 to actually get something intelligent on this thread. The way our system works, it can only support two parties. Any third party will cannibalize the power of the party they most agree with, which will end up benefitting the party they least agree with. Ranked choice voting is the most likely solution to this problem.

Btw... Maine had ranked choice voting this last election and voters did not have any problem with it as far as I have heard. Also, there was a proposal in GA to implement ranked choice (I believe they called it instant runoff) for military ballots. It was by Republicans trying to skew the system in their favor, but in this past election they probably would have won a Senate seat if they had ranked choice. And I will take it if I can get it.

#3 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

LoL... No "both sides do it"?

I see. If conservatives do something evil and/or immoral, then "both sides do it". But if liberals do, let's be honest, just about anything then it is just liberals being horrible people.

What a pathetic little world you live in.

#1 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Trump said he would have 20 million people vaccinated by the end of the year. And he failed miserably at accomplishing that. And in the new year deaths and cases surged.

That is not "hate". That is facts. People are DYING and you don't care. Dying due to the ineptitude of conservatives. I would much rather conservatives learn to actually be competent. We warn them that they are being incompetent, and tell them what they need to do differently to get better outcomes. But they insist on sitting there, continuing to do the same stupid things, and get the expected crappy outcome. And then when we POINT OUT that they were warned about the outcomes, and told what to do differently, the whiny little snowflakes complain about how much "hate" there is. They have the gall to whine about "spreading hate", when it is the leader of their party that would fling second grade insults at anyone who dared to disagree with him. When he had conservatives ransack the Capital (and kill a police officer) to "save the country from liberals".

Both sides are not the same. YOU and YOUR SIDE are disgusting and pathetic. And liberals are tired of being the adults who have to always come in and clean up the messes made be the tantruming little conservative children.

The entire framework is a product of state regulation.

#11 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Of course there is regulation. You cannot have a utility that is not regulated. Because there is no competition, and a monopoly will try to maximize profits (as a business is supposed to). Unless you want 10 power lines going to each house.

But, Texas wanted as little regulation as possible, and that is what they got. This is the result of conservatives being in charge of government. This is what they want to do to the rest of the country. They built this.

1. Liberals made up this absurd PC crap and ensured that anyone who doesn't follow is cancelled and their lives are destroyed, then you mock those who follow along? It really doesn't get any dumber than that.

#16 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Lol. You conservatives are so ridiculous.

I have no problem with them not using the term "Karen". It is a derogatory term that broad brushes a large group of people.

I just find your hypocrisy, and the hypocrisy of conservatives in general, exceedingly amusing. Because CONSERVATIVES have mocked liberals for this exact thing. "Just call it what it is." Getting all outraged and high and mighty about whether you should even call someone by their preferred pronouns. Because the conservative base is not gays, or transgender people, or minorities, or any of the other groups of marginalized people that feels the weight of these derogatory broad brush terms when they are used against them. And you claim that they are just little "snowflakes", being too "sensitive".

But AS SOON AS there is a term that ACTUALLY applies to a section of the conservative base, SUDDENLY you are concerned about THEIR feelings. As soon as their white privilege is violated, as soon as THEY feel what it is like to be mocked and degraded, your attitude takes a 180 degree turn. People want to be used by the pronoun they relate to, want to kneel during the anthem to show support for a cause, want to not have government support for derogatory costumes or holidays and conservatives spout mockery and derision. But use the work "racist" or "Karen" or "Boomer" and suddenly conservatives are worried that "feelings" will be hurt and that it is "unfair".

Conservatives love to call people that they disagree with "snowflakes", but it has become overwhelmingly obvious that the reason that they coined the term in the first place is because they are intimately familiar with what the term means and what it means to live in that way.