Senate Democrats hold a news conference following the Roe v. Wade leak, which indicated the majority of the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn the decision. Read more: https://wapo.st/3vDJjjZ. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
A news conference. Whoopdeedoo. If they don’t take desperate measures to protect RvW, then they’re all useless.
it’s also how you find out who is completely fucking useless to the political process. which is pretty much every lawyer and legal nerd in America.
— Ryan Maino (@PARecSpecs) May 3, 2022
That’s also a load of bulkshit.
The filibuster is what the minority is using to throttle democracy.
He’s got it backwards - filibuster is antidemocratic. It is the tyranny of the minority. And the moment GOP regains control, they’re ending it to preserve power indefinitely.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) May 3, 2022
Once again, Manchin gets the point of the filibuster backwards.
It’s entirely antidemocratic. It’s a tyranny of the minority and the whole purpose was to deny rights and protections during the 20th Century to slow the civil rights movement.
Now, it’s being used to deny women agency over their own bodies, to limit the damage the GOP and Trump did in the judiciary, and prevent expanding rights and protections to those who actually need it.
re: #3 lawhawk
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Once again, Manchin gets the point of the filibuster backwards.
It’s entirely antidemocratic. It’s a tyranny of the minority and the whole purpose was to deny rights and protections during the 20th Century to slow the civil rights movement.
Now, it’s being used to deny women agency over their own bodies, to limit the damage the GOP and Trump did in the judiciary, and prevent expanding rights and protections to those who actually need it.
the filibuster was not particularly egregious until one side weaponized it into exactly what you say it has become.
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
A news conference. Whoopdeedoo. If they don’t take desperate measures to protect RvW, then they’re all useless.
_All_ useless? There are just two problems.
1. Joe Manchin
2. Krysten Sinema
Statement on Draft Supreme Court Opinion pic.twitter.com/3GYIF3YnM7
— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) May 3, 2022
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
A news conference. Whoopdeedoo. If they don’t take desperate measures to protect RvW, then they’re all useless.
They don’t have 50 votes to end the filibuster, unless we turn out in November to elect more Democratic Senators.
I’m glad I’ve got to go to a bunch of meetings. I can’t deal with the Roe news.
But some good news from Ukraine…lots of small wins.
Was a real good day pic.twitter.com/bsWueCvDr4
— James Vasquez (@jmvasquez1974) May 3, 2022
re: #3 lawhawk
It actually stands in the way of protecting democracy. Manchin is a corrupt “Conservative,” part of the delusional subculture that seeks to end our democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 54% of Americans think the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision should be upheld while just 28% believe it should be overturned — a roughly 2-to-1 margin.
but she wore a pantsuit
and there were emails
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
A news conference. Whoopdeedoo. If they don’t take desperate measures to protect RvW, then they’re all useless.
What measures? What are our politicians supposed to be out there doing? This is what bothers me. Sure, I want them to show some more fire, but what EXACTLY can they do? While the filibuster is still a thing, the minority party gets to put a halt to any fucking thing they want as long as it’s not a nomination or a reconciliation bill. Biden can go out there and propose new legislation until he’s blue in the face. Pelosi and the House Democrats can sit down, write it all up, and pass every single one to send them to the Senate. Every single goddamn one will die before ever reaching the Senate floor just because Josh Hawley says, “Yeah, I’m going to filibuster that.” He doesn’t even have to stand up and DO it; he just has to SAY he will, and that’s the end of that. Again - I agree, I want the Democrats to get on the messaging train, but that’s literally all we’ve got right now, messaging. Nothing is going to change because IT CAN’T.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Unless she agrees to end the filibuster for this case, and Joe Manchin goes along with her (and he won’t) her statement is meaningless.
The twin idiots say what?
— Captain Magic (@ericfruitbat) May 3, 2022
re: #11 Dopamine Fish
What measures? What are our politicians supposed to be out there doing? This is what bothers me. Sure, I want them to show some more fire, but what EXACTLY can they do? While the filibuster is still a thing, the minority party gets to put a halt to any fucking thing they want as long as it’s not a nomination or a reconciliation bill. Biden can go out there and propose new legislation until he’s blue in the face. Pelosi and the House Democrats can sit down, write it all up, and pass every single one to send them to the Senate. Every single goddamn one will die before ever reaching the Senate floor just because Josh Hawley says, “Yeah, I’m going to filibuster that.” He doesn’t even have to stand up and DO it; he just has to SAY he will, and that’s the end of that. Again - I agree, I want the Democrats to get on the messaging train, but that’s literally all we’ve got right now, messaging. Nothing is going to change because IT CAN’T.
Messaging is the job right now, to get the voters to understand that they have the power to protect our rights, but only if they turn out and vote Democratic.
re: #12 aatharuv
Unless she agrees to end the filibuster for this case, and Joe Manchin goes along with her (and he won’t) her statement is meaningless.
Oh, I know. I don’t trust her one bit.
Your Tuesday scientific horror flick…
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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no. this statement is wrong on many levels
a woman’s health care choices should be between her, her family, and her doctor.
1. there is no ‘should’. a woman’s heath care choices are between her and her doctor. you know, exactly the same as it is for a man.
neither supreme court decisions nor laws suppressing women’s rights changes that.
2. ‘her family’ does not enter into it - a woman and only the woman can choose to involve her family or anyone else in any health care issue or decision. the choice to include others is hers and hers alone. you know, exactly the same as it is for a man.
“Because, you see, I am a deeply stupid and gullible human being,” she didn’t add. https://t.co/3icTWi1McM
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #17 Dangerman
no. this statement is wrong on many levels
1. there is no ‘should’. a woman’s heath care choices are between her and her doctor. you know, exactly the same as it is for a man.
neither supreme court decisions nor laws suppressing women’s rights changes that.
2. ‘her family’ does not enter into it - a woman and only the woman can choose to involve her family or anyone else in any health care issue or decision. the choice to include others is hers and hers alone. you know, exactly the same as it is for a man.
Between her and her doctor. Her husband does not get to insert himself like in the bad old days. The filibuster is going to have to go if we want to save women’s rights and democracy in America.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists
A church in Jackson, Mississippi recently ran a Men’s weekend gathering where one of the major discussions was about men being marginalized when a woman makes a decision to have an abortion.
(No, I was not there. I know a couple of people who were).
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
A news conference. Whoopdeedoo. If they don’t take desperate measures to protect RvW, then they’re all useless.
“Democrats need to get in front of the media about issues we care about!”
Democrats hold press conference
“Not like that!”
That’s also a load of bulkshit.
The filibuster is what the minority is using to throttle democracy.
He’s got it backwards - filibuster is antidemocratic. It is the tyranny of the minority. And the moment GOP regains control, they’re ending it to preserve power indefinitely.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) May 3, 2022
Manchin - The filibuster is the only way we’re going to stop blood loss after a shooting.
re: #13 Captain Magic
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notice that many advocating against abortion have probably themselves had one or been involved with someone who did
Notice how those advocating for abortion have never been aborted….
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) May 3, 2022
re: #18 Charles Johnson
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thats what they’re all gonna say:
i got played
shrug
too late to do anything now
I’d assume this was a stress-induced suicide caused by bad parenting, but rumor is that it was a car accident.
‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ Star Kailia Posey Dead at 16 (The Daily Beast)
Everyone who was paying attention at the time TOLD YOU that this was exactly how it would shake out - whether or not something is settled law matters little when you’re putting someone in the job that gets to decide when the rare circumstances that justify UNsettling it apply.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) May 3, 2022
re: #21 Belafon
“Democrats need to get in front of the media about issues we care about!”
Democrats hold press conference
“Not like that!”
I’m really worried Dems are going to tear each other apart due to this rather than focusing on the major threat of the GOP.
I’ll never forget the Obama SOTU address where he called out Citizens United for the obvious invitation to boatloads of corrupting money into an already problematic electoral system and Alito smugly shaking his head back and forth. I didn’t think it was possible to hate him more. And while we’re at it, fuck the other four, too. And while I’m on it, Roberts is conniving shit as well.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m really worried Dems are going to tear each other apart due to this rather than focusing on the major threat of the GOP.
I think we’ll get it together. We did in 2020.
We’re just the Avengers. We suck as a team, we’re just good together at the toughest moments.
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
A church in Jackson, Mississippi recently ran a Men’s weekend gathering where one of the major discussions was about men being marginalized when a woman makes a decision to have an abortion.
(No, I was not there. I know a couple of people who were).
Sounds about right. My expectations for churches are a lot lower than they were before I was exposed to Conservative Christians in the news and online.
re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists
whenever i hear ‘family’ in this context, my first thought is ‘family’ male abuser…
My 11-Year-Old Patient Was Pregnant.
…discovered the identity of the family member that did this awful, unspeakable thing to her. And when the cops left to arrest that relative, they headed to church, because the perpetrator was at choir practice.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m really worried Dems are going to tear each other apart due to this rather than focusing on the major threat of the GOP.
That’s been happening on Fark since last night. There are a few sensible people, and a lot of others either derping about Democratic “centrists” or “leftists” being the cause of this.
re: #31 Dangerman
whenever i hear ‘family’ in this context, my first thought is ‘family’ male abuser…
But that’s fine. Surely any honorable, upstanding Christian man would own up to it and do the right thing, right? …right?
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
But that’s fine. Surely any honorable, upstanding Christian man would own up to it and do the right thing, right? …right?
Godzwill
If #RoeVWade disappears, how much longer will it be before I’m seen as 3/5ths of a person again?
— Celena Spears (@CelenaMSpears) May 3, 2022
The tracking page now says my new iMac is “On FedEx vehicle for delivery.”
I hope they’re not lying to me.
And the GOP outrage is about the fact that their machinations have been exposed in advance before they are an irreversible fait accompli
Was it Rubio who was comparing the leakers to the Jan. 6 rioters?
Yes, I recall the videos of the leakers building gallows, brandishing flagpoles at police, stealing and vandalizing public property and defecating in government offices.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SHOULD PROMISE TO SEND DOCTORS TO PROVIDE ABORTION SERVICES ON FEDERAL PROPERTY
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 3, 2022
re: #36 Charles Johnson
The tracking page now says my new iMac is “On FedEx vehicle for delivery.”
I hope they’re not lying to me.
That still doesn’t mean it will get to you today. //
I ordered a laptop once, which was delivered through DHL. The driver got it to me on the day it was supposed to be there, at 9:30pm.
re: #38 Charles Johnson
Biden should open that $8 billion Aportionplex that the onion reported on…
Five Republican Supreme Court justices have reportedly voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
But when they were testifying at their Senate confirmation hearings, they all denied they were planning to do that. Watch —> pic.twitter.com/4TYgvdEUD3— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) May 3, 2022
re: #24 Dangerman
thats what they’re all gonna say:
i got played
shrug
too late to do anything now
If Collins and Murkowski wanted to correct their error, they could offer to vote to waive the filibuster rule in order to pass national legislation to protect the right to choose, thereby bypassing the need to get Sinema and Manchin onboard. They won’t.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m really worried Dems are going to tear each other apart due to this rather than focusing on the major threat of the GOP.
This is an opportunity to galvanize the pro-choice majority to buck the midterm election trend and increase the Democratic majorities in Congress. We have to quit being fearful and be more like Ukrainians.
I respond to a guy on twitter I’ve been following for a long time, and not only does he get snide, but then decided to mute/block? Yeah, I was agreeing with him, and if he said it somewhere else last night, I’m supposed to wade back through all his posts?
He thought I was not agreeing with him?
Not worth it.
re: #45 Dangerman
‘this compelling case changed my mind just recently’
“Which one?”
“Plessy vs. Ferguson. I mean, think of what’s possible when we truly give into the Lord’s words.”
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just get pregnant by a white man, then you will be 6/5th of a person!!!
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Your math doesn’t check out. A black woman pregnant by a white man is 3/5 of a person, who happens to be carrying 1 person inside of her. Once the baby is born, the father will determine whether the baby is 1 person or 3/5 of a person.
Anyone who knows how Republicans act knew BEYOND A DOUBT that those right wing justices were lying about Roe v Wade in their confirmation hearings. It could not possibly have been more obvious.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m really worried Dems are going to tear each other apart due to this rather than focusing on the major threat of the GOP.
It already started on the comment. We have a few people right here literally blaming both Clintons, Gore, and Monica Lewinsky (you know, the most powerful American ever) for what happened last night.
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
Your math doesn’t check out. A black woman pregnant by a white man is 3/5 of a person, who happens to be carrying 1 person inside of her. Once the baby is born, the father will determine whether the baby is 1 person or 3/5 of a person.
Schroedinger’s baby ought to be worth 4/5 of a person until it’s observed.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
Not like they are gonna get fired for lying.
re: #51 Mattand
It already started on the comment. We have a few people right here literally blaming both Clintons, Gore, and Monica Lewinsky (you know, the most powerful American ever) for what happened last night.
Anything to keep the blame on the Democratic side of the aisle.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not like they are gonna get fired for lying.
Perhaps they should.
re: #55 Captain Magic
Perhaps they should.
Then we need 67 Democrats willing to convict in the Senate.
re: #7 No Malarkey!
They don’t have 50 votes to end the filibuster, unless we turn out in November to elect more Democratic Senators.
Yup. And that falls on us, the voters. As does Manchin and Sinema. We need to make it so they’re irrelevant. That doesn’t excuse the Dems in Congress for not doing more, however. Raise hell, for fuck’s sake, before it’s too late. No more thinking the GQP are colleagues that can be reasoned with in any way.
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— Josh Wardle (@powerlanguish) April 29, 2022
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Anything to keep the blame on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Republican judges, nominated by a Republican President, and confirmed by Republican Senators. Quit raging about Ginsburg, or Manchin, or Sinema or any other Democrat. The message has to be that the Republicans did this, and the only way for American voters to protect their rights is to vote for Democrats. The only way.
re: #52 Belafon
Schroedinger’s baby ought to be worth 4/5 of a person until it’s observed.
I laughed, but in seriousness, it’s important for their religious agenda that unborn babies be treated as full-fledged people. Their whole schtick has become centered around one passage from the book of Jeremiah which they have taken to mean that people receive their soul at the moment of conception, which is also the origin of the anti-contraceptive narrative.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not like they are gonna get fired for lying.
Jesus, think about that for a minute: we’ve got a few SCOTUS justices who straight-up lied in order to land their appointments, knowing full well they’d never have to answer for it.
Just amazing.
re: #51 Mattand
It already started on the comment. We have a few people right here literally blaming both Clintons, Gore, and Monica Lewinsky (you know, the most powerful American ever) for what happened last night.
Are you refering to me?
I am trying to understand how we came to the McConnell Senate.
The change in the Senate is slow (by news standards.)
It is very much the disaster of Bill Clinton, who set off a backlash in certain quarters.
Cause and effect are not something that can be easily discerned in a society, we are combination of a vast number of parameters.
If you want to know how we got the McConnell Senate, then we need to know what eliminated the ability of the Democratic Party to pick up at least a few Senators in states formerly of some importance to the Democrats.
During the Kavanaugh hearings, the GOP kept on top of things and turned it into a he-said-she-said, innocent-until-proven-guilty shouting match, which missed the point.
Kavanaugh was not on trial for his past actions, they did not need to proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The point of the hearings (which got lost in the din) was whether he had the qualifications - and the character - to be granted a lifetime appointment to America’s highest judicial body.
Had anybody been paying attention to anything except the dick-waggling, beer-drinking stories, it would of become clear that he was not up to the standards of the office he was seeking
re: #61 Mattand
Jesus, think about that for a minute: we’ve got a few SCOTUS justices who straight-up lied in order to land their appointments, knowing full well they’d never have to answer for it.
Just amazing.
We also have a Senate, where everyone knew that the extremist justices were lying, and confirmed them anyway.
re: #60 Dopamine Fish
I laughed, but in seriousness, it’s important for their religious agenda that unborn babies be treated as full-fledged people. Their whole schtick has become centered around one passage from the book of Jeremiah which they have taken to mean that people receive their soul at the moment of conception, which is also the origin of the anti-contraceptive narrative.
Do you remember the chapter and verse? I like to know the arguments so I can know how to rebut them?
re: #65 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We also have a Senate, where everyone knew that the extremist justices were lying, and confirmed them anyway.
Confirmed the judges because they knew they were lying.
re: #66 Belafon
Do you remember the chapter and verse? I like to know the arguments so I can know how to rebut them?
Of course I do. Jeremiah 1:5, translation presented here is the last revision of the NIV (mid-2000’s, I think, not the 1984 classic translation that I grew up with):
‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.’
The context is that this is God speaking to the prophet Jeremiah, delivering his call to ministry.
I won’t be watching cable news today, because I’m quite certain it’s going to be un-fucking-bearable.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #69 Charles Johnson
It’s a good day to listen to music.
Reaganism was very much a backlash to the progressive changes of the 1960’s, changes which even Nixon bought into (in some part.)
The Democratic Party had a very difficult time countering Reagan. Only the slow changing of the House and Senate kept the Democrats in control here and there.
The Democratic Party has been, since the change of the 1960’s and the divorce of the Wallace faction from the Dems, a party of we’re-not-Republicans.
But it was clear that the Democrats could not counter Reaganism and the religious right in many quarters. The Presidential nominees in 1984 and 88 were bad choices (for winning.)
Bill Clinton took advantage of GHWB elitism. Ordinary people liked Bill. Bill was elected. Then Bill turned out to be a scandal machine.
Which was a horrible thing because the religious right and GOP machinery never stopped.
It took until Obama for someone charismatic enough to pull a Dem victory, but even Obama only had a Senate majority with him for a couple of years.
And then started the McConnell Senate, which has since 2010 determined the course of politics in this country.
Including the abortion issue.
Religious fanatics are far more dedicated to their causes than the average John and Jane Doe.
This is why the GOP fell into the hands of said fanatics and the rich who use them are fine with that.
Getting back to the Clinton thing: personalities matter and personal choices matter. Trump is a malicious dolt but he knows how to be the carney. His personality you and I may find repugnant but millions of Americans adore him for the very ugliness that we find so unappealing.
So we are in a culture war. And Bill Clinton was a very poor leader for the side against the religious fanatics. Obama was better, but he is only one guy in a system that is rigged to protect the establishment.
re: #68 Dopamine Fish
Of course I do. Jeremiah 1:5, translation presented here is the last revision of the NIV (mid-2000’s, I think, not the 1984 classic translation that I grew up with):
The context is that this is God speaking to the prophet Jeremiah, delivering his call to ministry.
Reply with “That’s why God didn’t tell his mother to get an abortion.”
“This will fall on the poorest women in our country. This will fall on young women who have been abused, who are victims of incest.”
Please watch this video. @ewarren is channeling the rage we are all feeling right now. Thank you, @SenWarren.
pic.twitter.com/uIlPXeZGzL— Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins) May 3, 2022
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And Bill was only a scandal machine because Republicans went after him. Relentlessly. Lewinsky was a result of not being able to find anything in Whitewater. They tried going after Carter and Obama the same way, they just couldn’t find anything.
re: #73 Eclectic Cyborg
Or spend some time outside.
Not here, but elsewhere in the nation for sure. It’s 47F/rainy here.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Waiting for Ragnarok Lobster to tell her to shut up the way people have been telling others to.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
The tracking page now says my new iMac is “On FedEx vehicle for delivery.”
I hope they’re not lying to me.
Think of yourself as Susan Collins and FedEx as Brett Kavanaugh ////
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re: #77 Belafon
Waiting for Ragnarok Lobster to tell her to shut up the way people have been telling others to.
He’s really got a thing about Warren, doesn’t he?
Reuters: Amazon has told staff it will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2022
Same company will spend millions to thwart unionization and better conditions at its facilities. Same company will underpay workers and will work them so hard that there’s 100% turnover at some facilities.
Nice that they’re willing to do this, but note that the people who will be in a position to take advantage of this aren’t the drivers and warehouse floor workers, but the white collar jobs - coders, and the like. Yet, it’s the people in the toughest jobs that are also at highest risk from overturning Roe. They’re the ones who are in the toughest shape financially.
re: #81 lawhawk
[Reuters: Amazon has told staff it will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortions.
smart move, because it can be accompanied by a sotto voce “but if you wanna get all uniony with us, that offer’s off the table!”
Stupid lady does stupid again.
The Left doesn’t care about the opinion of women.
They don’t care about the opinion of anyone, frankly.
Death and destruction is their mission.— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 3, 2022
True, they didn’t riot and didn’t try to stack the court.
All they did was terrorize women, bomb clinics, and murder doctors. https://t.co/9RXeon3WVT— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
During the Kavanaugh hearings, the GOP kept on top of things and turned it into a he-said-she-said, innocent-until-proven-guilty shouting match, which missed the point.
Kavanaugh was not on trial for his past actions, they did not need to proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The point of the hearings (which got lost in the din) was whether he had the qualifications - and the character - to be granted a lifetime appointment to America’s highest judicial body.
Had anybody been paying attention to anything except the dick-waggling, beer-drinking stories, it would of become clear that he was not up to the standards of the office he was seeking
But it didn’t matter. If Kavanugh didn’t get the votes, Trump would have picked the next name on the federalist list, and whoever that was would have still voted the same way.
re: #69 Charles Johnson
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I got home from the office, turned on the tv only to find Andrea Mitchell allowing an anti-choice activist to ramble on about how laws now allow abortion up to the moment of birth and other BS. It was infuriating. Quickly turned it off and took the dog for a walk.
re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg
Stupid lady does stupid again.
The party that nominated a woman for president, has a woman for VP, just approved a woman for the Supreme Court, has approved more women to courts than at any time in US history, doesn’t listen to women?
And when Trump does run, Hogan will magically forget everything he said here and support him. https://t.co/jFNt10lFDx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
From what I am currently seeing, the most likely cause for the Supreme Court leak was the Roberts-Alito fight. Uncertain which side actually released it.
Maybe Alito’s side leaked it in order to cement the 5 justice majority supporting it.
Maybe Robert’s side leaked it to try and weaken the 5 justices and get them to support a less complete ban. Robert’s has lost control of things and realizes his name is going down next to Taney as the most despicable court in US history.
And there is the added benefit of getting the outrageous decision out early in the election cycle in the hope it will burn out by Fall.
I suspect though, that no matter which side leaked it, they both will blame the uninvolved.
re: #87 Belafon
The party that nominated a woman for president, has a woman for VP, just approved a woman for the Supreme Court, has approved more women to courts than at any time in US history, doesn’t listen to women?
Doesn’t listen to the right kind of women…
Any right-wing state powerful enough to jail you for having an abortion is powerful enough to compel you to have one and sterilize you.
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) May 3, 2022
re: #91 jaunte
They can certainly start monitoring women’s behavior and punishing them for potentially “endangering unborn life”.
I see George Conway has dropped the pretense now.
re: #84 Charles Johnson
OMG, she’s still around???
That avatar photo has got to be at least 20 years old, from back in her days as Palin’s chief fluffer at conservatives4palin.
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Smoking? Drinking? Drugs? You’re unfit.
re: #89 ckkatz
From what I am currently seeing, the most likely cause for the Supreme Court leak was the Roberts-Alito fight. Uncertain which side actually released it.
Maybe Alito’s side leaked it in order to cement the 5 justice majority supporting it.
Maybe Robert’s side leaked it to try and weaken the 5 justices and get them to support a less complete ban. Robert’s has lost control of things and realizes his name is going down next to Taney as the most despicable court in US history.
And there is the added benefit of getting the outrageous decision out early in the election cycle in the hope it will burn out by Fall.
I suspect though, that no matter which side leaked it, they both will blame the uninvolved.
Seems like pretty good analysis. We’ll have more insight maybe if it turns out that Roberts’ “investigation” is a sham.
re: #88 Charles Johnson
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Hogan didn’t support Trump in 2020 and supposedly didn’t vote for him.
I predict that if Trump runs in 2024, we’ll see a lot of “never-Trumpers” suddenly have changes of heart.
re: #86 Barefoot Grin
I got home from the office, turned on the tv only to find Andrea Mitchell allowing an anti-choice activist to ramble on about how laws now allow abortion up to the moment of birth and other BS. It was infuriating. Quickly turned it off and took the dog for a walk.
I was in the car driving to Meijer to do grocery shopping, turned on Sirius XM to the same station at the same time, because that is also what I heard. Switched the channel to local weather and traffic.
re: #51 Mattand
It already started on the comment. We have a few people right here literally blaming both Clintons, Gore, and Monica Lewinsky (you know, the most powerful American ever) for what happened last night.
You’re talking about someone who spent endless time registering democrats and advocating for democrats in his firetruck red state and across the border where it looked like having better effect, through the Obama and DT years. He’ll do it again (is doing it now) for the midterms.
And he thinks Clinton and Lewinsky share some of the blame for the situation the country is in. Deal with it.
re: #100 Charles Johnson
I predict that if Trump runs in 2024, we’ll see a lot of “never-Trumpers” suddenly have changes of heart.
This right here.
It’s impossible to be too cynical about Republicans and their cruel, corrupt, evil political party.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
If he thinks the leak was egregious, he should try reading the draft opinion. https://t.co/mUZrBMRqSy
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 3, 2022
re: #69 Charles Johnson
“Let us interview all of these Republicans who will explain why its a good thing that the power to regulate abortion is being delegated back to the states.”
Leaking a Supreme Court decision is not a crime.
And it’s unclear why the draft was leaked. Perhaps a clerk for one of the five who was wavering wanted to make sure that his/her boss didn’t change his mind.— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 3, 2022
re: #87 Belafon
The party that nominated a woman for president, has a woman for VP, just approved a woman for the Supreme Court, has approved more women to courts than at any time in US history, doesn’t listen to women?
Its propaganda. You might as well listen to Russian state tv as any Republican.
Really sad that Cruz didn’t have the decency to mention my book on what a shitbird institution the Supreme Court is. https://t.co/DXFRbMpYNn https://t.co/15YQeNyZME
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 3, 2022
Liberals love the Supreme Court because they romanticize the Warren years, but for most of its history the court has been god awful and one of the most reactionary institutions in America
— Sean 🇺🇦 (@swanoflirvety) May 3, 2022
re: #89 ckkatz
From what I am currently seeing, the most likely cause for the Supreme Court leak was the Roberts-Alito fight. Uncertain which side actually released it.
Maybe Alito’s side leaked it in order to cement the 5 justice majority supporting it.
Maybe Robert’s side leaked it to try and weaken the 5 justices and get them to support a less complete ban. Robert’s has lost control of things and realizes his name is going down next to Taney as the most despicable court in US history.
And there is the added benefit of getting the outrageous decision out early in the election cycle in the hope it will burn out by Fall.
I suspect though, that no matter which side leaked it, they both will blame the uninvolved.
It definitely won’t burn out, because the closure of abortion clinics in most of the country won’t start until this summer.
re: #107 Dr. Matt
Yeah, all these right wing lunatics claiming that there was a law violated here.
Unless it was obtained by someone hacking Alito’s computer, there’s nothing but general decorum and history that indicates that we don’t see draft rulings before the final decisions are issued. No crimes here.
And it is all a distraction from the contents of the draft, which is horrific for what it portends for a whole raft of civil and voting rights. It’s got its sights set on all the privacy rights, including Obergefell, and we will see right wingers in Texas and Florida moving to invalidate gay marriages under the abortion decision, knowing that the federal courts will flow to a Supreme Court that’s already signaled its intent to shred those rights.
re: #86 Barefoot Grin
I got home from the office, turned on the tv only to find Andrea Mitchell allowing an anti-choice activist to ramble on about how laws now allow abortion up to the moment of birth and other BS. It was infuriating. Quickly turned it off and took the dog for a walk.
There are only 4-5 show hosts on MSNBC that I’ll watch. Any others are an instant close. I don’t understand why Andrea Mitchell is still on the air.
Cool, because a similar idea was such a huge success for Google+.
Oh, wait. https://t.co/sqooGmV9iU— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #107 Dr. Matt
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The far more logical possibility is that it was leaked by Alito or someone already ready to sign on to Alito’s opinion.
re: #83 Eclectic Cyborg
Stupid lady does stupid again.
Lauren thinks she can dictate an alternate reality where people believe whatever Lauren wants to think they believe so Lauren can feel good about being a bad person.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #115 Mike Lamb
The far more logical possibility is that it was leaked by Alito or someone already ready to sign on to Alito’s opinion.
I’d sooner bet that it came from Roberts himself to try and show just how insanely regressive the right wingers are.
re: #112 lawhawk
And in Texas, in particular, they are easily able to get a favorable judge who will enforce their bigotry via an injunction while it heads to the religious zealots on the Fifth Circuit, who will happily affirm the decision.
re: #115 Mike Lamb
The far more logical possibility is that it was leaked by Alito or someone already ready to sign on to Alito’s opinion.
I was persuaded by the Yale professor who clerked at SCOTUS (upthread, but can’t remember name) who laid out the incentives. While not rejecting the possibility that it may have been a clerk for a dissenting judge, convincingly explained that such a clerk, if discovered, would likely nearly blow up his or her future career whereas a clerk for a conservative would—as you suggest—lock in the other four to Alito’s decision and in the conservative world would be haled as a hero.
re: #111 No Malarkey!
It definitely won’t burn out, because the closure of abortion clinics in most of the country won’t start until this summer.
I had asked this morning when this would be finalized. Friend here says end of term in June, normally. If so many thousands of innocents are in mortal peril, where is the theocrats’ sense of urgency?
re: #113 stpaulbear
She’s horrible. Can’t hardly spit out a question.
We are going to see mind numbing takes like, “Is it really a bad thing to allow the states to regulate local matters like abortion or marriage? Let each state be a laboratory of democracy!”
re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter
Think of yourself as Susan Collins and FedEx as Brett Kavanaugh ////
You responded to a stupid liar by lying back. That dipshit signaling is embarrassing for you.
You’re projecting the far-right’s desire for power over normal Americans at any cost onto the one remaining mainstream party that still believes in democracy and rule of law.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #59 No Malarkey!
Republican judges, nominated by a Republican President, and confirmed by Republican Senators. Quit raging about Ginsburg, or Manchin, or Sinema or any other Democrat. The message has to be that the Republicans did this, and the only way for American voters to protect their rights is to vote for Democrats. The only way.
Even “less than ideal” ones
re: #112 lawhawk
Yeah, all these right wing lunatics claiming that there was a law violated here.
Unless it was obtained by someone hacking Alito’s computer, there’s nothing but general decorum and history that indicates that we don’t see draft rulings before the final decisions are issued. No crimes here.
And it is all a distraction from the contents of the draft, which is horrific for what it portends for a whole raft of civil and voting rights. It’s got its sights set on all the privacy rights, including Obergefell, and we will see right wingers in Texas and Florida moving to invalidate gay marriages under the abortion decision, knowing that the federal courts will flow to a Supreme Court that’s already signaled its intent to shred those rights.
And this is why I’m glad I married Robyn up in Canada. If they do go after SSM, the worst they can do to me is not recognize our marriage here in the States. And if they do overturn SSM, I can see a bunch of red States (Idaho for one) passing laws to make any SSM performed in the State null and void.
re: #122 No Malarkey!
We are going to see mind numbing takes like, “Is it really a bad thing to allow the states to regulate local matters like abortion or marriage? Let each state be a laboratory of democracy!”
I have a cousin (I’ve mentioned before—his best friend from college is Ben Sasse) who said this to me in 2016 at a family reunion. I tried to explain that people need protections from just this scenario; few can afford to just pick up and move to states that allow certain procedures. He furled his brow (he’s extremely wealthy).
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
During the Kavanaugh hearings, the GOP kept on top of things and turned it into a he-said-she-said, innocent-until-proven-guilty shouting match, which missed the point.
Kavanaugh was not on trial for his past actions, they did not need to proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The point of the hearings (which got lost in the din) was whether he had the qualifications - and the character - to be granted a lifetime appointment to America’s highest judicial body.
Had anybody been paying attention to anything except the dick-waggling, beer-drinking stories, it would of become clear that he was not up to the standards of the office he was seeking
He was gonna be confirmed
No matter what
They had the votes
The rest was theater
Didn’t matter that it was unscripted
re: #67 No Malarkey!
Confirmed the judges because
they knew they were lying.
Because it didn’t matter if they were lying or not
AOC isn’t suffering fools in either party. She dumped on Sinema for blocking filibuster reform and here she goes after Collins and Murkowski:
Murkowski voted for Amy Coney Barrett when Trump himself proclaimed that he was appointing justices specifically to overturn Roe.
She and Collins betrayed the nation’s reproductive rights when they were singularly capable of stopping the slide. They don’t get to play victim now https://t.co/6i7b3g08lN— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 3, 2022
re: #70 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s a good day to listen to music.
Or to sit on the front stoop waiting for a FedEx truck
re: #110 ckkatz
Since the VRA and CRA passed, Democrats have been lucky just to hold things still. Whites have been so racist, and males so sexist, that it’s been impossible to get major rights legislation through our government. Major rights victories have come from the courts. But all of that, and I mean both legislative and judicial, can be undone by one court.
re: #102 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
You’re talking about someone who spent endless time registering democrats and advocating for democrats in his firetruck red state and across the border where it looked like having better effect, through the Obama and DT years. He’ll do it again (is doing it now) for the midterms.
And he thinks Clinton and Lewinsky share some of the blame for the situation the country is in. Deal with it.
Ummm, no.
It’s a stupid fucking take. I appreciate the hard work you’re saying he’s done and I’m sure he’s a great person, but it’s still a stupid fucking take that, at best, both-sides every shitty thing Republicans and the religious right wing have done to bring us to this point.
At best.
You may want to take your own advice.
re: #131 Barefoot Grin
AOC isn’t suffering fools in either party. She dumped on Sinema for blocking filibuster reform and here she goes after Collins and Murkowski:
Everyone knew that these nominees were lying and were there to strip women of control of their own bodies. It was all out in the open. The American-right is a threat to our basic rights.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #131 Barefoot Grin
AOC isn’t suffering fools in either party. She dumped on Sinema for blocking filibuster reform and here she goes after Collins and Murkowski:
Its such a joke. Anybody paying attention knew when Barrett was confirmed that Roe was a dead letter. I said here that it was only a matter of months before there would be no abortion clinics left across great swaths of the country. The only question is how will the pro-choice majority in this country react? The voters have it within their power to elect enough Democratic Senators to waive the filibuster rule and pass a national pro-choice act, if enough of them turn out to vote.
re: #131 Barefoot Grin
” isn Murkowski voted for Amy Coney Barrett when Trump himself proclaimed that he was appointing justices specifically to overturn Roe”. i:
Dotard cares as much about turning over Roe as much as he cares about weight loss, rule of law, and monogamy. It was nothing but a pathetic political ploy to placate the mouth breathing scum in his base.
re: #89 ckkatz
This part especially!
..
. Robert’s has lost control of things and realizes his name is going down next to Taney as the most despicable court in US history.
.
As chief, Roberts was in over his head from day one. His vision for his legacy was toast before he began.
If the preservation of life trumps bodily autonomy, I look forward to the mandatory blood and bone marrow donations we’ll all be making.
Huh?
They’re literally trying to return the US to the days of their grandfathers, when minorities stayed in their place, women were barefoot and pregnant, and white men ruled everything. This is VERY MUCH your grandfather’s Republican Party. https://t.co/jg34bUL9Tk— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #111 No Malarkey!
It definitely won’t burn out, because the closure of abortion clinics in most of the country won’t start until this summer.
And special legislative sessions in some states start to outlaw abortion. Which will happen this summer, or at least before election day in November.
I hope that this will turn out the young vote, which is normally low in the non-Presidential elections.
After casting some drive-by shade on the existence of these other fundamental rights, Alito then says: don’t worry, all of these other rights are different, they don’t involve the “critical moral question” like abortion does, so just relax about the others, they’re fine. pic.twitter.com/NGeuARk3ZC
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) May 3, 2022
Once the decision does officially drop, there will be a race by Republican governors in who can first outlaw abortions.
So Abbott, DeSantis, etc. will all try to call whatever special legislative sessions under the guise of the emergency to protect the unborn.
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Once again, Roberts thinks SCOTUS has some sort of right to privacy
Where does the constitution say that?
re: #142 gocart mozart
The homophobes won’t be fooled by that. I will be surprised if a state doesn’t enact test legislation to ban same-sex marriage this year. In fact, I believe Tennessee was already working on it.
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Bans are going to go into effect immediately as soon as the decision drops, they’ve been planning for this for years and already have them on the books.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
The homophobes won’t be fooled by that. I will be surprised if a state doesn’t enact test legislation to ban same-sex marriage this year. In fact, I believe Tennessee was already working on it.
If not, ALEC will have boilerplate ready as needed.
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Once the decision does officially drop, there will be a race by Republican governors in who can first outlaw abortions.
So Abbott, DeSantis, etc. will all try to call whatever special legislative sessions under the guise of the emergency to protect the unborn.
Most of these states have trigger laws in place which will automatically ban abortion when the decision drops. Kentucky’s trigger law is absolute: no abortons except to save the life of the mother, and if you are a doctor, you better be damn sure the woman is about to die, because a zealous prosecutor is going to try to put you in prison if you perform an abortion.
re: #149 No Malarkey!
Are not many bans constructed around making onerous conditions on abortion providers, such as having admissions at a hospital within so many miles, or about women needing to jump through endless hoops?
re: #133 Belafon
Since the VRA and CRA passed, Democrats have been lucky just to hold things still. Whites have been so racist, and males so sexist, that it’s been impossible to get major rights legislation through our government. Major rights victories have come from the courts. But all of that, and I mean both legislative and judicial, can be undone by one court.
I’m working with about 4 hours sleep, so I think I’ll just throw out a couple of ideas flitting around in my head and let you see if they can kind of fit together.
1. I don’t think that either of us is up for mass murder. So for whatever the flaws these folks have, they are basically what we’ve got to work with. And we somehow need to figure out how to convince them that they prefer our approach.
2. Earlier someone posted that two nationally prominent Democrats were assholes. Which could easily be quite true.
But my thought on seeing that comment was: “But, dammit, they are our assholes! And until we can invent a better asshole, that’s all we have!”
Then I thought maybe that didn’t quite come out the way it was meant.
re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Are not many bans constructed around making onerous conditions on abortion providers, such as having admissions at a hospital within so many miles, or about women needing to jump through endless hoops?
I haven’t researched the trigger laws in other states, but I bet most of them just outright ban abortion, since they don’t have to go through the pretense of “protecting the woman’s health” if Roe is invalid.
re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Are not many bans constructed around making onerous conditions on abortion providers, such as having admissions at a hospital within so many miles, or about women needing to jump through endless hoops?
Those are the current bans. The trigger bans being discussed in this thread are outright bans. As in, read literally, “Abortions shall not be performed in this state for any reason, at any time.”
re: #138 Dangerman
This part especially!As chief, Roberts was in over his head from day one. His vision for his legacy was toast before he began.
All he could see was “black people bad, except maybe Thomas” and wanted to fix that. After that, he didn’t know what to do.
re: #134 Mattand
Ummm, no.
It’s a stupid fucking take. I appreciate the hard work you’re saying he’s done and I’m sure he’s a great person, but it’s still a stupid fucking take that, at best, both-sides every shitty thing Republicans and the religious right wing have done to bring us to this point.
At best.
You may want to take your own advice.
Nope. If he works for dems and votes for dems, he can think what he wants about individuals. Also, who the fuck cares? Whether Bill and Monica did or did not add to the troubles of the dems is not a big deal, particularly after decades. (I don’t think much of adulterers, just to be clear, but I have other things to worry about.)
re: #151 ckkatz
I’m working with about 4 hours sleep, so I think I’ll just throw out a couple of ideas flitting around in my head and let you see if they can kind of fit together.
1. I don’t think that either of us is up for mass murder. So for whatever the flaws these folks have, they are basically what we’ve got to work with. And we somehow need to figure out how to convince them that they prefer our approach.
2. Earlier someone posted that two nationally prominent Democrats were assholes. Which could easily be quite true.
But my thought on seeing that comment was: “But, dammit, they are our assholes! And until we can invent a better asshole, that all we have!”
My second thought was that maybe it didn’t quite come out the way it was meant.
Heh. No one loves a peace-maker. Get some sleep, and dream of a delightful world where Monica Lewinsky is a nationally prominent Dem.
re: #140 Charles Johnson
See. This is not helping. This is exactly what I mean.
re: #151 ckkatz
I’m working with about 4 hours sleep, so I think I’ll just throw out a couple of ideas flitting around in my head and let you see if they can kind of fit together.
1. I don’t think that either of us is up for mass murder. So for whatever the flaws these folks have, they are basically what we’ve got to work with. And we somehow need to figure out how to convince them that they prefer our approach.
2. Earlier someone posted that two nationally prominent Democrats were assholes. Which could easily be quite true.
But my thought on seeing that comment was: “But, dammit, they are our assholes! And until we can invent a better asshole, that all we have!”
My second thought was that maybe it didn’t quite come out the way it was meant.
Whatever you thought I was trying to say, I will say I agree with this. just adding my own interpretation of history.
Peter Brimelow, a former National Review editor who now runs the racist website VDARE, celebrated the Roe news by posting on the alt social media site Gab: “Next stop Brown vs. Board!” pic.twitter.com/nYpfErOaVI
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 3, 2022
I wonder how many young people think like this one:
You’re misled. You are young but even given that, you claiming that the roll-back of abortion rights is the fault of Dems is just crazy.
You claim to be in school so I hope some professor can teach you some thinking skills.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 3, 2022
re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Troll with a rush-job script.
re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wonder how many young people think like this one:
Not as many as Payton hopes. “I’m pro abortion, but also pro-segregation, pro-homophobe, and support those who hate Jews and immigrants” is the message he’s sending.
Just a brief reminder: 4 of the 7 justices who voted for Roe were appointed by Republicans. The Republican Party was instrumental in passing the CRA and the VRA. This was a very different GOP from the one today; back then the Federalist Society wasn’t poisoning every GOP judge and every GOP court decision
So I discovered that Panera makes a “baked potato soup” and I thought that sounds kind of weird but I tried some and it was actually pretty good. Because it has BACON.
So on top of being a terrible human being & a shitty excuse for a Jewish man, Ben is additionally either a horrible excuse for a gay man, crappy at punctuation, or both.
I’d congratulate him on leaving the closet, but the LGBT+ community would likely be happy to see the schmuck head back inside.
As a gay man, I have been reliably informed he cannot opinion on this, and you should have told him to shut up https://t.co/q7PHrrbrvP
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 3, 2022
re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter
Just a brief reminder: 4 of the 7 justices who voted for Roe were appointed by Republicans. The Republican Party was instrumental in passing the CRA and the VRA. This was a very different GOP from the one today; back then the Federalist Society wasn’t poisoning every GOP judge and every GOP court decision
And a good cigar was a nickle.
re: #167 (((Archangel1)))
So on top of being a terrible human being & a shitty excuse for a Jewish man, Ben is additionally either a horrible excuse for a gay man, crappy at punctuation, or both.
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He can’t imagine this scenario:
I’m telling you now how this is going to go down:
About a week after the decision to overturn Roe is released, AG Paxton in TX will release an opinion that TX is not bound by Obergefell. 1/n— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2022
re: #166 Charles Johnson
So I discovered that Panera makes a “baked potato soup” and I thought that sounds kind of weird but I tried some and it was actually pretty good. Because it has BACON.
Bacon makes everything better. EVERYTHING.
Another important thing to remember
Never forget that fighting abortion only became a white evangelical article of faith when school segregation became unpopular.
— Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@RevJacquiLewis) May 3, 2022
re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wonder how many young people think like this one:
Joined Twitter on April 21, 2022. Very likely a troll pretending to be liberal.
re: #167 (((Archangel1)))
So on top of being a terrible human being & a shitty excuse for a Jewish man, Ben is additionally either a horrible excuse for a gay man, crappy at punctuation, or both.
I’d congratulate him on leaving the closet, but the LGBT+ community would likely be happy to see the schmuck head back inside.
Congratulations on coming out. Does your wife know? I’m guessing she does, even if you haven’t told her yet.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 3, 2022
re: #172 Charles Johnson
Joined Twitter on April 21, 2022. Very likely a troll pretending to be liberal.
Possibly, yes.
Disinformation will be at an increasingly high level. I expect full on information warfare to be cranked up to 10.
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
During the Kavanaugh hearings, the GOP kept on top of things and turned it into a he-said-she-said, innocent-until-proven-guilty shouting match, which missed the point.
Kavanaugh was not on trial for his past actions, they did not need to proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The point of the hearings (which got lost in the din) was whether he had the qualifications - and the character - to be granted a lifetime appointment to America’s highest judicial body.
Had anybody been paying attention to anything except the dick-waggling, beer-drinking stories, it would of become clear that he was not up to the standards of the office he was seeking
I remain convinced that the leak of the rape allegations vs. Judge beer was GOP ratfucking done to distract away from Judge Beer’s shady finances.
re: #175 EPR-radar
I remain convinced that the leak of the rape allegations vs. Judge beer was GOP ratfucking done to distract away from Judge Beer’s shady finances.
Certainly. Just like the GOP leaked about Anita Hill to distract from the fact that Thomas is utterly incompetent.
I love it for us that there was briefly an Icelandic basque pidgin language spoken by whalers in the early 17th century and that these are a few of the words that survive https://t.co/kFv9XYQdWC pic.twitter.com/T1kzUr7s3L
— Maximilian Hess (@zakavkaza) May 2, 2022
re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wonder how many young people think like this one:
I wouldn’t make excuses for that deeply dishonest Republican.
i think i should be removing the “liberal” out of my ideology until the #BidenHarrisAdministration gets out of office#BidenIsALaughingstock #BidenCrimeFamilly #AbbottFailedTexasAgain
— Payton Hubert (@PaytonSkyHubert) April 26, 2022
it’s time for the horrified dog pic.twitter.com/ZR0mgTXv7r
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
Someone poster earlier about Ragnarok Lobster throwing shade at Warren. Well, here you go.
LOL come on with this performative bullshit. https://t.co/wcWK0G7U6v
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) May 3, 2022
First sourdough from the new oven. Thank you @Lowes pic.twitter.com/HVrFYVn1AB
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈 (@Pie_Overlord) May 3, 2022
Another new outlet tries to make the news about leaking documents rather than the substance of the ruling:
Nonsense. Whatever credibility the USSC has is derived from how well they have interpreted the Constitution over many decades.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 3, 2022
So that idiot climbing Salesforce tower is apparently some anti-choice nutjob looking for donations. I never wanted to see someone fail to make it as much as I do now.
re: #180 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Someone poster earlier about Ragnarok Lobster throwing shade at Warren. Well, here you go.
Someone needs to reply to him that we predicted this nonsense from him a few hours ago.
re: #182 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another new outlet tries to make the news about leaking documents rather than the substance of the ruling:
It’s the open attack on women’s rights, as if we’re living in a theocracy, that’s the problem. Not the leak. Republicans have you focused on the least significant aspect of their attack on Americans.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #182 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another new outlet tries to make the news about leaking documents rather than the substance of the ruling:
Their credibility was completely shattered when they started issuing shadow docket rulings.
re: #187 Belafon
Their credibility was completely shattered when they started issuing shadow docket rulings.
Another thing to distract from.
#RoevWade pic.twitter.com/qA0IwQ5s1x
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 3, 2022
re: #180 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Someone poster earlier about Ragnarok Lobster throwing shade at Warren. Well, here you go.
That’s how he’s been recently, and a lot of us are wondering what happened. He clearly has personal issues regarding Liz Warren. pic.twitter.com/iLUvvJu4w9
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #166 Charles Johnson
So I discovered that Panera makes a “baked potato soup” and I thought that sounds kind of weird but I tried some and it was actually pretty good. Because it has BACON.
It tastes so good because it’s got like a million calories and a ton of salt.
Alito’s draft heavily references English legal precedent, including that of famed jurist Sir Matthew Hale who, it should be noted, had at least two women executed for witchcraft and wrote a treatise supporting marital rape pic.twitter.com/YijPlbkcq3
— emily bell (@emilybell) May 3, 2022
re: #194 Charles Johnson
FOREIGN law! Foreign LAW!
re: #194 Charles Johnson
I bet Alito has had large chunks of this putrid opinion written up for years, just waiting for a chance to make it law with 5 SCOTUS votes.
re: #169 Barefoot Grin
He can’t imagine this scenario:
It’s only a slippery slope if it’s a progressive issue.
Could this turn Tucker against Putin or naw.
Men and boys among alleged rape victims by Russian soldiers in Ukraine https://t.co/y9Q797fzfR
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 3, 2022
So it looks like the target era the GOP wants to drag the US back to is somewhere in the 1600s. https://t.co/iqWIqTrpCo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2022
re: #200 Charles Johnson
And here I’ve been saying for years they wanted to go back to the 18th century. Never occurred that it actually is the 17th century.
re: #84 Charles Johnson
What PLANET are you on?They bombed abortion clinic and killed doctors, nurses, security guards and patients. They harass people entering clinics every day the clinics are open. Oh, and the elders of the church in my neighborhood, they want to execute women who get abortions.
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) May 3, 2022
This woman is such a liar.
Thread. 5 tweets.
If you are using an online period tracker or tracking your cycles through your phone, get off it and delete your data.
Now.— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (she/her) (@ECMcLaughlin) May 3, 2022
re: #200 Charles Johnson
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17th century was wild compared to today.
re: #205 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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17th century was wild compared to today.
Better music, too.
re: #192 JC1
It tastes so good because it’s got like a million calories and a ton of salt.
Which is, of course, the whole thing behind bacon - tons of fat and tons of sodium. Our bodies are evolved to crave those because they were rare on the African savanna. Now they’re our downfall.
The rest of our evolved omnivorous diet - fruit, veggies, nuts, legumes and lean meat - is much more healthy for us.
re: #202 mmmirele
Her whole thread is packed with lies.
“Freakout” is a weird way to characterize the response of normal people to an attack on American women from the radicalized-right. If you’re trying to hold a moral high ground while being a theocratic monster, it can’t be done.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
re: #204 Charles Johnson
Now don’t you lie to me too, FedEx.
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FedEx is awful….especially for home delivery. If I’m forced to use fedex, I always (when possible) have the package delivered to a FedEx store and then pick it up myself. I feel your pain.
SO I got to cancel Century Link today. The T-Mobile gadget is wonderful. I’ve gotten up to 98 mbps down & 26 mbps UP (!) on it (that’s faster than CL was down) and it’s been rock solid stable.
Of course half the fun was “why are you cancelling?” - slow & crappy service, down more often than up and way overpriced.”
:D
re: #210 Dr. Matt
FedEx is awful….especially for home delivery. If I’m forced to use fedex, I always (when possible) have the package delivered to a FedEx store and then pick it up myself. I feel your pain.
I hate FedEx almost as much as UPS. For everything I have a choice on, USPS all the way.
re: #210 Dr. Matt
FedEx is awful….especially for home delivery. If I’m forced to use fedex, I always (when possible) have the package delivered to a FedEx store and then pick it up myself. I feel your pain.
I think it varies by location. I’ve always had pretty good luck with FedEx (and trouble with UPS). On the other hand, a friend of mine in another state has endless trouble with FedEx and smooth sailing with UPS.
My recent computer purchase was sent by FedEx overnight from New Hampshire to CA. Except that I had to sit in the hall waiting for the delivery (1/2 hour or so) because for some reason my name isn’t listed in the electronic directory (ordinarily I don’t mind, or I’d get it in there).
re: #213 Charles Johnson
Houston, the iMac has landed.
Now all you need is more bacon and life will be good!
re: #215 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
I think it varies by location. I’ve always had pretty good luck with FedEx (and trouble with UPS). On the other hand, a friend of mine in another state has endless trouble with FedEx and smooth sailing with UPS.
My recent computer purchase was sent by FedEx overnight from New Hampshire to CA. Except that I had to sit in the hall waiting for the delivery (1/2 hour or so) because for some reason my name isn’t listed in the electronic directory (ordinarily I don’t mind, or I’d get it in there).
FedEx almost certainly means a failed delivery here, and driving to a FedEx location, while UPS can manage to deliver every time. If FedEx is the only shipping option, I have to want something really badly to be willing to put up with FedEx.
Earlier today—
Visiting Dog: “Bark, bark”
Me: “Here’s the package from the porch.”
Wife: “That’s your Father’s Day present. We’ll just put that away for now.”
Alexa: “Your Amazon iPad package has arrived.”
re: #209 Punish Domestic Terrorists
When Roe was handed down, Twitter and the Internet as we know it did not exist, nor did the 24/7 cesspool we know as Fox News.
The 23-year-old nurse from Lysychansk (Luhansk region) Oksana, who lost both of her legs and 4 fingers in a mine explosion a month ago, today marries her sweetheart Victor in Lviv hospital. This is their first dance as newlyweds 💔 😭 #Ukraine #StopRussiaNow #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/BiDiH3gUZT
— zaborona_media (@zaborona_media) May 2, 2022
re: #210 Dr. Matt
re: #210 Dr. Matt
FedEx is awful….especially for home delivery. If I’m forced to use fedex, I always (when possible) have the package delivered to a FedEx store and then pick it up myself. I feel your pain.
Can confirm. FedEx just doesn’t care much about home delivery. They cannot tell the difference between Dogwood Trl and Dogwood Dr. Long story with an unhappy ending. Many packages were lost. If it is FedEx delivery, will not order.
Someone just texted me “Mask off theocracy is some scary shit.”
This is all of our indoctrination come back around. But this time it’s not from the pulpit. It’s from the Supreme Court.
Take care of yourselves, friends.— Melissa Stewart (@LissaJoStewart) May 3, 2022
re: #224 darthstar
Seems to be something very serious about Ukrainians.
re: #229 Decatur Deb
Seems to be something very serious about Ukrainians.
We could do with some of their attitude about now…
Ok, if your day wasn’t weird enough, here’s a new trailer for you…
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
But pulpits existed. And there was outrage. Coming on the heels of the 1960’s and all that entailed, Roe v. Wade was tinder in the furnace of the right-wing.
Nah, he’s too valuable a “useful idiot” for them. They’ll wait till he’s in the ground from old age and then nuke Loving from orbit.
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) May 3, 2022
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
That was…different. Not sure I agree with the casting, but I’ll give it a chance.
One thing I love about him is that he is utterly unafraid to do very different things.
Q. What is the difference between Ukrainians and Democrats?
A. Ukrainians understand that the heavily armed RWNJs are at war with them.
Have to say I suspected this was the case.
the newly viral @CanadianUkrain1 account seems fake
pulled data, found they slipped up and posted several times via the twtr mkting/automation tool SocialDog recently… likely how they are monitoring hashtags and finding content to share
h/t @IntelDoge for initial id pic.twitter.com/HtVUuuprsF— Ian Servin (@iservin) May 1, 2022
re: #229 Decatur Deb
Seems to be something very serious about Ukrainians.
No shortage of uplifting stories from these people that’s for sure.
Norm Pattis, former civil rights attorney and current Alex Jones shill, decided to do some standup where he uses all types offensive slurs including the n-word to make some sort of point about “cancel culture’ or some shit.
Here is an editorial by the Connecticut Law Journal denouncing him law.com
and here is the standup (Carlin would cringe)
Per some very sketchy Intertube sites there are more USSC deliberation leaks in CNN hands.
tip for the guys who think Roe’s demise won’t affect them: child support payments usually start at a quarter of your annual income
— shauna (@goldengateblond) May 3, 2022
re: #211 William Lewis
I have been waiting for Verizon’s 5g to be available at my house, so I can dump Cox. Me and the Missus and her son are all on her Verizon plan now for phones. Tmobile is available for us, but we would have to do all that PITA switchover….
New DHS IG report finds that the DHS’ intel division modified a report on Russian interference in the 2020 election to blunt the impact of its finding that Russia was aiding Trump, and that acting Sec Chad Wolf ordered it frozen b/c it would “hurt POTUS.” https://t.co/kQ7w5zeGzC pic.twitter.com/foomBHLGOG
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) May 3, 2022
It’s because wanting to seize control of women’s
bodies is the cause that holds the willfully ignorant “Conservative” subculture together. They used to get by on racism, but when their kids rejected that, they were left with abusing women.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 3, 2022
The NYT is now both sidesing the war.
A truly confused story that can’t separate what the Russian military is unable to do from what it’s choosing to do. Claims that Putin is showing ‘restraint’ in his war with Ukraine. What restraint? . https://t.co/PJuSorLsMv
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) May 3, 2022
Wow, the iMac’s 4.5K display is every bit as beautiful as they said it was. Just gorgeous.
Tfg just lost an effort at an appeals court to stay a contempt order from a New York judge, and as a result still owes a fine of $10,000 per day, CNBC reports.
Trump’s motion to stay contempt order DENIED. He’s on the hook for $10,000 a day.
In a video interview, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said it “may be true” that vaccines against COVID-19 cause AIDS, the Wisconsin Examiner reports.….
He added: “You’ve got more than a hundred doctors here, all of whom will tell you that these shots caused vaccine-induced AIDS. they purposefully gave people AIDS. They knew this
dick
re: #247 Charles Johnson
Wow, the iMac’s 4.5K display is every bit as beautiful as they said it was. Just gorgeous.
And it came in a nice box.
re: #250 darthstar
He won’t be able to afford that for very long. His disposable cash supply won’t sustain it.
A billionaire like him?
Say it ain’t so
re: #238 darthstar
Have to say I suspected this was the case.
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Possible, but the analysis in that isn’t all that useful or conclusive. I haven’t seen that account post anything obviously misleading, and the only fundraising links it posted were to known actual good orgs in Ukraine.
On a few occasions the account scooped info that hours later was reported by other reputable sources.
4 different people supposedly have access to the account.
re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And here I’ve been saying for years they wanted to go back to the 18th century. Never occurred that it actually is the 17th century.
They’ve been jonesing for those Wars of Religion the Founding Fathers kept us out of.
Ohio’s primary serves as an early referendum on Donald Trump’s hold on the GOP.
Venture capitalist JD Vance is well-positioned in the Republican race to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman after receiving the former president’s late-stage support. https://t.co/bPHbxbxpDb— The Associated Press (@AP) May 3, 2022
Ohio’s incumbent GOP governor, Mike DeWine, appears on track to secure his party’s nomination for another term, despite backlash from conservatives over COVID-19 shutdowns.
His opponents have all tapped into that anger but are likely to split the vote. https://t.co/Z1ByUJXz3E— The Associated Press (@AP) May 3, 2022
Meanwhile, in Indiana, more than a dozen state House members are trying to hold off Republican primary challengers who want to push the Legislature further to the right. https://t.co/bPHbxbxpDb
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 3, 2022
fun times
re: #250 darthstar
He won’t be able to afford that for very long. His disposable cash supply won’t sustain it.
No, but he’ll no doubt hold out on paying for as long as possible.
re: #251 Dangerman
dick
That’s more than being a dick. He consistently acts like he’s being paid by Putin to undermine America. If he’s not being paid, he’s working for Putin for free.
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re: #254 JC1
Possible, but the analysis in that isn’t all that useful or conclusive. I haven’t seen that account post anything obviously misleading, and the only fundraising links it posted were to known actual good orgs in Ukraine.
On a few occasions the account scooped info that hours later was reported by other reputable sources.
4 different people supposedly have access to the account.
He’s more of a straight up cheerleader - I don’t mind his posts. I just doubt that he’s everywhere he says he is.
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