Man! Dude! Session #227: United States Supreme Court Locker Politics

(M)an: Dude! The JOBS Act provision of allowing crowdfunding is now in the final phase of discussions and awaiting public scrutiny and inquiries.

(D)ude: Man! President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on April 5, 2012 and the letters in the acronym actually stand for “Jumpstart Our Businesses Startups” and allows for entities besides angel investors and venture capital firms, both considered accredited investors, to take part in a startup’s financial setup.

M: Dude! Unaccredited investors like us can contribute according to a general rule of income and numbers. Folks earning less than $100,000 a year are allowed to invest up to 5% of their income or $2,000.  

D: Man! There is a lot of freedom and transparency in the JOBS Act provision of crowdfunding. However, the voter identification laws in effect right now throughout the United States of America are insidious and make milestones like the allowance for crowdfunding in American business startups bittersweet.

M: Dude! The Supreme Court is artful and crooked. I still cannot comprehend how Justice Sonia Sotomayor went along with the majority in Fisher versus University of Texas, which was decided on June 24, 2013, just four months ago today. Did Justices Thomas and Scalia try to haggle and intimidate Justices Sotomayor and Breyer?

D: Man! Justices Sotomayor and Breyer have enough oomph to stand up to the haggling and intimidation tactics of Justices Thomas and Scalia. The real problem is that Sotomayor and Breyer are very pedagogic personalities. They are that brand of pedagogy that made grade school so sufferable that I cannot escape the bleached smell of  hallways.

M: Dude! Not all hallways are created equal! Well, actually, they are portrayed so similarly and exactly in teen films that I cannot but remember ever seeing anything differently than the standard red lockers and white and grey speckled- marble floors?

D: Man! With a matte finish, that is?

M: Dude! Perhaps. Returning to the Supreme Court of the United States, I’m convinced Justices Sotomayor and Breyer have an affirmative action case this year that could either hurt or help not just their place in history but the lives of millions of African American and Hispanic college applicants. Have you heard of Schutte v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action?

D: Man! That’s the one originating at the University of Michigan and having been implemented in all public universities in the state with the debilitating effects beginning immediately after what basically was the gutting of affirmative action through a 2006 state constitutional ban known as Proposal 2. Another reason why Democrats like Californian Representative Anna Eshoo better think not just twice but twice as hard before reprimanding Cheryl Campbell, vice president of CGI Federal, the lead contractor being found responsible for the online mishaps of Obamacare.

M: Dude! Representative Anna Eshoo must find out sooner than later that the Republicans and the Tea Partiers anticipate daily rifts among Democratic leaders. Anna Eshoo just fed the finest meat and potatoes to the far right and mustn’t fall right back  into the traps set out by the Republicans and the Tea Partiers. Surely, Representative Anna Eshoo knows better than to go along with such secretive, scurvy, White supremacists like the Congressional Republicans.   

D: Man! The Democratic Party membership on the House Energy and Commerce Committee overall did not fall for the Republican waylay as Representative Anna Eshoo mistakenly did. I think there must be at least three-fifths White Supremacist blood in Anna Eshoo’s constitution that crept to the surface today like the Republicans and the Tea Partiers shamelessly advertise and sport.

M: Dude! Dude! Dude! The Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Michigan Republican Representative Fred Upton, coincidentally. Whilst John Boehner and the Tea Partier Republicans forced US to surrender to shutdown as well as keep  enduring sequester, the State of Michigan has been undoing and derailing countless lives from within. And, have you noticed how the GOP leaders always accuse the Democratic Party leadership for something that they themselves are afraid to admit to doing- or having done- but want to flaunt in a parade-like posture?  

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and Republican Michigan Representative Fred Upton said quote unquote, “This is not about blame- this is about accountability, transparency, and fairness for the American public. The broken promises are many.”    

D: Man! Oh! That translates to, roughly, “This is about blame- this is not about accountability, nor transparency, nor fairness for the American public. The broken promises made by the Democratic Administration are few and/or none. The Republican Party will not back off from attacking the integrity of President Obama and his Administration.

M: Dude! That’s just it! The majority of the Democrats on the Committee said it best, “fix, not nix” what is the law of the land.  

D: Man! The last day to apply for voting via ballot by mail is tomorrow. However, there is a note in parenthesis on Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s website clearly stating that the application must be received by tomorrow, not postmarked!

M: Dude! Completed applications for ballot by mail must be sent to the Early Voting Clerk in the applicant’s county. But if the Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s office receives any applications, they will be rejected.

D: Man! That’s a convenient way of shredding ballots. Seriously, I think we should be able to see the ballot we cast somewhere online, like how Frost Bank and other businesses send copies of the checks we wrote from whatever specific account we utilized.

M: Dude! Alicia Pierce is Texas Secretary of State John Steen’s spokesperson and said something that sounded quite Republican, like Michigan Republican Representative Fred Upton’s statements.

D: Man! What did she say? Tell me and I will basically translate it out of its falsehood.

M: Dude! Alicia Pierce told Time’s Maya Rhodan quote unquote “We want to be very careful not to cause false alarms. We’ve worked very closely with poll workers to create the right forms and the right training to make sure this isn’t an issue at the polls.”

D: Man! Alicia Pierce is attempting to suppress and keep true alarms from sounding off from what the Republican Party and Tea Partiers have in mind for midterms this November 5^th and next year’s elections.

M: Dude! Voters are at the mercy of the poll workers. There is the provision that both identification card and voter registration card must be quote unquote “substantially similar” and, if the poll worker finds the name to be dissimilar, the voter can file a provisional ballot. But the catch is that it must be done within six days of the election.

D: Man! Thirty-four percent of women do not have “substantially similar” identification and voter registration cards! Cannot startup businesses benefitting from the JOBS Act contribute to funding the enormous costs of procuring “substantially similar” identification, a setback that the Republican Party is depending on desperately, knowing that people like you and me are not rotten supremacists that their party is trying to sell off as the general White American public fearing minority status in the next twenty years.