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I’ve been complaining about this for a long time. The Texas legislature granted the governor certain emergency powers, which were primarily intended to help contol looting and traffic for hurricanes. The emergency power was never intended to last a year.
Texas needs to enact a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to have emergency powers for no more than ten days, after which the emergency powers are void and cannot be renewed. Only legislation voted on by our representatives and otherwise constitutionally enacted should ever be the law.
We have put up with far too much and it’s high time we send them all packing. But the polarization of politics makes that impossible.
The difference between what I’m experiencing where I live (in South Carolina) and what I see coming out of NY and CA is truly crazy. Early on here in SC, when it was noticed that people weren’t dying in the streets from this virus, people started opening up their businesses again. The local governments started to basically change the rules to keep up with what people were doing, not the other way around. I can’t decide if the left is actually terrified or if it’s just a pure power grab. I’m wondering if I’m just going to have to embrace the power of “and.”
Absurd. Obviously absurd. And insane.
You might wish to read my post below.
I am sure some neighbor ratted out the Jewish family having a gathering. What a horrible person. It takes a subset of the population to enable the tyranny of government. If nobody ratted out their neighbors the tyranny would not be possible. We just need good people not to “go along”.
I used to live in America.
I can’t believe this s**t . . . they have the gall to tell me what I can and can’t do in my dining room? These are the same people who said they didn’t want government to tell people what to do in their bedrooms . . .
Surely at least one of these dictatorial governors will be up for re-election in less than two weeks. Then we will see what the people truly think about these restrictions.
The California decree is beyond parody. Ole Adolph himself wouldn’t have tried to impose a decree like Gov. Newsom’s.
Our dictator here in Washington State is expected to win a third term. He has a 60% approval rate on his Wuhan virus performance.
BTW, are you related to the British violin dealers?
Unless they have a warrant, demand they leave. Record, publicize, and expose.
When they opened the door they saw the crowd. It’s wacky but maybe they should go back to a door with a peep slide and a password.
The key thing to do is NEVER open a door for the police because they can claim that they saw something to give them probable cause. “Your honor, when they opened the door, in plain sight I saw a green leafy substance on their pizza. They had glazed eyes and it smelled of marijuana, or oregeno.” I’ve yet to find someone who could give me a definition of what “glazed eyes” means.
No one says by way of explanation ‘it’s a free country’ anymore.
At the same time they were talking about bedroom privacy they were demanding that we pay for their birth control.
It’s not that the State will arrest you for not disinfecting your “restroom” on the 26th of November.
It’s that they can, if they wish.
Practically nobody is going to follow all those rules. Most people, if invited for Thanksgiving dinner and told those rules, would just stay home. What’s the point of getting together if you cannot get within 6 feet of another person and have to wear a mask except for when eating? May as well just stay home and have a group phone call.
This business about Newsom and Thanksgiving is quite good satire. It is satire, right? Please tell me. It is …???
I know several people with compromised health who are planning to stay home (a lovely young woman with four young children who is battling breast cancer, a a 62 year old with diabetes). Everyone else I know is treating Thanksgiving as business as usual.
We will be honoring one rule- the celebration will be outside, weather permitting (last year it poured all day), but that’s because there are so many people invited.
Compared to what our forefathers had to battle in the name of liberty I almost feel silly saying this, but Thanksgiving is a hill worth dying on. I would be shocked if any local police try and enforce the rules, but I’ve been shocked quite a bit of late.
We had a group gathering for dinner last night (broke all the rules except singing, but that’s because everyone was watching the Dodgers) and the prevailing sentiment about the guidelines was 100% indifference. My impression is that no one is even paying attention anymore.
I refuse to have guests who insist on following the guidelines. Our Thanksgiving has topped 40-50 people in the past. This year? Not many.
Your family is already in violation! Get rid of a couple of kids! (just joking!).