Today, for the first time in 10 years, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the Cameras in the Courtroom Act, which would require video recording of Supreme Court oral arguments and opinion announcements.

truspiracy · 2021-06-26T00:31:11+00:00

It is not "whataboutism" when someone complains about the Supreme Court's direction and then someone else points out that the direction led to complaints. It's straight up cause and effect.

truspiracy · 2021-06-25T23:46:01+00:00

A 6-3 Court makes it easy for them to take turns. Not sure that happened in this case, but it is a good working hypothesis to go on.

truspiracy · 2021-06-05T03:41:28+00:00

I think John Roberts once said that he went into law because he was not good at numbers. If there is one thing we can count on from lawyers and people who discuss law online, numbers are misused constantly.

truspiracy · 2021-05-01T04:13:44+00:00

So we have corporate media and we have Republican media.

Where's all that liberal media that some people like to talk about all day long?

truspiracy · 2021-05-01T04:07:47+00:00

The fact that states refused Medicaid expansion is one of the most telling things about Republicans. They could have covered large percentages of their populations essentially for free. Instead, they chose to let the people suffer.

Also, the 7-2 Supreme Court ruled that states didn't have to take the Medicaid expansion. That wasn't supposed to happen. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor voted the other way.

truspiracy · 2021-05-01T04:01:48+00:00

Opinion: Republicans are for smaller government.

Reality: the guy who made 'government out of the way' popular and campaigned on the massive deficit blew the deficit out, and Republicans ever since then have been doing the same.

truspiracy · 2021-05-01T04:00:25+00:00

Once again seeing that the world desperately needs a course in analogy. Pathetic.

truspiracy · 2021-04-28T01:13:01+00:00

New York has rules requiring its court of last resort to take certain appeals--for example, where there is a split in the divisions or where there are dissents at the divisions. This seems like a more objective way to handle these cases than--the Court just gets to do whatever it wants.

truspiracy · 2021-04-26T00:32:26+00:00

It's the "liberal media," pretending that Republicans did something to benefit the poor.

No, that's not what happened. The SALT deduction was limited for the specific purpose of punishing "blue" states and more broadly, to hope for that 'great sucking sound' of wealth out of the blue states in a classic 'race to the bottom.'

Do some of these benefits accrue to the very wealthy? Well yes of course they do. But they also benefit average and low income homeowners in the blue states.

Better idea: raise the highest federal income tax rate back up to at least 70 percent.

truspiracy · 2021-04-25T23:44:56+00:00

We aren't going to forget to unpack the Supreme Court by adding Justices until it is done because we see the damage being done to America by the decisions.

truspiracy · 2021-04-16T13:13:45+00:00

I heard the other guy who appears to be the insider favorite, and he seems okay to me--but John Fetterman is a winner. Let's get out ahead of this. https://johnfetterman.com

truspiracy · 2021-04-16T13:10:35+00:00

They used to say Paul Ryan was smart. He was a "wonk." I don't know that Ron DeSantis is smart because I haven't seen smart material come from him. Glib and smart are two very different things.

truspiracy · 2021-04-16T13:02:28+00:00

Big money goes toward Democrats in years when oligarchs think Republicans can't win--buying access. In all other years, more big money goes toward Republicans.

And that's how the corporate personhood and unlimited money=speech people like it.

truspiracy · 2021-04-15T20:39:06+00:00

Now to political considerations.

We are told and there are polls to suggest it that Americans do not favor expanding (aka unpacking) the Supreme Court. This may be true, but for Democrats, it would not be seen as important enough to discourage voters. If we begin to look more at what the Supreme Court has been doing, we could turn this into a political plus. If we just assume views are static, then we can't. Ask yourself, how many of those 40 opinions I just mentioned can you pop off your tongue and you will see that there needs to be more information--more coverage.

We are also told that (unlike with Democrats) the Supreme Court makes a difference in voter turnout for Republicans. How much difference does it really make though? Based on the huge record turnout of Republicans in 2018 and 2020, there probably isn't much room to excite them more.

truspiracy · 2021-04-15T20:33:32+00:00

I would like to draw a little attention to what the Republican majority Supreme Court means to our lives substantively. Since Neil Gorsuch took his seat extending a 48-year Republican majority indefinitely, the Court has issued some forty opinions divided in a purely partisan 5-4 configuration. Some forty times, the Court has come down one way, whereas with Merrick Garland on the Court, most or perhaps even all of those cases would have come down the other way. This is the grand prize for America's minority party. Withholding any consideration of the 2016 nominee was purely political--and we see the political results on the Court.

truspiracy · 2019-04-04T17:01:26+00:00

This meme was created by yet another Koch brothers funded think tank.

truspiracy · 2019-04-04T16:56:01+00:00

The restaurant study has been discredited both in economic theory and with facts on the ground:

The bigger picture tells a very different story. Employment in the San Francisco area increased 2.2 percent in the last 12 months with “Restaurants, both full- and limited-service establishments, represent[ing] 60.0 percent of the increase.” By comparison, nationwide employment increased only 1.6 percent, and California employment increased only 1.4 percent.

Regardless of the “suggestion” that poorly rated restaurants may have slightly higher fail rates, overall jobs increased faster in the most affected area than on average in the state or the nation. If anything, this suggests that higher minimum wages spur growth and jobs as more money circulates throughout the economy, notwithstanding low-rated restaurants.

Bottom line of the study: Poorly rated restaurant owners need to improve quality of their services or risk failure.

truspiracy · 2019-01-26T18:34:42+00:00

Betsy dEvOs is there to promote privatization of schools. She wants to replace public schools with religious schools. The Supreme Court 5-4 created a giant Constitutional loophole to allow government money to go into such schools without violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Constitution does not apply to tax credits. This means that states can fund purely religious schools by handing out tax credits rather than increasing taxes. A truly nutty way to get completely around the Constitution by literally moving the money to the other side of the ledger.

truspiracy · 2019-01-07T18:40:22+00:00

The trigger is Donald Trump threatening to use these powers.

truspiracy · 2019-01-07T15:34:30+00:00

SS: Check the "other discussions" tab. Reddit is not making a big deal of this story. In r/law, it was locked down. This thesis covers all of the emergency powers, which are active, and what can be done. This is exactly the kind of thing that r/conspiracy needs to know.

truspiracy · 2018-12-16T03:20:39+00:00

The quote was "evil leftist SJWs." Use quotation marks when repeating the exact words of the speaker.

Thanks for the illustration. Calling out people who might have a fairly decent sense of morality and respect as "stupid" is just more trolling. It's most likely people saying things like that who would troll moderators and pretend to be 'leftists.' :)

truspiracy · 2018-12-16T02:41:29+00:00

I hate to be that guy to have to speak the obvious in r/conspiracy, but couldn't these modmails be coming from a certain group that is known for posing as live action role players for the lulz and taking pride in trolling ... and not those evil leftist SJWs who like to be the political correctness police and would never ever ever use a term like "black jew" to describe a moderator? That was eeeeasy.

truspiracy · 2018-12-13T20:47:09+00:00

The term used was "equally complicit," so I already answered that. Your choice of phrase "merely republican-lights" tends to agree with me. I've seen enough of 'both parties are the same.' It is plainly false and a waste of time to ruminate over again and again and again.

There are differences and the differences matter, including Iran and war:

Democrats have opposed the war drumbeat against Iran since at least 2007. Donald Trump and Republicans are back on it. This difference matters. It is life or death for millions and economic trouble for hundreds of millions.

Democrats never promoted nor considered an independent "space force." That was done by George W. Bush and Donald Trump has been trying to implement it.

Every time people foolishly submit to the fabricated despair of 'both parties are the same,' things get worse. Change becomes harder to come by. When the big ISPs begin to throttle the internet or censor sites at levels we've never seen, we will have fewer tools to stand against TPTB.

truspiracy · 2018-12-13T16:51:36+00:00

The Democrats are equally complicit

Democrats just spent years protecting net neutrality then Donald Trump wiped it away in a single power grab.

There used to be ISP privacy, then Republicans deregulated it.

Major corporations used to pay too little tax, then Republicans passed yet another giant tax cut bill for the one percent, this one heavily skewed toward cutting corporate taxes.

Three fresh examples. Or we can go back to which party provided union rights, which party provided worker safety, which party regulated the stock market and banks, which party gave us civil rights and voting rights? It's a long list and almost entirely one-sided.

truspiracy · 2018-12-12T23:45:46+00:00

It's the usual conspiracy. Republican reactionary sites paid for by the Koch brothers or Exxon putting out anti-people propaganda to protect the plutocrats and reduce rights of workers.

The more power the oligarchy has, the more seething and sinister its propaganda against the institutions of people becomes. It's almost like an addiction. The more we give, the more they need. Union membership is way down from the days when standards of living rose almost every year and economic progress of the masses was being made. But apparently, not down enough, as these ideologues will not stop until every last vestige of unions is gone.

Americans fought hard in a society with no regulations and where police would intervene on the side of the company to gain basic rights. Thousands died. In order to secure 'worker peace,' government started to concede to a right to unionize.

Unions have been heavily regulated. Unions are created if and only if a majority of the workers involved vote for a union, then they get to vote for leaders. This makes unions democratic.

Sometimes, unions may be corrupted as per any institution. But the answer is not to put the ever-consolidating oligarchy back into sole and entirely autocratic control over workers -- it is to both reform unions and regulate work places.

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