Golly, that doesn't sound very small government or individual freedom of them.
You misunderstand, the Federal government should be small so it doesn't get in the way of the state government doing whatever the hell it wants. Individual rights are a canard to get religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts on board with dismantling federal protections so that state governments can oppress The Right People^TM^. Never mind that religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts are not oppressed and their revenge fantasies are founded on an astro-turfed victim complex.
Silly me!
Or strict constitutionalist
GOP are fascists
I did Nazi that coming
This pun is as tired as your humor.
Says a lot that you take offense to the joke, but not the actual literal nazism.
Obviously. The pun was his attempt at humor and if one is tired, the other follows.
You managed to not only say nothing useful in a derogatory manner, but to do it in a stupid way.
I did nazi that one coming.
Breaking news: "Nazi apologists create Gestapo." Who could have seen that coming?
Did they also strip the power of the state auditor to demand documents, like they did here in Iowa?
What else does the state auditor even do?
Exactly
Popular dot info?
It's a SubStack site which hosts a Judd Legum project called Popular Information.
He was formerly the editor-in-chief at ThinkProgress.
EDIT: Just to be clear, not being snarky, this is a super valid question to ask regarding the source.
I had the same thought, so I put the article’s URL into Ground News: 6 sources talking about this story, with popular.info being labeled as “high factuality”.
Pleasantly surprised, I guess.
How very ss of the repugnicunts
this feels like something an election should decide
This feels like something nobody should be interested in suggesting in the first place.
Checked the article, it's talking about an oversight committee, not a secret police force
You quote the first line in the article. Go read the rest.
It's fucking worse than a police force.
In the event that Gov Ops searches a person’s home, these rules mean that the person 1) must keep the entry a secret, 2) cannot seek outside help (unless necessary for fulfilling the request, the law says), and 3) could face criminal charges if Gov Ops deems them uncooperative.
Well that sure sounds like an unreasonable search
x1,000,000,000. WTF is happening to our country?
There are 3 Americans.
Only one of them votes.
Fascism.
An important note from the article is that this committee has oversight over institutions who do business with the government, not just government employees. Received grant money, welp now Gov ops can take you down. Won't be surprised to see it expand beyond institutions and start encompassing individuals, allowing them to take out receivers of social benefits
Americans, this is what a call to arms sounds like
And how this only applies to people working for the state government.
So those people don't deserve full protections of the constitution, privacy laws, lawyers if their stuff gets searched, and should be arrested if they don't comply...?
And how the "special oversight committee " only works for roughly half of the state government but can still cause people to be fired for not obliging to the Republican will?
Yeah it's an oversight committee in the same way that the "Committee of Public Safety" was concerned with public well-being.
Gerrymandered state legislatures make a huge difference folks.
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