Those of us that are actually here in NC know how ridiculous this propaganda essay is.

#8 | Posted by commnotes

Who invited the incel? Plonked.

"Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions."

Published on March 11, 2024 01:30PM EDT

Israel's psychopathic government is getting exactly what they wanted. I hope we let them fight it out.

And he'll probably still vote for Trump.

"vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters"

He could be describing New Orleans.

Adams is former NYPD so I have no doubt he's as corrupt as they come. He should resign but his ego won't let him.

Capital. Too early for typing.

This is what happens when you let ideology run a court system. Judges too afraid of looking weak will never let little things like evidence or facts get in their way.

Capitol punishment is barbaric and always wrong but it was egregiously wrong yesterday in Missouri.

Here's the CNN article

#1,

Our sate supreme court in NC is a wing of the republican party and even though the state BOE objected to removing RFK at the very last minute the court made them. Don't be surprised if they don't care what the BOE says.

The word bomb appears exactly 0 times in that article, -------.

Fire DeJoy already FFS.

Cops doing their jobs is not a waste of resources it's literally what they're there for.

No, he was perp-walked for having plastic toy guns and the misfortune to live in a county with a sensationalist sheriff who'd rather make a child's life worse for some good press than help the kid. Every gun in that ridiculous photo is an airsoft toy.

I don't like cops to put it plainly. This sheriff standing up against Nazis last year actually impressed me but he lost any goodwill that generated with this ridiculous stunt. An 11-year-old?!?! Shame the parents, sure, but an 11-year-old should never be publicly shamed for political reasons. This sheriff is 100% doing this for politics, to advance his career at the expense of a child. Disgusting.

You guys gonna shout at them to get off your lawns next?

"Kids these days!!!" is the oldest trope in the history of tropes.

"Trump has been found liable to pay damages..."

Good luck collecting that debt, he'll never pay it.

When you criminalize pregnancies and their many complications through abortion bans what else do you expect to happen?

More: The law is clear. It's up to the State Board of Elections to decide on late changes to the ballot. That's why I agree with Justice Allison Riggs in her dissent: "Today, any public aspersions cast on the impartiality, independence, and dignity of our state courts are well-earned."

By removing Kennedy's name at this late hour, Republicans hope potential Kennedy voters will become Trump voters. The Republicans on the court cared not one iota it would create so much uncertainty 130,000 North Carolinians who requested mail-in ballots don't know when they'll be able to vote, county state officials are scrambling to beat a federal deadline for sending out absentee ballots, and it will cost maybe a $1 million to sort the whole mess out. There were nearly 3 million ballots " with a combined 2,348 styles " printed before court intervention. They are now null and void, must be scrapped for no good reason.

There is no sugarcoating this. At least some NC Supreme Court should justices are purely political actors disguised in black robes.

Four years ago, President Joe Biden lost to Trump by less than 2 percentage points in North Carolina. Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court uprooted the half-century long precedent that was Roe v. Wade, and the GOP nominated extremist N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson as its standard bearer. The Roe decision has been a potent get-out-the-vote engine for Democrats across the country, while the Robinson pick has made the state GOP a laughingstock. Did the party really have to nominate someone who dabbles in anti-blackness, antisemitism, and is a hypocrite abortion, among many other unsavory things?

According to the latest WRAL poll, voters have noticed those Republican choices. Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, has a 14-point lead over Robinson. Stein has been boosted not just by a Democratic base that's been energized since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, but also by conservatives who still believe in democracy and are willing to extremism even if it's found on own their side of the aisle.

The GOP had already gerrymandered its way to a supermajority in Raleigh, even though North Carolina has more registered Democrats than Republicans. This time, though, they won't be able to hide the damage their power grab has left in its wake. Voters will notice, because voters of all backgrounds and ideologies are being directly affected.

In November, that diverse mix of voters can tell the GOP, in no uncertain terms, the foolishness has to end.

More: Foremost among these is the fetish for free speech as the sole end of political life. Loath to actually govern, lest it encroach on donor-class prerogatives, the institutional right has long substituted procedural claims " why can't I ask questions! " for substantive ones about the good life. Free speech and inquiry are valuable. But treated as the highest good, these ideals give rise to a pure shock-jock politics.

Second, and there is no delicate way to put this, the right suffers from a talent shortage. For all the rhetoric about free inquiry, the same donor class severely disciplines the mainstream right's media and academic operators. To go beyond certain hawkish, free-market lines is verboten.

This leaves conservative institutions dominated by doctrinaire hacks who can churn predictable opinion pieces, but can't report or write at anywhere close to the level expected of left-of-centre counterparts. There are many applicants to be the next Fox or Newsmax loudmouth, but few young rightists aspire to the excellence and enterprise daily showcased by the New York Times or the New York Review (for all their shortcomings). Being a successful loudmouth is much easier: all you need is to bellow about how "they" want us to eat bugs and take poison vaccines.

The third and final cause is what might be called the young right's epistemic snap. Thoroughly alienated from the American mainstream, they feel compelled to believe that everything they've been taught is a big lie " even the relative decency of the Allied effort against the Nazis.

purge the criminal invaders and trash and then take our country back

Was this shooter a criminal invader? Nope, just another white kid with a father who cared more about his keeping guns when the cops came knocking last year than he cared about his kid.

We're not gonna make it are we?