Yeah, that’s literally not how any of this constitutional stuff works.

Free speech is your right to say what you think without the government censoring you. But it has limits and common misunderstandings:

It’s not a “free-for-all.” You can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater just to cause a panic. You can’t tell lies about someone to ruin their reputation (that’s called defamation).

It doesn’t apply to private companies. Your boss can fire you for saying something they don’t like. Twitter (X) can ban you from their platform. A restaurant can kick you out for being rude. These are private entities with their own rules, not the government.

Analogy: The First Amendment means the police can’t arrest you for wearing a shirt that says “The Mayor is a cunt.” However, your boss at a private company can still fire you for wearing that same shirt to work if they think it’s unprofessional.

See shit posts like this are why I’m in favor of dismantling the department of education, if it produces such ignorant outcomes, it creates more harm than good.

At least if you were an uneducated hick from some Boondock wastewater town, I could have a shred of understanding for not having had the opportunity to pay attention in 3rd grade social studies.

Fucking red hat wearing so called constitutionalists who literally don’t know what it fucking says.

The problem is they’re being shifted to enrich the Nazis.

Until I see proof of concept in action I’m going to be suspicious that this is as bad as the sensational headlines claim.

Hysterica gets clicks, gets news coverage then turns into nothing more times than not.

Bubba in ICE from Louisiana gonna be like “Y’all I was just followin’ orders”

we can’t stop them at the SCOTUS

Wrong

Do tell.

we can’t stop them at the Federal level

Wrong

Again, do tell. Just saying “Wrong” is taking the Trump ‘Fale news’ approach. Back up your argument.

cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

Wrong, cause gerrymandering won’t work because we don’t have enough states to gerrymander. I respect the intentions behind it but it is a bad strategy.

Again, what’s the strategy?

I’ve said for years now that getting people to vote at the local levels is what’ll change things, the Texas level of gerrymandering breaks even that…

Remember folks, every vote counts. We did this to ourselves.

I’ve said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard…

It’s just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It’s like the people who thought China paid the tariffs…

The house is almost tied. That’s who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents…

218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.

Let’s see, take New York for example.

26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.

5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.

People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn’t matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.

Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.

Apathetic morons who don’t realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.

District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.

Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state… Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.

So, if you think that your vote for president doesn’t matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you’re a fucking moron who can’t grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.

And don’t get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.

Every fucking vote counts.

And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we’ll keep getting the shit we deserve.

House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.

Democrats would need ~18 seats.

First, that won’t happen in 2026.

Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.

Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.

How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we’re living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers…

Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.

• Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
  • Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
    • North Carolina (Budd-R)
    • Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
  • Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
    • Iowa (Ernst-R)
    • Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
    • Kentucky (McConnell-R’s seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
    • Kansas (Marshall-R)
    • South Carolina (Graham-R)
  • Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
    • Texas (Cornyn-R)
    • Mississippi (Wicker-R)
    • Alabama (Tuberville-R)
    • West Virginia (Capito-R)
    • Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
    • Wyoming (Lummis-R)
    • Idaho (Risch-R)
    • Arkansas (Cotton-R)
    • Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
    • South Dakota (Rounds-R)
    • Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
• Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
  • Highly Competitive Targets:
    • Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
    • Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
  • Stretch Targets:
    • Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
    • New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
  • Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
    • Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
    • Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
    • North Carolina (Tillis-R)
    • Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
    • Texas (Cruz-R)
    • Kentucky (Paul-R)
    • And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).

It’s going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.

The amount that’s being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities…

We’re on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.

No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.

Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.

Aw well fuck, I guess you’re right.

Ok boys, we can’t stop them at the SCOTUS, we can’t stop them at the Federal level, might as well pack it in, cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

We’ll let Schumer write another sternly written letter, maybe it’ll work this time.

/s

And their camera’s processing and memory cards are all mounted on the windshield for some stupid reason.

Having a small discreet 4 or 6 channel camera that writes to an SSD hidden inside the car and has a 4g radio attachment, or even connects to a hotspot would be massive.

Mmhmm compare that with the sales numbers, then compare against any company in history which has had a similar sales pattern for a publicly traded company.

Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.

He’s just a modern Art Bell with protein powder and a lot less entertainment value.

Only problem with a public utility like that now would be Trump and his Insane Cunt Posey would weaponize it for the religious right.

Oh, oh! And let me guess, your defense would be “But I was just following orders!”

And Google locks entire accounts, including Google Voice, Fi the phone service, email, drive, YouTube, everything cause your kid’s pediatrician needed a photo for a telehealth visit.

Just stop thinking your shit is safe in the “cloud” people. It isn’t. And trusting in a single company to have your back, or even care about you is naive at best.

Oh man, somewhere in Rural Australia a born again Karen is having a heart attack and screaming about all the kids this is sending to hell.

New Yorker here.

It’s to target the immigrate population of delivery cyclists, thus triggering deportation due to “criminal conviction”

It has nothing to do with court docket numbers, everything to do with Trump’s crackdown.

Adams golfs with the Mustard Mussolini, they’re tight. Share a background in shady political shit.

Yeah checked mine as well, guess Big Balls broke the database while they were making copies for DOG-E.

Go to a different lemmy server and block lemmy.world from your client. These tankies can moderate themselves all day long.

Arkansas, don’t forget Arkansas. And Louisiana.

these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a week attempt at distraction," read the statement attributed to Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for Obama.

Please tell me he actually said “weak” and didn’t typo that on an actual press release.

Religions don’t spread by the quality of their truth, but rather the quality of their violence.