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Agronox posted:What's the federal issue under which there'd be jurisdiction? I can only think of one thing but it'd be a stretch. Due process?
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God, hopefully this teaches the nation a lesson about why electing people who hate the government to be the government is a bad idea. It sucks that we had to burn down a state to do it, but on the bright side at least the state in question is Kansas.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:12
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VitalSigns posted:God, hopefully this teaches the nation a lesson about why electing people who hate the government to be the government is a bad idea. I like how republicans worship things like rule of law and the founding fathers creating separation of powers. However they get meltdowns when the separation of powers concept doesn't go their way.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:37
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I can assure you that when people are discussing this event ten years from now the phrase "...and nothing was learned" will no doubt be the appropriate way to conclude the tale.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:38
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ShadowCatboy posted:Good luck proving that in your defunded courthouses. The court can issue an order demanding funding.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:45
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Countdown to a variation of "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
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Sep 7, 2015 01:50
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Does anyone know what this actually means? Are normal people going to not be able to go to state courthouses for things like marriage licenses?
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Sep 7, 2015 02:11
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I don't think anyone knows what it means because I don't believe one branch of government has ever outlawed another before. Kansas is attempting a radical experiment in poor governance so let's wait and see!
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Sep 7, 2015 02:14
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SquadronROE posted:Does anyone know what this actually means? Are normal people going to not be able to go to state courthouses for things like marriage licenses? Litany Unheard posted:I don't think anyone knows what it means because I don't believe one branch of government has ever outlawed another before. Kansas is attempting a radical experiment in poor governance so let's wait and see! Oh it's hardly the first time.
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Sep 7, 2015 02:35
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SquadronROE posted:Does anyone know what this actually means? Are normal people going to not be able to go to state courthouses for things like marriage licenses? I'm sure they defund the judicial branch but also say all the employees have to work for free until all gets sorted out.
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Sep 7, 2015 02:40
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Agronox posted:What's the federal issue under which there'd be jurisdiction? I can only think of one thing but it'd be a stretch. Just about any state government disputes that can't be sorted out in state can be taken to federal district courts to settle the matter. And they'll often accept the case, especially for something high strange like this.
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Sep 7, 2015 02:47
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Aside from its fiscal woes, let's not forget that Kansas is also falling apart literally.quote:CALDWELL, KAN. - Another small earthquake has shaken south-central Kansas. Luckily, some government regulations likely helped to mitigate the earthquakes recently, leading to ones that are smaller and less frequent. Unfortunately, those regulations are set to expire very soon.
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Sep 7, 2015 02:48
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Honestly who gives a gently caress unless they are consistently above a 4, you'd barely even know it's happening even if you were on top of the thing at the ranges they are talking about. A car driving by with loud bass will shake you more than a 3.5.
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Sep 7, 2015 04:08
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tsa posted:Honestly who gives a gently caress unless they are consistently above a 4, you'd barely even know it's happening even if you were on top of the thing at the ranges they are talking about. A car driving by with loud bass will shake you more than a 3.5. So who gives a gently caress if ONE iceberg melts? It's pretty telling that this poo poo is happening a bunch when it barely happened before. May not be some big rear end earthquake, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next decade sinkholes became a Kansas thing.
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Sep 7, 2015 04:21
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burn. burn, kansas, for my enjoyment
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Sep 7, 2015 04:30
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Sep 7, 2015 06:01
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etalian posted:i hope it ends up as a huge flaming sinkhole We'll name it Brownback's gaping hole in memorial to unmitigated stupidity. 
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Sep 7, 2015 06:13
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I really doubt buildings in Kansas are designed to withstand any sort of earthquake at all so having any at all up from zero is not a great sign.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:00
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Don't think for a nano-second that the far right, conservatives, etc, won't ever, EVER, stop blaming the left and/or their particular boogie-men(socialists, vampire leech welfare-queen immigrants/minorities/poor, etc). In fact, the worse things get the more delusional the former become or or the more to blame upon the latter.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:54
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enraged_camel posted:At this point I want Kansas to sink as low as possible so that it becomes impossible to ignore as a massive failure of Republican fiscal policies. Well on the plus side, at least they pivoted to job growth and aren't bothering defending that whole tax cuts = more revenue thing.
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Sep 7, 2015 12:04
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Tiler Kiwi posted:I really doubt buildings in Kansas are designed to withstand any sort of earthquake at all so having any at all up from zero is not a great sign.
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Sep 7, 2015 13:03
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etalian posted:I like how republicans worship things like rule of law and the founding fathers creating separation of powers. That's because these were  Liberal Activist Judges who dishonored the intent of the founders by failing to vote in lockstep with modern American conservative ideology.
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Sep 7, 2015 15:03
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Boywhiz88 posted:So who gives a gently caress if ONE iceberg melts? Doesn't the New Madrid fault run through Kansas, or is that on the other side of Missouri?
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Sep 7, 2015 18:28
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Gyges posted:Doesn't the New Madrid fault run through Kansas, or is that on the other side of Missouri? There's a different major fault in Kansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Fault
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tsa posted:Honestly who gives a gently caress unless they are consistently above a 4, you'd barely even know it's happening even if you were on top of the thing at the ranges they are talking about. A car driving by with loud bass will shake you more than a 3.5. oklahoma started having a ton of these miniquakes too. unfortunately, it doesn't just stop with the miniquakes. in the last 4 years we've had 3 4.8s, a 5.6, and a multitude of 4.0+ quakes (at least 50 if the sampling I see here is right. http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/oklahoma/biggest). we've never really had quakes much at all until recently. I felt my first earthquake of ever 4 years ago. the fracking stuff is not a good idea and the quakes don't just stop at 3 (though we're getting thousands of those per year it looks like, at least 28 a week).
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Sep 7, 2015 19:36
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etalian posted:I'm sure they defund the judicial branch but also say all the employees have to work for free until all gets sorted out. Hey, it worked in the Gaza Strip!
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It would probably be best if things got even worse in Kansas. I mean pre-apocolyptic, mass-migration way of worse. And then maybe some of the larger centrist states might learn what can happen when you elect too many Republicans to the statehouse. Like how else are these loving idiots going to learn to stop voting in GOP supermajorities. A state needs to burn.
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Sep 13, 2015 09:28
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Nobody will learn anything from this they didn't already believe was true.
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Sep 13, 2015 09:32
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Eh as long as the Republicans are good old Texas style Just, what the gently caress is happening to the Republican party. Even in Texas the new Lieutenant Governor is a Tea Party true believer, and even the governor is pandering to the insane right-wing militia types.
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VitalSigns posted:Eh as long as the Republicans are good old Texas style One can only hope its the desperate reactions of a failing party.
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via posted:It would probably be best if things got even worse in Kansas. I mean pre-apocolyptic, mass-migration way of worse. And then maybe some of the larger centrist states might learn what can happen when you elect too many Republicans to the statehouse. Like how else are these loving idiots going to learn to stop voting in GOP supermajorities. A state needs to burn. I live here and I regularly talk to people about politics. Believe me when I say that no one is learning poo poo from this, and that's not just because they defunded all the public education. People are willfully ignorant of the crap that is going on and if you try to bring up state politics with anyone already invested in the Kansas Republican brand you'll end up getting blame thrown at national politicians with comments like, "It would have been worse if a democrat was elected."
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via posted:It would probably be best if things got even worse in Kansas. I mean pre-apocolyptic, mass-migration way of worse. No mass-migrations for Kansas; they dug themselves that hole, no need to drag the rest of the states into that blunder. The Kansas people can't be trusted to vote anymore.
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Anubis posted:People are willfully ignorant of the crap that is going on and if you try to bring up state politics with anyone already invested in the Kansas Republican brand you'll end up getting blame thrown at national politicians with comments like, "It would have been worse if a democrat was elected."
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exethan posted:Want to echo this statement as a kansan. Many of the people i work with also believe global warming is a conspiracy because it snowed a lot somewhere last year. We all know that global warming is actually a secret Jayhawk plot to open the docks in the port city of Topeka, on the shores of the restored Western Interior Seaway.
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Gyges posted:We all know that global warming is actually a secret Jayhawk plot to open the docks in the port city of Topeka, on the shores of the restored Western Interior Seaway. Please tell me you came up with this and didn't have it spewed at you as an actual viewpoint by a living breathing human. Hitlers Gay Secret posted:No mass-migrations for Kansas; they dug themselves that hole, no need to drag the rest of the states into that blunder. Harsh dude. Mind you, maybe we should try to disenfranchise white people for a change and see what happens.
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Anubis posted:I live here and I regularly talk to people about politics. Believe me when I say that no one is learning poo poo from this, and that's not just because they defunded all the public education. People are willfully ignorant of the crap that is going on and if you try to bring up state politics with anyone already invested in the Kansas Republican brand you'll end up getting blame thrown at national politicians with comments like, "It would have been worse if a democrat was elected." This. I live in Wichita and 99% of people here still support Brownback and believe his "experiment" is working.
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Klaus88 posted:Harsh dude. Mind you, maybe we should try to disenfranchise white people for a change and see what happens. Nothing new. Skin color is no proof against stupidity, and the oppressed don't make good oppressors either.
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Sep 13, 2015 20:59
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Klaus88 posted:Please tell me you came up with this and didn't have it spewed at you as an actual viewpoint by a living breathing human. Whoever came up with it is cribbing from Superman (1978)
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Deutschendorf posted:This. I live in Wichita and 99% of people here still support Brownback and believe his "experiment" is working. Maybe it's my problem, I just don't know how to relate to people who think that the stuff happening in Kansas is good despite it being objectively bad.
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Trent posted:Whoever came up with it is cribbing from Superman (1978) There are no missiles involved in sweet Great Plains surf shops. Luthor was just going to take a little off the side of California.
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