DL Open Thread Wednesday Aug 9 2023
Shakespeare deemed too raunchy for Florida Schools. Just wait until someone from the Start Board of Ed gets around to reading the Bible
Hillsborough County in Florida has informed educators they are only allowed to teach specific excerpts of William Shakespeare’s works due to new state laws restricting certain discussions in class.
The county school district said certain parts of Shakespeare can not be taught because of the Parental Rights in Education Act, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by opponents, which restricts classroom discussions that are sexual in nature, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
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The old adage “Its the cover up, not the crime” doesn’t apply to Trump because he is careful to only do his crimes out in the open.
Subject: Let’s Conspire to Do All These Crimes
A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts evolved into a criminal conspiracy.
The existence of the Dec. 6, 2020, memo came to light in last week’s indictment of Mr. Trump, though its details remained unclear. But a copy obtained by The New York Times shows for the first time that the lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, acknowledged from the start that he was proposing “a bold, controversial strategy” that the Supreme Court “likely” would reject in the end.
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Multi-year GOP project to make everyone in the country hate them continues apace.
Ohio Voters Bat Down Assault On Democracy, Abortion Rights In Special Election
Ohioans handily rejected Republican lawmakers’ attempt to make it much more difficult for citizens to amend the state constitution Tuesday, an effort that was aimed squarely at undermining an upcoming proposal to codify abortion protections.
The Associated Press called the race at 9:00 p.m. ET, an hour and a half after polls closed in Ohio.
With Tuesday’s vote, state Republicans were trying to raise the threshold for passage of citizen-initiated ballot proposals to 60 percent from its current simple majority. Proposals originating in the heavily Republican legislature, however, would have continued to operate on the lower threshold. Tuesday’s initiative, known as Issue 1, also would have doubled the number of counties from which signatures must be collected (expanding the requirement to every county in the state) and nixed a 10-day grace period.
An important point about the Ohio constitutional amendment: It was an effort to put in place MINORITY RULE, and we already have tons of it in Delaware for the simple reason that Delaware Democrats are have no balls.
This started with tax increases, and because the Democrats of yesteryear are like a dog I used to have who was scared of his own farts, they went right along with Republicans in requiring a supermajority to pass any tax increase. Otherwise, you see, voters would be told that Democrats favored higher taxes, and Delaware Democrats lack either the brains or the balls to fight back.
If our courts were worth anything (spoiler alert: they aren’t) they would strike down all such laws, because a democracy shouldn’t be allowed to overturn the rule that a simple majority carries the day in our system of government.
Since it doesn’t, it is incorrect to term our government a “democratic republic,” because it’s not democratic.
I would like to see a constitutional amendment adopted that would outlaw the requirement of supermajorities to pass ANY law. I’d love to hear the GOP’s arguments against it.
Couldn’t agree more. I’d LOVE to see that constitutional amendment introduced. Let’s see which legislators, and which candidates for Governor, support a return to representative democracy. The Rethugs’ holding the Bond Bill hostage provides sufficient rationale for such a move.
Listen to a progressive legislator (Madinah Wilson-Anton)defend the Democrats constant capitulation to GOP hostage taking
here ->. Highlands Bunker https://www.patreon.com/TheHighlandsBunker/posts
She was merely recognizing the rules that currently exist, and how they had to deal with them.
Al’s proposed constitutional amendment, if enacted, would put an end to such hostage-taking.
The ONLY reason that episode might be worth hearing is to enjoy Rep. Wilson-Anton’s shutting down of the mansplainin’ Bedroom Bolshevist.
I’m thrilled with Ohio (No, never thought I’d say that) and certainly agree, this is the far rights latest minority rule game. As ever they will be back. Had fun ridiculing Florida’s Banning The Bard as I’m a big fan of Shakespeare, and ridicule. Suggested they ban the bible while their at it as it’s loaded with murder, genocide, torture, a bit of incest and that books favorite Slavery. No wonder they love it so in the south.
The $1.58B Mega Milions ticket was sold in Florida last night. The good news is Florida has no state income tax and doesn’t tax lottery winnings, so DeSantis and Florida won’t get a dime of it.