The Politics Thread

[dragonflies]

 

[DramatistDreamer]

This is disturbing. Why no well-funded civilian core? Even before reading this article, I already knew what the ethnicities and colors of the kids would be.

Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.

[janea4old]

Colorado’s Secretary of State’s office has completed the mandatory recount of the election results between Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert and Democrat Adam Frisch in the 3rd congressional district.
State law requires automatic recounts when a race is within 0.5 percent of the total votes cast for the winner of the race, and as expected, the recount did not change the election results. 

Boebert still won.

Boebert lost three votes and Frisch picked up one. The final difference between the two was 546 votes.

“While we hoped for a different outcome, we defied incredible odds with the closeness of this race and delivered a moral victory for the people of CO-3, many of whom crossed party lines to reject extremism with their vote,” Frisch said in a statement Monday.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/12/lauren-boebert-adam-frisch-race-mandatory-recount-colorado-district-3/

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That leaves one seat vacant in the US. House of Representatives.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin set a special election for Feb. 21, 2023
to fill the 4th Congressional District seat of the late Democratic Rep. A. Donald McEachin who died Nov. 28, 2022.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/youngkin-sets-special-election-to-fill-rep-mceachins-seat/

Edited December 13, 2022 by janea4old

[Vee]

 

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by Vee

[janea4old]

The Trump-like Brazilian politician Jair Bolsonaro, a rightwing nut job who was destroying the Amazon, has been President of Brazil.  He ran for reelection as president and lost.

His extreme right-wing supporters tried to storm the federal police headquarters in the country’s capital Brasilia, in what one commentator called a botched attempt to spark a January 6-style turmoil.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/bolsonaro-supporters-try-to-storm-police-hq-in-january-6-style-rampage

Edited December 13, 2022 by janea4old

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[Noel]

OMG. I heart Cyndi. If my memory serves me correct, True Colors had a different message connotation back when it was released as a single in the 80's. I don't listen to much Top 40 music stuff, but I was at a friend's house back in the day and was absolutely shocked at her vocal cords because she can preach the word of gospel and take all yo' sad asses to church. You know what I'm sayin'? That's right. Directly. To. Church. Yep. Get those coins and dollar bills up in that offering plate before entering the front doors.

Like I said, I don't listen to Top 40, but I will give recognition where recognition is deserved. Cause I was like, "Dayum, gurl." And I don't compliment often. In fact, rarely.

Cyndi Lauper - I'm Gonna Be Strong

 

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by Noel

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Kodak used True Colors in tv ads (late 80s and early 90s) and it was not about the LGBT+ community specifically you could take it to mean what you wanted, as obviously Kodak didn’t use it in that way. Eventually  Cyndi spoke about LGBT issues and became an advocate with a foundation named after the song. I hope what happened makes things better, but certain states need to get old laws off the books just in case.

[Noel]

Ahhhhh! thank u for that! Since you mentioned Kodak, my memory started to resurface. I don't remember much about the 80's besides Reagan and his "2-hour sermons", and all I wanted to do was watch Wonder Woman. Or Punky Brewster. No, wait! Silver Spoons. Where I lived, we had sh*tty antennae reception, so I barely remember anything in that era. But Wonder Woman? 

Cape = FIERCE

Scuba Gear = Hard pass. 

Edited December 14, 2022 by Noel

[janea4old]

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Edited December 14, 2022 by janea4old

[janea4old]

 

Ultimately all the individual U.S. states need to fix their marriage laws and get rid of the bigoted ones.

In the meantime, we have the federal law just enacted.

Biden just signed into law the "Respect for Marriage Act".
Here is an explainer of what that Act does and does not do:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/respect-marriage-act-same-sex-interracial-couples/story?id=95181737

It does NOT require individual states to perform same-sex marriages in the future.
But it does do this:
Any same-sex or interracial marriage performed in any individual state (past and future), is and will be FEDERALLY legal in all states, even if other individual states don't approve it, and going forward, the couples cannot be denied the civil benefits of their unions in any state - even if court precedents were to be overruled.

This law was passe by the House and Senate - basically to prevent the Supreme Court from overturning the previous rulings allowing gay marriage and interracial marriage.

RFMA (Respect For Marriage Act) also offers explicit protections for religious groups with moral objections to same-sex or interracial marriages: They are not required to provide goods or services to the marriages they object to and their tax-exempt status cannot be rescinded for refusing to perform or respect a marriage.

Sadly, this religious exemption was a "compromise"
(or cop-out) that they had to use - because it was the only way the House and Senate would approve the bill.  Otherwise it would not have passed. 

(I think I summed it up correctly?  Anyone/everyone please read the article and correct/clarify if I missed anything.)

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by janea4old

[Noel]

And see? Tha's what I'm talkin' about too with this interracial stuff. More kids are being born biracial more than anything. Our society doesn't care about it in my opinion. I still cannot wrap my head around it. If two people find love, then great, you know? 

ETA: That wasn't necessary. Again. 

Edited December 14, 2022 by Noel

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