Florida has some sort of legal thing going on where the media has full, unrestricted access to stuff like arrest and court records across the country.
That means Florida is basically low-hanging fruit everyone source as an all-access pass to.
Thats…actually really interesting.
Eeyup.
AFIAK we hear so much about Florida because they have laws regaurding arrest records that make their legal cases an open book to everyone and easy to report on.
It’s called the Sunshine Law. It means you get the full details of the domestic disturbance where someone tried to weaponize a cat. While in another state would just say there was a domestic disturbance in the report the press can look at.
I think the purpose was for police transparency or something. The result is the reporters will find ones that amuse them to report matter of factly.
so what your saying is every state has florida man cases, we just hear about it more from florida.
shit that makes sense.
Yeah, Florida public reports are A LOT more detailed than most other states so it’s easy for news sources to find the juicy stuff.
That’s actually really fascinating.
And certainly gives an actual reason for Fark to have the Florida tag beyond “all the crazies live there”
Because sometimes what you need most is to be reminded that dogs and cats can be best friends. Meet Raven the Tamaskan Dog and Woodhouse the cat, a pair of interspecies BFFs who first met when Raven was just a one-month-old puppy and Woodhouse was a kitten.
“I had always wanted a dog and a cat to grow up together. It’s been like a life goal,” her owner Christina tells The Dodo. “I wanted them to be able to get along well,” Christina explains. “So I wanted her to actually meet the cat and have the cat get along with the dog as well.”
They went to an animal shelter in Lubbock, TX where Raven was presented with four kittens. Three of them paid no attention to the puppy, but Woodhouse was immediately smitten. The new pair went home together and they’ve been inseparable ever since.
You can follow their adorable lives together on Instagram.
This includes Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage a constitutional right; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose first articulated in Roe v. Wade, another Supreme Court case. Grutter v. Bollinger, which instituted affirmative action, the entire body of Civil Rights case law, plus anything related to due process, including the right of minors to due process, your right to an attorney, Miranda rights, inadmissible evidence, etc.
(Even if Trump appoints the worst possible SC nominee, they still can’t reverse any of these decisions without a really significant case coming before the Court with new facts, and then they have to write an opinion stating how this case is different than that other case…it’s unlikely to happen.)
Write law or repeal any existing law
While traditionally, presidents have exerted influence on the legislative agenda (see, Obama’s role in advancing and promoting the Affordable Care Act) they cannot actually write or pass legislation. Bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions must be introduced in the House by a Representative.
Presidents cannot strike down law. Only Congress can repeal laws, and only the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional.
Presidential influence is just that—influence.
(And if—for example—you are hated by 95% of the party you joined last week, and burned all your goddamn bridges by insulting them at various points in your campaign…..they’re unlikely to partner with you in crafting legislation.)
Make any law or declaration that infringes in any way on the rights of the states
So in the US, most of the rights are reserved to the states. You name it, it’s a state-run power. Criminal procedure and law? States. Medicare and Medicaid? States. The definition of marriage? States. Insurance, health departments, housing, unemployment benefits, public education, all these are state programs. And the president cannot infringe on those powers given to the states.
(This is why down-ticket voting is so important, because Mike Pence as governor of Indiana had 800x the power he’s going to have as VP.)
Declare war.
This one is the most complicated, because with the advent of our “conflicts” in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. there has been a significant shift in the articulation of the war doctrine, and it is one of the least restricted of the president’s “restricted” powers. But, despite all that, a president still has no power to declare war.
Unilaterally appoint heads of administrative departments
Unilaterally make treaties with foreign nations
Essentially, while presidents have a lot of power, it’s mostly unofficial—they can’t make sweeping laws, they can’t overturn existing rights, the most they can do is refuse to enforce them (which is absolutely a threat! and a problem!) but we aren’t electing de facto royalty here.
Thought some of you might appreciate this.
I do have to note, however, that many of these powers are curtailed so long as Congress does not permit the President to do so.
We have a Republican Congress backing up Donald Trump. It will be interesting to see where they apply the brakes, and whether they do so quickly enough.
Another issue to consider is that Presidents are indeed incapable of declaring war, but since before World War 2 they have used US troops to intervene in foreign wars without declaration and frequently without public knowledge. Most of the U.S. was unaware of our involvement in Mogadishu during the Clinton presidency until foreign news networks was broadcasting footage of the corpses of American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by their heels. Before WW2, Despite isolationist public sentiment, Roosevelt deployed over a hundred American naval vessels to escort British convoys, knowing full well that German submarines would likely engage them and draw the U.S. into the war (it was simply luck that none of them had been sunk before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor).
As for Trump’s repeated inability to grasp nuclear policy, we simply must hope that the JCS has the necessary balls to tell him “No.” despite his temper tantrums, and (if necessary) to die protecting the Football from a wanna-be presidential quarterback throwing a potentially nuclear shitfit.
We have to hope that Trump is surrounded with good advisors who have the courage to tell him when he has his head up his ass, and who support each other so that Trump can’t get rid of anyone useful and intelligent by scapegoating them or dismissing them because they disagree with him.
One of the best ways to get people to do
something is to make it fun. A marketing
campaign called ‘The Fun Theory’ found
that when stairs next to an escalator
were turned into giant, functional piano
keys, the amount of people who took the
stairs increased 66%, and when a trash
can had sound effects that made it seem
infinitely deep, people started picking up
and throwing away litter just to hear it. Source
Those ads that randomly take over whatever tab you are using in your phone’s browser, and send you to some site with the bullshit claim that you’ve won some prize, and you can’t go back. Meaning you have to close the tab completely to get away from it.
