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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Don't worry. Republicans have it all planned out. THEY will provide the drug on the BLACK MARKET. It is feature of Republican economics, not a bug.

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Aileen's avatar

"experience an aesthetic injury" oh shut the entire fuck up.

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Dick Fritter's avatar

Jesus Fucking Christ. Where's the nearest barbershop? I need to be bled for a few hours... Maybe some leeches?

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simpledinosaur's avatar

When Republicans promote a "smaller government," what they really mean, apparently, is "a government that intrudes into the most intimate matters in your life."

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Rachael's avatar

Even the fear of an 'unborn baby' (luckily unfounded) was horrifying to me when I was still recovering mentally and physically from the birth of my son, and also pushing 40.

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I'm giving you folks money's avatar

"Unborn babies are a source of profound" panic for 17 year old girls who were swept away by love/passion/pressure, and just GTFOH with that sunshine, daffodils bullshit. Good lord.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

It seems to me that certain judges and advocates are twisting themselves into hallucinogenic pretzels over the reproductive rights issue. History is full of examples of what people do to other people when science, factuality, and basic decency don't matter. Those examples don't inspire optimism.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"aesthetic injury"

Aside form the works of Thomas Kinkade, I do not think this is a thing.

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Revenant's avatar

may be? when opinionated cretins such as Kacsmaryk and Ho get to determine life-and-death issues affecting millions of people for decades, with no evident thought processes more worthy of respect than those of a drunk uncle at a wedding with an open bar and the finely measured nicety of respect for the impact of their interventions into the lives of others of a Soviet judge during Stalin's mass purges.

Again I repeat that their is no way that we, the sane majority, can continue much longer trying to live at peace within one polity with these arrogant ignorant aggressive imbeciles. That such no-nothing party hacks EXIST among us is a disgrace, putting unchecked power into their grasping claws is a crime.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

phantom thread! Disregard

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Violet Likes Pretty Flowers's avatar

Donald Trump IS an aesthetic injury.

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Matthew C Billips's avatar

I suffer an aesthetic injury when I see Donald Trump or read about Rudy Giuliani having sexy time. Can I abort them? Get a permanent injunction of their faces? Sadly, no.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

wait

So because some people leap for joy over seeing an unborn baby, that means everyone else must be forced to produce them?

That'ssome shit there

Also telling: Unborn baby, but not just "baby" and anyway,that drug is for when embryo is like a clumb of cells. Ain't no one rejoicing to see that.

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乜 𝗖.𝗨.𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵's avatar

The ad-ventures of Blastocyst!

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insert_something_creative's avatar

"Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them. Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted."

Jesus FUCKING christ, as if "aesthetics" are more important than a woman's fucking life and even what is best for the fetus. What are the "aesthetics" of a fetus that is missing a skull or has severe abnormalities incompatible with life? Or of a woman who is becoming septic because she is being forced to carry a fetus that will kill them? Are those still a source of profound joy, you fucking motherfucker? I am so enraged but I'll stop before I'm banhammered.

Just WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

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willi0000000's avatar

more reasons why i dread waking up and hearing "welcome to republican paradise"

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Tessie's avatar

Now let's try that with ACTUAL murders.

School age children are a source of profound joy for those who spend time with them. Parents eagerly share class photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of a kid waving as they board the bus for their first day of school. Pediatricians and teachers delight in working with their young charges—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are slaughtered in school shootings.

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Tessie's avatar

"Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted."

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OK, so still OK to abort the ugly ones. Got it.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

before all that, they haven't even defined what exactly an "aesthetic injury' would look like. I'm *dying* to read the definition.

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

It sounds like something that would afflict Oscar Wilde.

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willi0000000's avatar

i believe it is a bruising, and possibly tearing, of the colon caused by rapidly inserting a republican head up it's ass.

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