Posted on 05/08/2021 8:47:35 AM PDT by bitt
Not long after the November 2020 election, it seemed federalism in America was finished. Not only had the state legislatures in 2020 rolled over to the governors on the lockdowns and mask mandates, but Republican legislatures folded faster than overcooked pasta when it came to addressing the fraud in President Donald Trump’s election. In Georgia and Arizona, governments stood aside or willingly pitched in to ensure that Joe Biden “won” their states. Courts did nothing, whiffing on dozens of fraud suits.
I thought federalism was finished. But the old line from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” comes to mind. “I’m not quite dead yet.”
Just in the last two months, somnambulant state legislatures shook themselves out of their stupor and began to act like, well, . . . legislatures. Georgia passed an election reform bill that, while far from perfect, addresses some of the loopholes that permitted the fraud that handed the state to Joe Biden.
The Texas Senate has passed a bill blocking big tech from censoring residents over political views and encouraged Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue any social media companies that violate the new legislation. Social media companies will be required to be transparent about how they monitor content, explaining why content is removed, and establishing an appeals process. Whether this would require fairness—i.e., banning liberals’ hate speech as much as they ban conservatives for using “fraud” in the context of the election—remains to be seen.
Thirteen states have sued the Biden administration over “egregious” provisions in the China Virus relief bill, including prohibitions against cutting taxes if the state has accepted any relief from the federal government. States correctly claim this is unconstitutional. The Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy, said in a tweet that President Joe Biden “can keep your mask mandate.”
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somnambulant
“som·nam·bu·lant
/sämˈnambyələnt/
adjective
resembling or characteristic of a sleepwalker; sluggish.
“a somnambulant stroll””
Now there is a word in all my 71 years on this planet, I have never heard/seen before.
Perfect use of the word though. I’m going to incorporate that word into my everyday language. /s
Same age as me but the only reason I’m familiar with the word is because my wife has “sonambulated” since she was a little girl. She was a bad one too, even after we had been married for decades. She would routinely leave the house to pick tomato’s in our neighbor’s garden, toss the vacuum cleaner out the front door (convinced it was a bomb) and throw a fit because I had forgotten to make sure all the horses were in at night (we lived in the suburbs of New Jersey and neither of us has ever had a horse.) When our kids were older it was great entertainment for them, especially the night she claimed to be a pirate captain, did the “talk like a pirate” routine and kept in character for a good twenty minutes until I was able to get her back on her ship (our bed.)
sp. “somnambulated”
The “lubricant” was the understandable outrage of millions of disenfranchised voters.
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