While many in the state were still sweeping up the metaphorical confetti from a red-letter win on protecting abortion rights, Ohio Republicans immediately began insisting that the amendment’s passage was illegitimate.
When you have a barrel of tax free money and nobody knows where it came from or is allowed to even ask the question; when the creator of the entire universe chooses to whisper your future in your ear, and it be hung with never ending gold; when the money you made enslaving people bonded you so tightly to the most evil people in the land that there will never be daylight: then, my son, you will be able to call yourself a follower of Christ.
We seem to be moving smoothly from stolen elections to illegitimate voters.
Yeah, that’ll work.
“Having thoroughly scoured the Constitution, I find no exception for matters in which the outcome of an election is contrary to the preferences of those in power,” Republican Attorney General David Yost tweeted Wednesday.
“Republican”? Dude’s going waaay out on a limb there.
In other words, we didn’t get the outcome we wanted, so it had to be cheating. Grow up, Putin is busy getting his ass handed to him and Xi is busy finding us more Pandas.
So THIS is what the people in Ohio are up against- one party rule by spoiled, entitled toddlers who think their way is the only way.
Republicans are edging closer and closer to saying election results are whatever we say they are.
New slogan: You “vote”, we decide.
They will try stuff like this:
Abortions shall only be provided in Hospitals accredited by The Ohio State Super-Duper Hospital Accreditation Board.
Abortions shall only be performed by M.D.'s who have graduated from Medical School in the State of Ohio.
All abortions shall be paid for at the time of service.
Well that’s only stage one. Stage two is when they start running against what their party put in place 10 years ago. What’s even more fun is when a candidate that running for statewide office is now complaining about things that they voted for/against. It’s like they don’t think we can look up their voting record. 
Just one more blazing example of why our form of government no longer works as imagined! This is a typical example of defeated politicians (who could give a shit less about the will of the people), dictatorially deciding that they know best and fuck the citizenry! Sad!
Oof. You just hit a sore spot. Xi told a staffer to go find a panda. And the confused city-born aide merely asked, does a bear shit in the woods? Xi promptly had him imprisoned for insubordination.
Well, as long as they don’t say all abortions have to be paid for by the fetus who must also have three forms of identification.
Looking up voting records is for loooooosers. we’re not supposed to think about what the GOP has done in the past, it’s all about what it will do tomorrow…
But the Pandas are eager to come back to the USA. They are so tired of Chinese food.
I can’t compete with this. Egg drop moment if I’ve ever seen one. Kudos!
“Foreign,” as in, Ohioans who don’t come from Republicanania. Deport 'em!
“On any one given day, any one member might think something or say something and might even introduce a bill, but that doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen.”
– Mike DeWine, 2023
With Republicans in charge, you can count on nothing happening… except for everything getting worse.
“Issue 1 doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn’t even mention one,”
Makes me wonder how many amendments to the Ohio constitution amend, repeal, or even cite a particular law. Also makes me wonder if Rep. Bill Dean understands the principle that any law that is inconsistent with the constitution is, by definition, unconstitutional.
A rare example of a Republican with a gag limit. Who could have imagined? But there is a caveat: whenever a Republican shows a glimmer of reasonableness or ethical behavior, they are lauded as heroes. We must never forget that they (Example Liz Cheney) are still ultra right wing and would happily turn this country into Pottersville (see: It’s a Wonderful Life) rather than back down from their uber Capitalist, uber bootstraps, uber everyone for themselves beliefs.
These moments of decency make me think of the stock market in a nose dive but one day it goes up 10 points and everyone rejoices while losing sight of the fact that the trajectory is still steeply downhill.
What a fucking stupid way to describe their situation! “A hard habit to break”? It sounds like straight up cheating and legalized law breaking to me. It’s not a habit, it’s one party of bad faith actors getting complete control and forcing the rest to comply. These people are fucking stupid.
