Jordan Klepper heads down to a Mississippi rally to figure out if the January 6 hearings are enough to break the MAGA bubble surrounding Trump supporters. #DailyShow #Comedy
So we hit 40 C today, 104 F.
We also had a pretty good breeze, which felt like sticking your head into a gas clothes dryer. Well, your whole body, to be honest.
Also, this:
Huh
Vote so far. My God. We turned the tide in America. #gunlawssavelives pic.twitter.com/vvmDNheXe2
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 24, 2022
The Douchey of Deliverance.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 23, 2022
We should recognize the reactions that Klepper found.
It’s similar to what one gets when trying to confront creationists with actual science.
That is not coincidental.
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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You will change your underwear every day and you will wear it on the outside so we can check it.
re: #5 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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Lunch today was a birthday crumpet and a cup of tea at a shop in Ligonier, PA.
Topping on the crumpet was a buffalo cream cheese and bleu cheese.
Happy Birthday!
I love crumpets. Which in the US are English Muffins, and in France are “Pig dogs! We invented those you English Swine!”
Whatever, they’re tasty.
From the second we’re introduced to Tom Swift, it becomes clear the theme of the series is Black Excellence.In the first episode of The CW’s new series, we are constantly reminded how ridiculously wealthy the Swifts are. This family of Black geniuses is responsible for most of the world’s technological advancements, and they’re not afraid to let you know it.
What makes all this so special is that in the original early 1900s books, Tom Swift is a blond-haired, blue-eyed, white All-American young man. The books were first published in 1910, so some of them featured extremely racist portrayals of Black people. They were either wild savages or children who couldn’t function without white saviors. There was no in-between.
Fast forward 100 years and now Tom Swift is a successful Black, gay inventor whose family is set to take the world into space. (Yes, even fictional billionaires are trapped in a space race.) Swift Enterprises is ready to send a ship to Saturn, with Tom’s father, Barton, manning the mission. Before he leaves, Barton tells Tom that he’s disappointed in his “sensitive” son and Tom won’t be named acting CEO while he’s gone. If you’ve ever watched TV, you know where this is going.
Tom Swift Is the Black, Queer Hero We’ve Been Waiting For (The Root)
re: #6 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
totally agree, these are the people who are fed a steady diet of bullshit for decades.
What would completely blow their minds is to be informed that all of these people testifying against the President are Republicans.
Unsure how we can reach any of these people until we can find a way to shut down Unka Rupes propaganda outlet. It’s addled more brains than weed.
Well, apparently my name and visage has spread among the John MacArthur cult oops, the Grace Community Church attendees. Way to prove that I got to you all. :)
What’s not to like? The targets of my protest made it clear I got to them by posting a picture of my sign to their Twitter account. And you’re helping. :) It’s truly amazing how worked up a bunch of people get about a fat 62 YO white woman holding a sign.
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) June 24, 2022
Grace Community Church is running a “Puritan Conference” in early October (even if the stupid background at puritanconference dot org has a picture of Martin Luther and some modern dude in suit & tie as “Puritans”). It looks like a cash cow: $299/head. I think I’m going to dress up as Mary Dyer, one of the Quaker Martyrs who was executed by the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony leadership. You can read more about her here: en.wikipedia.org
These people Jordan Klepper is interviewing are in so deep they may never get out.
re: #7 calochortus
You will change your underwear every day and you will wear it on the outside so we can check it.
“Bananas! Bananas! Bananas!”
re: #12 jaunte
These people Jordan Klepper is interviewing are in so deep they may never get out.
There is absolutely no reaching them. Ever. Trump could meet with them face-to-face and say the stolen election belief is total bullshit. These people would say he’s a clone, someone paid him off, or like those two girls, believe the opposite of what he’s telling them.
re: #9 Crush White Nationalism
Tom Swift Is the Black, Queer Hero We’ve Been Waiting For (The Root)
I’ve watched the first two episodes, it’s fun in a CW sort of way. It’s a combination of sci-fi, dynasty-type rich family shenanigans, scandal-type political shenanigans, and a little bit of rom-com subtext…
re: #5 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What brought you to, what in November 1758, was the second largest community in Pennsylvania?
And yes, the Allegheny Mountains, aka “Radio Free Pennsylvania”, are beautiful in the summer.
Amazingly, the GOP and Democrats have finally crafted a gun bill so weak they’ll both agree on it.
Historic! Bipartisan!
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court strikes down all restrictions to carry loaded guns anywhere, for any reason.
But hey! Historic!— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 24, 2022
re: #17 GlutenFreeJesus
“I used to be an American but then I joined a cult celebrating a world-historical monster, and I’m pretty darn satisfied with the whole trip.”
The hearings are working on some people:
Proved how awful Meadows and others are. Trump thought he was God!”
Y’all can’t imagine how happy I am over this! @January6thCmte, thank you, for giving me my family back!— Shannon Angel (@73SNAngel) June 23, 2022
re: #19 ckkatz
What brought you to, what in November 1758, was the second largest community in Pennsylvania?
And yes, the Allegheny Mountains, aka “Radio Free Pennsylvania”, are beautiful in the summer.
I was out of loose tea. And the shop I visited is run by the sister of a good friend of mine from college. And it was a good day for a drive up into that area. Need to remember to bring my camera and light hiking gear since there are a number of nice parks, trails, and such all over that area. Plus I’ve never actually visited Fort Ligonier.
I wish they’d also show Jeffrey Clark pleading the 5th 125 times. And all the other creeps.
re: #8 austin_blue
Happy Birthday!
I love crumpets. Which in the US are English Muffins, and in France are “Pig dogs! We invented those you English Swine!”
Whatever, they’re tasty.
Crumpets and English muffins are very different creatures. A Crumpet is a griddle bread, an English muffin is a baked yeast leavened bread. You split an english muffin, a crumpet is not.
Ooh goody. A new theme.
re: #31 sagehen
gmta! Ya beat me by 35 seconds. I was still choosing which version to post.
I understand; Miles Davis v. Louis Armstrong is a tough call.
re: #18 sagehen
I’ve watched the first two episodes, it’s fun in a CW sort of way. It’s a combination of sci-fi, dynasty-type rich family shenanigans, scandal-type political shenanigans, and a little bit of rom-com subtext…
I’ll go in with CW-level expectations.
re: #34 sagehen
I understand; Miles Davis v. Louie Armstrong is a tough call.
And you exactly got the two versions I was trying to decide between!
My job is done!
I am off for the rack.
I have always thought this board contained a shitpot of music geeks. Glad to know I’m right.
Be nice to each other and Slava Ukraini!
Had the American Revolutionaries failed, the British wouldn’t be like “ok well enjoy positions of power in the colonies!”
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) June 24, 2022
More about the shooting at the Tysons Corner Mall last Saturday. From the Fairfax County Police Dept:
Oh look, a hive of scum and villainy.
His Twitter profile says he’s also at the same law firm as Ken Klukowski. Hmmm.
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) June 24, 2022
(Swedish)
High mountains and deep valleys
The forest full of nightingales
High mountains and deep valleys
The friend that pleases me
Come, come, my heart’s very dearest
We shall dance until the morning is here
All the night until the break of day
Come, let us dance ourselves tired
These look like collectable guns, rather than very threatening ones, but I do think this farm is a cult compound, and it’s hard to explain a baby that’s sucking on a bullet. That is not normal.
Ezra Miller has reportedly been housing 3 children in a gun-filled farm.
Video footage shows 8 firearms in the living room, and a 1-year-old baby reportedly had a bullet in its mouth. https://t.co/ch5hQykVOX pic.twitter.com/dSRAOt7dp6— Cinema Solace (@solacecinema) June 23, 2022
Now I’m feeling all nostalgic. My top ten summer songs from my teen years:
Sealed with a Kiss—Brian Hyland
Summer Song—Chad and Jeremy
It Might as well rain until September—Carole King
My Summer Love—Ruby and the Romantics
Under the Boardwalk—the Drifters
Beach Party—Dave York and the Beachcombers
Theme from a Summer Place—Percy Faith
Summertime, Summertime—the Jamies
See You in September—The Happenings
and #1
Wonderful Summer—Robin (Jackie) Ward (look her up—interesting backstory and a major “voice” of the Partridge Family.)
re: #3 Ming5000
Huh
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Here’s what the people who have been directly affected by gun violence are seeing with this vote: a crack was made in the wall that prevents gun laws from being passed. That is why you are seeing all those people who have family members that have died from gun violence shouting “History!” while everyone else on the left is going “Huh?”
re: #44 Crush White Nationalism
Guy sounds like an idiot.
Leaving firearms accessible to children. And leaving expensive collectables accessible to children.
Even if they were demilled, giving a little kid a 4lb metal hammer doesn’t seem particularly wise.
Seems ignorant or performative to me.
The pistols shown appear to be almost all “cap and ball” pistols. If original they would date to around the time of the American Civil War. (1860+- 20 years).
The three components of the ammunition would be loaded separately rather than all being contained in a single cartridge. And they would be designed to fire the lower pressure black powder rather than modern smokeless powder.
(Plus, if they were original, I am not sure how much the century and a half of age and how they were used over that period, in addition to the period metallurgy would affect whether the pistol could even handle the pressure it was originally designed for.)
Additionally, they would likely be single action. Which means that the hammer would have to be cocked before the trigger could be pulled to fire the pistol.
The committee says they confirmed Trump’s acting defense secretary Chris Miller, at direction of Mark Meadows, actually called the defense attaché in Italy to ask about baseless claim an Italian satellite switched votes from Trump to Biden. Donoghue calls claim “pure insanity.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 23, 2022
re: #50 Captain Ron
Come se dici “Bugfuck Nuts” in Italiano?
If you get enough follows on Twitter, they totally can’t send you to prison.
True story, bro. pic.twitter.com/MxFnftOHWC— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 24, 2022
Check out the ratio:
I stand by my statement that I never sought a Presidential pardon for myself or other Members of Congress. At no time did I speak with Ms. Hutchinson, a White House scheduler, nor any WH staff about a pardon for myself or any other Member of Congress — this never happened.
— RepScottPerry (@RepScottPerry) June 23, 2022
re: #52 jaunte
“Go to your office and if there’s an oil spill, we’ll call you.”
Line of the day.— AccountabilityNow (@Litzz11) June 24, 2022
This is sad and painful for me to say this because Andrea @mitchellreports was once a friend to me and a supporter of Countdown, but she has lost her ability to perceive the present reality of American politics, and needs to be retired.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 23, 2022
WTF? Jeff Clark went on Fox/Tucker Carlson today. That is a textbook inane move for someone who just had a search warrant served on him. And who has been taking the 5th. He calls service of search warrant”Stasi like.” A self-respecting attorney would resign the representation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 24, 2022
Just a whole string of good tweets I’m going to put in one comment:
A point:
God didn’t write the Second Amendment, a slave owner did.
— SethAsherWeitz (@SethAsherW) June 23, 2022
A thread:
Just fwding these :
Flying this summer is ROUGH!!! I feel like as a Flight Attendant I should attempt to share some tips to get you through airline travel for the foreseeable future. ✈️✈️
1. Things are not good….. if its less than 7 hours - DRIVE! I’m not kidding.— KATE🇭🇹 (@kateeya_) June 23, 2022
A thought:
I’m starting to think the 2016 election was stolen. The plan to steal 2020 seems too well organized. Doesn’t seem to me like a 1st rodeo.
— Claire Ortiz (@clairityortiz) June 22, 2022
And another:
So, as I understand the Supreme Court, the government can arrest and jail you without Miranda rights, execute you even if your lawyer screws up, force you to have a baby, and use tax dollars to support religion.
But it can’t protect your right to vote or keep you safe from guns.— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 23, 2022
Jeff Clark is an ass.
Will read later today but great to hear that a blow was struck for religious liberty and school choice. https://t.co/il65nzkusE
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) June 21, 2022
re: #1 austin_blue
Eh…come to Phoenix where we have real heat!
re: #46 Belafon
Here’s what the people who have been directly affected by gun violence are seeing with this vote: a crack was made in the wall that prevents gun laws from being passed. That is why you are seeing all those people who have family members that have died from gun violence shouting “History!” while everyone else on the left is going “Huh?”
An election-year illusion. One crafted to defuse a political issue before November, allowing Dems to boast about how they “passed something” that was “bipartisan” while Repubs can tell folks back home that the bill does virtually nothing to restrict their ability to keep building arsenals in their homes.
re: #56 jaunte
If the only possible defense is to stir up a mob and get a pardon from the next GOP president, it makes sense.
Between the 1/6 livestreams and the social media endorsements of crackpots, the truth is, these are not very bright guys. https://t.co/FmDEBKnzW6
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 24, 2022
re: #61 Targetpractice
An election-year illusion. One crafted to defuse a political issue before November, allowing Dems to boast about how they “passed something” that was “bipartisan” while Repubs can tell folks back home that the bill does virtually nothing to restrict their ability to keep building arsenals in their homes.
So, what you’re saying is that politicians can be influenced by elections.
re: #61 Targetpractice
Some Dem strategists may be looking at this as a way to sow dissension in the GOP. Clearly the gun fetishists are unhappy with the GOP Senators who are going along with this theater.
I don’t know what it is going to take to shift this country towards policies and laws necessary for the 21st century and beyond.
In the past it has taken great wars to make those kinds of changes.
Will that be what happens again?
Homework for all of you: watch the video in this tweet:
Who knew of the connection between the ancient myths about Hyperborea and the war in #Ukraine ?
Ancient myths are exploited in modern delusions and @DrDavidMiano takes a deep dive into how ancient Hyperborea legends propagate down through time:https://t.co/JegbxNxxM5— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 24, 2022
June 24 is the anniversary of this and how many Americans got introduced to Janey Godley:
Six years ago today - Turnberry 2016 - I carried a bit of Lino with a short statement written in blue sharpie pic.twitter.com/FAJ4Fp1gTc
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) June 24, 2022
Indulge me, as a former prosecutor: It’s a search warrant. Only executed after a judge signs off on probable cause to believe the search will yield evidence of a crime — something judges take very seriously in my experience. Most definitely not a raid.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 23, 2022
re: #64 Belafon
So, what you’re saying is that politicians can be influenced by elections.
I’m saying that we’ve been tossed table scraps yet again and been told that this is a “win” because it’s “bipartisan.” That the only sacrifice that was made by Repubs was just allowing the bill to come to a vote. In exchange, they got to water the bill down so far that it’s virtually useless.
IMHO Cheney is more effective than Kinzinger. She’s not a good person but very sharp and very impressive.
Wordling
4/6
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Redeemed from my 6/6 yesterday. 3/6.
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Earlier, #LNR air defense system did THIS. Take me home country roads. Pretty sure that’s not how it’s supposed to work.
Glory to #Ukraine 🇺🇦✊🏻 pic.twitter.com/lLwdXAROFV— Canadian Ukrainian Volunteer 🇺🇦🇨🇦✊🏻 (@CanadianUkrain1) June 24, 2022
VERY big! It appears DOJ is going overt w/parts of its investigation that were previously secret, because testimony at hearings increases chances that people would destroy records. (Doesn’t mean they just found out about Clark; it means they don’t want to risk losing evidence.) https://t.co/entKuVT0e9
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) June 23, 2022
Uvalde police officer was detained as he tried to rescue his dying wife during school shooting https://t.co/kXQpodI7FJ via @houstonchron
— St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ (@stjbs) June 22, 2022
Bad Wednesday for Sidney Powell. DOJ questioned her nonprofit’s payments to Oath Keeper lawyers. https://t.co/UvlYBZluyF And a Texas judge allowed the State Bar’s effort to disbar her for filing baseless election fraud lawsuit in 2020 to proceed. https://t.co/F6QXBOmP8K
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) June 23, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: In a rare move, China has asked business leaders in Hong Kong how to revive the isolated financial hub’s economy, sources say https://t.co/LEemGjATpZ
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) June 24, 2022
LOL
I’ve been smelling smoke for the past hour. something is on fire around here.
#ScenicFire near Carquinez Scenic Dr and Canyon Lake Dr, east of Crokett in Contra Costa County is 140 acres and 50% contained.@calfireSCU https://t.co/i7WEAENqHQ pic.twitter.com/tx247LrSLr
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) June 24, 2022
Ah, that must be it. That’s one of the p;aces I ride my bike.
It’ll take all day to catch up on the Summer songs already posted. Here’s the best, for pure mindlessness:
re: #46 Belafon
Here’s what the people who have been directly affected by gun violence are seeing with this vote: a crack was made in the wall that prevents gun laws from being passed. That is why you are seeing all those people who have family members that have died from gun violence shouting “History!” while everyone else on the left is going “Huh?”
To be clear, my ‘Huh’ (not “Huh?”) was of the ‘I can’t believe this happened’ ilk. It was referring to the vote, and not to Shannon Watts.
I see it is a vague header to the tweet. Apologies.
I don’t comprehend the strat/tactical implications of this move. The comments didn’t add a lot of insight. I am glad Ukraine will have more tools to fight the Russians on the water.
The U.S. DoD yesterday announced it will provide Ukraine with 18 patrol boats. Those are part of the latest package of “security assistance valued at up to $450 million to meet critical needs for Ukraine’s fight”. They are likely Mark VI 🇺🇸⚓️🇺🇦https://t.co/PYgRa1hW8V
— Naval News (@navalnewscom) June 24, 2022
Morning Lizardim. Has the Supreme Court finished destroying our rights yet?
re: #81 Ming5000
I don’t comprehend the strat/tactical implications of this move. The comments didn’t add a lot of insight. I am glad Ukraine will have more tools to fight the Russians on the water.
Lightly armed, small, fast, generally good at providing escort cover against small detachments of surface vessels or unconventional assailants. Ships of this class saw a lot of action in WWII as torpedo launchers, so they’re not an empty threat.
I don’t think “they raided several other people I had conspired with at the same time they raided me” is as exonerating as he thinks it is.
— Katie (@ktbobaytee) June 24, 2022
re: #84 Dopamine Fish
Lightly armed, small, fast, generally good at providing escort cover against small detachments of surface vessels or unconventional assailants. Ships of this class saw a lot of action in WWII as torpedo launchers, so they’re not an empty threat.
Under real-world stress, the Ukrainians will do something creative with them.
re: #86 Decatur Deb
Under real-world stress, the Ukrainians will do something creative with them.
My thought is that the US sent them to help Ukraine get their grain shipments out into international waters, where the Russians wouldn’t dare to shoot at them. Russia’s Black Sea fleet isn’t so large or powerful that a handful of US patrol boats wouldn’t do some damage in capable hands.
What Biden Has Done is a good follow, and this is a good thread.
After BBB failed, almost everyone rushed to declare President Biden’s entire presidency a legislative failure. Ignoring that we had already passed 2 landmark pieces of legislation by then, the pundits and Twitterati declared that nothing happened and nothing would happen
1/— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) June 24, 2022
this article is about six weeks old, but I only recently ran across it.
Long read, scary, but worth it. ‘
Index: The “Supreme” Court
How SCOTUS was captured, why it matters, and how to set it free.
gregolear.substack.com
The blinking-red danger with a captured Court is that, while we attribute its capture to the “Koch Brothers” as a sort of metonym, we don’t really know who captured it. I mean, it’s called dark money for a reason. Donors don’t have to disclose their identities, not in any meaningful way. For all we know, the Federalist Society is funded by the Vnesheconombank, or the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, or the Princely House of Thurn und Taxis. Are we sure Leonard Leo gets his financing from the Kochs, and not Semion Mogilevich? Regulatory capture of the Supreme Court seems like a mobster move; shouldn’t the onus be on Leo to show that he’s not bankrolled by the Bratva?
re: #86 Decatur Deb
Under real-world stress, the Ukrainians will do something creative with them.
I have no doubt we’ll see a launcher for some of those Harpoons we sent them :)
re: #87 Dopamine Fish
My thought is that the US sent them to help Ukraine get their grain shipments out into international waters, where the Russians wouldn’t dare to shoot at them. Russia’s Black Sea fleet isn’t so large or powerful that a handful of US patrol boats wouldn’t do some damage in capable hands.
or Ukraine can cross the Black Sea, and destroy Russian ports.
re: #92 sagehen
or Ukraine can cross the Black Sea, and destroy Russian ports.
Mine a couple of harbor entrances…
re: #92 sagehen
or Ukraine can cross the Black Sea, and destroy Russian ports.
They’re not heavily armed enough for that, although they could be used as a SpecOps platform. The US doesn’t use them anymore, so sending them is generally no big deal.
Good morning Lizards! An oldie but a goodie for the summer songs. No breeze here today (at least not yet) but perhaps you will experience a lovely summer breeze where you are.
Same redemption. Tough week.
🌳
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My new windows are all installed. The workers are going to finish stripping down the old siding, and prep for installing the new siding next week. My friend’s crew is also going to be in next week to trim the new windows on the inside.
With the momentum that the J6 committee seems to have, people are reading the tea leaves.
That’s twice now Liz has mentioned funding for both the 1/6 rally, and the broader scheme to overturn the election.
That’s not a coincidence — it’s a shot across the bow.— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) June 23, 2022
re: #86 Decatur Deb
Under real-world stress, the Ukrainians will do something creative with them.
use em like an anvil?
re: #95 The Squire of Logos
Good morning Lizards! An oldie but a goodie for the summer songs. No breeze here today (at least not yet) but perhaps you will experience a lovely summer breeze where you are.
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Ten Years After, two medlies
summertime / going home - Woodstock
summertime / shantung cabbage - Undead
re: #97 Dopamine Fish
My new windows are all installed. The workers are going to finish stripping down the old siding, and prep for installing the new siding next week. My friend’s crew is also going to be in next week to trim the new windows on the inside.
do they still make you press the start button to shutdown?
re: #101 Dangerman
do they still make you press the start button to shutdown?
I don’t know. I can’t find the any key to continue.
I know the gun bill won’t have much effect on gun violence, but everything in it is worth passing, and getting Republicans to vote for billions in new spending on mental health treatment is nigh on miraculous.
Damn, milkshakes are a $1 off all this week at Stewart’s.
See, this is why it’s always a good idea to read the owner’s manual before operating electronic equipment..
— Emilio Lizardo (@DrELizardo) June 24, 2022
re: #103 No Malarkey!
I know the gun bill won’t have much effect on gun violence, but everything in it is worth passing, and getting Republicans to vote for billions in new spending on mental health treatment is nigh on miraculous.
If there is even a penny allocated for spending on that, I’ll be shocked. Turtle Head will ensure it’s starved to death.
re: #73 darthstar
I went and found the tweet, and this was in the original tweets replies:
No. It’s not.
— Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed (@RealKeriSmith) June 22, 2022
re: #99 Dangerman
use em like an anvil?
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Rig a couple with AI and use them for Harpoon bait.
re: #87 Dopamine Fish
My thought is that the US sent them to help Ukraine get their grain shipments out into international waters, where the Russians wouldn’t dare to shoot at them. Russia’s Black Sea fleet isn’t so large or powerful that a handful of US patrol boats wouldn’t do some damage in capable hands.
Hell, I’d think that some cruise missiles with conventional warheads would send the Black Sea fleet to the bottom so fast, Admiral Tōgō’s ghost would be chuckling in amusement.
Wait. What. WTF!?
Demo by teachers of school in Klin, Moscow Region. Written on the poster - ‘One people, one nation, one ruler’ - a literal translation of the German Nazi slogan ‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.
Yes, these people believe that they can carry out “denazification” somewhere
Просто акция учителей школы города Клин Московской области. Надпись на плакате «Один народ, одна нация, один праVитель». Это дословный перевод лозунга немецких нацистов Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.Да, вот эти люди считают, что они где-то могут проводить «денацификацию» pic.twitter.com/LYOdUETlSE
— Денис Казанський (@den_kazansky) June 24, 2022
re: #111 Teukka
Recommend watching the video I posted in the tweet of mine earlier.
re: #111 Teukka
Wait. What. WTF!?
Demo by teachers of school in Klin, Moscow Region. Written on the poster - ‘One people, one nation, one ruler’ - a literal translation of the German Nazi slogan ‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.
Yes, these people believe that they can carry out “denazification” somewhere
Good ploy if they were coerced into a photo op.
Jordan Klepper makes Trump supporters watch clips of the January 6th hearings pic.twitter.com/jySLRScqXZ
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 24, 2022
“The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate President Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state testified Thursday that he routinely deleted records, and deactivated a personal email account, even after receiving open records requests,” the AP reports.….
[Republican Assembly Speaker Robin] Vos hired Gableman a year ago under pressure from Donald Trump to investigate the former president’s loss to Biden by just under 21,000 votes in Wisconsin. The investigation has cost taxpayers about $900,000 so far. Biden’s victory has survived two recounts, multiple lawsuits, a nonpartisan audit and a review by a conservative law firm.
where’s the Rs calling for like 15 new investigations?
re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter
IMHO Cheney is more effective than Kinzinger. She’s not a good person but very sharp and very impressive.
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🚨 Senate votes 65-33 to pass the most significant gun violence prevention bill in decades, marking a victory for the gun-safety movement and a rare defeat for the NRA on the Hill. The bill now goes to the House, which is expected to pass it. President Biden says he will sign it.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 24, 2022
the problem with all these breathtaking….takes, is, while yes, relatively it is ‘the most significant in decades’ in absolute terms of something significant and constructive, it’s nearly totally worthless
“I think if you can step back, what’s going on here right now in the Republican Party… 50% roughly of the Republicans would walk off the cliff for Donald Trump. Now I think at least 20% want to push him off the cliff.”— Bob Woodward, on CNN.
would that it were
re: #17 GlutenFreeJesus
There is absolutely no reaching them. Ever. Trump could meet with them face-to-face and say the stolen election belief is total bullshit. These people would say he’s a clone, someone paid him off, or like those two girls, believe the opposite of what he’s telling them.
Trump could shoot a pregnant woman in front of them and they would not only call it justifiable homicide, they would praise him for saving America by doing so.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Oh. That picture really draws me in. Yum.
Wordle 370 3/6
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Finally got back to a 3/6! Should have been a 2 but talked myself out of it. Had to chuckle because it made me think of a movie line. Have a great Friday and weekend, folks!
Rushing the months, but this is a summer song if there ever was one:
and this song is actually set in autumn
I think the Chinese have been propping up the Russians.
The Russian ruble has rebounded from crippling economic sanctions imposed on Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine and is now at its strongest in more than seven years — earning it the distinction of being the best-performing currency in the world so far this year.
The ruble was trading at 54.47 to the US dollar on Thursday — a far cry from the 139 to the dollar that the currency fell to in March, when the US and the European Union sanctioned the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine.
Since the start of the year, the ruble has soared 40% against the dollar — outperforming every other currency in the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has touted the ruble’s robust recovery as proof that his economy has successfully withstood the onslaught of Western sanctions.
“The idea was clear: crush the Russian economy violently,” Putin told an economic forum in St. Petersburg last week. “They did not succeed. Obviously, that didn’t happen.”
Trump was persuaded by an argument that boils down to: “This will damage your brand” https://t.co/rFODDAolea
— Dr. Jorge A. Caballero stands with 🇺🇦 (@DataDrivenMD) June 23, 2022
Not sure people understand that we are looking at the biggest and most profound scandal in American history which involves many of the leaders of one of our two political parties and hundreds of its elected officials.
Scale and scope of this is enormous. https://t.co/eMa5ebp0Y9— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 23, 2022
re: #131 Shropshire Slasher
I think the Chinese have been propping up the Russians.
The Russian economy can be highly elf-sufficient if they do not measure their standards of living and technology against the rest of the world. We overlook that fact.
They will always have enough to eat and enough fuel to burn, unlike Europe, which is dependent on imports of both.
If a bipartisan panel interviewing mostly Republican elected officials and appointees is being seen as a Democratic ad, that might be a moment for reflection. https://t.co/ohLcxobFRO
— Seth Masket (@smotus) June 23, 2022
re: #133 Dangerman
I would say the Civil War was the biggest scandal. So the GQP Sedition would be 3rd biggest, after The Email Lady.
Important trademark news…
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) June 22, 2022
The Ohio State University trademarks “THE” - though I always thought it was Thee Ohio State University.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Meschuggiamo
remarkably similar to the Yiddish Meshugenah.
It’s helpful to just think of SCOTUS as a legislative branch which never stands for election or reelection. https://t.co/pDXt6xW65Y
— Steve Koczela (@skoczela) June 23, 2022
re: #118 Teukka
That’s a clearer video of the launch. If you step through the first 4 seconds, you can see a smoke trail that might be a previous circular flight.
re: #141 Decatur Deb
That’s a clearer video of the launch. If you step through the first 4 seconds, you can see a smoke trail that might be a previous circular flight.
Or a launch which went wrong as well, but not as EPICally wrong as the main event.
Snicker
When the Feds seize your iPhone pic.twitter.com/QntX10Wa1v
— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) June 23, 2022
re: #111 Teukka
Wait. What. WTF!?
There’s a picture from Nazi Germany of a group of women who worked at a concentration camp, all smiling for the group photo.
Supreme Court Justices have proven they’re “supreme” in the same way as a Taco Bell Burrito Supreme: they’re easy to buy and bad for your health
— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) June 23, 2022
re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rushing the months, but this is a summer song if there ever was one:
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re: #132 Dangerman
It took the entire DOJ leadership threatening to resign to demonstrate how farcical the letter was to stop this aspect of Trump’s scheme.
Alex Holder, a British documentary filmmaker who had extensive access to Donald Trump and his family ahead of and after the 2020 election, is testifying this morning behind closed doors to the January 6 Committee, the New York Times reports.
They let him!
They let him record a criminal fucking conspiracy
re: #149 Dangerman
They let him!
They let him record a criminal fucking conspiracy
Here’s the thing - had Trump succeeded, none of this would have mattered because they’d take the recordings as proof of being there in person at the founding of the fascist US government.
re: #149 Dangerman
How fitting and karmic if arrogance and hubris are their downfall.
Filming their glorious legacy.
Its 10am, we are now minutes, if not seconds, away from Gilead. Blessed be the fruit.
First opinion today.
Today’s first decision involves a dispute over Medicare payments for hospitals. SCOTUS sides with the Department of Health & Human Services and rejects a lawsuit from safety-net hospitals that challenged a provision of the department’s complex Medicare reimbursement formula.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 24, 2022
re: #149 Dangerman
They let him!
They let him record a criminal fucking conspiracy
They really thought they’d succeed.
Today’s a good reminder that there’s been no progress on who leaked the Roe draft opinion. Weird how that happened. It’s as though no one cares one of the justices released it by and through staff or their spouse.
All the talk about that justice being forced to resign from the Court is also silent - because the GOP knows damned well that it was likely Thomas, and they need Thomas to end Roe and a whole load of other rights that right wingers want to dismantle.
re: #119 Dangerman
the problem with all these breathtaking….takes, is, while yes, relatively it is ‘the most significant in decades’ in absolute terms of something significant and constructive, it’s nearly totally worthless
This argument was made for the infrastructure bill and the ACA.
I totally get it, it’s not any major change in anything. But it’s a change. It just signaled that gun laws can be passed. And Republicans know it as well, which is why people like Greitens (?sp) decided they could threaten other Republicans.
I’m sure Shannon Watts and BrooklynDadDefiant know that this isn’t going to change a whole lot in absolute terms. But it’s passage is a milestone. How many school massacres couldn’t get any bill through?
We can either argue that it’s an ineffective bill, or we can argue that we can do something about our gun problem. Remember what running away from the ACA did to Republicans?
re: #158 Belafon
This latest gun bill is a step forward, but likely to be undone by the same SCOTUS that will take up the law the moment it is signed into law as someone will question the constitutionality of restricting right to bear arms.
The core problem at this point isn’t Democrats’ willingness to pass laws that help improve health and safety for all Americans, but the GOP obstructionism is backstopped by a right wing extremist SCOTUS.
re: #158 Belafon
This argument was made for the infrastructure bill and the ACA.
I totally get it, it’s not any major change in anything. But it’s a change. It just signaled that gun laws can be passed. And Republicans know it as well, which is why people like Greitens (?sp) decided they could threaten other Republicans.
I’m sure Shannon Watts and BrooklynDadDefiant know that this isn’t going to change a whole lot in absolute terms. But it’s passage is a milestone. How many school massacres couldn’t get any bill through?
We can either argue that it’s an ineffective bill, or we can argue that we can do something about our gun problem. Remember what running away from the ACA did to Republicans?
Its something, and that’s better than nothing, IMO. Just getting Republicans to vote for billions in funding for mental health treatment, even if its only because they are trying to blame anything other than guns for gun homicides, is good in and of itself. This country desperately needs more mental health treatment.
Democrats are going to have to run on fixing this Supreme Court and fixing their decisions.
And there it is. Under his eye.
BREAKING: THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V WADE
— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) June 24, 2022
re: #149 Dangerman
They let him!
They let him record a criminal fucking conspiracy
That’s one of Trumps biggest vulnerabilities IMO. The asshole loves being on camera. And while he’s on camera, he’s prone to say just about anything. He has no filter.
I am seeing banners that say supreme court overturns roe v wade, has the decision come down?
re: #162 No Malarkey!
And there it is. Under his eye.
THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.https://t.co/ZNYRs3QnpJ
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 24, 2022
re: #162 No Malarkey!
So does this mean abortion is now illegal in about half the fucking country. Just like that?
It is done.
And here it is. Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health
Roe and Casey have been overruledhttps://t.co/RMCA7WUkjQ— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) June 24, 2022
Settled Law in America
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
So does this mean abortion is now illegal in about half the fucking country. Just like that?
Yes it does. Any abortion provider in trigger law states must stop performing abortions immediately to avoid criminal prosecution.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
So does this mean abortion is now illegal in about half the fucking country. Just like that?
That’s exactly what it means. State laws that outlawed abortion that were previously suspended due to Roe/Casey are back in effect.
State laws that would take effect on the overturn of Roe are now in effect.
They’ve just criminalized abortion. This is an unprecedented assault on women’s rights, health care, and reproductive rights. It’s as extreme as it gets.
a snippage of the opinion:
8 DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Syllabus
“strong presumption of validity.” Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 319. It
must be sustained if there is a rational basis on which the legislature
could have thought that it would serve legitimate state interests. Id.,
at 320.
Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act is supported by the Mississippi
Legislature’s specific findings, which include the State’s asserted in-
terest in “protecting the life of the unborn.” §2(b)(i). These legitimate
interests provide a rational basis for the Gestational Age Act, and it
follows that respondents’ constitutional challenge must fail. Pp. 76-
78.
(e) Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution
does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohib-
iting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court
overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and
their elected representatives. Pp. 78-79.
945 F. 3d 265, reversed and remanded.
ALITO , J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS , G OR-
SUCH, KAVANAUGH, and BARRETT , JJ., joined. THOMAS , J., and KA-
VANAUGH, J., filed concurring opinions. ROBERTS , C. J., filed an opinion
concurring in the judgment. BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., filed
a dissenting opinion.
I may stay off social media this weekend. The RWNJs are going to be INSUFFERABLE (even more so than usual).
Well, shit. Knew it was coming. But reality bites.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
I may stay off social media this weekend. The RWNJs are going to be INSUFFERABLE (even more so than usual).
Yep. They are clogging up SCOTUSblog twitter right now. It’s sick.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
I may stay off social media this weekend. The RWNJs are going to be INSUFFERABLE (even more so than usual).
A number of people on facebook who opposed abortion in general still wanted a rape or incest provision. Gonna have to see what they say now.
re: #173 austin_blue
Well, shit. Knew it was coming. But reality bites.
This is just the first step: they will work on making it impossible to access abortions anywhere in the USA.
I wonder why he didn’t mention reconsidering Loving? /
In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas says the court should reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage. pic.twitter.com/zcQNko6NVR
— Matt Ford (@fordm) June 24, 2022
re: #175 Belafon
A number of people on facebook who opposed abortion in general still wanted a rape or incest provision. Gonna have to see what they say now.
Either you treasure and respect the sanctity of all unborn life or you are a baby killer.
Choose your side.
Thomas has laid the groundwork for overturning a whole raft of substantive due process cases, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
This opinion is as extreme as the draft opinion.
This is why the GOP has gone silent on prosecuting the leaker. It was likely Thomas or Alito.
Well, looks like the dog finally caught the car. What next? Oh, wait, looks like Thomas has already laid it out: The next target is LGBTQ rights.
re: #180 Dopamine Fish
Well, looks like the dog finally caught the car. What next? Oh, wait, looks like Thomas has already laid it out: The next target is LGBTQ rights.
I predict that before the end of the year, a red state will pass a test law to ban same sex marriage.
Trump/McConnell has criminalized women’s right to access to health care and reproductive care in particular. This court packed with right wing extremists is going to roll back decades of progress, and Thomas and Alito are going to drive the nation into a dystopian future where white guys get to rape women and force women to carry to term, and get away with it.
This isn’t pro life. It’s a forced birth extremism, and the next step will be for suits against states that protect the right to abortion by claiming that life is sacred regardless and overrule state’s rights.
This decision is predictably as extreme as it gets and ignores jurisprudence and stare decisis. Same as yesterday’s decision on firearms and concealed carry.
re: #158 Belafon
This argument was made for the infrastructure bill and the ACA.
I totally get it, it’s not any major change in anything. But it’s a change. It just signaled that gun laws can be passed. And Republicans know it as well, which is why people like Greitens (?sp) decided they could threaten other Republicans.
I’m sure Shannon Watts and BrooklynDadDefiant know that this isn’t going to change a whole lot in absolute terms. But it’s passage is a milestone. How many school massacres couldn’t get any bill through?
We can either argue that it’s an ineffective bill, or we can argue that we can do something about our gun problem. Remember what running away from the ACA did to Republicans?
i do agree
but if they keep hyping only the “significance” part (without explaining what is and isnt ‘significant’ about it), then there might be less motivation to revisit it
re: #181 No Malarkey!
I predict that before the end of the year, a red state will pass a test law to ban same sex marriage.
Not even. We’re going back to the days of sodomy laws, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the whole works.
If you know anyone who needs the help, aidaccess.org provides help to purchase mail order abortion drugs which will be filled by overseas pharmacies and mailed to states where abortion is now illegal.
re: #180 Dopamine Fish
Well, looks like the dog finally caught the car. What next? Oh, wait, looks like Thomas has already laid it out: The next target is
LGBTQ rightsall the gains we have made over the past 75 years in personal freedoms, women’s, LGBTQ and minority rights, leading to the establishment of a Christian Fundamentalist theocracy in America..
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I said “next target”. They’ve clearly got a long row set up to fire upon, I’m just looking at the immediate future and who is going to get fucked over next.
re: #186 No Malarkey!
If you know anyone who needs the help, aidaccess.org provides help to purchase mail order abortion drugs which will be filled by overseas pharmacies and mailed to states where abortion is now illegal.
10 weeks go by so fast. The pills should be used before 10 weeks.
So where are all the right wingers with their guns who go on and on about the need for them when the government takes rights away? Yeah. Thought so.
in the opinion, this part really ticks me off:
(e) Abortion presents a profound moral question.
activist judges blatantly legislating morals from the bench, and proud of it
*SPIT*
Well, today as predicted officially marks the end of the judicial precedent as a concept of the US legal system and the new order of Judicial edict under a corrupted Republican manufactured SCOTUS is now in full effect.
We are no longer any sort of real democracy. We are now fully a Hybrid Regime - defined as a developing autocracy using the trappings of democracy as cover. We are a broken democracy and with Republicans positioning partisans in key electoral counting positions and election poll policing/thugs we are set for full autocracy starting in 2025.
general strikes, underground railroads, US Military firing on US citizens, etc. this is not the 1800’s…, this is going to happen again now .
re: #189 Dopamine Fish
I said “next target”. They’ve clearly got a long row set up to fire upon, I’m just looking at the immediate future and who is going to get fucked over next.
True, LGBTQs are an easy target and they are clearly lined up in the Fundamentalists’ sights as we speak. But the ultimate goal is American Talibanism.
My heart breaks for all the women that are going to get fucked over (and in some cases killed) as a result of this ruling.
re: #11 mmmirele
Well, apparently my name and visage has spread among the
John MacArthur cultoops, the Grace Community Church attendees. Way to prove that I got to you all. :)[Embedded content]
Grace Community Church is running a “Puritan Conference” in early October (even if the stupid background at puritanconference dot org has a picture of Martin Luther and some modern dude in suit & tie as “Puritans”). It looks like a cash cow: $299/head. I think I’m going to dress up as Mary Dyer, one of the Quaker Martyrs who was executed by the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony leadership. You can read more about her here: en.wikipedia.org
WAY TO GO!
BREAKING: Clarence Thomas just filed a concurring opinion to Dobbs calling for the court to consider overturning the right to contraception, same-sex marriage, and privacy in the bedroom.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 24, 2022
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
True, LGBTQs are an easy target and they are clearly lined up in the Fundamentalists’ sights as we speak. But the ultimate goal is American Talibanism.
As someone said, just call it Christian Nationalism. There’s no reason to call it anything else.
re: #193 Florida Panhandler
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We are no longer any sort of real democracy. We are now fully a Hybrid Regime - defined as a developing autocracy using the trappings of democracy as cover. We are a broken democracy and with Republicans positioning partisans in key electoral counting positions and election poll policing/thugs we are set for full autocracy starting in 2025.
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So, I live in a state with a trigger law. That means abortion is illegal here again.
Now, I face the decision of whether or not to to step up and do what I can to help women in this state get the care they need, knowing there will be legal risks to myself in doing so.
Fuck…
Two paths diverged in the woods, and America took the Psychopath.
We still need to #MakeLyingWrongAgain pic.twitter.com/3mM8Lq2DP6— John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 (@JohnRMoffitt) June 23, 2022
re: #199 Belafon
As someone said, just call it Christian Nationalism. There’s no reason to call it anything else.
Nationalist Christians. Nat-Cs for short.
Fuck them all. And an extra special fuck you to Susan Collins.
Susan Collins, call your office. https://t.co/8KHdPJ5zgX pic.twitter.com/qR6on5bKt4
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 24, 2022
Now we push for national laws codifying all of these.
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
So, I live in a state with a trigger law. That means abortion is illegal here again.
Now, I face the decision of whether or not to to step up and do what I can to help women in this state get the care they need, knowing there will be legal risks to myself in doing so.
Fuck…
I live in a state where abortion is legal for now. I want to help women but need to figure out how. I’ve got time and no fucks left to give but no money. I see all kinds of places to donate but need to find out where boots on the ground can help.
re: #203 Crush White Nationalism
They already call themselves “National Conservatives”
re: #204 Teddy’s Person
Fuck them all. And an extra special fuck you to Susan Collins.
I’m sure she’s appropriately concerned about this ruling.
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re: #190 wrenchwench
10 weeks go by so fast. The pills should be used before 10 weeks.
Its an imperfect solution to a massive problem.
re: #207 Belafon
Now we push for national laws codifying all of these.
Won’t happen until we get Manchin and Sinema out of the fucking way.
JUST IN: American confidence in Supreme Court sinks to lowest level ever recorded by Gallup https://t.co/oNLapHJdW9 pic.twitter.com/bzDKQzr7lW
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) June 23, 2022
My apologies. Should have said ‘Give it a day.’
— That Guy Angelo (@angelozanola) June 24, 2022
From the dissent:
“As of today, this Court holds, a State can always force a woman to give birth, prohibiting even the earliest abortions. A State can thus transform what, when freely undertaken, is a wonder into what, when forced, may be a nightmare. “— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 24, 2022
Good morning, unless you’re a woman of child bearing age, in which case I say I’m sorry for SCOTUS.
I proudly voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act in the House, only to watch it die in the Senate. It’s clear the Senate is not working and women will pay the price unless we act.
Make a donation to help us defeat my anti-choice opponent, JD Vance:https://t.co/tHhTTqjtju— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) June 24, 2022
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
So, I live in a state with a trigger law. That means abortion is illegal here again.
Now, I face the decision of whether or not to to step up and do what I can to help women in this state get the care they need, knowing there will be legal risks to myself in doing so.
Fuck…
Here in Kentucky, all abortion is now illegal from the moment of conception effective immediately, unless the woman is dying. No exception for rape or incest.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
Won’t happen until we get Manchin and Sinema out of the fucking way.
Which will be part of the push. It all depends on this November.
re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Theocratic fascists have made their move, and their culture is incompatible with our secular state. This was a bomb that was going to go off at some point. You can’t brainwash the children of theocratic right-wing authoritarians for decades and expect positive results.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2022
Pelosi: “While Republicans seek to punish and control women, Democrats will keep fighting ferociously to enshrine Roe v Wade into law… But make no mistake: the rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November.”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 24, 2022
re: #212 No Malarkey!
Its an imperfect solution to a massive problem.
Over-the-counter in civilized countries, like Mexico.
re: #219 Belafon
Which will be part of the push. It all depends on this November.
And I tell you, if THIS doesn’t get people out to vote blue, I’m not sure what will.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
Won’t happen until we get Manchin and Sinema out of the fucking way.
Which requires electing more Democrats. If the closure of all of the abortion clinics in half the country doesn’t drive people to the polls to stop fascism, I don’t know what will.
I almost want to find a Republican state and urge them to pass a bill overturning Loving just to have something directed at Thomas.
re: #218 No Malarkey!
Here in Kentucky, all abortion is now illegal from the moment of conception effective immediately, unless the woman is dying. No exception for rape or incest.
Same situation in my state.
Republicans will spend a day talking about Roe, and then pivot to drag queens because they know Roe was popular.
re: #220 Crush White Nationalism
Keep in mind that these people still represent a minority of Americans, but our electoral and representative system favors the Republican Party to such an extent that they have been given the ability to impose their will against a majority.
re: #204 Teddy’s Person
Fuck them all. And an extra special fuck you to Susan Collins.
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Susan Collins, call your office. https://t.co/8KHdPJ5zgX pic.twitter.com/qR6on5bKt4
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 24, 2022
wrongly decided
so the 7-2 scotus in 1973 were a bunch of know nothing hacks
and it’s a good thing you came along to straighten them out?
tell me brett
was plessy ‘wrongly decided’?
brown?
maybe dred scott?
Democrats should end the filibuster and move immediately to expand SCOTUS and all the federal courts and end lifetime appointments. Expand to equal number of circuits and justices rotate from the circuits.
Your life will depend on it.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) June 24, 2022
I fully expect the pussy police to be totally more aggressive toward violence to these protesters than the white trumphumpers on January 6th
re: #228 Belafon
Republicans will spend a day talking about Roe, and then pivot to drag queens because they know Roe was popular.
“Why talk about it? It’s (re-)settled law!”
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
And I tell you, if THIS doesn’t get people out to vote blue, I’m not sure what will.
You beat me by eight seconds. GMTA.
Fuck the US Supreme Court.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) June 24, 2022
re: #230 Dangerman
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wrongly decided
so the 7-2 scotus in 1973 were a bunch of know nothing hacks
and it’s a good thing you came along to straighten them out?tell me brett
was plessy ‘wrongly decided’?
brown?
maybe dred scott?
Yes No, bring back seperate but equal
Yes and
Yes
Wait until Gorsuch gets his freak on and they bring back Lochner to overturn employment protections and get rid of unions.
Right wing propagandists are tweeting about “Night of Rage” trying to induce violence by calling on anti-choice folks to prepare for attacks on Catholic churches and those pro-birthing places when there’s no such thing as a Night of Rage.
re: #228 Belafon
Republicans will spend a day talking about Roe, and then pivot to drag queens because they know Roe was popular.
They can try, but the realities of this decision will last MUCH longer than a day. Wait until we start seeing stories about the arrests of doctors and pregnant women and the coat hanger abortions.
The same people who were RTing this bozo are now mad Roe v. Wade was just overturned.
*leans into the mic* We tried to tell y’all how important this shit is. pic.twitter.com/CZJOjQzSdB— Dylan Park (@dyllyp) June 24, 2022
Hillary was 100% right; the SCOTUS and future of civil, voting, and women’s rights was on the chopping block if Trump and McConnell got their way. And they did.
Now, Roe is done. And all the other substantive due process cases are likewise on the chopping block with Alito and Thomas providing the guidelines for how to end all those civil, voting, and women’s rights.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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Western good morning!
They’re everywhere this season — maybe more drought tolerant than their neighbors?
Sex education needs to start in 3rd grade so girls can learn how to stay unpregnant. Girls need to know that when any man makes them feel uncomfortable, the girl can tell the man or boy to move away and leave them alone.
re: #239 Belafon
Be specific about “they.”
Manchin and Sinema. They’ll keep the filibuster knowing full well that it means that SCOTUS will continue to roll back decades of progress.
re: #243 wrenchwench
Sex education needs to start in 3rd grade so girls can learn how to stay unpregnant. Girls need to know that when any man makes them feel uncomfortable, the girl can tell the man or boy to move away and leave them alone.
Second grade. First grade.
re: #243 wrenchwench
Sex education needs to start in 3rd grade so girls can learn how to stay unpregnant. Girls need to know that when any man makes them feel uncomfortable, the girl can tell the man or boy to move away and leave them alone.
The RW answer is to treat women like property: teach girls to recognize when their father’s/husband’s property rights are being unduly threatened by anyone’s advances, whereupon they have the right to use 2A solutions to enforce those rights.
Just donated to Planned Parenthood again. Because women need all the help they can get, and because Susan Collins isn’t going to jack or shit to help millions of women doomed to be forced to carry to term by the radical extremists she voted to empanel on SCOTUS and fed courts.
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) June 24, 2022
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Hope you’re happy, Jill Stein voters!
1. Guess what happens when you hope to burn it all down? People die.
2. I’m not going to waste any energy yelling at these people. It’s better used on fixing this.
re: #243 wrenchwench
Sex education needs to start in 3rd grade so girls can learn how to stay unpregnant.
South Park did an episode about such years ago.
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Hope you’re happy, Jill Stein voters!
Heighten the contradictions. The first step to achieving socialist utopia is to first have a fascist dictatorship.
Most Americans believe the decision to have a child is one of the most sacred decisions there is, and that such decisions should remain between patients and their doctors.
Today’s Supreme Court opinion will live in infamy as a step backward for women’s rights and human rights.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 24, 2022
re: #252 No Malarkey!
Heighten the contradictions. The first step to achieving socialist utopia is to first have a fascist dictatorship.
The darkness before the dawn?
Susan Sarandon assured me it was more important to wish for unicorns.
In the Handmaid’s Tale the infertile/past child bearing years sevant women were called Marthas. I propose we call them Susans in the New Gilead.
The ban we need is on Republican Fascism and Theocracy. pic.twitter.com/ZOOjbj6CAa
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 24, 2022
re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The RW answer is to treat women like property: teach girls to recognize when their father’s/husband’s property rights are being unduly threatened by anyone’s advances, whereupon they have the right to use 2A solutions to enforce those rights.
The human answer is to make girls aware that they have the right to say no, especially when it’s their father or other man in their house. It must be taught in school, because it won’t be taught at home.
I’m so fucking angry right now.
That’s it.
That’s the comment.
re: #238 Barefoot Grin
Right wing propagandists are tweeting about “Night of Rage” trying to induce violence by calling on anti-choice folks to prepare for attacks on Catholic churches and those pro-birthing places when there’s no such thing as a Night of Rage.
Yep, they’ll be out in droves in their grotesque parody uniforms waving their popguns against a non-existent Mau-Mau abortion horde. With any luck they will end up shooting at each other. Some clever person might in fact find a way to induce this.
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
South Park did an episode about such years ago.
Play the tape in second grade.
re: #257 DodgerFan1988
This is what Democrats everywhere should run on in November. A vote for Republicans is a vote for a nationwide abortion ban.
For starters, what about making big noise about recommending females stay away from states which have outlawed abortion, akin to state dept advisories, and warning foreigners that the US justice system has to be seen as compromised?
Like, for the latter, bring up that corrupt judge and pals in TX that still do patent trolling, and other abuses of the system?
re: #264 Teukka
The problem is the women that will be most affected by this decision are those that do not have the means to easily move to or travel to another state. Women with enough money will just go somewhere the procedure is still legal.
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is the women that will be most affected by this decision are those that do not have the means to easily move to or travel to another state. Women with enough money will just go somewhere the procedure is still legal.
I meant as in doing above internationally.
aidaccess.org got knocked offline due to the traffic. I hope.
This Supreme Court needs to be aborted
— Amanda Wyss (@_AmandaWyss) June 24, 2022
this was done by republicans. not “maga” republicans. not “ultra maga” republicans. just republicans. theyre the problem, and until we finally act like they’re the problem, everything is going to get worse.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 24, 2022
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is the women that will be most affected by this decision are those that do not have the means to easily move to or travel to another state. Women with enough money will just go somewhere the procedure is still legal.
Yes. As always, the poor are hit hardest. If you’re under 18, you’re poor. You don’t need a driver’s license to get pregnant.
re: #267 GlutenFreeJesus
aidaccess.org got knocked offline due to the traffic. I hope.
Their traffic is going to expand exponentially now that the need for it has vastly increased. They are going to need to expand their capacity by orders of magnitude.
Just an idea, but making noise in stores which carry coat hangers, saying they’re banned, but that the law was so poorly written it covers all coat hangers and not just the steel wire ones…
It’s official, you have more rights in the US as a gun, literally an inanimate object, than you do as a woman.
We will also need a big expansion in the capacity of blue state abortion clinics with all the additional traffic that is going to be headed their way.
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is the women that will be most affected by this decision are those that do not have the means to easily move to or travel to another state. Women with enough money will just go somewhere the procedure is still legal.
But the Texas state laws are drafted to allow it to apply to women who leave the state to seek an abortion.
re: #273 Teukka
Just an idea, but making noise in stores which carry coat hangers, saying they’re banned, but that the law was so poorly written it covers all coat hangers and not just the steel wire ones…
re: #274 Teukka
It’s official, you have more rights in the US as a gun, literally an inanimate object, than you do as a woman.
It’s official, you have more rights in the US as a gun, literally an inanimate object, than you do as a woman.
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) June 24, 2022
re: #275 Barefoot Grin
Time to buy stocks in orphanages.
One of Alito’s goals was to expand the domestic supply of orphans, because to him women are breeding livestock for the state.
re: #275 Barefoot Grin
Time to buy stocks in orphanages.
Yes. Most women who seek abortions already have children.
@SenSusanCollins You did this. pic.twitter.com/rcG1hscTWx
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2022
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But the Texas state laws are drafted to allow it to apply to women who leave the state to seek an abortion.
Which will make for an interesting court case. Does a state own its citizens? Can I go gamble in Nevada if gambling is illegal in my state?
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But the Texas state laws are drafted to allow it to apply to women who leave the state to seek an abortion.
And the Texas AG, Ken Fucking Paxton, just let all AG Office employees leave at noon today to celebrate the ruling and says each June 24th will forever be a State Holiday for the AG’s employees.
I thought it was a parody site. It isn’t.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But the Texas state laws are drafted to allow it to apply to women who leave the state to seek an abortion.
Something we will soon see just happened in Brazil: a judge put a pregnant eleven year old rape victim in jail to make sure she can’t get an abortion.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But the Texas state laws are drafted to allow it to apply to women who leave the state to seek an abortion.
Yep. And other red states are headed in that direction. Where I am in the Deep South, the closest blue state (using the 2020 election map as a reference) is Virginia and that’s an over 12 hour drive away. This would mean any woman from here who wanted to get an abortion is looking at a travel commitment of at least four days unless they can afford to fly.
re: #284 No Malarkey!
Something we will soon see just happened in Brazil: a judge put a pregnant eleven year old rape victim in jail to make sure she can’t get an abortion.
Or what almost happened to that American lady in Malta earlier this week.
The timing of J6 Hearings and Roe V Wade getting overturned is striking. As if we’re at the banks of the Handmaid’s Tale Rubicon.
re: #278 Teukka
Money and corporations also have more rights than women. Women have no rights that a white man is bound to respect. This is the tragic result of the failure to ratify the ERA.
re: #282 calochortus
Which will make for an interesting court case. Does a state own its citizens? Can I go gamble in Nevada if gambling is illegal in my state?
they don’t care about gambling, they want to ban abortions. and by TX law, leaving the state to obtain one is illegal in itself and anyone who aids her in any way to leave the the state can be charged with aiding and abetting.
re: #264 Teukka
For starters, what about making big noise about recommending females stay away from states which have outlawed abortion, akin to state dept advisories, and warning foreigners that the US justice system has to be seen as compromised?
Like, for the latter, bring up that corrupt judge and pals in TX that still do patent trolling, and other abuses of the system?
let pregnant tourists know that some states are now the same as Malta
re: #284 No Malarkey!
Something we will soon see just happened in Brazil: a judge put a pregnant eleven year old rape victim in jail to make sure she can’t get an abortion.
Every pregnancy is an impending threat of injury. That judge should be in jail.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade
It is unjust. It is wrong. And I’m going to fight it with everything I’ve got.
Send me to the U.S. Senate, and I’d *proudly* vote to codify Roe v. Wade into law.— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) June 24, 2022
This will also affect army recruitment: women are not going to want to be stationed in states where they cannot obtain an abortion. (and we all know that our soldiers are natural-born baby-killers…)
re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they don’t care about gambling, they want to ban abortions. and by TX law, leaving the state to obtain one is illegal in itself and anyone who aids her in any way to leave the the state can be charged with aiding and abetting.
I know they don’t care about gambling, but it seems to me it is pretty much the same. Can you leave a state to do something that is illegal in your state but legal in another and does the state have the right to restrict your travel across state borders? IANAL but I suspect not.
re: #282 calochortus
Which will make for an interesting court case. Does a state own its citizens? Can I go gamble in Nevada if gambling is illegal in my state?
while we all know the answer to this, the problem is thinking that it matters to them
they’re making these decisions backwards
they choose the result they want
and then fish around for ‘justification’
it doesnt have to be consistent or unhypocritical or…anything
as has been said, calvinball law
so if they want to make it so, they’ll make it so
re: #289 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they don’t care about gambling, they want to ban abortions. and by TX law, leaving the state to obtain one is illegal in itself and anyone who aids her in any way to leave the the state can be charged with aiding and abetting.
To be clear, they can be sued by anyone for up to $10k in damages; it isn’t a criminal offense, yet.
re: #283 austin_blue
And the Texas AG, Ken Fucking Paxton, just let all AG Office employees leave at noon today to celebrate the ruling and says each June 24th will forever be a State Holiday for the AG’s employees.
I thought it was a parody site. It isn’t.
happy birthday to me…
re: #295 Dangerman
while we all know the answer to this, the problem is thinking that it matters to them
they’re making these decisions backwards
they choose the result they want
and then fish around for ‘justification’it doesnt have to be consistent or unhypocritical or…anything
as has been said, calvinball law
so if they want to make it so, they’ll make it so
I think that will be quite a stretch. Not all judges are ultra-conservative and/or corrupt.
re: #288 No Malarkey!
Money and corporations also have more rights than women. Women have no rights that a white man is bound to respect. This is the tragic result of the failure to ratify the ERA.
Corpses, too.
They can’t take organs from the dead, even if somebody really really needs it. If the corpse didn’t pre-authorize organ donation before dying, their parts are off-limits.
re: #298 calochortus
I think that will be quite a stretch. Not all judges are ultra-conservative and/or corrupt.
But enough are that the Christian Facists can game the system.
re: #296 No Malarkey!
To be clear, they can be sued by anyone for up to $10k in damages; it isn’t a criminal offense, yet.
whatever it takes to make abortions (legally) unobtainable anywhere
re: #298 calochortus
I think that will be quite a stretch. Not all judges are ultra-conservative and/or corrupt.
i was referring mostly of the current 6 on the scotus
down the chain, no
but when it inevitable gets to the top, because someone will push it, we’re right back here again
re: #283 austin_blue
And the Texas AG, Ken Fucking Paxton, just let all AG Office employees leave at noon today to celebrate the ruling and says each June 24th will forever be a State Holiday for the AG’s employees.
I thought it was a parody site. It isn’t.
“Further,” added Attorney General Paxton, “we cannot forget the extraordinary violence that Roe and Casey unleashed on our nation. Because of those decisions, almost 70 million babies have been killed in the womb. And so, today at noon, I am closing all my offices as a memorial to these babies. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of them. Never again should something like this happen in America.”
re: #294 calochortus
I know they don’t care about gambling, but it seems to me it is pretty much the same. Can you leave a state to do something that is illegal in your state but legal in another and does the state have the right to restrict your travel across state borders? IANAL but I suspect not.
I expect that the criminal offense of “trafficking” women across state lines for the purpose of performing an abortion on her will eventually be upheld by this court. In the meantime, states like Texas will allow people to sue those who aid or abet women in obtaining legal out-of-state abortions for damages.
re: #182 lawhawk
Trump/McConnell has criminalized women’s right to access to health care and reproductive care in particular. This court packed with right wing extremists is going to roll back decades of progress, and Thomas and Alito are going to drive the nation into a dystopian future where white guys get to rape women and force women to carry to term, and get away with it.
This isn’t pro life. It’s a forced birth extremism, and the next step will be for suits against states that protect the right to abortion by claiming that life is sacred regardless and overrule state’s rights.
This decision is predictably as extreme as it gets and ignores jurisprudence and stare decisis. Same as yesterday’s decision on firearms and concealed carry.
And this court has made clear that to them “settled law” does not exist.
re: #305 No Malarkey!
I expect that the criminal offense of “trafficking” women across state lines for the purpose of performing an abortion on her will eventually be upheld by this court. In the meantime, states like Texas will allow people to sue those who aid or abet women in obtaining legal out-of-state abortions for damages.
The other approach will be to allow persons or bodies to “sue” the mother (and her accomplices) in the name of the unborn child for “damages”.
Citizenship begins at birth!
The Unsettlers of Catan!
Fugitive slave law is making a comeback… in the form of fugitive abortion seeker law.
Women are second class citizens thanks to the GOP packed right wing extremist bench and SCOTUS packed with activist right wing hacks.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) June 24, 2022
re: #307 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And this court has made clear that to them “settled law” does not exist.
stare decisis
settled law
precedent
instead now we have historical basis nonsense made up out of whole cloth
balls and strikes my liver-spotted ass
(actually it really isnt liver spotted)
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Hope you’re happy,
Jill SteinRalph Nader voters!
That would be responsible for Roberts and Alito.
All this shit goes way back - who appointed the crank Thomas?
Who decided crap like Citizens United? (Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Alito; Thomas)
To be fair, under Roberts guidance, the Supreme Court has deteriorated to the make shit up phase.
Shelby County vs Holder - racism doesn’t exist anymore!
Gun Nuts vs Bruen - the second amendment is about using guns for self defense
re: #310 Crush White Nationalism
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not just this decision
any precedent is fair game now according to this in(s)ane logic
re: #311 lawhawk
We all have coworkers who are celebrating this attack. People I no longer want anything to do with at all.
re: #310 Crush White Nationalism
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Hey, Manchin, no Republicans are going to support this. Those Republicans are gone.
re: #316 Belafon
Hey, Manchin, no Republicans are going to support this. Those Republicans are gone.
He never meant that, he was just trying to rationalize why people should still consider him a Democrat.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
True, LGBTQs are an easy target and they are clearly lined up in the Fundamentalists’ sights as we speak. But the ultimate goal is American Talibanism.
All rulings in regards to Civil Rights are in the crosshairs, most notably any regarding Gay Marriage/Rights, Brown vs. Bd of Edu, and citizenship cases like US vs. Wong Kim. This SCOTUS will also redefine what a “Natural Born Citizen” is by writ just as they wrote “well-regulated militia” out of the Constitution.
If you are anything other than a lily-white male landowner,- watch out. Those Blacks, Cubans, Latinos, Asians, even Catholics and other individuals who have had a great time playing the social calculus political game and backing Republicans or Conservative causes for whatever reason- it’s not going to work out for you. You will be next.
This is the worst Constitutional Crisis in our nation’s history.
Nationalist Christians
Nat Cees
Nice ring to it.
Sam Alito, Beer Kanvanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett are the Opus Dei trio.
I found a PNW org (Northwest Abortion Access Fund) and filled out a volunteer application.
re: #318 Florida Panhandler
This is the worst Constitutional Crisis in our nation’s history.
Historians will note September 10, 2001 as the day that America peaked as a nation.
June 24, 2022 will be noted as the day it began its decline.
re: #312 Dangerman
stare decisis
settled law
precedent
instead now we have historical basis nonsense made up out of whole clothballs and strikes my liver-spotted ass
(actually it really isnt liver spotted)
We weren’t going to check.
re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Historians will note September 10, 2001 as the day that America peaked as a nation.
June 24, 2022 will be noted as the day it began its decline.
I would say we peaked on Dec 11, 2000.
re: #313 BlueSpotinAL
That would be responsible for Roberts and Alito.
All this shit goes way back - who appointed the crank Thomas?
Who decided crap like Citizens United? (Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Alito; Thomas)To be fair, under Roberts guidance, the Supreme Court has deteriorated to the make shit up phase.
Shelby County vs Holder - racism doesn’t exist anymore!
Gun Nuts vs Bruen - the second amendment is about using guns for self defense
I was just thinking about 2004, and arguing with people about how important the Supreme Court would be following that election. (I also remember crying my eyes out on election night, seeing the beginning of the end.)
And who did we get during Shrub’s second term? Roberts and Alito, who sucked on their own and paved the way for the current crop of freaks.
re: #313 BlueSpotinAL
That would be responsible for Roberts and Alito.
All this shit goes way back - who appointed the crank Thomas?
Who decided crap like Citizens United? (Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Alito; Thomas)
Thomas was appointed by someone who actually won both the popular vote and electoral college (GHWB).
re: #323 Teddy’s Person
I would say we peaked on Dec 11, 2000.
Refresh my memory on that date please 😁
re: #325 lawhawk
Post shingles neuralgia sucks.
That’s the post.
I have not come down with it this summer (so far) but had it bad two of the past three years
re: #327 EstebanTornado1963
Refresh my memory on that date please 😁
Supreme Court decision on 2000 election?
The only real way to fix this is to put Abortion #1 on the upcoming elections and ride it into the ground. Democrats have had a difficult time making important policy issues stick in the minds of voters in this Fox News-defined noise environment the past 25 years but this one will stick hard.
Any Democratic win in 2024 with a Democratic Congress should Day 1 pack the Court. day Fucking 1. Pack the Court and immediately reverse all abhorrent decisions made by this freak show of a SCOTUS.
Essentially, civil rights are dead. Thomas laid out the game, this is the poison pill to dismantle every single civil rights gain in the past century. And they’re going to do it in record time because nothing fucking matters and the Supreme Court is untouchable. And for anyone suggesting “packing the courts”, I very much ask “how” with the current set-up of Congress.
And for those hoping this pushes turnouts for Dems, I sincerely hope so. My twitter timeline is full of folks braying the opposite, using this as excuse to never vote for Dems again because once again, they alone are responsible for this and the GOP never has any agency. Dems did this through ‘lack of will’ and the only solution is to never vote Dem again or some goddamn shit, I don’t even fucking know anymore.
re: #329 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Supreme Court decision on 2000 election?
Morning coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, but that’s right, Wikipedia says Dec 12th it was decided.
It doesn’t say so explicitly, but I wonder if Garland’s statement means that servicewomen can still get reproductive care in red states from federal employees working in federal facilities?
Full Merrick Garland statement: pic.twitter.com/6JyuBAHhX9
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 24, 2022
re: #331 Florida Panhandler
The only real way to fix this is to put Abortion #1 on the upcoming elections and ride it into the ground. Democrats have had a difficult time making important policy issues stick in the minds of voters in this Fox News-defined noise environment the past 25 years but this one will stick hard.
Any Democratic win in 2024 with a Democratic Congress should Day 1 pack the Court. day Fucking 1. Pack the Court and immediately reverse all abhorrent decisions made by this freak show of a SCOTUS.
Republicans will have a difficult time trying to distract voters from the actual closure of all abortion clinics in half the states with drag queens.
re: #334 No Malarkey!
It doesn’t say so explicitly, but I wonder if Garland’s statement means that servicewomen can still get reproductive care in red states from federal employees working in federal facilities?
yeah, but then they will bust her the second she steps off the base…
This fuckhead knows who is at fault (the thread will give you a stroke, don’t read it)
Thanks especially to RBG today for making this possible
— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 24, 2022
The Roberts Court is over. It’s Alito’s Court now.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 24, 2022
re: #332 Citizen K
Essentially, civil rights are dead. Thomas laid out the game, this is the poison pill to dismantle every single civil rights gain in the past century. And they’re going to do it in record time because nothing fucking matters and the Supreme Court is untouchable. And for anyone suggesting “packing the courts”, I very much ask “how” with the current set-up of Congress.
And for those hoping this pushes turnouts for Dems, I sincerely hope so. My twitter timeline is full of folks braying the opposite, using this as excuse to never vote for Dems again because once again, they alone are responsible for this and the GOP never has any agency. Dems did this through ‘lack of will’ and the only solution is to never vote Dem again or some goddamn shit, I don’t even fucking know anymore.
Twitter isn’t America. The Democrats can and should drown out those voices with a massive media campaign for the mid-terms.
re: #332 Citizen K
Dems did this through ‘lack of will’ and the only solution is to never vote Dem again or some goddamn shit, I don’t even fucking know anymore.
“Weren’t you the same people who said that the Supreme Court didn’t matter when deciding if you should vote for Hillary?”
re: #339 Teddy’s Person
Roberts does not get a fucking pass.
Roberts isn’t getting a pass, but he doesn’t control this court anymore; Alito does.
re: #337 The Pie Overlord!
This fuckhead knows who is at fault (the thread will give you a stroke, don’t read it)
I do wish she had followed most of the Republicans in retiring when she could have been replaced by a Democratic president.
But this decision is all on Republicans.
Neither would I, since I hadn’t thought they’d make a demagogue President in the first place, but I didn’t realize how depraved Republicans are. The party has betrayed the nation by pandering to the most stupid, most bigoted, most easily-manipulated Americans.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2022
re: #339 Teddy’s Person
Roberts does not get a fucking pass.
I don’t think anybody’s saying he does, but let’s face it: Ultra-conservative douchebro Samuel Alito is the one calling all the shots. Roberts has completely lost control. I mean, he voted with the majority; he’s just as despicable as they are. But he doesn’t deserve the honor of having the court named after him. We should be trashing the Alito Court for the disastrous wrecker of American jurisprudence that it is, and Sam Alito should be denounced as the nakedly partisan hack that he is. He should go down in infamy right alongside Benedict Fucking Arnold, as far as I’m concerned.
re: #331 Florida Panhandler
The only real way to fix this is to put Abortion #1 on the upcoming elections and ride it into the ground. Democrats have had a difficult time making important policy issues stick in the minds of voters in this Fox News-defined noise environment the past 25 years but this one will stick hard.
Any Democratic win in 2024 with a Democratic Congress should Day 1 pack the Court. day Fucking 1. Pack the Court and immediately reverse all abhorrent decisions made by this freak show of a SCOTUS.
And this won’t be a fix and simply a patch since this Supreme Court and the GOP have wrecked all ideas of precedent, settled law, and having a stable legal and legislative structure. From now on, unless there is a very large a very widely accepted agreement by all political groups that the past couple of years are aberrant and will not be repeated the future for the country is simply going to be tit-for-tat and reversals as the current major parties exchange control and court majorities.
Leaving us with a zombie country that will just totter along on inertia until a crisis causes an outright collapse.
Still slightly surprised that “Ahole” isn’t recognized…
Why yes, I WAS thinking about the Supreme Court when I was trying to solve this a few days ago.
The words I have in mind right now wouldn’t fit, and are nowhere near as polite or respectful. pic.twitter.com/pdq0Yvo1Hh— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) June 24, 2022
re: #343 Belafon
I do wish she had followed most of the Republicans in retiring when she could have been replaced by a Democratic president.
But this decision is all on Republicans.
No guarantee with McConnel and Company that even that would have worked out.
On way to the court pic.twitter.com/XrE9ExAzhm
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 24, 2022
re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Historians will note September 10, 2001 as the day that America peaked as a nation.
June 24, 2022 will be noted as the day it began its decline.
I would argue that November 8, 2016 was the beginning of the decline.
re: #331 Florida Panhandler
The only real way to fix this is to put Abortion #1 on the upcoming elections and ride it into the ground. Democrats have had a difficult time making important policy issues stick in the minds of voters in this Fox News-defined noise environment the past 25 years but this one will stick hard.
Any Democratic win in 2024 with a Democratic Congress should Day 1 pack the Court. day Fucking 1. Pack the Court and immediately reverse all abhorrent decisions made by this freak show of a SCOTUS.
Could do it in January of next year if the Dems pick up a few Senate seats in November and keep the house.
re: #340 No Malarkey!
Twitter isn’t America. The Democrats can and should drown out those voices with a massive media campaign for the mid-terms.
My problem is that yes, Twitter isn’t real life. But at this point, neither is the media coverage of things like politics, but both increasingly effect the real world results and consequences to near impenetrability. Look at Biden’s and Dems’ general approval ratings and how tanked they are solely on the basis of “Biden is a super-failure because we said so!” How major twitter accounts are gaining influence with the GOP and real world radicals in a feedback loop of stochastic terrorism.
Yes, Twitter isn’t the real world. But it, like Facebook, can’t have its real world influence understated or it’s to our detriment at this point.
re: #332 Citizen K
Essentially, civil rights are dead. Thomas laid out the game, this is the poison pill to dismantle every single civil rights gain in the past century. And they’re going to do it in record time because nothing fucking matters and the Supreme Court is untouchable. And for anyone suggesting “packing the courts”, I very much ask “how” with the current set-up of Congress.
And for those hoping this pushes turnouts for Dems, I sincerely hope so. My twitter timeline is full of folks braying the opposite, using this as excuse to never vote for Dems again because once again, they alone are responsible for this and the GOP never has any agency. Dems did this through ‘lack of will’ and the only solution is to never vote Dem again or some goddamn shit, I don’t even fucking know anymore.
You Twitter timeline must be filled with bots pushing the ‘stay home’ narrative. People aren’t used to losing rights. This will drive turnout.
re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
yeah, but then they will bust her the second she steps off the base…
Good luck locking up soldiers on BS state charges. That will work out well
re: #326 sagehen
Something happened along the way for a demented soul like Clarence Thomas to actually follow through on his promise to commit himself to the cause of outright racist, entitled Republican assholes. He is a true believer, or at least he thinks he is. More likely he is fueled by an inner rage caught in between the opposing sides of being a black man in America and desire to “truly be American”.
In his wrath, protected by a lifetime cloaked in Justice robes and seclusion from outside opposing views, he has steadily through the years enabled and legally armed forces that would otherwise either wish to deport (“back to Africa”), imprison, or kill him and others who are not lily-white male entitled assholes.
Thomas’ malevolence cannot be understated. Evil does exist. It has existed in the entire Republican Party and it’s voters for a long time now.
In light of Clarence Thomas’s wife’s role in the #TrumpCoupAttempt, the Judiciary Committee should explore the impeachment and removal of Thomas.
If corrupt nutjobs like him and Alito are allowed to remain on the court, the grim reality will be a post-democratic America. https://t.co/ZOjafRbS38— Hal Perry 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@halperry) June 24, 2022
re: #351 Eclectic Cyborg
I would argue that November 8, 2016 was the beginning of the decline.
Bush getting elected in 2000. Turned a massive surplus into a deficit; invaded Iraq needlessly; put Alito and Roberts on the court. So gross, because Gore clearly won FL according to the people’s will, but people were too stupid to correctly mark the butterfly ballots.
Alito was very bitter when women were admitted to Princeton. He’s long been a douchebro.
Remember that the Southern Baptist Convention praised Roe v. Wade when it was first decided. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater was a champion of abortion rights, so much so that one of Planned Parenthood’s major awards was named for him.
What changed? The true Republican base, the local gentry, discovered that they couldn’t make money from abortion after all and, much worse, it empowered the poor by giving poor women a right and an option that the rich had always had. Beyond that, the burgeoning Dominionist theocrat movement needed a wedge issue to replace opposition to civil rights, which they finally recognized was a long term loser.
I just got up…..
What a clusterfuck we live in. JFC!
It’s a good thing it’s Friday. I have a pressing need to get hammered, and we’ve been limiting it to only Fridays and Saturdays in an attempt to prevent excessive liver damage.
sorta.
what changed was the right wing discovered that trying to maintain segregation just wasn’t a winning issue anymore. They needed something new to keep their foot soldiers a cohesive group….
re: #354 JC1
You Twitter timeline must be filled with bots pushing the ‘stay home’ narrative. People aren’t used to losing rights. This will drive turnout.
Not bots, but replies and retweets from several activist accounts who have severely shown their ass as of late, it feels like.
re: #337 The Pie Overlord!
This fuckhead knows who is at fault (the thread will give you a stroke, don’t read it)
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Not about to read it, presume it’s a smug asshole pontificating from his privileged vantage point. Blood pressure is already high enough this morning.
I remember I was confused the first time I heard a Protestant evangelical ranting against abortion, circa 1976. “Huh, what? Have you gone Catholic on us?”
Now we know the truth, evangelical leaders had made a calculated decision to throw in with the otherwise hated Catholics on abortion.
re: #361 Dave In Austin
I just got up…..
What a clusterfuck we live in. JFC!
Our country has been turned back 50 years.
re: #351 Eclectic Cyborg
I would argue that November 8, 2016 was the beginning of the decline.
America had some minor ups and downs, but it was holding on after 9/11/2001, nothing that was not reparable with the next election. But this most recent assault on Civil Rights will take decades/generations to overcome
re: #355 JC1
Good luck locking up soldiers on BS state charges. That will work out well
won’t keep them from trying; it’s all about posturing and simply making things difficult.
re: #360 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Remember that the Southern Baptist Convention praised Roe v. Wade when it was first decided. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater was a champion of abortion rights, so much so that one of Planned Parenthood’s major awards was named for him.
What changed? The true Republican base, the local gentry, discovered that they couldn’t make money from abortion after all and, much worse, it empowered the poor by giving poor women a right and an option that the rich had always had. Beyond that, the burgeoning Dominionist theocrat movement needed a wedge issue to replace opposition to civil rights, which they finally recognized was a long term loser.
Goldwater is spinning in his grave. He was no friend of the theocratic right.
re: #363 sagehen
sorta.
what changed was the right wing discovered that trying to maintain segregation just wasn’t a winning issue anymore. They needed something new to keep their foot soldiers a cohesive group….
Basically what I said, “opposition to civil rights” is the framework for continued segregation. Beyond that, the potential for making money, or the lack of it, underlies ALL RW-gentry isssues, including both segregation and abortion.
The GOP worked for years to tilt the Supreme Court against climate action. Within days, a ruling could raise the stakes by severely limiting the federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants.
But it’s only a start. https://t.co/RdzhiCD5Jy pic.twitter.com/3o2AAjFZGp— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 19, 2022
This @AP story went for 12 paragraphs before it mentioned women. https://t.co/vuTxDXBckd
— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org ☮️ (@froomkin) June 24, 2022
A demonstration of how we got here, and how we’ll keep going there, because of who owns the megaphones.
Lovely waking up to the news that my disabled veteran daughter is now a second-class citizen.
Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch, Thomas, & Roberts don’t deserve respect. Nor dignity. Nor kindness. Nor any sense of security.
They deserve to be well and unharmed but to spend the rest of their days in the very same state of existence they’ve just brought upon countless women across the nation.
re: #373 Captain Ron
What’s the name of that book where aliens clear out the human race by making adult males violent? Sounds like they just chose a political party instead.
Horrible news today. But if you want legal analysis of where this decision’s logic breaks down, it’s at this point right here pic.twitter.com/VlpVYBBIGB
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) June 24, 2022
re: #231 lawhawk
Democrats should end the filibuster and move immediately to expand SCOTUS and all the federal courts and end lifetime appointments. Expand to equal number of circuits and justices rotate from the circuits.
Your life will depend on it.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) June 24, 2022
I am not a fan of expanding the court at this time. If the GOP takes over the Senate in November, the extra positions will not be filled until there is a GOP president. McConnell demonstrated this in 2016 — and then when a GOP President is elected (like in 2024), we will be faced not with 6-3 but with 10-3 decisions. The 50-50 Senate allows Biden a precarious “majority” to get a little done — but not to get anything bold like this, especially in the brief time till the next election. If something good happens in November, we can then rethink this. What would be even better is for Thomas and Alito somehow to be forced from the bench between now and the fall.
It is infuriating that SCOTUS is getting additional protection while they take away our rights one at at time. IANAL but IMHO based on the decisions this week, the Roberts Court is now firmly ensconced as the second worst court ever (Taney’s Dred Scott decision is enough to make the Taney Court the worst in our history).
re: #373 Captain Ron
Yep, they’re going for all the rightwing marbles, civil rights, climate change, gun control, and probably election law.
A lot of people, including many here, predicted exactly this outcome. They were called paranoid alarmists. I don’t think we’ll hear that any more.
re: #377 Dangerman
oh, and campaigned with the flu
re: #381 Hecuba’s daughter
I am not a fan of expanding the court at this time. If the GOP takes over the Senate in November, the extra positions will not be filled until there is a GOP president. McConnell demonstrated this in 2016 — and then when a GOP President is elected (like in 2024), we will be faced not with 6-3 but with 10-3 decisions. The 50-50 Senate allows Biden a precarious “majority” to get a little done — but not to get anything bold like this, especially in the brief time till the next election. If something good happens in November, we can then rethink this. What would be even better is for Thomas and Alito somehow to be forced from the bench between now and the fall.
It is infuriating that SCOTUS is getting additional protection while they take away our rights one at at time. IANAL but IMHO based on the decisions this week, the Roberts Court is now firmly ensconced as the second worst court ever (Taney’s Dred Scott decision is enough to make the Taney Court the worst in our history).
We won’t be able to do the expansion until Manchin and Sinema are made irrelevant, so it will only happen if Democrats are in charge of Congress.
re: #381 Hecuba’s daughter
I am not a fan of expanding the court at this time. If the GOP takes over the Senate in November, the extra positions will not be filled until there is a GOP president. McConnell demonstrated this in 2016 — and then when a GOP President is elected (like in 2024), we will be faced not with 6-3 but with 10-3 decisions. The 50-50 Senate allows Biden a precarious “majority” to get a little done — but not to get anything bold like this, especially in the brief time till the next election. If something good happens in November, we can then rethink this. What would be even better is for Thomas and Alito somehow to be forced from the bench between now and the fall.
It is infuriating that SCOTUS is getting additional protection while they take away our rights one at at time. IANAL but IMHO based on the decisions this week, the Roberts Court is now firmly ensconced as the second worst court ever (Taney’s Dred Scott decision is enough to make the Taney Court the worst in our history).
The positions could be filled before the November election.
This is what the police do: insulate power from the effects of massive inequality & injustice. They are armed agents of the state who do not protect you or serve you or keep you safe. Take note. Cops are the ones who will come for women who have abortions. https://t.co/w8RGbAQwQt
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) June 24, 2022
re: #387 Dr. Matt
GQP deserves to be a permanent minority.
And they will be. The problem is, right now, they have rigged the levers of power so that even as a permanent minority, they have outsized influence in the government. Because they feel insecure in a postmodern world and want to ensure that they can always rewind the time machine to whatever point makes them feel comfortable.
You mean the three people that Robert Dear killed at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, right? because if you mean abortion, you can get the fuck right out of my mentions. I am NOT putting up with your bullshit, not today, not ever!
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) June 24, 2022
re: #385 JC1
The positions could be filled before the November election.
With how long the usual Supreme Court nom approval process goes, we’d get maybe one, and that’s if the GOP allowed it. Even if we got all 50 Dems on board to vote to expand the court, it’d be a precarious thing that we literally couldn’t lose one senator on, because there’s no doubt in my mind that the 50 Republicans would hold fast against any nom going forward to ensure that only they got the control of who the noms would be.
The president of the United States just said he’ll do everything he can to protect my right to travel. Because that’s at risk now.
— 🆘 🇺🇦 Rev Magdalen (@revmagdalen) June 24, 2022
No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. I want women in Canada to know that we will always stand up for your right to choose.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 24, 2022
re: #389 wrenchwench
They’ll go for the uterus, but not for the uvalde
You, my dear sweet lizard, have won the internets for the day.
Putting this behind the button because this guy is a true and complete asshat.
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ETA, the full tweet shows his gloating face, which so deservedly needs to be smacked.
Just in case anyone was thinking that maybe Liz Cheney is not a garbage person because of her participation on the January 6 committee, she is still a horrible garbage person.
I have always been strongly pro-life. Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court returns power to the states and the people of the states to address the issue of abortion under state law.
— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) June 24, 2022
I channeled my anger into donating to you again. The feeling of being a helpless second class citizen with no right to determine my future & make my own choices is just too much right now.
I’m not a vessel. I’m not livestock. I’m not those things even though the state says I am.— Twiddlebird 🌵🌻🌵 (@twiddlebirdlet) June 24, 2022
re: #396 The Pie Overlord!
Just in case anyone was thinking that maybe Liz Cheney is not a garbage person because of her participation on the January 6 committee, she is still a horrible garbage person.
Good luck on getting Democrats to vote for you, Liz.
If you live in a place where abortion is not legal, or they try to ban pills… @AidAccessUSA doctors in Europe can prescribe them to you (via telehealth) & send them.
It DOES NOT MATTER where you live.
If you can get a letter in the mail—you can get an abortion 💌— Kate “Abortion is freedom” Kelly (@Kate_Kelly_Esq) June 23, 2022
In a 2015 study, abortions through Mifepristone and Misoprostol were shown to be nearly 98% effective, with very few complications. Mifepristone and Misoprostol have been on the list of essential medicines of the WHO since 2005. https://t.co/UPhW3sNebC pic.twitter.com/twlVOx9imV
— AidAccess (@AidAccessUSA) June 20, 2019
re: #384 Belafon
We won’t be able to do the expansion until Manchin and Sinema are made irrelevant, so it will only happen if Democrats are in charge of Congress.
Dems need to hold all 50 seats they have right now, plus add three* more to fully neutralize Manchin and Sinema and abolish the filibuster.
It seems to me that the best opportunities to do this are PA (Fetterman), OH (Ryan), and even Wisconsin, where the Dems on the primary ballot are polling favorably against Johnson.
“These are the stakes,” as LBJ began in the famous “Daisy Girl” ad. He was talking about nuclear war, of course, but the quote ends with him saying, “…or we must die.”
We all know that Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell will fall next. This SCOTUS will probably support a less ham-handed coup attempt than what was attempted in 2020. If we don’t change the direction of the court, we (America) will die.
*Three to prepare for the possibility that Manchin might switch parties.
So, when do the nationwide protests start?
re: #396 The Pie Overlord!
Just in case anyone was thinking that maybe Liz Cheney is not a garbage person because of her participation on the January 6 committee, she is still a horrible garbage person.
You still support the theocratic fruitcakes who abandoned democracy when a narcissistic sociopath who couldn’t accept his loss attempted a coup. That’s terrible.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 24, 2022
THIS
Which American institution will the Thomases seek to wreck next?
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 24, 2022
I’m glad she’s doing what she is doing on the J6 Committee, but Liz is proving to Democrats that there’s no reason to keep her around after the committee ends.
Olivia worked for Pence.
I’m on a train right now & the number of women who have tears in their eyes, including myself, is something I’m going to remember for the rest of my life.
— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) June 24, 2022
re: #391 Citizen K
With how long the usual Supreme Court nom approval process goes, we’d get maybe one, and that’s if the GOP allowed it. Even if we got all 50 Dems on board to vote to expand the court, it’d be a precarious thing that we literally couldn’t lose one senator on, because there’s no doubt in my mind that the 50 Republicans would hold fast against any nom going forward to ensure that only they got the control of who the noms would be.
Only took about a month to seat RGB’s replacement.
Inspired by H.L . Mencken and Mark Twain, I once said that Republican politicians would cheerfully come out in favor of incest, cannibalism or human sacrifice if they thought it would keep them in power or make money for their contributors.
We can check off human sacrifice, with their overtly democidal response to Covid, and incest, with their anti-abortion absolutism.
When, and how, will they start legitimizing cannibalism? A response to climate change perhaps, in lieu of pollution control? “IT’S PEOPLE! IT’S PEOPLE”
re: #387 Dr. Matt
GQP deserves to be a permanent minority.
They are in terms of absolute numbers, but our electoral system is tweaked to give them disproportional representation.
Overturning Roe v. Wade is about
creating a permanent overburdened underclass of uneducated workers with no choice, information or recourse.
Do not mistake this as being about morality.
It’s about greed.
We will fight for our sisters, our daughters, ourselves.— Heather Thomas (@HeatherThomasAF) June 24, 2022
re: #411 Eclectic Cyborg
And over a year to seat Scalias.
But the dems nominally control the Senate now. Of course it’s moot because Manchin won’t nuke the filibuster to expand the court. But if it were to happen, seating 4 SCOTUS justices wouldn’t be a problem before January 3rd, when the next Congress is sworn in.
re: #404 Crush White Nationalism
Of course she is, she is a Republican. The only thing she agrees with us on is that democratic elections should not be reversed by fascist coups, which makes her better than the vast majority of Republicans in Congress, as well as her opponent in the GOP primary.
re: #403 Eclectic Cyborg
So, when do the nationwide protests start?
They have.
Watch Live: Protests Erupt at Supreme Court After Abortion Case Ruling
In Washington, state law ensures abortion rights. That law will remain in effect, regardless of Friday’s ruling. Still, political winds can change, and lawmakers or voters could conceivably pass a new state law restricting abortion.
Meanwhile, the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization focusing on reproductive rights, estimates Washington could see a 385% increase in abortion patients coming from states banning or severely restricting abortion in the wake of Roe.
Hey, folks. Remember to take care of your mental health. Today is a BAD DAY. We knew this was coming; that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. (In fact, the Thomas concurrence probably makes it worse.) Take some space, get your head on something else to distract. Me, I’m going to dive deep into some video games, and then turn my brain off as best I know how. But don’t be afraid to disengage if you feel yourself getting too heated. It’s more valuable to store up energy for the long, ongoing fight to reclaim our democracy from these religious fascists.
re: #416 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
385%. So basically four fold.
I expect this to be a record breaking day for fund raising by Democrats. I’ve gotten three fundraising tweets today since the decision was handed down.
re: #288 No Malarkey!
Money and corporations also have more rights than women. Women have no rights that a white man is bound to respect. This is the tragic result of the failure to ratify the ERA.
Under this court, the ERA would have provided NO protection. After all the 15th amendment did not provide any protection against voter restrictions that prevented blacks from voting in the South for decades or that protect their rights to vote today against an onslaught of new legislation targeting them.
Far-right influencers & right-wing media are absolutely foaming at the mouth over the idea of a left-wing “night of rage” — a supposed plan by abortion rights activists to commit violence in response to the SCOTUS ruling.
They *want* this to happen. Don’t give that to them. pic.twitter.com/2OgT8Q6dtq— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) June 24, 2022
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re: #418 Eclectic Cyborg
385%. So basically four fold.
Not to nit pick the math, but it’s almost 5x.
100 increased by 385% is 485.
re: #421 DodgerFan1988
They want it to happen so they have an excuse to beat up “antifa”.
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*Snort*
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: Photos of protesters, crowds outside high court
Er, no. They have about a dozen tightly focused pics of forced birth astroturfers celebrating, and none of the opposition.
re: #425 jaunte
That this is even fucking necessary in 2022…
re: #424 Eclectic Cyborg
They want it to happen so they have an excuse to beat up “antifa”.
And just like the BLM demonstrations of 2020, there will be shit-stirrers out there who cause violence and incite riots, with the intention of blaming it on antifa and pro-choice advocates. You know it will happen. They’ve been planning this for decades; BLM was a practice run. This is their Superb Owl.
re: #427 Eclectic Cyborg
We’ve joined the backward theocracies of the world.
All the abortions at rallies today can have guns according to SCOTUS.
re: #420 Hecuba’s daughter
Under this court, the ERA would have provided NO protection. After all the 15th amendment did not provide any protection against voter restrictions that prevented blacks from voting in the South for decades or that protect their rights to vote today against an onslaught of new legislation targeting them.
All it would mean is that men would have no right to an abortion either.
I hope they mange to dump DeJoy out of the Post Office before he starts searching packages for contraband medication.
re: #421 DodgerFan1988
They want an excuse to attack people in the upcoming peaceful protests.
Saw this floating around. The liars on the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/2pQfbV3Z8y
— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) June 24, 2022
re: #424 Eclectic Cyborg
They want it to happen so they have an excuse to beat up “antifa”.
…and to gloat about how “those Right to Lifers are out to kill!”
To the point that they will make sure that something happens that they can blow up all over the RW blogopshere
re: #433 jaunte
I hope they mange to dump DeJoy out of the Post Office before he starts searching packages for contraband medication.
I think if they could do that, illicit drugs wouldn’t be delivered via USPS as they are today. The post office is already a major drug trafficker. Last I saw, which was over a year ago, every single Internet-based drug dealer ships USPS.
re: #435 BigPapa
None of them lied. It was precedent. It was important.
And they overturned it anyway. They ignored precedent, settled law, and a woman’s right and agency over their bodies to institute a ban on abortion.
They aren’t pro life. They’re forced birth extremists, and they revel in their extremism.
Thomas and Roberts likewise are fine with this decision, and Thomas thinks they don’t go far enough.
re: #180 Dopamine Fish
Well, looks like the dog finally caught the car. What next? Oh, wait, looks like Thomas has already laid it out: The next target is LGBTQ rights.
What’s next? I think that the first Sivita who dies from this ruling, her guy with their already born six kids - and a bunch of legal, carry concealed guns - is going to go SCOTUS hunting.
re: #438 lawhawk
None of them lied. It was precedent. It was important.
And they overturned it anyway. They ignored precedent, settled law, and a woman’s right and agency over their bodies to institute a ban on abortion.
They aren’t pro life. They’re forced birth extremists, and they revel in their extremism.
Thomas and Roberts likewise are fine with this decision, and Thomas thinks they don’t go far enough.
Some of them lied about other things. Kavanaugh saying under oath that the devil’s triangle was a drinking game was perjury.
This is war. We have to fight, but fight smart. In particular, don’t give the forced birth gun humpers anything to shoot at!
EXCEPT:
In actual military combat, there are many instances of deception and luck combining to induce enemy troops to fire on each other. It isn’t common or easy, of course, but it should be a hell of a lot easier and more likely when dealing with poorly trained and undisciplined vigilantes. It will probably happen spontaneously, without outside intervention, but some very subtle pressure when the opportunity presents itself might not hurt.
This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon.”— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by the New York Times, adding that “throwing out a precedent overnight that the country has relied upon for half a century is not conservative. It is a sudden and radical jolt to the country that will lead to political chaos, anger, and a further loss of confidence in our government.”
So is she surprised, concerned or just performing?
re: #348 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
No guarantee with McConnel and Company that even that would have worked out.
She would have retired while Reid was till Majority Leader. But I suspect if it were RBG rather than Scalia who passed away in 2016, even McConnell may very well have allowed a replacement.
re: #411 Eclectic Cyborg
And over a year to seat Scalias.
Which goes to prove that, despite all the whining, it would have made no difference at all if RGB had retired.
re: #416 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
They have.
Watch Live: Protests Erupt at Supreme Court After Abortion Case Ruling
watching right now and…gee…I see no fences being torn down, no windows being smashed, no police being stabbed at with flagpoles.
What kind of legitimate political discourse protest is this???
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re: #424 Eclectic Cyborg
They want it to happen so they have an excuse to beat up “antifa”.
Yeah, proud boys attacking women should be great optics for their cause.
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