The Fall of Roe v Wade: US Politics, June 2022

A general strike would be a great idea, except I can only dream of a USA that's organized enough to call a general strike that wouldn't call more attention to its weakness than act as a show of strength.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, June 24, 2022 11:48 AM

fuck organizing. just don't go to work. when your boss calls to ask what happened, politely explain that a country without basic human rights isn't safe for humans anymore so you're staying home. that simple. no more questions, thanks for understanding, see you when it gets sorted. have a nice day.

would it cause interruptions in day to day comforts? of course it would. but a lot less than sticking in the holding pattern while full fascism slides in and royally fucks us all. expose the weakness. exploit it.

A real post from Donald Trump Jr. on Truth Social, if you're wondering what this is really about to the ex-president's family. pic.twitter.com/ALccPVnUMK

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 24, 2022

Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and we must fight any and all attempts to overturn it. As president, I will codify Roe into law and ensure this choice remains between a woman and her doctor. https://t.co/kaJbYWcYhL

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 5, 2019

Cool I already took Monday off 😎

seeing video of police in full riot gear rolling up on the capitol building.

fuck this country.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWCpdrJUYAAfFIS?format=png&name=large

The follow-up, wow.

He deleted lol pic.twitter.com/36HVg94qvr

— cryptid (@cryptid04780551) June 24, 2022

chuds w zip ties scale capitol walls and physically assault out precious blue lives - I sleep

saw some mean tweets about the Supremes - riot gear and vans

our precious*

They welcome political violence. They just might get it.

fuck organizing.

I guess that's the American way of life. good luck with that.

Oh there's some organizing going on...

Sen. Josh Hawley calls the abortion ruling a watershed moment in American politics. He says he thinks there will be a sorting out in where people live and in voting patterns that he thinks will benefit Republicans with the electoral college.

— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) June 24, 2022

Apparently even Trump himself was privately worried about this firing up the suburban women's vote

I don't think abortion access is going to make California or New York more affordable for people in Kentucky.

or, say, Mississippi

Lubbock, TX, to Tupelo, MS, is nearly 900 miles, and soon there won't be an abortion clinic that whole stretch https://t.co/NdnNyejQxi

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 24, 2022

And there's no reason to expect that not to stretch all the way to South Carolina, ASAP. (Though I guess Georgia depends on this year's election.)

I guess that's the American way of life. good luck with that.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, June 24, 2022 1:20 PM

get what you're saying, but this requires immediate response with impact. signs and shit obviously don't do a damn thing.

don't talk about it, be about it.

(also stay home where the cops can't beat the shit out of you)

what's the lowest cost of living state that is unlikely to outlaw abortion (until it's banned federally the next time we have a republican trifecta)? new mexico?

yeah gotta be NM.

it’s definitely the poorest “safe” blue state

Probably not lowest cost of living, but I've been pondering whether Maryland or Delaware may at least be reasonable alternatives to Texas if it becomes time to bail.

i'm just thinking out loud here. i realize moving isn't an option for most people.

This thread title proved all too accurate.

That's why I like the silly ones.

nobody's going to make a dent in Texas, but if a bunch of people did the opposite and moved to less populous red-leaning states, we'd possibly have this shit locked out

then again, maybe people would move and adopt the local politics

not sure mass migration for electoral purposes is a workable strategy, given the American left's less than legendary organizational skills

I wonder how many high skill and/or tech-y businesses will just straight up leave these states. Like, with an activist rightwing Supreme Court removing federal protections and red states going hog wild with that, uh, “freedom” I can’t imagine it’s going to be easy attracting talent to an area that seems determined to return to the Stone Age.

While I’m loathe to give too much credit to corporations, I do think that a substantial backlash will come from corps. If they try to touch gay marriage, for example, or relegate the issue to the states, there will be mass exoduses of talent and knowledge that corporations cannot survive without, just as they know that they cannot survive if many if their employees cannot access healthcare properly.

agreed

It’s so wild that these fascist fossils are so upset about losing their grip on power that they’re willing to further immiserate their constituents. You think anyone with half a fucking brain will want to visit some of these places now, much less move their skills and families? The hollowing out of the American Heartland started with neoliberal practices and corporate consolidation, and it will continue to be hollowed out by the Christofascist spite of a bunch of small-minded idiots.

sad that relying on corporate interests is like the only thing approaching hope at this point.

and honestly whatever mealymouth admonishments or threats or they make in the near term most of these corporations will still be giving money 2022 & 2024 to the very republicans ushering in this hellworld

Hawley's theory sounds like wishful thinking to me. Very few people are just going to pick up and move the second the laws get changed for the shittier, and a lot can happen in state politics before things reach the point of significant migration. In any case, I damn sure hope democrats get that they need to focus on the states more than ever now. Part of why we are in this position is their failure to do that.

You think anyone with half a fucking brain will want to visit some of these places now, much less move their skills and families?

Land votes, ppl don’t.

My friend, who is somewhat dopey politically, had an Eeyore moment after same-sex marriage was federally legalized in 2012. He posted how he felt like this was going to be a red line and that conservatives were out for blood, they would eventually get power back and get their revenge and erode a lot of our freedom.

Stopped clock et al but naive me thought we were on a leftward drift and it wouldn't happen.

It started in less than a fucking decade.

I keep remembering the moment I woke up the day after election day, 2016, and has I known the full scope of what was coming, might have wound up comatose. I mean it was obvious it would be bad but the ramifications won't be spent in MY fucking lifetime.

And Manchin still will vote no to end filibuster or expand court after he got easily duped

Few people can AFFORD to move. If you live paycheck to paycheck, even if you have a new job or the same job lined up in the new state, do you have the $1000+ to move all your shit across state lines, miss several days of work, etc

Trust me when I say I know that.

Remember that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Browning were lawyers long before they were judges.

"When I said 'Roe is settled law' I didn't lie. I only meant it was settled law at the moment that you asked me. I never said it would remain settled law. Gosh! Nobody knows what the future might hold."

after he got easily duped

oh sure, that’s what happened

Few people can AFFORD to move. I

Can't be posted enough

xpost I gather that there were implied scare quotes in that post.

Oh I know tabes, I forgot to write an xpost but my response was to someone upthread.

in downtown Portland for work this month and there are definitely some PBs slinking around downtown this afternoon, sketch as all hell. NOT FEELIN GREAT ABOUT IT

Can’t say they’re not on top of things

I’ve gotten six fundraising emails from Democrat candidates today. It’s tacky and highlights a real disconnect between many politicians and their constituents that is only growing.

— roxane gay (@rgay) June 25, 2022

Yeah, the texts and emails have ratcheted up, but I’d expected that.

It’s so wild that these fascist fossils are so upset about losing their grip on power that they’re willing to further immiserate their constituents.

COVID was the eye-opener for me on this, because once you realize they are willing to actually kill their own followers you realize there’s sort of no limit.

I mean, not the slow grinding death of poverty and shitty healthcare that’s been the norm and would require tax increases to do anything about, but even on something where they didn’t have to raise taxes and could be legitimate life-saving heroes just for telling people to get vaccinated, they actively worked against it.

they literally want us all to die, it's a suicide cult

https://medium.com/reluctant-moderation/american-death-drive-6298d617d3b2

"The president has been very clear -- he is not for expanding the Court," says @PressSec

— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) June 24, 2022