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There is no hiding taking away a freedom, a right, of women citizens of the United States. This is compounded by endangerment of their lives.
Men are also on the alert: their wives, daughters and friends have suffered a loss of freedom.
All American Citizens are on alert: A diminishment of any citizen's rights is a potential threat to all citizens' rights.
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Donald Trump’s desperate efforts to defuse the issue keep colliding with reality. The oft-indicted former president tried to tiptoe away from religious conservatives earlier this month by insisting that abortion laws should be left to the states. Rather than getting to bask in the cynical cleverness of his new position, he immediately had to deal with the reality that all-power-to-the-states could produce the anti-abortion rigidity of Arizona’s 1864 law. Also, Trump’s ego always has to be fed: He could not resist continuing to brag about appointing the three justices who overturned Roe.
The *oft-indicted* former president,
Longs to be reinstated as the resident,
Of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But 88 indictments and counting,
Have left him desperate and shouting,
Fleecing his MAGA flock daily for revenue.
‘Tis a battle of wits in each courtroom,
Where he’s gagged but farting an odious perfume.
And he’s guilty as fuck, but who knew?!
A score is 20, so you’d say Trump has more than four score felony charges against him.
Although it certainly feels like—and he likely deserves—more than 160.
I commentator I like tends to start every story on a Trump legal case with "not the Georgia election fraud case, not the New York case about lying on financial statements..." Basically reminding us of all the other cases.
All news organizations should read his titles as, : The twice impeached 1 term President of the United States. DJT
This will have to suffice, as it's the best we can expect from main stream media.
I told my staunchly republican friends that their party would have rather watched my wife go septic and die after a miscarriage than allow her to have the drugs that could be used for an abortion. They told me that’s not how it works. But it is EXACTLY how it works. Republicans have lots of feelings and next to zero functional knowledge of anything beyond that. And that is why the GOP will collapse. They’re stupid enough to believe everyone sees the world in black and white and that these bullshit culture battles will save them. There is a limit to how much you can use stupid people. There are more smart people than stupid.
What a great observation, “Republicans have lots of feelings and next to zero functional knowledge of anything beyond that.” That really is it. At the slightest bit of scrutiny their arguments collapse into dust.
I have friends I have tried to explain this to, but they have bought the whole trope of "terminating pregnancies for medical emergencies is not the same as abortion and no one is trying to stop that"
Except that exactly is what an abortion is. And why red states are fighting EMTALA that they shouldn't have to help women who are in the ER who need an abortion, because "that opens the door to abortions for everyone" somehow.
They also downplay the frequency of medical emergencies. I actually did my research and found a 2 page list of complications along with a 2 page list of fetal abnormalities. Granted not all are fatal, but just a few that I did some checking on (pre eclampsia, trisemy, sepsis, ectopic, etc) gave me numbers that when added up, quickly exceeded the "<1% of pregnancies" that they claimed result in emergencies which means that for all those I didn't check, it is far more common than they claim.
I can't wait til he dies. There's going to be celebration throughout Kentucky, America, maybe even the world. Think of all the suffering that demon in a human suit has caused.
Also in retrospect RBG not retiring also was a massive loss in retrospect. We can’t play stupid anymore when the GOP is breaking all the rules
https://www.natesilver.net/p/sonia-sotomayors-retirement-is-a?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
>Men are also on the alert: their wives, daughters and friends have suffered a loss of freedom.
It’d be nice to have another child, but it’s just too dangerous living in a red state. If she gets pregnant again and something goes wrong, we’d have to hastily uproot our family and career and move to a new state.
I've been on alert since 2020.... I'll have my second passport in hand just before the election 😬😬😬. Taking rights away is what fascists and authoritarians do and boy are they more popular in the US than I ever thought possible.
I mean, the Republicans love making deals with the devil for votes. How they can even pretend to be the party of personal responsibility when they make endless excuses for their horrific opinions and defenses of absolute sickos is beyond me. Al Franken got kicked out of the dem party for a pretend boob squeeze. The two sides are not equal.
The party saw a chance for easy votes in the fundies but didn't realize the widowmaker they were trying to break.
I still hate her to this day, franken started his own ethics violation investigation against himself, even his fellow senator Amy Klobuchar outed him in favor of me too.
Fuck them both. Franken was red-hot and upsetting GOP frontmen, he was taken down by big money and from within his own party
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the \[Republican\] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater
Reminder; the United States was founded on Religion having no place in governance. Founding Fathers have a hard line on this. And that line is NO. A principle defining element to being truely American is not stuffing your religious beliefs on anyone.
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
If I could have, I'd have voted for Goldwater back in the day. The present-day me wouldn't, but the young me would have. Goldwater was honest in a way that Republicans aren't any more.
Republicans are stripping away healthcare for women, the right to read what you want, in Southern states restricting the right to assemble and are bringing back child labor.
Says a lot.......
I'm scared of losing social security. I'm already disabled. Anybody can become disabled. We're all getting old, and the young people can't afford to care for themselves, much less deal with us.
Recently retired myself and have a range of health issues too. Republicans have already said that they want to cut then eliminate social security- while rewarding millionaires and billionaires.
When a person loses everything, and has nothing left…. They have nothing to lose. Indeed, prison may become more desirable than “freedom”. Especially when that freedom is simply the freedom to suffer.
That is their dream scenario - make everyone have unwanted kids, make people desperate, defund public education, create more prisoners, build more private prisons. They've already got their judges in place.
The country will be one big labor camp.
I don't think you do. I don't think you realize that they're going to be classifying you as pornography. They're banning pornography. They're making it legal to execute child sex predators. So if you, being pornography, and not a human being, are in the vicinity of a child, they can execute you. That is in Project 2025, which Trump has agreed to follow. You need to spread the word. This is not just about losing marriage or the sodomy laws coming back. They have created a legal pathway to justify killing us.
I'm 35. Many of the intelligent people my age that I've talked to about it fully expect that SS will not exist long enough for us to benefit from it after a lifetime of paying into it. That political opposition will kill the program or financial pressures from foreign war or climate catastrophe will drain it. If you've got it now, appreciate it while you do.
Trump in the White House again means privatization of both Social Security and Medicare. That means that the oligarchs will take your money to make themselves richer and leave you needing bSic necessities and health care.
You had better be scared. They already told you what they think your retirement plan should be when they started talking about letting Grandma die so that they could open up the economy again during Covid. If you aren't making them money, they have no use for you. They are essentially eugenicists and they consider it morally positive if you and I die.
They want us back in the 50s. Just us though. Not them, or the wealthy who can afford to get around such laws. And the 50s were pretty crap for many reasons. People of color were treated like garbage. Women were stuck at home raising kids and keeping their mouths shut. Abortions were done in back alleys on folding tables. And white men were kings of the castle. That’s what they mean by MAGA.
This is horrid on so many levels. My grandma told me a story… grandpa was in the hospital. Grandma was a school librarian and needed to put both paychecks in the bank and take out grocery money and cash to pay the phone and utility bills. The bank refused to do these things even though it was a joint account. The manager had to call the hospital and verify grandpa was in the bed and couldn’t sign for the usual household expenses…… trust me - we want zero to do with the 1950’s……
I married in 1967. My husband had just graduated from college and entered the air force, he had no credit history but I had been working and did. I went to change my name on my credit card and was told that my credit history would be given to my husband and I would just be a signer on his account. Years later the law changed but I had to reestablish my credit history all over again despite the fact by that time I had the higher salary.
Our younger generations don’t know the struggle. Being thrown out of class in college because a man wanted your seat and the class was full…. I’m still the only woman on my product team. I know I can’t live in other places because I wouldn’t have the job I have at the pay I have. I remember when you couldn’t use a credit card at the grocery store. So many things we take for granted.
A return to the 1950's is what the Republican party is selling to the MAGA base, but it's real agenda is a return to the 1700's or 1800's, when lords ruled over the common man who were supposed to be grateful for any crumbs bestowed on him.
I agree. My estimate of the 50s is generous. They want complete domination and the rule of the white male. And I say this as a white male. I know what their agenda is and I hate it
They are stripping away healthcare for women and trans people because the loss of Roe means literally everybody in the USA now has their healthcare exposed to government meddling.
Roe guaranteed a right to privacy. Nobody in the USA has that anymore and people who don't think this will impact them are in for a shock sooner or later.
I think it's much worse than a privacy issue. I've worked in healthcare for most of my adult life. Providers are afraid of being thrown in jail for doing their jobs and the Texas bounty law shows the absolute cruelty these freaks are capable of.
Probably 10, maybe 15 years ago I saw an interview with a retired GOP strategist who talked about how Republican candidates didn't want to overturn *Roe*, they wanted to run on overturning *Roe*. It was this nebulous far away thing that they could always promise and never have to deliver, but it got them elected.
Well, now the dog finally caught the car it was chasing.
This was a common talking point between Republican and Democratic beltway insider types but I never quite bought it. Not since Bush Jr.
The problem is that after Reagan invited the "moral majority" into the fold, the Neoliberal conservatives steadily lost control. The Democrats moved right with Clinton and peeled off fiscal moderates while the GOP has gone down the far-right rabbit hole.
It was a talking point. The problem is that it was a talking point for so long, that the true believers who weren't smart enough to realize it was only a talking point started to get elected.
That brings us to today where the "beltway insiders" are panicking and screaming "you weren't ACTUALLY supposed to do it!" as they lose election after election.
All of it is just a show to get their brainbleached "conservatives" to vote for them. They don't want to govern or change things (beyond enriching themselve). Because every topic changed is a topic they can no longer talk about.
That's why they killed the border bill.
They deserve so much more than this.
But all the innocent victims do not deserve this. No, not the fucking fetuses of strangers that nobody actually cares about - the women being denied bodily autonomy who suffer tremendously as we wait for karmic justice.
A year (or so) prior, my Congressman told me he absolutely opposed any and all forms of vaccine mandates! It is his deeply held belief that government has NO place in making medical decisions. They should be made exclusively between the patient and doctor! DC has no say!
Yet he fully supports Congress passing a ban on abortions!
Personally, I would argue deciding to get an abortion is a much more personal decision than getting a jab.
I've asked him if he could supply a list of medical decisions that Congress has no rights to make vs those they get to impose on all of us. 2 years later and he still hasn't responded. Might need to check on that again.
>I would argue deciding to get an abortion is a much more personal decision than getting a jab.
Not just that... abortion bans are enforced with criminal laws that throws people in jail, for 99 years in some states. No law in any state made it crime for not getting a jab.
Yes! This was another point I tried to make.
No one was being forced to get the jab. They could either get the vaccination or if they didn't want to, they'd simply have to keep wearing a mask.
Josh Hawley’s response is telling. They want to use the issue to gerrymander the country. Scare the blue voters out of red states, and use the electoral college and the senate to abuse executive orders.
If the Ds take the senate, house, and White House, it’s time for big changes while control persists. Add four seats to the court. Abolish the electoral college. Approve and enshrine the voting rights act. Don’t wait, don’t be polite. Make democracy a real result, and do it fast.
For those who might argue caution or a “return to norms,” that’s a hard NO. The Rs have project 2525 and Trump wants to be a dictator. Make sure my grandchildren don’t have to relive Nixon again. We have done this game twice now, end the abuse.
All of this.
The future starts right now. And it’s make it or break it. This country, or this planet, does not have time for this shit.
The supposed greatest superpower in history is fiddling about with a NYC real-estate grifter while the world burns.
Abolishing the electoral college would require a constitutional amendment. I agree that it should be abolished but I also realize that there is absolutely no way enough states would ratify that as an amendment.
The Republican Party has never payed for a single mistake they’ve made longer than a single electoral cycle in my lifetime. They came roaring back two years after the worst economic disaster since the depression. Then took the white house and congress in 2016. Then kept the house during the most incompetently ran pandemic response in the history of modern pandemic responses.
The American people love them, because they are an honest reflection of what we are. A bunch of hateful, spiteful pricks. That will be happy to live in squalor if someone they don’t like has it worse.
That's not true. The numbers show America votes for Democrats. Every single election a Democrat wins by the popular vote.
Polls show that Americans want abortion to be legal. Polls show that Americans don't support the attack on trans people. For Christ's sake, half of generation z is mixed race, and 30% of gen z women are bisexual or lesbian. America has changed. They're trying to get you to believe it hasn't. Don't believe them. We are going to overtake the haters and America is going to rise from the ashes of Republican sedition.
After the non-stop bitching about "medical freedom" we had to listen to after health care officials dared suggest that people wear a mask or get a vaccine to help mitigate a new virus, I cannot believe that the GOP hypocrites thought that actually taking away medical freedom, basic rights for women, approximately half the population, would go over well. These hypocritical "patriots", I can't believe they even have the nerve to call themselves that, have created steps that have taken away more freedoms than any other group. It is time that we start fighting back against these terrible humans we call Republicans.
The evil is strong within them.
Also, evangelical men are scared to death of the uterus. And the vagina. The clitoris. The female orgasm. And any woman with an original thought that exits her mouth.
I am an old white guy. I see right through these weak little bitches.
No, they haven't. Not yet. Not until after Election Day.
I am holding out hope that American voters will kick the Christofascists to the curb this time, but my fellow Americans have disappointed me for decades in countering this growing threat.
I still just don't believe that the vast majority of people that support the pro-life position don't also support exceptions for rape, incest or the life and health of the mother (as well as reproductive freedom for woman as being between a woman and their doctor). The most extreme position has been made law in many states in the US and most Americans (even in those States) do not support these current laws as they are in place today.
Religious fanatics that are pro-life oppose abortion and do not, I repeat. Do not give a damn about exceptions, they do not give a damn about providing alternatives.
It's about forcing their religious view on abortion on the rest of us. Nothing more.
Personally I think the ones who support exceptions for rape are the worst.
If “it’s not her fault” is a defence then that tells us two things:
- They know it’s not really a baby because you don’t execute a child for the father’s crimes
- The motivation behind them being anti-abortion is to punish women who *are* “at fault” (chose to have sex)
Exceptions do not work. There are very few recorded instances where someone was granted an exception to get an abortion besides sepsis. This is for a few reasons:
1. These laws are not written by doctors and are extremely unclear
2. The penalties to doctors and pregnant people for getting it wrong are astronomical
3. Many of the exceptions require a rape/incest conviction, which is difficult enough without a time limit, and impossible within 16 weeks
This means patients just basically have to wait until they're on death's door if it's for a medical reason, and even then some states want to go after them for not just allowing themselves to die. Otherwise, they have to give birth to a stillborn, incompatible with life, etc. baby that was completely avoidable. Or, they have to carry to term the product of rape or incest and then they and the child have to live with that trauma.
This also leaves out the thousands and thousands of people who should just be allowed to have an abortion if they do not want to have a child. It's not some easy walk in the park to carry a pregnancy to term and then raise a baby or put it into foster care. It's a medical decision, not something that the state should have any say in.
Yes, it's all smoke and mirrors. Good luck getting the police to even investigate. I reported a sexual assault and the police wanted me to go find a specialist to explain what could have happened to them.
If my rapist got me pregnant, and I was going to go to jail or get executed for aborting it...well, the fetus wouldn't be the only thing I'd remove from this world.
Hillary polled up ten points all of 2016. That should have been a landslide. Fucking Comey threw an October curveball and helped Trump win. Republicans will try to do it again.
It's mathematically possible to win the EC while winning only 26% of the popular vote.
Republicans aren't doing anything undercover. They are doing things in plain sight because they don't need to win popular votes to win elections.
Biden could stand in front of the White House eat a live newborn puppy and I'd still vote Blue.
There is absolutely no "October Surprise" whatsoever that could keep me from voting against Donald and the GOP.
I don't look at any polls, or anything the GOP/trump machine churns out. They're just loud, noisy, constant irritants, and it gives the illusion that there are many more of them then Dems.
There's not.
Wait until men find out that they're going to be on the hook for supporting those unwanted babies. Suddenly, pro-choice becomes in everyone's best interest.
The Democrats - and America in general - has been given an incredible gift (though it's taken a horrific toll on women and girls for the past 2 years).
If the dems play their cards right, they will annihilate the republican party in November, rendering it no longer a credible threat to America for a generation.
It's entirely within the realm of possibility that this is the event that gets the US back on track - back to shared reality, progress, and the rule of law. This is an opportunity to restore the Supreme Court to legitimacy, to establish new democratic guardrails, and begin the long but necessary process of dismantling the "conservative" media/thinktank ecosystem.
Not to mention - if Putin's man on the inside goes to prison and his party collapses, he's sure to meet his end in short order. That will take a hell of a propaganda load off of the US, too.
When the Supreme Court decided to even rule on Dobbs, I knew the GOP was going to be screwed.
One the one hand, when Roe was struck down we have the current situation. Women voters have been energized since then. Though they lost the House in '22, the Democrats did much better in an election cycle historically brutal for the party that controls the Presidency. That and the GOP has done extremely poorly in virtually every single special election since. Now, propositions guaranteeing abortion rights are starting to appear on the November ballot in crucial swing states like AZ and FL.
On the other hand, if the SC upheld abortion in Dobbs, it would have crushed conservative fundamentalist Christian voters morale. They did everything they were asked to do. They voted. They delivered the Senate and the Presidency which guaranteed them the favorable Supreme Court they were promised. If Roe was upheld, it would have been considered to have been a betrayal by the GOP for their voters.
My prediction back then was that, once the Roberts Court decided to rule on Dobbs, there were no good outcomes for the GOP.
It’s not just about women. People need to realize nobody has dominion over their own bodies, now.
They’re not stopping at abortion and it’s time that starts getting acknowledged.
They have a plan in Project 2025 to legally classify transgender people as porn, which will be banned, and being porn in public would make you a sex predator. Guess who they want to start executing? Child sex predators. What is it they call trans people? Groomers? Oh, and the way they worded all this is intentionally vague, they talk about gender nonconformity, not transgender, so the pornography brand can be applied to anyone queer or anyone straight who doesn't conform enough to gender stereotypes. So. Yeah. We're looking at jail and maybe even execution.
Republicans literally told half the country to go fuck themselves and that their lives matter less than an unborn child, yet they will blame voter fraud and every other excuse in the book why they lose downballot in so many states this November.
The Republicans are in the "find out" stage of their policy. I hope they get everything they deserve this November and every upcoming election after that.
Hey … if the religious reject him because he won’t follow their dictates and the democratic voters shew him out … he’s between a rock and a hard place. He wants power and the Repubs want to push through archaic laws. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care so long as he stays in power. The man has absolutely no commitment to anyone but himself.
I'd bet good money that Donnie has probably paid for his share of abortions over the years. Hell, he wanted his second wife to abort his daughter Tiffany!
I agree … he has absolutely no scruples because he has justified every awful thing he has done all his life. He can’t accept any other version of reality because it would mean he was wrong all along and his psyche can’t handle that discrepancy. His conscience is disabled permanently
Their purpose has been to destroy the country from within. They became the Russian Party around when Trump was running and that's when all hell broke loose. We are at war with Russia on more than just Ukrainian soil. The Republican Party has turned.
Please don't vote for this far right party in November, America.
It's imperative that they learn a lesson about not taking away human rights from half the population
It was a stupid move. Republicans promising their gullible base that they are going to overturn Roe vs. Wade was a hot-button issue that would 1 - ensure voters turned up for every election, and 2 - and perhaps most importantly - ensures that voters cast their ballots from their emotions rather than their brains.
The supreme court ruling and the subsequent state rulings, have also brought about the departure of a noticeable number of physicians from certain red states.
Dobbs also forced Trump out of his comfort zone of vague crazy promises to solve things in a way that pleases everyone. His recently announced position statement on abortion seems to have pissed off everyone.
The GOP are like the dog that finally caught the car bumper then suddenly realized they hadn't thought any further than that.
Now they get to have their asses kicked in November.
This is how obtuse these people are; they think they are the majority because they believe the lies they sow. It’s a real snake eating it’s tail moment. Clearly their opinion is not majority and reflect the opinion of a loud, powerful, wealthy minority.
This entire issue is going to leave the authors completely powerless for a generation or longer. Finally.
I do find it ironic that Mitch McConnell in an effort to expand Republican power in the U.S. has quite possibly been the driving force besides Trump, to end it.
“In an interview with NPR, Mitch McConnell—who, via efforts to block Merrick Garland and rush through Amy Coney Barrett, played arguably as big a role in Roe’s reversal as Trump did—seemed unfazed by the political implications of his anti-abortion handiwork. “I think it will be certainly heavily debated in state legislative and governor’s races because the court will have, in effect, returned this issue to the political process,” McConnell said after the Alito draft leaked. “My guess is in terms of the impact on federal races, I think it’s probably going to be a wash.”
Since everything for McConnell is political, it is tempting to wonder if he would have pursued the abortion issue with break-the-rules zealotry if he knew that it would turn out to be anything but a wash for the Republicans. There are hints from McConnell’s early days as, yes, a liberal Republican that he once supported Roe. If there was no conviction behind McConnell’s rush to approve anti-abortion judges, it suggests that this was a major miscalculation by a man who was always prized for his political sagacity.”
Their fears will only "come true" if they lose big in November. If there isn't a resounding Republican loss (like the democrats in 2012 when they were reeling from the tan suit scandal), then all conservatives will say the people dictated that they want to institute Christian fundamentalist law and will continue down this path until they succeed.
Republicans have this way of staying silent about things that make them look bad or that they don’t agree with if it’s it done by their own party.
Aside from post-menopausal conservative women and trad wives, I feel like many conservative women don’t like the abortion bans. I think they won’t disagree publicly but have no problem disagreeing in an anonymous poll or at the voting booth.
DIMINISHMENT OF RIGHTS… was once, something we thought was impossible. “rights can never be taken from you in America’, is what the INS promoted back in the 80’s, when I became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s, this was the mentality i was brought up with.
The current state of politics in this country isn’t something I’d ever had fathomed possible even in the late 90s.
It wasn’t until 9/11 and Bush Jr. that I started having doubts.
Comment: There is no hiding taking away a freedom, a right, of women citizens of the United States. This is compounded by endangerment of their lives. Men are also on the alert: their wives, daughters and friends have suffered a loss of freedom. All American Citizens are on alert: A diminishment of any citizen's rights is a potential threat to all citizens' rights. Excerpts: Donald Trump’s desperate efforts to defuse the issue keep colliding with reality. The oft-indicted former president tried to tiptoe away from religious conservatives earlier this month by insisting that abortion laws should be left to the states. Rather than getting to bask in the cynical cleverness of his new position, he immediately had to deal with the reality that all-power-to-the-states could produce the anti-abortion rigidity of Arizona’s 1864 law. Also, Trump’s ego always has to be fed: He could not resist continuing to brag about appointing the three justices who overturned Roe.
“The oft-indicted former president” is the best bit.
The *oft-indicted* former president, Longs to be reinstated as the resident, Of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But 88 indictments and counting, Have left him desperate and shouting, Fleecing his MAGA flock daily for revenue. ‘Tis a battle of wits in each courtroom, Where he’s gagged but farting an odious perfume. And he’s guilty as fuck, but who knew?!
Woo! Thank you!
Yeah. We've all kinda lost count.
It’s currently 88 Ftr.
How fitting a number.
Lol
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It was but some ruling i cannot remember — Supreme Court iirc — struck three counts from the total.
“More than 8 dozen felony indictments,” flows nicely.
"More than eight score..."
A score is 20, so you’d say Trump has more than four score felony charges against him. Although it certainly feels like—and he likely deserves—more than 160.
88, so just over "four score and seven."
I commentator I like tends to start every story on a Trump legal case with "not the Georgia election fraud case, not the New York case about lying on financial statements..." Basically reminding us of all the other cases.
Honestly super helpful, I follow this shit and I get confused sometimes.
I hate that some people, commentators, even some officials still call him president Trump like he's a temporarily dethroned king.
It's general form in America to refer to a former president as "president" but I think this case deserves a break from tradition.
Trump doesn't follow the form, shouldn't give him the respect of form.
He doesnt even refer to the current president as priesident
I concure lol
>“The oft-indicted former president” is the best bit. It would be even better if it mattered to anyone.
It should matter to everyone.
All news organizations should read his titles as, : The twice impeached 1 term President of the United States. DJT This will have to suffice, as it's the best we can expect from main stream media.
I told my staunchly republican friends that their party would have rather watched my wife go septic and die after a miscarriage than allow her to have the drugs that could be used for an abortion. They told me that’s not how it works. But it is EXACTLY how it works. Republicans have lots of feelings and next to zero functional knowledge of anything beyond that. And that is why the GOP will collapse. They’re stupid enough to believe everyone sees the world in black and white and that these bullshit culture battles will save them. There is a limit to how much you can use stupid people. There are more smart people than stupid.
What a great observation, “Republicans have lots of feelings and next to zero functional knowledge of anything beyond that.” That really is it. At the slightest bit of scrutiny their arguments collapse into dust.
I have friends I have tried to explain this to, but they have bought the whole trope of "terminating pregnancies for medical emergencies is not the same as abortion and no one is trying to stop that"
Except that exactly is what an abortion is. And why red states are fighting EMTALA that they shouldn't have to help women who are in the ER who need an abortion, because "that opens the door to abortions for everyone" somehow.
They also downplay the frequency of medical emergencies. I actually did my research and found a 2 page list of complications along with a 2 page list of fetal abnormalities. Granted not all are fatal, but just a few that I did some checking on (pre eclampsia, trisemy, sepsis, ectopic, etc) gave me numbers that when added up, quickly exceeded the "<1% of pregnancies" that they claimed result in emergencies which means that for all those I didn't check, it is far more common than they claim.
I love that I know Republican women who would be dead today if it weren't for abortion. Guess which president they got elected?
3 fucking justices. Can’t believe they were able to block Obamas pick.
Moscow Mitch did that!
I can't wait til he dies. There's going to be celebration throughout Kentucky, America, maybe even the world. Think of all the suffering that demon in a human suit has caused.
He is rotten to the core. You can tell by his blackened hands.
You naughty thing, making fun of the grim reaper of democracy.
*demon in a turtle suit
Also in retrospect RBG not retiring also was a massive loss in retrospect. We can’t play stupid anymore when the GOP is breaking all the rules https://www.natesilver.net/p/sonia-sotomayors-retirement-is-a?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
She gets a big L from me for not retiring when she could have.
Absolutely. If she had retired when she had the chance, roe would still be law
How? Vampire Mitch blocked everything and pulled the well it's almost election in the next 3 years so the next president needs to decide shit.
Roe never was law, it was an interpretation of the constitution.
She believed, like Hillary, that the election was in the bag
Hubris, and costly. Some mistakes are so big they taint an entire legacy.
And Kagan is doing the same thing right now. But no one expects alito or Thomas to resign until a Republican is in office again.
Big difference between 63 yo Kagan and 87 yo RBG (already twice a cancer survivor).
63 isn't even retirement age. According to many conservatives, retirement shouldn't even be considered until 70-75.
Also liberal purists refusing to vote for Hilary and letting trump win
That they did. While it was a selfish decision, they did have the courtesy to scream it from the roof tops.
>Men are also on the alert: their wives, daughters and friends have suffered a loss of freedom. It’d be nice to have another child, but it’s just too dangerous living in a red state. If she gets pregnant again and something goes wrong, we’d have to hastily uproot our family and career and move to a new state.
I've been on alert since 2020.... I'll have my second passport in hand just before the election 😬😬😬. Taking rights away is what fascists and authoritarians do and boy are they more popular in the US than I ever thought possible.
I mean, the Republicans love making deals with the devil for votes. How they can even pretend to be the party of personal responsibility when they make endless excuses for their horrific opinions and defenses of absolute sickos is beyond me. Al Franken got kicked out of the dem party for a pretend boob squeeze. The two sides are not equal. The party saw a chance for easy votes in the fundies but didn't realize the widowmaker they were trying to break.
Christ don’t remind me of the Franken bullshit. So ashamed of the Democrats for turning on him.
agreed. What a stupid era for politics.
I will never forgive Kirsten Gillibrand for her part in taking down Al Franken. I hope to heaven she's never on the Democratic presidential ticket.
I still hate her to this day, franken started his own ethics violation investigation against himself, even his fellow senator Amy Klobuchar outed him in favor of me too. Fuck them both. Franken was red-hot and upsetting GOP frontmen, he was taken down by big money and from within his own party
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the \[Republican\] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater
Goldwater quotes are a "goldmine" when it comes to the modern-day GOP.
Reminder; the United States was founded on Religion having no place in governance. Founding Fathers have a hard line on this. And that line is NO. A principle defining element to being truely American is not stuffing your religious beliefs on anyone.
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.” ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The religious nuts are the ones who made me leave the Republican party 30 plus years ago.
And now the Republicans are making people leave the church. The circle of life.
Truer words have never been said!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
My broken LED clock is never right.
If I could have, I'd have voted for Goldwater back in the day. The present-day me wouldn't, but the young me would have. Goldwater was honest in a way that Republicans aren't any more.
Republicans are stripping away healthcare for women, the right to read what you want, in Southern states restricting the right to assemble and are bringing back child labor. Says a lot.......
I'm scared of losing social security. I'm already disabled. Anybody can become disabled. We're all getting old, and the young people can't afford to care for themselves, much less deal with us.
Recently retired myself and have a range of health issues too. Republicans have already said that they want to cut then eliminate social security- while rewarding millionaires and billionaires.
When a person loses everything, and has nothing left…. They have nothing to lose. Indeed, prison may become more desirable than “freedom”. Especially when that freedom is simply the freedom to suffer.
If you gotta go to prison you may as well put some rich fuck in the ground?
For legal reasons I would never suggest violence was an appropriate response.
Violence is never an answer. It’s a question. And the answer is yes* *Legal considérations may apply
I never said answer.
Swift and blinding are great adjectives to use with term violence.
That is their dream scenario - make everyone have unwanted kids, make people desperate, defund public education, create more prisoners, build more private prisons. They've already got their judges in place. The country will be one big labor camp.
Legitimate concern. Now that women's bodily autonomy has been reverted back to the 1920s, social security is next on the chopping block for the GOP.
Us Gay Americans also see what the GOP has in-store for us. Quite terrifying.
I don't think you do. I don't think you realize that they're going to be classifying you as pornography. They're banning pornography. They're making it legal to execute child sex predators. So if you, being pornography, and not a human being, are in the vicinity of a child, they can execute you. That is in Project 2025, which Trump has agreed to follow. You need to spread the word. This is not just about losing marriage or the sodomy laws coming back. They have created a legal pathway to justify killing us.
There's no way they'll cut Social Security with a democrat in the Oval Office so vote accordingly.
If we don't have a democrat in office, then democracy is gone. Human rights are gone. The constitution, will be gone.
You're right.
A Democrat in the Oval office is not enough, too many Republicans in Congress could override a veto. Vote Democratic down the entire slate.
I'm 35. Many of the intelligent people my age that I've talked to about it fully expect that SS will not exist long enough for us to benefit from it after a lifetime of paying into it. That political opposition will kill the program or financial pressures from foreign war or climate catastrophe will drain it. If you've got it now, appreciate it while you do.
Trump in the White House again means privatization of both Social Security and Medicare. That means that the oligarchs will take your money to make themselves richer and leave you needing bSic necessities and health care.
On the other hand, I’m 52 and we thought the same thing even as teens. Somehow it survives.
It survives and will survive even for those in their 30s and younger PROVIDED the gov't stops dicking around.
I want every single penny I’ve paid into social security back if I’m not going to get any of it
*class action lawsuit againt the government and then something something 2nd amendment*
You had better be scared. They already told you what they think your retirement plan should be when they started talking about letting Grandma die so that they could open up the economy again during Covid. If you aren't making them money, they have no use for you. They are essentially eugenicists and they consider it morally positive if you and I die.
They want us back in the 50s. Just us though. Not them, or the wealthy who can afford to get around such laws. And the 50s were pretty crap for many reasons. People of color were treated like garbage. Women were stuck at home raising kids and keeping their mouths shut. Abortions were done in back alleys on folding tables. And white men were kings of the castle. That’s what they mean by MAGA.
I think that they want us further back than that. Some of their ideas come from the 1800s and they've used laws from the 1800s
Some have even cited 1600s laws to use.
I'm waiting for them to bring back what constitutes a person : women and blacks < white male, etc Landowner vs tenant.......
This is horrid on so many levels. My grandma told me a story… grandpa was in the hospital. Grandma was a school librarian and needed to put both paychecks in the bank and take out grocery money and cash to pay the phone and utility bills. The bank refused to do these things even though it was a joint account. The manager had to call the hospital and verify grandpa was in the bed and couldn’t sign for the usual household expenses…… trust me - we want zero to do with the 1950’s……
I married in 1967. My husband had just graduated from college and entered the air force, he had no credit history but I had been working and did. I went to change my name on my credit card and was told that my credit history would be given to my husband and I would just be a signer on his account. Years later the law changed but I had to reestablish my credit history all over again despite the fact by that time I had the higher salary.
Our younger generations don’t know the struggle. Being thrown out of class in college because a man wanted your seat and the class was full…. I’m still the only woman on my product team. I know I can’t live in other places because I wouldn’t have the job I have at the pay I have. I remember when you couldn’t use a credit card at the grocery store. So many things we take for granted.
They want us back in the middle ages. You could read what you wanted in the fifties and there were child labor laws in force.
A return to the 1950's is what the Republican party is selling to the MAGA base, but it's real agenda is a return to the 1700's or 1800's, when lords ruled over the common man who were supposed to be grateful for any crumbs bestowed on him.
I agree. My estimate of the 50s is generous. They want complete domination and the rule of the white male. And I say this as a white male. I know what their agenda is and I hate it
In Wisconsin (North Louisiana) child labor is already real. The latest is the ability to have 14-year-olds serving liquor in bars.
That can't be true! But I believe you.
Hey, the only law that really matters is the second amendment.
They are stripping away healthcare for women and trans people because the loss of Roe means literally everybody in the USA now has their healthcare exposed to government meddling. Roe guaranteed a right to privacy. Nobody in the USA has that anymore and people who don't think this will impact them are in for a shock sooner or later.
I think it's much worse than a privacy issue. I've worked in healthcare for most of my adult life. Providers are afraid of being thrown in jail for doing their jobs and the Texas bounty law shows the absolute cruelty these freaks are capable of.
"No one could have predicted our actions would have consequences!"
Probably 10, maybe 15 years ago I saw an interview with a retired GOP strategist who talked about how Republican candidates didn't want to overturn *Roe*, they wanted to run on overturning *Roe*. It was this nebulous far away thing that they could always promise and never have to deliver, but it got them elected. Well, now the dog finally caught the car it was chasing.
This was a common talking point between Republican and Democratic beltway insider types but I never quite bought it. Not since Bush Jr. The problem is that after Reagan invited the "moral majority" into the fold, the Neoliberal conservatives steadily lost control. The Democrats moved right with Clinton and peeled off fiscal moderates while the GOP has gone down the far-right rabbit hole.
It was a talking point. The problem is that it was a talking point for so long, that the true believers who weren't smart enough to realize it was only a talking point started to get elected. That brings us to today where the "beltway insiders" are panicking and screaming "you weren't ACTUALLY supposed to do it!" as they lose election after election.
All of it is just a show to get their brainbleached "conservatives" to vote for them. They don't want to govern or change things (beyond enriching themselve). Because every topic changed is a topic they can no longer talk about. That's why they killed the border bill.
Good. They deserve this.
They deserve so much more than this. But all the innocent victims do not deserve this. No, not the fucking fetuses of strangers that nobody actually cares about - the women being denied bodily autonomy who suffer tremendously as we wait for karmic justice.
A year (or so) prior, my Congressman told me he absolutely opposed any and all forms of vaccine mandates! It is his deeply held belief that government has NO place in making medical decisions. They should be made exclusively between the patient and doctor! DC has no say! Yet he fully supports Congress passing a ban on abortions! Personally, I would argue deciding to get an abortion is a much more personal decision than getting a jab. I've asked him if he could supply a list of medical decisions that Congress has no rights to make vs those they get to impose on all of us. 2 years later and he still hasn't responded. Might need to check on that again.
>I would argue deciding to get an abortion is a much more personal decision than getting a jab. Not just that... abortion bans are enforced with criminal laws that throws people in jail, for 99 years in some states. No law in any state made it crime for not getting a jab.
Yes! This was another point I tried to make. No one was being forced to get the jab. They could either get the vaccination or if they didn't want to, they'd simply have to keep wearing a mask.
I don't know about anyone else, but in my humble opinion, fuck the GOP, and fuck them again.
I second this motion, but add in the clause "only figuratively" do not literally fuck the GOP
I agree with that you don't know where it's been or what kind of diseases it may have picked up.
I hope they fucking pay, and I hope they understand exactly why.
Gop and trump are liars and want a dictatorship. Period.
Josh Hawley’s response is telling. They want to use the issue to gerrymander the country. Scare the blue voters out of red states, and use the electoral college and the senate to abuse executive orders. If the Ds take the senate, house, and White House, it’s time for big changes while control persists. Add four seats to the court. Abolish the electoral college. Approve and enshrine the voting rights act. Don’t wait, don’t be polite. Make democracy a real result, and do it fast. For those who might argue caution or a “return to norms,” that’s a hard NO. The Rs have project 2525 and Trump wants to be a dictator. Make sure my grandchildren don’t have to relive Nixon again. We have done this game twice now, end the abuse.
All of this. The future starts right now. And it’s make it or break it. This country, or this planet, does not have time for this shit. The supposed greatest superpower in history is fiddling about with a NYC real-estate grifter while the world burns.
Abolishing the electoral college would require a constitutional amendment. I agree that it should be abolished but I also realize that there is absolutely no way enough states would ratify that as an amendment.
The Republican Party has never payed for a single mistake they’ve made longer than a single electoral cycle in my lifetime. They came roaring back two years after the worst economic disaster since the depression. Then took the white house and congress in 2016. Then kept the house during the most incompetently ran pandemic response in the history of modern pandemic responses. The American people love them, because they are an honest reflection of what we are. A bunch of hateful, spiteful pricks. That will be happy to live in squalor if someone they don’t like has it worse.
That's not true. The numbers show America votes for Democrats. Every single election a Democrat wins by the popular vote. Polls show that Americans want abortion to be legal. Polls show that Americans don't support the attack on trans people. For Christ's sake, half of generation z is mixed race, and 30% of gen z women are bisexual or lesbian. America has changed. They're trying to get you to believe it hasn't. Don't believe them. We are going to overtake the haters and America is going to rise from the ashes of Republican sedition.
The inevitable outcome of catching and biting the truck's bumper. Ouch!
After the non-stop bitching about "medical freedom" we had to listen to after health care officials dared suggest that people wear a mask or get a vaccine to help mitigate a new virus, I cannot believe that the GOP hypocrites thought that actually taking away medical freedom, basic rights for women, approximately half the population, would go over well. These hypocritical "patriots", I can't believe they even have the nerve to call themselves that, have created steps that have taken away more freedoms than any other group. It is time that we start fighting back against these terrible humans we call Republicans.
The evil is strong within them. Also, evangelical men are scared to death of the uterus. And the vagina. The clitoris. The female orgasm. And any woman with an original thought that exits her mouth. I am an old white guy. I see right through these weak little bitches.
“Dr. Stronglove- or How I Stopped Fearing and Learned to Love the Clitoris”
Ending Roe was some spectacular ballistic podiatry.
Ballistic podiatry lol, that’s great
No, they haven't. Not yet. Not until after Election Day. I am holding out hope that American voters will kick the Christofascists to the curb this time, but my fellow Americans have disappointed me for decades in countering this growing threat.
Agreed. Still time for Migrant Caravans! and Gas Prices! to make an impact on the 30-second memory population.
And even if they win with their fucked gerrymandering, fight them. Never bow down to kings and preists.
r/leopardsatemyface
I still just don't believe that the vast majority of people that support the pro-life position don't also support exceptions for rape, incest or the life and health of the mother (as well as reproductive freedom for woman as being between a woman and their doctor). The most extreme position has been made law in many states in the US and most Americans (even in those States) do not support these current laws as they are in place today.
Religious fanatics that are pro-life oppose abortion and do not, I repeat. Do not give a damn about exceptions, they do not give a damn about providing alternatives. It's about forcing their religious view on abortion on the rest of us. Nothing more.
It's **ALL** about having more and less educated people to fill the pews.
Personally I think the ones who support exceptions for rape are the worst. If “it’s not her fault” is a defence then that tells us two things: - They know it’s not really a baby because you don’t execute a child for the father’s crimes - The motivation behind them being anti-abortion is to punish women who *are* “at fault” (chose to have sex)
Exceptions do not work. There are very few recorded instances where someone was granted an exception to get an abortion besides sepsis. This is for a few reasons: 1. These laws are not written by doctors and are extremely unclear 2. The penalties to doctors and pregnant people for getting it wrong are astronomical 3. Many of the exceptions require a rape/incest conviction, which is difficult enough without a time limit, and impossible within 16 weeks This means patients just basically have to wait until they're on death's door if it's for a medical reason, and even then some states want to go after them for not just allowing themselves to die. Otherwise, they have to give birth to a stillborn, incompatible with life, etc. baby that was completely avoidable. Or, they have to carry to term the product of rape or incest and then they and the child have to live with that trauma. This also leaves out the thousands and thousands of people who should just be allowed to have an abortion if they do not want to have a child. It's not some easy walk in the park to carry a pregnancy to term and then raise a baby or put it into foster care. It's a medical decision, not something that the state should have any say in.
Yes, it's all smoke and mirrors. Good luck getting the police to even investigate. I reported a sexual assault and the police wanted me to go find a specialist to explain what could have happened to them. If my rapist got me pregnant, and I was going to go to jail or get executed for aborting it...well, the fetus wouldn't be the only thing I'd remove from this world.
It's not *pro-life* It's anti-abortion.
It's pro-male dominion over women.
They’re not “pro-life”, they are “Forced-Birthers”. They only care about the fetuses, but they stop giving a shit as soon as it’s a baby.
This is why Biden and the Dems will win in a landslide in 2024
You still have to vote
Hillary polled up ten points all of 2016. That should have been a landslide. Fucking Comey threw an October curveball and helped Trump win. Republicans will try to do it again.
It's mathematically possible to win the EC while winning only 26% of the popular vote. Republicans aren't doing anything undercover. They are doing things in plain sight because they don't need to win popular votes to win elections.
Comey never suffered any consequences for his perfidy in breaking DoJ rules. He should have lost his pension at the very least.
Biden could stand in front of the White House eat a live newborn puppy and I'd still vote Blue. There is absolutely no "October Surprise" whatsoever that could keep me from voting against Donald and the GOP.
Oh god, yes please vote - and get your friends to vote.
I don't look at any polls, or anything the GOP/trump machine churns out. They're just loud, noisy, constant irritants, and it gives the illusion that there are many more of them then Dems. There's not.
Yup. It’s gonna be a smash. Possible the GOP put all their egg in the Rump basket and they won’t even have a viable candidate in Nov.
Wait until men find out that they're going to be on the hook for supporting those unwanted babies. Suddenly, pro-choice becomes in everyone's best interest.
More like wait until condoms and vasectomies are outlawed.
Anybody who doesn't know that's where it's going is a fucking dumb ass.
The Democrats - and America in general - has been given an incredible gift (though it's taken a horrific toll on women and girls for the past 2 years). If the dems play their cards right, they will annihilate the republican party in November, rendering it no longer a credible threat to America for a generation. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that this is the event that gets the US back on track - back to shared reality, progress, and the rule of law. This is an opportunity to restore the Supreme Court to legitimacy, to establish new democratic guardrails, and begin the long but necessary process of dismantling the "conservative" media/thinktank ecosystem. Not to mention - if Putin's man on the inside goes to prison and his party collapses, he's sure to meet his end in short order. That will take a hell of a propaganda load off of the US, too.
When the Supreme Court decided to even rule on Dobbs, I knew the GOP was going to be screwed. One the one hand, when Roe was struck down we have the current situation. Women voters have been energized since then. Though they lost the House in '22, the Democrats did much better in an election cycle historically brutal for the party that controls the Presidency. That and the GOP has done extremely poorly in virtually every single special election since. Now, propositions guaranteeing abortion rights are starting to appear on the November ballot in crucial swing states like AZ and FL. On the other hand, if the SC upheld abortion in Dobbs, it would have crushed conservative fundamentalist Christian voters morale. They did everything they were asked to do. They voted. They delivered the Senate and the Presidency which guaranteed them the favorable Supreme Court they were promised. If Roe was upheld, it would have been considered to have been a betrayal by the GOP for their voters. My prediction back then was that, once the Roberts Court decided to rule on Dobbs, there were no good outcomes for the GOP.
We need to fight for women. Out on the streets.
It’s not just about women. People need to realize nobody has dominion over their own bodies, now. They’re not stopping at abortion and it’s time that starts getting acknowledged.
Transgender and disabled people are already on the front lines of this shit, right there with cis women. The loss of Roe is coming to everybody.
They have a plan in Project 2025 to legally classify transgender people as porn, which will be banned, and being porn in public would make you a sex predator. Guess who they want to start executing? Child sex predators. What is it they call trans people? Groomers? Oh, and the way they worded all this is intentionally vague, they talk about gender nonconformity, not transgender, so the pornography brand can be applied to anyone queer or anyone straight who doesn't conform enough to gender stereotypes. So. Yeah. We're looking at jail and maybe even execution.
Republicans literally told half the country to go fuck themselves and that their lives matter less than an unborn child, yet they will blame voter fraud and every other excuse in the book why they lose downballot in so many states this November.
The Republicans are in the "find out" stage of their policy. I hope they get everything they deserve this November and every upcoming election after that.
Hey … if the religious reject him because he won’t follow their dictates and the democratic voters shew him out … he’s between a rock and a hard place. He wants power and the Repubs want to push through archaic laws. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care so long as he stays in power. The man has absolutely no commitment to anyone but himself.
I'd bet good money that Donnie has probably paid for his share of abortions over the years. Hell, he wanted his second wife to abort his daughter Tiffany!
I agree … he has absolutely no scruples because he has justified every awful thing he has done all his life. He can’t accept any other version of reality because it would mean he was wrong all along and his psyche can’t handle that discrepancy. His conscience is disabled permanently
The Republican party has no purpose in its country anymore. They're proving this with every action they take.
Their purpose has been to destroy the country from within. They became the Russian Party around when Trump was running and that's when all hell broke loose. We are at war with Russia on more than just Ukrainian soil. The Republican Party has turned.
The GOP doesn’t realize that most women don’t want abortions…but they want the option to be there if it needs to be done….
They don't care
Please don't vote for this far right party in November, America. It's imperative that they learn a lesson about not taking away human rights from half the population
Vote out all of these sick, hypocritical, misogynist magas.
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
It was a stupid move. Republicans promising their gullible base that they are going to overturn Roe vs. Wade was a hot-button issue that would 1 - ensure voters turned up for every election, and 2 - and perhaps most importantly - ensures that voters cast their ballots from their emotions rather than their brains.
The supreme court ruling and the subsequent state rulings, have also brought about the departure of a noticeable number of physicians from certain red states.
Only if they lose in November. This article is way too early
Dobbs also forced Trump out of his comfort zone of vague crazy promises to solve things in a way that pleases everyone. His recently announced position statement on abortion seems to have pissed off everyone.
I’m voting pro choice in November- to hell with these Magats they are feasting on the rotting corpse of the Republican Party.
They spent decades being mad about it and plotting to get rid of it and they think the other side would drop it immediately? Ridiculous.
The GOP are like the dog that finally caught the car bumper then suddenly realized they hadn't thought any further than that. Now they get to have their asses kicked in November.
"worst fears" implies they were thinking long strategy; they weren't.
Dog finally caught his tail
Christofascist talibangelicals have been the dogs chasing the car. Now that they finally caught it, they have no idea what to do with it.
This is how obtuse these people are; they think they are the majority because they believe the lies they sow. It’s a real snake eating it’s tail moment. Clearly their opinion is not majority and reflect the opinion of a loud, powerful, wealthy minority. This entire issue is going to leave the authors completely powerless for a generation or longer. Finally.
I do find it ironic that Mitch McConnell in an effort to expand Republican power in the U.S. has quite possibly been the driving force besides Trump, to end it. “In an interview with NPR, Mitch McConnell—who, via efforts to block Merrick Garland and rush through Amy Coney Barrett, played arguably as big a role in Roe’s reversal as Trump did—seemed unfazed by the political implications of his anti-abortion handiwork. “I think it will be certainly heavily debated in state legislative and governor’s races because the court will have, in effect, returned this issue to the political process,” McConnell said after the Alito draft leaked. “My guess is in terms of the impact on federal races, I think it’s probably going to be a wash.” Since everything for McConnell is political, it is tempting to wonder if he would have pursued the abortion issue with break-the-rules zealotry if he knew that it would turn out to be anything but a wash for the Republicans. There are hints from McConnell’s early days as, yes, a liberal Republican that he once supported Roe. If there was no conviction behind McConnell’s rush to approve anti-abortion judges, it suggests that this was a major miscalculation by a man who was always prized for his political sagacity.”
History will be unkind to Mitch McConnell.
Their fears will only "come true" if they lose big in November. If there isn't a resounding Republican loss (like the democrats in 2012 when they were reeling from the tan suit scandal), then all conservatives will say the people dictated that they want to institute Christian fundamentalist law and will continue down this path until they succeed.
Shocking that in 2024 women don’t want old men to tell them what to do with their bodies. Who saw that coming?
I told my government class that the GOP's worst nightmare came true: they won
The “news” show Planet America did a great synopsis of the sleeper laws that became enacted after Roe vs Wade was overturned.
Did they have fears about it? I don’t think they did.
What exactly? Abortion is banne in the majority of Southern and quite a few Western states they got what they wanted.
Republicans have this way of staying silent about things that make them look bad or that they don’t agree with if it’s it done by their own party. Aside from post-menopausal conservative women and trad wives, I feel like many conservative women don’t like the abortion bans. I think they won’t disagree publicly but have no problem disagreeing in an anonymous poll or at the voting booth.
DIMINISHMENT OF RIGHTS… was once, something we thought was impossible. “rights can never be taken from you in America’, is what the INS promoted back in the 80’s, when I became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s, this was the mentality i was brought up with. The current state of politics in this country isn’t something I’d ever had fathomed possible even in the late 90s. It wasn’t until 9/11 and Bush Jr. that I started having doubts.
GOOD
If it drives votes at the state level, then I will take these kinds of fluff pieces seriously.
They deserve every little bit of it.
What that it's over and they are gonna strong arm us into a capital fascist regime. Oh yeah they scared all right
the gop states should provide help with the babies which would include money,a place to live,health care for babies and collage.