Horror And Cheers After SCOTUS Overturns Roe - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Things that Clarence Thomas thinks have no constitutional protection:

  • Birth control
  • Fucking
  • Raising children
  • Forcible sterilization by the state
  • Forcible stomach-pumping by the state
  • Teaching in a language other than English
  • Incarcerating people for being mentally ill even though they present no danger to themselves or others
  • Punitive damages
  • His own marriage

Granted, I wouldn’t want to be married to that crazed harridan either.

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From the 11:15 update to this article copied from Josh Mashall’s podcast:

So there it is. Entirely expected and yet still shocking to see in the full light of day. As I wrote last month here only-one-path-on-codifying-roe and this is the one path to reviving Roe’s protections. Get 48 Senators on the record clearly and publicly promising to pass a Roe law in January 2023 and change the filibuster rules to make that possible. That puts abortion rights and Roe protections clearly on the ballot. It’s not a certain path by any means. But it is certainly the only path available right now.

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Pelosi Reacts With Stale Call For People To Vote

The stupid thinking, framing and attitude displayed by Cristina Cabrera in that headline is precisely what lead to Roe being overturned.

Well done, dummy.

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“Stale call” by Pelosi?

I call bullshit on the TPM writer here. What a crock to call this call for voting “stale.” And this is a news item, not an editorial.

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Just wait for the 2 million women (and their supporters) marches on Washington. Then ask whether people are going to come out in droves or not to vote.

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Somebody get a microphone in front of Susan Collins

She’s too busy drafting a letter about how concerned she is.

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The Roberts Death Court

Pregnant? Let’s play Russian Roulette… Grocery shopping? Let’s play chicken with guns.

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And how will ANYone that’s up for re-election be able to run on that.

They’ll get shouted down, no matter how they describe it, from people saying, ‘but SCOTUS says no’.

This is going to be a VERY interesting campaign season. Question will be - is this important enough to run on? I mean, is it really, considering everything else that’s going on around it?

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Agree 100 percent. Pelosi’s call to change course through voting is the ONLY recourse we have - and if we had been following it all along, we would not be experiencing these travesties in the first place. Very dumb headline.

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But will they? Are there enough women out there who will take this as a personal issue and break away from the nonsense (e.g., Amber Heard and the Housewives) to actually speak up on their own behalf? And how long before the organization begins?

We need more than two million - we need 30 or 40 million just to make the newscasts.

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Apparently geniuses like Christiana think democracy and voting are stale concepts.

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Photos: The scene outside the Supreme Court as Roe v. Wade is overturned | Nation | stltoday.com

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Manchin Shocked He Was Duped By Gorsuch And Kavanaugh About Roe Beliefs

Behold, the worthless POS speaks, and pulls a Susan Collins.

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I’m sorry. This pregnancy will kill you. There’s nothing I’m allowed to do.

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He knew.

They all knew.

Their benefactors told them to ignore everything and put them on the bench.

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Absolutely. And the little test Alito sets up is flimsy as hell. Gg, John!

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It’s simple, 3 SC judges lied under oath at their comformation hearings, Impeach them

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No. Someone surgically insert the microphone, pass a law that it can’t be removed for 9 months, and threaten to jail anyone who does.

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I don’t know if we can prove they actually lied.

When asked, didn’t they, every one of them, respond with the ‘settled law’ and not really answer the question? Was/Were their response(s) definitive?

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In 2020, 53% of White woman voted for Donald Trump.

Remembering that the overturning of Roe will drive up turnout on all sides, will the number above change, and how will it change, this November and November 2024 is yet to be answered.

A side story, I grew up in Wisconsin when colored oleomargarine was illegal to sell. So a tradition formed of families making trips to Illinois to see some attraction like a zoo, show or museum, or other nearby states to buy, for themselves and friends a months supply of colored oleomargarine.

The point being, for most White women in America, they can afford a trip to any number of places, as needed. In fact, if you can google how Christian Evangelical women in Florida for some unknown reason love the beaches of Pensacola. This ruling may make those same women love to visit the Empire State Building.

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