Mitch should be permanently disqualified from opening his mouth about anything for the rest of his miserable life. Literally had all the power to prevent all of this and sat around with his thumb up his wrinkled ass.
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If Mitch McConnell caught Polio again, I would legit laugh and ask him why he hates universal healthcare.
Fuck, I meant to go earlier this week.
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Iām not gonna be surprised at all when it turns out to be just kayfabe and Putin allowing Drumpf to keep pretending heās tough on Russia; & Putin still gets about everything.
Talk is cheap. This is just public/media talk.
Letās see actual results!
Yeah, I assume that is 100% theater.
Liv Boeree is really going through it. Hates woke, thinks Elon is fine, shocked (shocked, i say!) about getting right wing abuse for a light criticism of something banal, and now:
https://x.com/Liv_Boeree/status/1882600414086115602
https://x.com/Liv_Boeree/status/1882601467393224774
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Yumyumyumyumyum.
Livs face, not caged hogs
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nah itās pretty consistent with R viewpoint
when someone who acts like a pig treats other people bad well youāre making a big deal about nothing get over it
but when the pig is the one treated bad THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER
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Haha these people are hilarious. This thread is gonna be bonkers for 4 years.
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Does the USDA have the authority to do this if the states have banned the practice? If it could, why would the case have gone to the Supreme Court?
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now hang on exactly how delicious is the bacon from these here crated hogs?
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Knowing nothing about the issue I think itās highly unlikely the federal government could force states to permit this. Doesnāt mean Alabama doesnāt allow it. An interesting issue would be if CA could criminalize the importation of such meat and the companies behind it. Want to go to Disneyland? Well thereās a warrant out for you.
Fuck the pigs. Give me crated pig bacon.
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The party of local government!
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I used to work with a guy who refused to eat pork because he once saw a video of someone fucking a pig.
Give me fucked pig BBQ.
Iāve only dug into this for a few minutes via google, but based on what Iāve seen so far, the current state of the law is:
A) There is definitely no federal law explicitly banning the crates, but also nothing explicitly authorizing them
B) Because there is no clear federal rules, states have some leeway to make their own standards. Most of the states with bans just say, "if youāre raising pigs in this state, you canāt use the crates. ", but California also says that pigs/pork products raised this way canāt be sold in the state.
C) California got sued in federal court by out of state producers who wanted to sell in California and argued the law unreasonably interfered with interstate commerce. That case is what made it to SCOTUS
So, my read is that the feds still might have the ability to preempt the states if 1) Congress passes something like a national law explicity authorizing the cages or 2) the USDA can reinterpret some existing law that it can use to claim preemption. The 2nd path seems a little bit tricky to me b/c of recent rulings that restricted the power of administrative agencies, but who knows what one federal judge in Iowa might do when they get the chance to help a local farmer stick it to some So Cal bacon bro?
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California can kind of de facto somewhat control/influence a lot of stuff this way. Like emissions from cars and the trucking industry. If you canāt do it there or sell it there, thatās more than enough of the economy to influence how a nationwide business does any of their production. Why build a set of trucks that meets California emissions and another set that doesnāt, etc
So truckers are mad that even if they avoid California, they cannot buy a new truck that doesnāt have special equipment and limitations. Have to go older or go without
Yep. California and Texas are kind of the yin and yang for this kind of legal disputes b/c they are so big. Like you said, cars are a big thing with California.
The Times ran a story a few years ago about how big textbook publishers often make a ānationalā version of a book, but then make edits to satisfy Texas and California (and smaller blue states usually buy the Cali-fied version and smaller red states often take the Texas one).
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