dems were holding it up over one item and apparently were prepared to do so indefinitely. Neither side comes out looking clean here. Right now it's just the repubs because they dicked over the dems who were already dicking them over.
The column was based on an analysis of the crumbling machinery of democracy in my state, drawing on my expertise as a professor of comparative politics at the University of North Carolina. I noted that a neutral expert scoring of North Carolina’s electoral integrity had placed the state on a par with pseudo-democracies such as Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. Partisan gerrymandering and targeted voter suppression drove the score lower. Combined with that, the General Assembly had targeted the LGBTQ community for discrimination (you may remember the push to force transgender people to use the restroom for the sex listed on their birth certificate), and Republicans had sought to curtail executive powers after losing the governorship in the 2016 elections.
the General Assembly had targeted the LGBTQ community for discrimination (you may remember the push to force transgender people to use the restroom for the sex listed on their birth certificate)
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1 Metatron58 2019-09-12
so... no details just a screenshot demanding you be outraged which they achieved.
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
The details are all over the fucking media.
https://abc11.com/politics/nc-house-overrides-budget-veto-with-barely-half-of-its-members-voting/5531411/
1 Metatron58 2019-09-12
what I meant was the details of the budget itself.
https://abc11.com/politics/budget-stalemate-persists-in-north-carolina-over-medicaid-expansion/5399215/
dems were holding it up over one item and apparently were prepared to do so indefinitely. Neither side comes out looking clean here. Right now it's just the repubs because they dicked over the dems who were already dicking them over.
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
It doesn't matter what they were doing, like don't even try to make this "both sides."
It was completely indefensible, just like every other bullshit action NC republicans have taken, which is why they've lost in court over 5 times.
the state isn't even considered a real democracy because NC republicans are so fucking unhinged:
1 Metatron58 2019-09-12
it's always both sides. Pretty much every time.
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
Ok.
A) Show me when the DNC attempted to strip the governor of power after losing an election.
B) Show me when the DNC lost in court 4 different times over racial voter suppression and gerrymandering.
C) Show me which democrat carried out electoral fraud to win a seat.
D) Show me when the democrats tricked the other party into attending a 9/11 memorial so they could push through an unpopular budget.
1 totally_not_ac3 2019-09-12
Wow another alt. That's sad pizza
1 Mayos_side 2019-09-12
Sounds like the left just keeps stepping on rakes and learns nothing.
1 forseti911 2019-09-12
This is for real hilarious if it happened.
1 Platycel 2019-09-12
If those demo(n)crats didn't want this budget, they could have all left and there wouldn't be 50% required for voting.
1 closedshop 2019-09-12
That’s not very radical centrist of you
1 diggity_md 2019-09-12
Hi pizza 👋☺️
1 Stikky_Minaj 2019-09-12
Hi 👋🍕
1 CommunistCreatine 2019-09-12
such discrimination much wow
1 ThousandQueerReich 2019-09-12
It's a democracy, and you sound unhinged. My brother, let me ask you a question... Are you by chance light of skin?
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
Yeah, a real democracy has constant and extreme racial voter suppression/gerrymandering and examples of electoral fraud.
1 ThousandQueerReich 2019-09-12
Well, any decent one for sure.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
by a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
I've decided you aren't considered a real person anymore. you're a catgirl now
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
electoral fraud.
constant, extreme gerrymandering.
Constant, extreme racial voter suppression.
Should we keep going?
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
Sure catgirl
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
The fact you aren't aware of any of this leads me to believe you just aren't very informed.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
North Carolina could fall into the ocean and my life would change 0%
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
Yeah, this is the republican blueprint for the rest of the country, so you should care.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
Yeah stfu tard
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
Keep trying.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
You got a twenty day ban. You should probably sit in a corner and think about why that is
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
Because an angry rightoid paid money for it, that's exactly why. They spend money to ban my accounts every day.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-09-12
Consider gainful employment
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
I love how you guys just make stuff up.
1 KursedKaiju 2019-09-12
😂
1 heuheu 2019-09-12
What did he say that was incorrect?
1 ThousandQueerReich 2019-09-12
Mad mayo alert.
1 MoistLanguage 2019-09-12
Oy vey shut it down!
1 Stikky_Minaj 2019-09-12
SHUT IT DOWN 🚨