2024 Election - Thread #1

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So, the SDOTUS handed down the ruling we all expected - throwing the 14th amendment back to Congress, who had previously said "No, this is a matter for the courts" and furth4er saying that no state can use it in elections for a federal position - and as a unanimous decision, even if the statements of the usually more liberal members have some pretty spicy wording for a legal document.

This coming just a couple of days after agreeing to hear the ridiculous "absolute immunity" appeal and setting an unreasonably long lead up before starting that, and it's now very clear that the far right has seized that court as well. It's disgusting and I haven't been this ashamed to be an American since... no, not even Bush Jr., the Trumpniks have completely outdone both Shrubs combined. It's taken me a day and a half to calm down enough about it to even write coherently on the topic, and I don't have a link because I don't want to get fired up again. It's all over the major news outlets anyway.

Checks and balances are dead, and the voting public as a whole has always been a flock of idiot sheep running at the call of the dog who barks the loudest, so basically "fall of the Roman Empire" time this century I guess. Only at least Nero played his violin while Rome burned, instead of sitting around eating fast food and calling the rioters "wonderful people."