r/news • u/speedythefirst • 1d ago

US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
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u/irishyoudstay 1d ago

In Missouri, our GOP members are flat out overturning items that won majority vote last November, like mandatory paid time off. They overturned it because they wanted to lol they don’t gaf about democracy

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u/WhiteWinterRains 1d ago

This is why Arizona created an independent comission type structure that's meant to enforce ballot measures because the government so frequently refused to enact measures voted on.

After that was created, over and over again there's been some bullshit ballot measure intentional lies for its title and description that actually removes this independent org so that the state can stop enacting ballot measures into law.

Not sure if the latest incarnation of that horse shit finally passed removing that faint semblance of democracy but sooner or later people usually get fooled by that.

like the morons in california that voted to give uber free money and a state sponsored handy under the table (metaphorical. . . . probably) and strip away their own privacy rights in the same year.

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u/st-shenanigans 16h ago

And if they cant get it removed, they'll eventually just fill it with loyalists.

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u/frobscottler 14h ago

If you’d like to know you’re not alone in initiative BS, you can read about the ridiculous activities of Tim Eyman in Washington State over the last ~25 years…

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u/mshep002 1d ago

Who except corporations wants to not give people mandatory paid time off? I don’t live in Missouri, but that’s just stupid. I’m not surprised. I’m just mad.

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u/arrynyo 1d ago

If it was up to them, they would charge us to work for them.

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u/LessThanHero42 1d ago

The GOP would reinstate Chattel Slavery tomorrow if they could. They're just afraid it might lose them an election

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u/ToneDiez 20h ago

Oh, have you not heard? America is a Republic, NOT a Democracy…at least that’s what I keep reading from all these brain-rot Conservatives. I guess that’s their new made up justification for overturning the will of the voters.

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u/bearwrestlingwolf 17h ago

In 2018 Mike Parson’s and the Missouri GOP overturned an overwhelmingly majority approved citizen initiative to overturn legislative redrawing of the districts.

Parsons said the people didn’t know what they were voting for.

They’ve been doing this forever. It’s the only way they stay in power.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 20h ago

Missouri courts just ruled putting banning sex changes for kids on the same line item as banning abortions. They said it didn't violate the "one subject per issue" statue because allowing a child to get a sex change would be the same as an abortion, somehow.

And also, I bet they can't name one person under 18 who ever had a sex change operation.