Those personages are anything but cool. In fact they are the living antithesis of cool. So much so, that if you wanted to define cool, you could point at either and say “just the opposite of them”.
In fact if Palin ran into Tove Lo there’d be a explosion, like matter and anti-matter.
I’m not saying that I personally find Coulter, or Palin, or MandaJo’s other examples of Trump-supporting professional women “cool” in any complimentary way. But yes, they fit the profile of the so-called “Conservative Cool Girl”:
You left out that word. “Conservative”.
But now we can add that to the list of oxymorons. “Conservative Cool Girl”.
Well yeah, I figured it was pretty self-evident that people like Coulter and Palin are specifically conservative versions of the “Cool Girl” stereotype.
You do know that the “Cool Girl” stereotype is a specific (and not ultimately an entirely positive or flattering) concept that doesn’t just mean “a girl who is cool”, right?
He can’t testify dressed like that. Do you think he has a business set of horns?
Well, that should add to the gaiety of nations.
I’m imagining each horn in its own little 3 piece suit now.
Cue the ramped up voter suppression efforts. The Republican majority state House in Arizona just introduced a bill that would give the state legislature the power to override the Secretary of State’s certification of election results.
The bill may not go anywhere (note here: many of the states currently “considering” joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact are too reddish to ever pass it) but it’s yet another indication that the GOP is going all in on using the natural geographical advantages it owns to further enhance its chances at continuous minority rule. Our election systems remain a huge national problem.
Both houses of the AZ legislature have Republican majorities, but by the thinnest margins: 16-14 in the senate and 31-29 in the house. Of course, the AZ Republican party is headed by Trump wacko Kelli Ward, who would be making a lot more national headlines without the QAnon congresscritters hogging all the attention. Her first act was to censure Doug Ducey (governor), Cindy McCain, and Jeff Flake, so I’m not sure if she has influence over the whole Republican caucus.
A few weeks back I had heard that there was a bill to eliminate the Permanent Early Ballot List (PEVL), meaning that you would need to request an early ballot for every election. This morning I heard that the current proposal is for automatic removal from the PEVL if you don’t vote in two successive election cycles. So at least some of the voter suppression efforts are getting watered down in AZ.
I’m pretty sure this is actually how the CA permanent absentee voter system used to work. Miss two elections and you had to sign up again. Currently it is miss four elections and you have to sign up again. I think some limit, wherever you decide to put it, is reasonable (I’d say 3-4 is about right). No reason for the state to keep spending money to send you material if you are dropping out of the political process.
The number of elections depends on the local schedule. I have some sort of vote pretty much every year (in my permanent-registered-address location, as an overseas expat) due to levy renewals and other local issues coming up in between the House cycle. And every other year there’s two and sometimes three rounds of balloting with the primaries. If you count every one of those, it would be possible for me to vote for President, ignore the “minor” stuff in between, and then find I’d been removed from the PEVL list before the next Presidential election.
I agree there should be a limit, but I’d put it more like, “if you didn’t vote in two successive Presidential races or any race in between.”
Of course, as an overseas voter, I don’t have to deal with the hassle of a physical ballot. I vote by email. So I have the perfect balance of “convenient for me, cheap for my state.”
I think that’s perfectly reasonable. For me it works out to about the same standard - California by law currently only holds elections every other year, with the exception of special elections like recalls which IME are generally pretty rare. Also I’m not a primary voter at all (registered independent). So four CA elections for me pretty much carries me through an eight year span/two presidential runs.
Not sure I agree with that, if you look at the whole concept of voting, a decision not to vote can also be political, it is arguable that a couple of Republican states had a lobby that included non-participation as part of the loony platform.
If removing non-participants is on the agenda, they why isn’t compulsory voting also not the agenda? There are nations that require their electorate to vote on pain of a relatively small fine.
Its interesting that the voter suppression states are doing their best to decrease voting rather than increase it - this speaks volumes.
There’s a point to be made in that white feminism has often competed with other civil rights movements. White women - even so-called independent women - have viewed themselves as whites first, women slightly second. It’s their status as a white woman that bestows upon them social, economic, and political privilege - they have to protect their whiteness first. This is why women’s suffrage groups clashed with black suffrage groups in the 19th Century, and it was ultimately white women who made civil rights gains before black men did. The fallout from that clash still exists even today.
Arizona is a case where the Republican party seems to be dying, owing to the fact that there’s an influx of Californians and progressives from other states. That won’t keep Republicans from becoming more extreme, though; they will double and triple down on it. They’ll use it to weave conspiracy theories that eventually justify authoritarianism and even terrorism.
I hope he testifies just like that - and that he yodels just like he did a few weeks ago.
That would be priceless.
I said in a different thread that it should be called “The Epiphany”.
First, January 6 is already called that (it’s Twelfth Night–the 12th day of Christmas), and second, that day was an epiphany in that it was clearly revealed to everyone that there are many knuckle-dragging evil-doers amongst us.
Nevermind.
Try Koo-Koo Coup or maybe Koo Koo Koup for that alliterative racist touch.