Minority leader Tim Knopp said:
we are deeply disturbed by the chilling impact this decision will have to crush dissent
Give me a fucking break. As a legislator, you have no shortage of ways to dissent including access to media, the ability to speak on the floor of the legislature, and the ability to vote on legislation. What you can’t do, if you want to keep your job is not show up for work every time you know you’re going to lose a vote so that the legislature can’t do business.
“What about a musician who wants to express a nonpartisan message that young people should participate in our democracy?”
That’s DIFFERENT she needs to JUST SHUT UP
As an Oregon voter, tough shit. We voted with a 68% majority to amend the state constitution, with explicit penalties for legislative absenteeism.
The chilling impact they are feeling is the will of the people bitch slapping their defunct political strategy.
“But that’s all just Portland voters! All the rest us of didn’t want that!” - My idiot father. Yeah dude, Portland is most of us. Your vote isn’t worth more just because you live around less people.
It’s not even true. There are 3 million registered voters in Oregon, of whom 565k are in Portland (well, Multnomah). While we lean very heavily D, most of the registered D’s in the state are elsewhere.
Daddy, why are they fucking around and when they find out, they’re being little bitches?
The amendment says a lawmaker is not allowed to run “for the term following the election after the member’s current term is completed.” The senators claimed the amendment meant they could seek another term, since a senator’s term ends in January while elections are held the previous November.
What a slimey disingenuous BS argument. They are knowingly trying to subvert the law specifically aimed at their behavior while pretending it’s SOMEHOW the will of the voters to ignore them.
Conservatives supported this rule to punish those who attempted to manipulate sessions by not showing up. When the rule applies to them, they pretend they are victims of some kind.
The entire time the walk-out was happening, they told the media the rule wouldn’t apply to them and they intended to run again. It was pure arrogance as it happened. And it’s pure arrogance now as they claim their rule shouldn’t apply to them.
Fuck conservatives. A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word they utter is deception or manipulation. Every word.
As an orgonian, fuck yes, that entire group can go eat a bag of dicks.
The GOP loves whining and not doing their job. These people are being paid to represent people, by wilfully abusing quorum to stall the process they are doing their constituents a major disservice.
Filibuster if you want to stand there and defend against change you disagree with, but using absence as a political weapon is slimy and low effort.
Isn’t that literally what the nazis did? Block decision making by walking out of the Reichstag when they were in the oposition?
Yeah they also used the term “fake news” to illegitimize opposing news sources just like a specific rotten orange I refuse to name
Just to clarify, I was not referring to anybody as a Nazi, I simply noted, that the method of blocking votes and using “the system” against itself is not new. And when the methods someone uses have been deployed by the literal original nazis, then I find this noteworthy.
I agree in general. The term is used as a strong word to clarify someone’s stand point, but besides cheers from within the own bubble and resistance from. The other bubble, nothing happens. The bubbles won’t be dissolved that way. I the end, I think, globally, there is no fight “left VS right” but democrats VS autocrats (not referring to the democratic party here) , and whoever values liberty should stand together against autocrats independently of the party someone prefers.
As an Oregonian…
Hehe. Hehehehe! Hehehahahaaahahah!!! …*gasp*… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
