Yippee!
They can now punish those slutty women!
America, welcome the Taliban to Michigan!
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A Democratic state still gerrymandered so tight they couldnât break it in the 2020 redistricting. The damage done by every goddamn Democratic voter who either couldnât be bothered to vote in 2010 because they figured things were so awesome the election was in the bag or the leftist assholes who worked themselves up into a snitrage over the imaginary version of the Public Option that lived only in their heads and insisted their votes hadnât been eaaaarned continues to this day.
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I guess weâd both have to concede what is moral 100 years from now may differ from todayâs standards.
For sure. Thatâs a certainty, not a possibility
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Excellent book about how Democrats blew the 2010 census redistricting battle.
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Even then it wonât matter â whatever their loved one experienced was for âthe greater goodâ or was an âexceptionâ because . . .
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The novel Never Let Me Go is about the creation and use of sacrificial humans in a future society
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The NRA has a chapter in their lobbying handbook that delves into the subject.
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We also have two democratic senators. And itâs definitely the gerrymandering thatâs allowed the minority rule in the legislature. Happened after the 2010 election. It was a disaster.
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People didnât vote in large enough numbers in 2010 because of that mean old Obama and the ACA. The morons didnât even understand what it meant as the republicans screamed about how awful it was. By the time people realized they needed and wanted it, it was too late.
A ballot measure offers some hope in the state: Last month, a ballot committee pursuing a state constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Michigan submitted 753,759 signatures to election officials, a state record and well over the threshold necessary to qualify for November ballot placement, once election officials confirm that at least 425,059 signatures are valid.
And we werenât even asked to sign that one. Thatâs awesome.
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Letâs see how many of those âlocal officialâ DAs go about enforcing this law, and how many sheriffs are keen on getting into the politics of this directly in Michigan. Iâm sure there will be someâŚbut that should basically just get more of the folks in the state to fight these so-called pro-Life fascists at the ballot box. And hopefully the pro-Choice folks can have some significant victories by the end of the year.
Thereâs a substantial difference between the amount of effort required to not enforce old laws vs enforcing old laws that havenât been enforced in generations. The energy and tax money expended on this is going to cost political capital in a state like Michigan. Hopefully the cost and projected costs will be too onerous for most politicians in that state to stomach in the long term.
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I was promised flying cars; instead, I got âwomen are chattel property, again.â
One star. Would not buy again.
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The Arizona GOP where men are men and ⌠well ⌠the women are men too.
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Yes yes yes. It might as well have been written by the founder of Operation Rescue! How far is that from calling the killing of a doctor who performs an abortion justified homicide to protect the unborn person?
They have criminalized large swaths of standard, every day healthcare. With that language, the crazies can now go after all kinds of things including IVF and contraception. It is RELIGIOUS language. In its own way, it is as bad as Plessy v. Ferguson. We are just barely starting to feel the effects.
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Uh huh,Trump won MI by about 11K votes in 2016. We elected Biden by over 154,000 votes in 2020.
Itâs a purple state with a galvanized core of Democratic activists working extremely hard in the past 6 years to improve voting protections and to create a non-partisan redistricting commission. Without the former, we probably would have lost in 2020. With the latter, we have a fighting chance now to flip at least one chamber of the state legislature.
In metro Detroit, Wayne and Oakland (the two most populous counties) are both now blue. Kent County (Grand Rapids) is now blue, despite its prosecutor. Other smaller urban and suburban areas of the state are blue. Weâre doing our best to make inroads elsewhere, too.
Weâre paying the price now of neglecting local and state offices and candidates. We are definitely in a bad way till we have more successes, to be sure, but weâre better situated than many.
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Yes, I pretty much agree. I consider Michigan a purple state and at risk of being a swing state.
Even in Detroit, where I live, there are continued threats
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