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republicans used to pretend to support "states rights?"

I'm glad they dropped that pathetic act...

Trump just signed an executive order, issuing a single regulation framework for AI, marking a win for tech companies lobbying against states' abilities to regulate it.
States that don't adhere to his rules will face funding restrictions.
"Alongside the president for the signing were David Sacks, and fellow tech investor and podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya."
"The move marks a huge win for tech companies that have lobbied to limit the power of states when it comes to regulating AI."
"AI companies have been opening offices close to the Capitol and launching campaigns through super PACs with at least $100 million to spend on the midterm elections in 2026."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/trump-signs-execut...?

republicans used to pretend to support "states rights?"

Also, Trump has threatened to illegally withhold all federal funding from Indiana if they don't pass the redistricting plan that would remove its only two democratic seats in the House. So far, that threat has not worked. Will Trump follow through?

This is such an ill-informed Leftist take.

"States' rights" was a Democrat position and part of what led up to the civil war. The Republican Party was formed specifically in opposition to slavery and to keep the Union together.

Check out famous Democrat Robert Byrd, a friend of Hillary Clinton. He was a high ranking KKK member and yet a respected and powerful member of the Democrat Party. He served as a U.S. Senator from West Virginia from 1959 until 2010 when he died.

It is truly like some of you folks were born yesterday. Even if born yesterday, you could actually read an actual history book or two, not just rely on A.I. and Heather Cox Richardson.

As far as the issue of federal consistency and control over important legislation and regulation affecting interstate commerce, that's already been long-since decided.

There's something called the "Supremacy Clause" in the U.S. Constitution but guess you think the Constitution is a racist document and doesn't count any more.

"States' rights" was a Democrat position and part of what led up to the civil war. The Republican Party was formed specifically in opposition to slavery and to keep the Union together.

This is all true. The southeast used to be solid DINO territory, with luminaries like George Wallace howling about "states rights", while promoting segregation. I remember Mike Huckabee talking about his youth, when you could put all the Republicans in town in one house living room, because the GOP was associated with "the war of northern aggression". The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, of the 60s were passed with stronger GOP support than Dem.

Then Nixon saw how well Wallace did in 68, and embarked on his "southern strategy". The GOP has increasingly embraced racism ever since. Reagan put the shift into high gear, as southern Dems, styling themselves as "the boll weevil caucus", flocked to the GOP. Moderate Republicans, the sort that used to govern Michigan, have been driven from the party. It was not that many years ago, when Mitt Romney talked about his dad, when Governor of Michigan, joining in civil rights marches, and being flamed by the "new" GOP.

Steve

Steve,

I think you are over-simplifying here. Yes, many outright racists may have switched from the Democrats to the Republicans as a result of the Civil Rights Movement.

However, the core Democrat/Progressive ethos, right now, and as it has developed over the past few decades, is quintessentially a racist ideology.

White liberal Democrats believe Blacks are inferior and therefore need DEI and Affirmative Action to succeed--preferences based on race. That's a clearly racist ideology.

It's Democrats who are the racists, and openly so. And that's just the white liberals. Most Blacks, especially the ones in politics, are savagely, openly racist.

They believe you for example-despite being a Progressive liberal--are systemically racist--not because of the inherently racist ideology of your political party, but simply because you are WHITE.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it along with all the hash, weed,ganja etc.

Steve,

I think you are over-simplifying here. Yes, many outright racists may have switched from the Democrats to the Republicans as a result of the Civil Rights Movement.

However, the core Democrat/Progressive ethos, right now, and as it has developed over the past few decades, is quintessentially a racist ideology.

White liberal Democrats believe Blacks are inferior and therefore need DEI and Affirmative Action to succeed--preferences based on race. That's a clearly racist ideology.

It's Democrats who are the racists, and openly so.

This is the biggest crock of shit you've uttered so far. You've got the basics all backward.

Lee Atwater in 1981:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

And LBJ:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

After the Civil War, "States Rights" came forward as a core part of the Lost Cause narrative that the Civil War was not about maintaining slavery, but about States Rights (an absolute lie), and then over time became a dog whistle for racism and segregation. So when the OP brings it up, he is talking about "States Rights" used as a dog whistle for segregation and racism mainly in the South, which was a core part of the Southern Strategy where the Dixiecrats migrated from the Democrats to the Republicans, and the Republicans used the dog whistle. You can see how it went from straight racism (nigger, nigger, nigger) part to coded racism, becoming more abstract.

So now Marco has another narrative that ending segregation, allowing blacks in white schools, and attempting to prohibit discrimination is the actual racism. Gotta go work.

Crock of shit that Democrats are blatantly racist, Lambo?

You just love saying the "N" word repeatedly.

"But...but...I put it in quotes and attributed it to my political adversaries!!!!"


Nope. YOU SAID IT.

No one else.

You're a died in the wool racist.

If you weren't, and wanted to make a point, you would have blanked out the full word.

But instead, you gleefully repeated it, having a huge Ragegasm all over your screen.

RACIST.

To the CORE.

Then Nixon saw how well Wallace did in 68, and embarked on his "southern strategy". The GOP has increasingly embraced racism ever since. ~Steve

You nailed it Steve!

Hatred and ignorance, (They always go together) is and always was the conservative brand.
Conservatives are the folks who brought us the KKK and slavery and Jim Crowe and the Southern Strategy and strict voter ID requirements, and the purging of voter rolls,
and lies about Haitian immigrants, and "Jewish space lasers", and all manner of antisemitic George Soros conspiracy theory's and nazi salutes and on an on.
Who could forget all the young republicans recently telling us, how much they love Hitler!...
"I love Hitler: Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans Racist Chats."
"Thousands of private messages reveal GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape."

Hate is the secret sauce of MAGA solidarity. It comes across clearly in the posts of marco, LM, BHM, etc.

Heck, Donald Trump was endorsed twice by former KKK leader David Duke and by the "Crusader" the official newspaper of the KKK.

If the hood fits...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-c...

It's Democrats who are the racists, and openly so.

Lambo gave a good response.

I'll just say that what you posted is some truly idiotic bullshit. As usual.

David Duke also went to the Bronx Zoo when he was sightseeing in NYC a couple of times.

I guess the zebras and giraffes are RACISSSSSST too?

Idiotic bullshit?

You mean when Lambo repeatedly and gleefully Tourettes'ed the N word but fully spelled out, over and over and over again?

Lambo's the racist and he proved it. Can't delete that post now. Too late. RACIST.

And you're defendant him, you RACIST.

Shame on you ahole.

Biden was President and Americans could afford to eat beef and have healthcare?
The golden age...
Those were the days!

CPI Ground Beef, record high $6.54/LB UP a whopping +16.2% YoY. Thanks Trump!

"The word affordability is a Democrat scam. It's a hoax!" ~Pedo Don

PS Looking forward to the release of the Epstein Files today!
"Happy Birthday Jeffrey — and may every day be another wonderful secret." ~Trump

https://citizenwatchreport.com/as-the-global-food-...

PS Looking forward to the release of the Epstein Files today!

Do you really think incriminating evidence about Trump will ever see the light of day? Not likely. The fix is in.

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