Other "First World" Countries: We've got our problems, you know.

America: Hold our beer!

EPA: can be sued to prevent it from regulating emissions
ICE/Border Patrol: as federal agents, cannot be sued for violating constitutional rights

Just keeps coming.

Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Republican State Legislatures Can Rig Elections

The highest court in the land announced on Thursday that it will determine this fall whether state legislatures can conduct elections as they see fit, regardless of whether they are in violation of the state constitution and free of oversight of state courts.

And it will keep coming. Gay marriage will surely be for the chop next. Contraception could soon be re-criminalised. Thomas is keen to oveturn Griswald v Connecticut - prior to that ruling in 1965, purchasing contraception was a felony that could earn you a year in prison. Gay sex could be re-criminalised in red states. Heck, this is just year one. You've got decades of far right supreme court ahead as the world burns, but I guess World War 3 may be just around the corner now anyway.

Kavanaugh's revenge. Unlimited power. He likes BEER!

I'm not saying that assassinating SC justices is the answer, it's just the only thing I can think of that might work.

Although... another thing I don't understand, if people were really serious about stopping this, is why progressives aren't raising more funds to bribe senators. You know the senate is corrupt, and progressives have lots of money. Stop spending all that money trying to elect progressive senators who immediately stab you in the back like Sinema, and use it to bribe the ones you've already got. That's what big business does and it's much cheaper.

Instead of trying to pressure Joe Manchin into doing the right thing, why not quietly offer him $100 million to do the right thing? It would be worth it. Tell him you've got some Republican senators interested in taking up the offer if he doesn't.

Offer retiring senators a $20 million-per-year advisory role on the Democratic Heritage Institute for the Foundation of American Prosperity.

BeyondThePale wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:17 am But, other than that, you had a good time?

I didn't hate America but I realised I do hate tech conferences. It was sad in a lot of ways though, to see how bad things were. And that was ages ago. I don't think I'd go back now. I don't much fancy the thought of passing through US border security again. I'd prefer to keep some distance between the US government and my bodily autonomy from here on.

Also, I kept forgetting to tip people. I'd have to write that on my hand: TIP PEOPLE

Gay marriage is absolutely done before the year’s out

This shit is gross.

Anthony Flack wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:10 pm It was sad in a lot of ways though, to see how bad things were. And that was ages ago. I don't think I'd go back now. I don't much fancy the thought of passing through US border security again. I'd prefer to keep some distance between the US government and my bodily autonomy from here on.

Me too. Is your country hiring? Will you be my sponsor?

I can make coffee in its many forms, and be your guitar tech. Not unique skills here, but had to cover baseline competency

Unfortunately only people like far-right billionaire, MAGA sugar daddy and guy who makes Elon Musk seem like the reasonable one - Peter Thiel get to buy their way into New Zealand... and won't that end well for us.

And when he directs his attention and his thousands of millions of dollars towards fucking up our country for his own twisted ends, as I'm sure he will eventually because he intends to bunker down here after the US goes apocalyptic, know that I will despise that Merrill Lynch-trading, waitress-ponytail-tugging, former New Zealand Prime Minister and all-round two-faced piss-weasel John Key til the day I die for that one. That's SIR John Key now of course. Gave Thiel citizenship after one day in the country, made a special exemption for him in a secret deal that was only exposed later when he started buying up property. "The smiling assassin" they used to call Key. He always looked more like a smirking cunt to me.

Oh, and by the way, the current leader of the National Party, man with seven houses and very much cut from identical cloth, and currently 50:50 to be New Zealand's next Prime Minister is an Evangelical Christian who believes abortion is murder. But he says not to worry, because he considers it "settled law". One of his fellow members of parliament tweeted out that overturning Roe was a "great day" for the US.

Anthony Flack wrote: Unfortunately (list of bad things in New Zealand)

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