To some extent this demonstrates why I have (tiny, barely perceptible, but present) hope that America won’t descend into a christofascist hellhole. There are lots of places Assmouth and his bitches would like to emulate, North Korea and Russia at the top of the list. But the difference is those countries have been oppressed since WAY before the Information Age. So the means of oppression are baked into their systems, and often the citizens don’t even know they are being quashed. There may be a small minority who have contact with the outside world, but they can be marginalized by controlling flow of information to the rest.
But ‘Murrica is nothing if not aware. True, many of us are aware of patently absurd shit, but a lot of us also know about how the world works, and have access to resources which can increase and support that knowledge. Even the Assmouth Cultists can find shit out, if they choose to, if they are suffering enough to twitch aside the blinders they put on voluntarily. While I’m sure the GOP will try, I don’t believe the genie of the internet can be put back into the bottle. It is very hard to fully oppress a society which has access to information. Because eventually they might choose to actually look at it, and use it.
If this doesn’t work, they will try something else, then something else. The Dobbs decision ensured that the fight for abortion rights will never end in this country.
At first I thought all it would take was a pretty white woman denied miscarriage care for a wanted but doomed pregnancy. Silly me. It doesn’t matter how many women die, and it never has. It doesn’t even matter if they are Republican Christian women with husbands and children. Women suffering and dying is not a problem for our overlords.
Thanks to the Oxford Comma Dilemma, I read that provision as one to "[a]llow abortions for... repeal Article I, Section 36." So if a woman goes to a provider and says "I want an abortion to repeal Article I, Section 36," the provider is required to give her one.
This is why rightwingers keep saying “we’re a republic, not a democracy.” Because republicans are supposed to make the decisions for the people and the people should just accept it.
Listen, you just can't expect the common people to understand what they are doing. What's next, expecting the proven rapist Trump to stop destroying important government programs and institutions?
His fellow oligarchs need their tax cuts!
I mean, how else will they fly their secretaries to Mexico for abortions if they have to pay taxes like a little person????
The business owners in Texas must be starting to corner the judges on the golf course and reading them the riot act as their businesses take a beating. You know the guy, the one with the Mercedes that sometimes shows up at the job site to see how things are going while on his way to meet his girlfriend at the country club.
Where is the fucking line to stop being civil when they are literally KILLING PEOPLE with these decisions? How many are already dead because USAID programs have been cut off? How many women in this country since this started?
How far is too fucking far for the "nice, polite bystanders?"
We KNOW what it takes once this goes far enough (a world war and *millions* of lives lost).
I think a world or civil war is definitely what it will take. The MAGAts actively 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 a fascist dictatorship. Non-MAGAt conservatives are merely okay with a fascist dictatorship, and will continue to support it at least silently until they're in the crosshairs. We shouldn't consider them bystanders, and the legacy media collaborators who continue to sanewash the administration's bullshit are of a feather. And they're giving the bystanders excuses to keep standing by. We need to face the fact that it will take massive, daily life-ruining atrocities for rank and file Republicans to stop supporting fascists, and 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 I don't think most of them would go to the lengths of voting for a Democrat.
Rightwing media in this country has portrayed liberals as pure evil for so long that I can't imagine 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 that will bring about a purge of Republicans from power. We might gain a few House or Senate seats every now and then, but the party isn't going away. I know a lot of people don't want to believe that such a large portion of our population is just irredeemably rotten, but I don't understand how else we can explain the last ten years. We no longer need to wonder how people let Russia and North Korea get to where they are.
Not on point, exactly, but I've made a decision. To start using a litterbox instead of a toilet for my excretory needs. Now, I don't want to really use a litterbox, it certainly won't be more convenient. But I know that the fact of my using a litterbox will drive some MAGA's to stroke level rage and sleeplessness. Even you all telling people you know some small dog on the internets who uses a litterbox, it will confirm and strengthen their fears and prejudices. So, here goes. Resistance.
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Tricksie aren't they?
Protect children from gender transitions?”
WHAT? Where were these idiots in 1965, when I had "gender transitions"? Stuff just happens!
Ta, Robyn.
To some extent this demonstrates why I have (tiny, barely perceptible, but present) hope that America won’t descend into a christofascist hellhole. There are lots of places Assmouth and his bitches would like to emulate, North Korea and Russia at the top of the list. But the difference is those countries have been oppressed since WAY before the Information Age. So the means of oppression are baked into their systems, and often the citizens don’t even know they are being quashed. There may be a small minority who have contact with the outside world, but they can be marginalized by controlling flow of information to the rest.
But ‘Murrica is nothing if not aware. True, many of us are aware of patently absurd shit, but a lot of us also know about how the world works, and have access to resources which can increase and support that knowledge. Even the Assmouth Cultists can find shit out, if they choose to, if they are suffering enough to twitch aside the blinders they put on voluntarily. While I’m sure the GOP will try, I don’t believe the genie of the internet can be put back into the bottle. It is very hard to fully oppress a society which has access to information. Because eventually they might choose to actually look at it, and use it.
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If this doesn’t work, they will try something else, then something else. The Dobbs decision ensured that the fight for abortion rights will never end in this country.
At first I thought all it would take was a pretty white woman denied miscarriage care for a wanted but doomed pregnancy. Silly me. It doesn’t matter how many women die, and it never has. It doesn’t even matter if they are Republican Christian women with husbands and children. Women suffering and dying is not a problem for our overlords.
Thanks to the Oxford Comma Dilemma, I read that provision as one to "[a]llow abortions for... repeal Article I, Section 36." So if a woman goes to a provider and says "I want an abortion to repeal Article I, Section 36," the provider is required to give her one.
I can see why they think it will work. After all, the same basic plan worked for the Tangerine Palpitine.
This is why rightwingers keep saying “we’re a republic, not a democracy.” Because republicans are supposed to make the decisions for the people and the people should just accept it.
Show your betters some respect.
Unpatriotic? Call it "The Patriot Act"
Unlawful? Call it "The Law and Order Act"
Unfair? Call it the "Right to Work Act"
Unconstitutional? Call it the "Protect the Constitution Act"
Misogynistic? Call it the "Ladies Night Act"
Bigoted? Call it the "Colorblind Act"
& etc
Vaguely recall the act that was going to protect big businesses from being sued. They really dressed that one up.
Ohio tried playing this game and it didn’t come close to working
Listen, you just can't expect the common people to understand what they are doing. What's next, expecting the proven rapist Trump to stop destroying important government programs and institutions?
His fellow oligarchs need their tax cuts!
I mean, how else will they fly their secretaries to Mexico for abortions if they have to pay taxes like a little person????
I don't think tax cuts would satisfy their appetites.
I suspect that they'll eliminate all taxes (for themselves) completely.
As we've seen, if they can think it up, they're gonna say that's how it is now..
Crooked motherfuckers!
Ever since the Proposition Hate (8) in CA these assholes have gotten really sneaky about how to word these.
In THAT instance, the people got smart.
Messaging, messaging, messaging is the way to educate on their nefarious intentions. Keep at it Mizz!
The "Don't show me this bullshit!" state.
Hope so.
Am I late for this?
Adam Klasfeld
@klasfeldreports.com
BREAKING:
Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.
That judge was appointed by Trump.
Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...
The business owners in Texas must be starting to corner the judges on the golf course and reading them the riot act as their businesses take a beating. You know the guy, the one with the Mercedes that sometimes shows up at the job site to see how things are going while on his way to meet his girlfriend at the country club.
Marc Elias wrote:
𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 100 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴.
𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴: “𝘔𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵.”
𝘈𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵. 𝘈𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 “𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴.”
You need to eat some beans and vegetables for regularity. Big Macs and diet cokes three times a day does not promote regularity.
Yeah but he won’t do anything and nothing will happen to these people.
Are judges going to have to die first before everyone treats Trump and the regime like the threat they are?
Seems like it.
Where is the fucking line to stop being civil when they are literally KILLING PEOPLE with these decisions? How many are already dead because USAID programs have been cut off? How many women in this country since this started?
How far is too fucking far for the "nice, polite bystanders?"
We KNOW what it takes once this goes far enough (a world war and *millions* of lives lost).
I think a world or civil war is definitely what it will take. The MAGAts actively 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 a fascist dictatorship. Non-MAGAt conservatives are merely okay with a fascist dictatorship, and will continue to support it at least silently until they're in the crosshairs. We shouldn't consider them bystanders, and the legacy media collaborators who continue to sanewash the administration's bullshit are of a feather. And they're giving the bystanders excuses to keep standing by. We need to face the fact that it will take massive, daily life-ruining atrocities for rank and file Republicans to stop supporting fascists, and 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 I don't think most of them would go to the lengths of voting for a Democrat.
Rightwing media in this country has portrayed liberals as pure evil for so long that I can't imagine 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 that will bring about a purge of Republicans from power. We might gain a few House or Senate seats every now and then, but the party isn't going away. I know a lot of people don't want to believe that such a large portion of our population is just irredeemably rotten, but I don't understand how else we can explain the last ten years. We no longer need to wonder how people let Russia and North Korea get to where they are.
Sad but true.
Not on point, exactly, but I've made a decision. To start using a litterbox instead of a toilet for my excretory needs. Now, I don't want to really use a litterbox, it certainly won't be more convenient. But I know that the fact of my using a litterbox will drive some MAGA's to stroke level rage and sleeplessness. Even you all telling people you know some small dog on the internets who uses a litterbox, it will confirm and strengthen their fears and prejudices. So, here goes. Resistance.
I'm transitioning to a cat.