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If Title 42 falls in the forest, does COVID-19 make a sound?

27 Tuesday Dec 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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cognitive dissonance, Corona virus, COVID-19, immigration, pandemic, right wingnuts, stay, Title 42, Trump administration, U.S. Supreme Court

Wait, if COVID-19 is a hoax, then Title 42 has always been moot.

Today:

Supreme Court allows border restrictions for asylum seekers to continue for now
December 27, 20224:30 PM ET

EL PASO, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Tuesday, granted a GOP request to prevent the winding down of the Title 42 immigration policy – and agreed to decide in its February argument session whether 19 states that oppose the policy should be allowed to intervene in defense of it in the lower courts.

[….]

Under Title 42, immigration authorities were able to quickly remove many of the migrants they encountered – without giving them a chance to ask for asylum protection or other protections under U.S. law. The restrictions were put in place as a public health order by former President Donald Trump’s administration in March 2020 when COVID-19 was just beginning to surge in this country.

[….]

From the dissent:

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 22A544 (22–592)
ARIZONA, ET AL. v. ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS,
SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[December 27, 2022]

[….]

Reasonable minds can disagree about the merits of the D. C. Circuit’s intervention ruling. But that case-specific decision is not of special importance in its own right and would not normally warrant expedited review. The D. C. Circuit’s intervention ruling takes on whatever salience it has only because of its presence in a larger underlying dispute about the Title 42 orders. And on that score, it is unclear what we might accomplish. Even if at the end of it all we find that the States are permitted to intervene, and even if the States manage on remand to demonstrate that the Title 42 orders were lawfully adopted, the emergency on which those orders were premised has long since lapsed.

[….]

The only plausible reason for stepping in at this stage that I can discern has to do with the States’ second request. The States contend that they face an immigration crisis at the border and policymakers have failed to agree on adequate measures to address it. The only means left to mitigate the crisis, the States suggest, is an order from this Court directing the federal government to continue its COVID-era Title 42 policies as long as possible…

[….]

But the current border crisis is not a COVID crisis. And courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. We are a court of law, not policymakers of last resort.

Even Neil Freakin’ Gorsuch got that much.

Too bad they didn’t think of that when they dismantled the Post Office sorting machines in Kansas City

18 Sunday Oct 2020

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campaign mail, chutzpah, cognitive dissonance, Fascist assholes, gaslighting, hoist with their own petard, mail, missouri, post office, sorting machines, Uniting Missouri PAC

In late August:

USPS removes 4 mail-processing machines in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An official at the United States Postal Service confirmed Friday that four mail-processing machines have been removed at its Kansas City, Missouri, facility.

The removal of machines comes as part of changes made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, according to a report from CNN.

The USPS official said that in addition to the four machines removed in Kansas City, the USPS had removed two machines in Springfield and one in Wichita “for efficiency and lower mail volume.”

[….]

“We are seeing the destruction of the postal service,” U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver II, a Missouri Democrat who represents KCMO, said. “I don’t think there are any questions about it.”

[….]

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported Friday that Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft was notified in late July that the USPS may not be able to return all mail-in ballots to election authorities by the Nov. 3 election.

That delay could invalidate some ballots for the general election, when the country will elect a president and Missouri will elect a governor, among other races.

[….]

That was then, this is now.

A campaign piece, from Uniting Missouri, the PAC propping up Governor Mike Parson (r), arrived in our mail yesterday:

“Officials say you should return your mail or absentee ballot now to ensure it is received and counted in time.”

No shit, Sherlock. Who’s responsible for this state of affairs?

Wait a minute. In Donald Trump’s (r) world aren’t mail-in ballots rife with fraud?

This right wingnut mail piece is just oozing cognitive dissonance and gaslighting. Not that their target audience would notice.

Oooh, scary stuff.

Fascists gotta Fascist.

Previously:

Spending that campaign cash: A very expensive combination of irony and satire… (October 16, 2020)

The Encyclopedia Galactica of right wingnut America

13 Thursday Aug 2020

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bumper stickers, cognitive dissonance, missouri, projection, right wingnut

Today in west central Missouri:

The list:

1. Police Lives Matter
2. Hillary Clinton for Prison 2016
3. Trump Pence Make America Great Again 2016
4. Do your homework Republicans ended slavery…
5. Annoy a Democrat. Use facts and logic.
6. Only Obama and Liberals could turn terrorists into victims and conservatives into a threat
7. Annoy a Democrat. Hold honest elections.
8. [fine print]
9. [peace sign] Footprint of the American chicken
10. Politically incorrect and proud of it
11. So you’ll kill an innocent baby but not a convicted murderer?
12. Global warming is Liberal hot air
13. I don’t believe Liberal media
14. [man plus woman equals] marriage
[skipping a few]
21. No Sharia law for America
22. Gun control is being able to hit your target!
[skipping a few]
25. Proud Infidel
[skipping the last]

Probably undecided at this point.

What’s the matter with Saline County?

09 Friday Nov 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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cognitive dissonance, election, missouri, Saline County

One of the cable news network talking head shows (or was it one of the old network talking head shows) mentioned the fact that in 2012 Claire McCaskill (D) won Saline County by close to twenty points and in 2018 she lost it by a similar margin.

The 2018 results via the Missouri Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – General Election, November 06, 2018
Unofficial Results

U.S. Senator
14 of 14 Precincts Reported

Josh Hawley Republican 4,569 58.285%
Claire McCaskill Democratic 2,895 36.931%
Japheth Campbell Libertarian 128 1.633%
Jo Crain Green 57 0.727%
Craig O’Dear Independent 190 2.424%

Total Votes: 7,839

And the initiative on ethics, campaign finance, lobbying, and redistricting reform:

Constitutional Amendment No. 1
14 of 14 Precincts Reported

YES 4,467 58.225%
NO 3,205 41.775%
Total Votes: 7,672

Which they overwhelmingly supported.

And the initiative on medical marijuana:

Constitutional Amendment No. 2
14 of 14 Precincts Reported
YES 4,864 62.479%
NO 2,921 37.521%
Total Votes: 7,785

Which they overwhelmingly supported, by an even larger margin. What’s with that?

And the initiative to raise the minimum wage in Missouri:

Proposition B
14 of 14 Precincts Reported

YES 4,361 56.843%
NO 3,311 43.157%
Total Votes: 7,672

Which they overwhelmingly supported.

And “Right to get paid less” was on the August primary ballot:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 07, 2018
Official Results
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers on August 27, 2018

Proposition A
14 of 14 Precincts Reported

YES 1,362 33.721%
NO 2,677 66.279%
Total Votes: 4,039

Which they overwhelmingly rejected.

So, the good people of Saline County voted for the CLEAN Missouri initiative, for medical marijuana, for raising the minimum wage, and against imposing “right to get paid less”. And, they also voted for and elected the U.S. Senate candidate (and General Assembly candidates) who were opposed to initiatives they supported.

Voters in other counties and across the state did the same thing.

What gives?

Welcome to America

05 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2014, America, cognitive dissonance

Ben Casselman @bencasselman

So voters want a higher minimum wage, legal pot, abortion access and GOP representation. Ok then. 8:10 PM – 4 Nov 2014

Update:

Hunter ‏@HunterDK

Voters hate Congress more than any other time in history, vow to elect ppl who will make it worse. A bit strange, at least. 10:58 PM – 4 Nov 2014

Cognitive dissonance, it’s not just for breakfast anymore.

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