This is what the decision by the Republican justices to allow “gratuities” for public officials creates an incentive for.
Anyone needing a refresher:
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that set forth the legal test for when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency’s interpretation of a law or statute.
Great. Awesome. This way our regulatory agencies can be hamstrung just like prosecutors going after crooked cops with qualified immunity. Unless the law specifically states what is to be regulated and how, then agencies can’t do shit.
Just like how if the law doesn’t specifically state that a police officer can’t do a thing, it’s fair game!
This is such a disastrously stupid ruling, further curtailing our ability to combat climate change and all but dismisses any authority the EPA and other agencies were once afforded.
conservatives have such a boner for the vagaries of the second amendment, squeezing in as many assault rifles as they can into something original drawn up with fucking muzzle loaded muskets in mind. But as soon as anything vague in law is used to do good, they’d rather throw out democracy than risk doing the right thing.
“honestly this whole democracy thing has gotten out of control”
-The GOP, probably
Qualified immunity only protects cops from civil suits, not criminal charges.
Prosecution doesn’t go after them because they’re on the same team.
Haha the facade liberalism’s “law and order” has completely collapsed.
One step closer to the abyss.
The United States of America used to be thought of as an ideal, an aspiration. Now? It’s a shithole backwater filled with toothless grins and guns that anyone with a sane mind wants to avoid like the plague. The USA is the punchline to the joke: “What happens when you give an AK-47 to a chimp?”
The United States of America used to be thought of as an ideal, an aspiration.
For white ppl and select immigrants. For everyone else this country has always been a shithole
Don’t insult a chimps intelligence like that. Not cool.
Fucking conservatives
Does no one else see that Clarence Thomas (who has been accused [with proof] that he took millions in “gifts”) is sitting on a court that just overturned a rule the would hold him accountable to receiving those gifts?
What the actual fuck?
The republicans finally got what they wanted. They’ve basically killed the government’s ability to regulate.
Get ready to be fucked by corporations and billionaires in lots of new ways.
Thinking through this: it will swamp Congress with every minor little detail, bringing progress to a standstill. There’s just too much stuff, that’s partly why agencies are set up.
AND Dems need all 3 (presidency, house of reps, and Senate) to pass anything (any of these details). Dems have had that for only 4 of the last 24 years. The GOP gets to block any of this when they have a single one of those (20 of the last 24 years). If you thought there was a lack of progress before, it’s going to be tenfold going forward. VOTE (for Dems, not 3rd party).
What will happen is that no regulations will get passed, or they’ll continue ask their special interest to write laws for themselves because Congress is too busy to do law making. Ugh.
Nope, the social contract is broken. Organize immediately, protest everywhere. They want savages we can provide.
I’d argue protest and organization is part of the social contract as well. So if we’re past the social contract them…
You still need to organize. One dude throwing Molotovs doesn’t get much done besides getting arrested. A crowd of people? We know they’re terrified of those.
Either way, no scary big protests, no going back to a sane reality. Shit, it might take pulling them from their seats if we dont want Christofascism setting in.
Doing what we are now? This country is lost. Those debates were embarrassing. Its up to the people now.
This fucking sucks. Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion? I’m so fucking sick of these fascist cunts.
This right wing bullshit is starting to happen all over the western world. Seriously, what can we do about this? What can we realistically do to stop the right? Because everything is being completely fucked.
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Protest every day until they collapse or the system does.
Why is it that the right thinks science and expertise is an opinion?
They work off belief and faith, that’s what religion is. So they project that everyone else thinks and works the same way, aka they think science is a belief and faith. It’s always projection.
It’s never been about belief or faith. This goes back to the tobacco lobby when progressives were considered progressive because they followed the advice and research of experts. Conservatives couldn’t get away with doing whatever they wanted to do because progressives had facts and evidence to back up their platforms. While progressives were relying on input from third-party think tanks, conservatives invented their own think tanks by buying off professors from prestigious universities who needed more money and were willing to write bad-faith research.
Conservatives don’t believe in anything other than money, power, and self-indulgence—they just muddied the waters enough to make facts and research look questionable. Finally, when people point to facts and figures, conservatives can point to their own tainted research and pretend like they believe their own lies.
It’s a bit simpler. Those facts, evidence, research, and experts? The religious right thinks that’s all faith and belief, because that’s how they work. That’s really what they think. It’s mind boggling but that’s what they think.
If you’re in the US, the basic answer looks like this:
- Talk to people about what they’re actually doing and what’s going on.
- Check your voter registration so you can actually vote against them
- volunteer when you can
- provide what financial support you can to both the Presidential candidate and to those downballot.
