Politics And Current Events

[faftorial]

Yeah I think you misunderstood. Why the **** are there school board members pushing a right wing agenda? Why are political affiliations listed next to school board candidate names on ballots?

Yeah, I don't know the answer to either question. People are riled up too easily today.

[count2infinity]

I’d prefer party affiliation not be on the ballot for anything.

But like I said earlier… Musk bought Twitter because there was a perception that Twitter was only silencing right wing folks and that free speech wasn’t a thing on the platform. He saw himself as a hero that was saving the day!

These people have either convinced themselves or have been convinced that CRT is being taught, trans and gay lifestyles are being forced on kids, socialism and Marxism are talked about in positive ways and capitalism is being taught as evil, and they are here to save the day! How? MAGA! That’s how.

[shafnutz05]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

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What a miserable way to live

[AuthorTony]

Yeah I think you misunderstood. Why the **** are there school board members pushing a right wing agenda? Why are political affiliations listed next to school board candidate names on ballots?

Everything must be turned into a political crisis these days. People in the other party are the enemy and need to be struck down. Here, it started with row offices. The county treasurer and prothonotary were both Democrats who'd been in office for several terms. No scandals, no poor job performance, etc. They were widely loved and, by all reports, great at their jobs.

Two years ago the local Republican party chairman went all Steve Bannon and declared that the R's in the county needed to band together and vote every D out of office. He told them that if they voted for a D that made them RINOs. It sounded batshit insane. But it worked. Every single row office is now ran by a Republican. Every school board member elected this year is a Republican fighting the "liberal agenda" and protecting parents' rights. Because electing a D means their kids will be turned into a gay/trans Marxist.

I don't think they should list political parties on ballots, especially at a county level. Make voters do some research, even if it's just a modicum. But most people would lose their minds if they couldn't just tick a box beside D or R.

[RonnieFranchise]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

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Yeah take your ball and go home Alex you sniveling little Trumpy dodint.

Couldn’t be that your ideas suck balls.

[RonnieFranchise]

I think the answer to why’s there a party for school board candidates is just the antiquated primary system in PA (I don’t know how it is elsewhere). In the primary you are forced to take a D or R ballot. Here, every candidate filed for both parties and all but one of the Moms Against Liberty candidates lost both primaries. The last one won the R but lost the D to a write in, who won the general. The 5 who won were registered 3 R and 2 D as I understand it.

As far as why they are pushing a Right Wing agenda, best I can figure they see their traditional conservative values slipping away and believe it’s because kids are being indoctrinated by all the leftists in the schools. They think by taking over school boards they can put the genie back in the bottle.

It might get them majorities on places like Somerset and South Side Beaver, and they might raise a few little nazis, but that **** ain’t coming back in widespread style.

Forbes Article said that dude spent $279k on trying to get his wife elected and she lost. How do ya like them apples?

[Ad@m]

[Dickie Dunn]

Yes we know. It was run by Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard and Mrs. White's husband were clients, and Yvette was an employee.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

If I’m a foreign nation wishing to do some espionage I’m taking notes on how sex crazed these idiots are


I wonder how many of them portend to uphold “traditional Christian values” too

[tifosi77]

I’m sure Shyster will pretend there’s a good reason for it other than admitting that it’s an antiquated restriction that should be amended

It’s an antiquated restriction that should be amended, if anyone wants to bother. It's easy to change addresses these days, so I'm not sure it would even be worth it to actually spend the time and energy to do an amendment.

I believe the original concern was twofold: (1) electors would be homers and only vote for people from their own states; and (2) a concern that a state could become very populous and therefore dominate the presidency and vice-presidency by constantly voting only for its own candidates. The rise of political parties and their nominated slates of candidates mooted the first concern, and while some states certainly have more people than others, no state has enough electoral votes to control the election, so the second concern is moot.

I think #1 was much more front of mind than #2. This was on the heels of the first..... three(?).... presidential elections under the original constitutional construct in which the second place finisher in the election was Veep. The new system required electors to cast ballots for each office separately, hence the residency limitation.

[NTP66]

The irony of this entire plan to ban books, ban students from doing certain things, etc. is just going to push students even further away from these people.

[RonnieFranchise]

The irony of this entire plan to ban books, ban students from doing certain things, etc. is just going to push students even further away from these people.

Nah, you just have to get to them early enough and indoctrinate (aka "groom") them, starting in Kindergarten. All you have to do is listen to what they say the people in charge are doing, and it's exactly what they are trying to do, just with different values.

[Morkle]

Abortion passes in Ohio. GOP vow to continue fighting it. Now they want to change the language or outright appeal it if they can. This is as close as we've gotten to the GOP just admitting it's not about state's rights, and it's about control here.

Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill), said in a statement, "The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life. This is not the end of the conversation."

[NTP66]

Abortion passes in Ohio. GOP vow to continue fighting it. Now they want to change the language or outright appeal it if they can. This is as close as we've gotten to the GOP just admitting it's not about state's rights, and it's about control here.

Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill), said in a statement, "The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life. This is not the end of the conversation."

This is Ohio. They already have a history of ignoring the will of the people and doing what they want.

Keep beating the anti-abortion drum, though. It's clearly working for them Democrats.

[count2infinity]

I don't know what the GOP could possibly do at this point to move forward. They are stuck in a position where the majority of their party want extremists, so they vote for extremists in primaries, but then when it comes to the general election, there are enough people that go "whoooaaaaaa.... pump the brakes, bud". The only places that they're winning is where there are like 2 to 1 republicans voting. It's very much a dog that finally caught the car situation and they just don't know what to do with it.

[NAN]

I don't know what the GOP could possibly do at this point to move forward. They are stuck in a position where the majority of their party want extremists, so they vote for extremists in primaries, but then when it comes to the general election, there are enough people that go "whoooaaaaaa.... pump the brakes, bud". The only places that they're winning is where there are like 2 to 1 republicans voting. It's very much a dog that finally caught the car situation and they just don't know what to do with it.

I've made it known I lean pro life, but I also understand there are exceptions to every rule, and whether it's medical issues, life or death, rape, or whatever, there should be exceptions to abortion being allowed. The issue is, a lot of the GOP are all or none, so I am against that. So I'm stuck in the middle where there is no choice because it's all one way or the other.

Also, the people voted in Ohio to allow for abortion, so let it be IMO. That is what the majority of people want.

I will admit, I'm part of the problem when it comes to primaries. I typically don't vote in them, so if there is a more moderate, sane GOP candidate, they have no shot vs the extremist because of people like me. But in the case of the Gov race, that probably worked out because I voted for Shapiro (probably would have anyways regardless, I like him).

[Troy Loney]

SCOTUS pulled the rug out on the GOP on this.

NAN is expressing, what I think is the correct approach, which is basically, personally we can all be either pro-life, or pro-choice and acknowledge that people think differently. Unfortunately that's not compatible with pro-life legislation. You can be as genuinely pro-life as you want, that's fine. But abortion bans are just intrinsically intrusive to people and make reproductive healthcare more complicated for doctors and patients.

Turns a theoretical into a practical, so GOP can complain about visceral TV spots like the one Beshear ran with the girl talking about having to get an abortion after being raped at 12 by her stepdad, but that's who will be impacted by your policy.

[Pavel Bure]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

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Yeah take your ball and go home Alex you sniveling little Trumpy dodint.

Couldn’t be that your ideas suck balls.

I’m in a neighboring school district (literally throw a stone and hit Norwin) where the board just swung hard into the agenda pushed on the site. The “stay at home mom” that was voted in is probably the most egregious. They were voted in by huge margins as well.

[Gaucho]

it's about control

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[Rylan]

The great thing about Pro-choice is that you, yourself, never have to get one!

[Kane]

yeah, but that's too much freedom.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I’m pro-dead babies

[Kaiser]

"He died as he lived. The size of a sesame seed with no discernable brain function."

[RonnieFranchise]

Abortion passes in Ohio. GOP vow to continue fighting it. Now they want to change the language or outright appeal it if they can. This is as close as we've gotten to the GOP just admitting it's not about state's rights, and it's about control here.

Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill), said in a statement, "The legislature has multiple paths that we will explore to continue to protect innocent life. This is not the end of the conversation."

This is what they do and frankly the scariest part, to me. They believe so much in these convictions that if the will of the people overrides them, they will do whatever it takes to backdoor it in the name of "sanctity of life" or "protecting our children from smut" or whatever else it is they believe in. I honestly believe some of them believe if they live in a sinful nation that allows these things, they won't be "saved" or whatever. They did it here with the book banning when they saw the writing on the wall that they were probably going to lose the school board majority. Changed the policy then banned (or, sorry, "quarantined") whatever the hell they wanted.

If they had their way it would seriously turn into Christian Saudi Arabia.

[count2infinity]

Source of the post If they had their way it would seriously turn into Christian Saudi Arabia.

Haven't they openly and proudly called themselves Christian Nationalists?