Tag Archives: Roe v. Wade

We need a general strike….

Well…with the obscene ruling from the SC yesterday overturning Roe, all of us who think that taking control of women’s bodies away from them is repugnant need to get out there and make the dems and repubs know that this will not stand…and to do that, we need a general strike of everyone…every woman, every man, every child need to just stop supporting the economy and stop doing anything period…no more work, no more shopping, no more anything to just crush the economy and make Manchin and Sinema know that if they won’t remove the filibuster to codify roe into law, they are toast in the next election…and we need to pressure the dems into investigating the lies that the trump judges told at their hearings…there is a law against lying to congress and they need to pay for lying they would leave Row alone as “settled law”….and never, ever vote for a repub again….never, ever…..geez…

A dark day in the US…

Well…as we knew from the leaked draft of this ruling, the SC just overturned Roe today taking rights away from Americans for the first time in history…I am not going to sit here and say anything about the fact I have a daughter…it’s bigger than that…6 unelected judges just decided that more than half the population no longer has rights they had yesterday…and this isn’t the end of it…the asshole Thomas has said he thinks that Obergfell was decided incorrectly, which will take the right to marry away from our gay neighbors and wants to outlaw contraception, too….and this is just the start, as I have said for years, these right wing judges want this to be a theocracy and they are not going to stop until religion rules this country and anyone can be arrested for anything they don’t like…now, tell me all you people out there that think there is no difference between the parties…get your heads out of your asses and vote for every damn dem all the way down the ticket so we can keep control of the senate and expand the court to send these stone age asshole back tot he little corner they used to occupy before mcconnell stole three seats and his three justices committed perjury to get confirmed…not one dem justice has ever done that…I am crushed that my female friends are now second class citizens and have less rights than their mothers….

I guess repubs don’t think women deserve rights…

Well…with the vote in the senate today on codifying roe into federal law, and every repub voting against it, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that repubs don’t think women have inherent rights like men an don’t think they deserve them. The next question is what are the dems going to do about it? We really can no longer just wring our hands and blame other people for what we can’t do even though the structure of the senate puts us at a huge disadvantage and gives the small, rural states an effective veto of what over 70% of the people want…and that is to preserve the right to an abortion that was decided in Roe. So, what do we do about it? First, stop ever thinking the repubs will do the right thing for once and vote to protect their constituents…that is not going to happen…so we need to plan how to get things done without them…and we need to get the message out of who they really are and hammer them about it every day…but not the piecemeal approach that just doesn’t work in the media environment we have…but find a damn theme and pound on that daily with a set of daily talking points so that message will get reported and repeated across all media whenever any reporter talks to a dem….and then go out and talk to people and explain why the promises the dems made during the election are not being kept…that the repubs control enough of the government and the kinda dems like manchin won’t allow the filibuster to be killed so the agenda can’t be passed…and then make it clear that the only thing that will change that is for the people to elect more dems to the senate so we never have to talk about Manchin again…so dems, get after it…show some righteous outrage for a change…there is no civility left in politics and no matter what you do you are going to be attacked by the right so you might as well get something for the attacks….

Poor babies…

Well…cripes I guess “the vapors” are a thing again and it has the repubs just fainting they are so aghast at the people protesting at the idiot Kavanaugh’s house for his support of the overturning of Roe…well, poor babies, get used to it…you steal three SC seats and are going to make women second class citizens in this country and you expect us to just sit there and be civil? How civil were your cronies who attacked abortion clinics and doctors across this country? How civil were you when your buddies harassed women trying to get healthcare? You ain’t seen nothing yet…when almost 70% of the country wants Roe left alone but you christian fascists want it gone so you can control women just so the “supply of infants” in this country will go up and you rich white folks can have pretty new babies…what the hell do you expect? When an illegitimate court destroys the constitution to advance one religion’s ideas of a woman being only a “vessel” for giving birth, what the hell do you expect? There will be no civility until the three “justices” appointed by trump are gone and we return this country to the rule of law and not the rule of hate….geez…

Roe is dead….

Well…to all of you out there who thought Hillary was too radical or tainted to vote for, you can all go to hell…it is you who sat home or voted for a third party candidate or even for the idiot trump who are responsible for making women second class citizens again and taking away the right they had to control their bodies and make their own medical decisions. With the leaked opinion by the christo fascist Alito, the supreme court is going to kill Roe, the decision that protected women’s right to an abortion and a decision that all of the trump appointees lied about during their confirmation hearings…how do you feel now, Susan Collins? It was your vote that put Kavanaugh on the court and he lied to your face when you asked him about Roe as “settled law” and he said he would respect that…but I knew that was a lie, and I wrote about it when the hearings were going on that Kavanaugh was lying as Gorsuch and Alito did during theirs…whatever small amount of respect the court had after mcconnell packed it with these unqualified, lying assholes is just gone and now we need to get out and fight every damn day to get dems elected to expand the court and we need to lean on Manchin and Sinema to get them to support getting rid of the filibuster and codifying Roe into law so the fascists on the court can’t touch these rights…this is the first generation of women who will have less rights than their mothers and grandmothers…but that is the point of these christo fascists…gay rights are next…mark my words….

Back to the 15th century..

Well…in case you haven’t been paying attention, let’s summarize what the repubs end game is now that they have captured the supreme court by chicanery and lies…first you know they want to overturn Roe and make abortion illegal again across the repub controlled states and that is going to happen in the near future as telegraphed by the unqualified right wing assholes that trump and mcconnell stole seats for….but that’s not all they are coming for..since their ideas are so damn unpopular across the country…even with mainstream repubs, they need to have the court legislate from the bench and return this country to the 15th century where women were property and the church is the only law. We can see this by the latest repub talking point that Griswold was “improperly” decided…you know the one…that struck down all of the laws that made contraception illegal….and now their next target is the ruling that gave gay people the same rights as everyone else and that one will be struck down next year with the cases that are now wending their way through the courts with the express purpose of giving the SC the chance to overturn Obergfell…the ruling that expanded US rights to include gay people. The latest attack on rights is the idea that a state can extend it’s authority to women as they try to go to other states for legal abortions…and they are using the the SC’s non ruling in the Texas abortion case where they let stand the bounty system that allows anyone to sue any person involved with helping a woman get an abortion…and that goes against the constitution’s guarantee that the laws of one state stop at that states borders…can you imagine if all you needed was one blood red state allowing slavery again and then all states would have to abide by the laws of that state? That is exactly what the repubs are trying to do through the SC and, with the right wing hacks on the court who have no respect for precedent or the constitution, they just might get their wish even though 80% of the country doesn’t want any of this crap….now do you understand why it is essential to vote in every damn election? We need to get a big enough majority in the senate to expand the court without Manchin or Sinema or this country is doomed…geez…

Isn’t that perjury?

Well…with the women’s right to control here own body hanging by a thread because of the three stolen seats on the supreme court voting against women…I have a question…during the confirmation hearings for the three new far right justices, each of them were asked if they would uphold Roe and all three of them spewed the same bullshit that roe was “settled law”…so now we know all three of them were lying…isn’t that perjury? Or at least lying to a congressional committee? Isn’t that reason to impeach and remove them? The newest one, Barrett, even came out with the stupid idea that women can just carry the fetus until it’s born and give it up for adoption so why do they need to have the right to terminate a pregnancy? So now we have a SC that says you can’t force people to get vaccinated but you can force a woman to carry an unwanted fetus…and that reveals this is not about abortion at all but about control of women and that’s it….and Sotomayor was blunt when she said overturning Roe would taint the court with the “stench” of politics that it may not survive…what about you John Roberts? What is going to be your legacy whey you overturn a ruling that 76% of the people in the US don’t want you to….and you will always be the chief justice that ruled over this travesty…and you can’t escape that….geez…

Women’s control over their bodies is over this fall…

Well…now we are sure that both Kavanaugh and Barrett lied their asses off when they both said that Roe v. Wade was settled law and that they didn’t see any reason to take any more cases that deal with a women’s right to choose…both of them just signed on to take up a case on abortion from Mississippi that was designed to get to the supreme court and take women’s rights back 60 years….and it will be decided this fall and you can bet with the 6-3 right wing majority that is the court now, that will mean that any restriction that any state wants to make on abortion will be just dandy with the SC…it isn’t even enough that there is only one clinic in Mississippi that performs abortions, these repub assholes won’t be happy until they make sure that women don’t have any rights at all…after all, their bible says they don’t and that is what they use to legislate in that backwater….this is just more of the same bullshit taking of rights that is the only reason for the repubs to exist anymore…just to hate and make sure that they crap on people they don’t like…I hate these people…

Don’t think John Roberts has suddenly turned liberal…

Well…with today’s ruling handed down from the SC saying that a Mississippi law that requires that doctors providing abortion services must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic is unconstitutional, the breathless pundit class is falling all over themselves to try to brand Roberts as a closet liberal who will continue to protect a woman’s right to choose…don’t believe a damn word of it…while Roberts sided with the more progressive justices in this case, his reasoning was that they had already decided this issue in an almost exact case from Texas a couple of years ago and he went out of his way to telegraph how a case needed to be brought that would pass muster and put an end to Roe v. Wade. With Kavanaugh’s vote and dissent in this case, it is clear that he lied to Susan Collins when he said that he would follow precedent in every case and it was important to the integrity of the court to do so…he was just waiting for the opportunity to set women back 50 years and his dissent and that of  Clarence Thomas showed that they are chagrined to say the least that Roberts didn’t help them kill Roe. So, let’s not praise Roberts too much for following the constitution, that is his job after all and he should do it in every damn case as they all should…but, I guess we’ll have to take our wins where we can get them for now…

So, Roberts is just a repub hack…who knew?

Well….I guess John Roberts has a  problem with getting the fee fees of the SC hurt after Chuck Schumer quoted Kavanaugh’s rant during his confirmation hearing saying that there would be payback if they didn’t vote for him…and all Schumer was trying to say is if this court ignores precedent and makes up law to ban abortion and overturn Roe, there will be electoral consequences..which is the truth. So, the hack can take all of the idiot trump’s threats to everyone and his shredding of the constitution, but if Chuck tells the truth, that is just too much and Roberts has to speak up…something that is never done by the sitting chief justice and reveals that Roberts is just a repub hack who is not the “caller of balls and strikes” as he said in his confirmation hearing but just another liar on the right who is using his court as a way to impose the ultra right wing nonsense that can’t get passed by the house and senate on the country who doesn’t want it. Especially in this case, more than 70% of the country wants Roe maintained and the access to safe abortion protected…but that doesn’t matter to this hack…he is going to be remembered as the justice who ruined the court’s reputation as being and honest arbiter of the law and turned it into just another corrupt part of the right wing machine…nice job Johnny boy….