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

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

look nobody wants to damage the status quo just to prevent a few women from dying

xpost literally the only solution to the problem, Joe. the other one is "waiting 12 years until maybe we get the Presidency again AND one or more of these fossils dies AND the Senate isn't a Republican majority set to torpedo every nomination AND then waiting for one of the many psychotic rulings of 2022 to be challenged and get to SCOTUS again AND....." etc etc

codifying into federal law NOW after this ruling, like, would it even survive a legal challenge.

meanwhile, in Iowa....

Tonight a truck jumped traffic + plowed into peaceful protestors crossing the pedestrian walkway at the Federal Courthouse. I was walking along side them—the crowd included children alongside me. Thank you for @crpd for responding. The license plate was WRAPTOR in Hawkeye colors. pic.twitter.com/nnYRNFfN45

— ashleyvanorny (@ashleyvanorny) June 25, 2022

dumb fucker did it with a vanity plate and his VIN is being shared all over Twitter so this truck will probably be a burnt out husk by the end of the week.

but this is what they want, they want people to be scared to protest, and frankly, it fucking works on a lot of us. especially on people who have others who depend on them.

just a sick feeling in the stomach, all of this. and a familiar one.

DHS warns of potential violent extremist activity in response to abortion ruling: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/dhs-warning-abortion-ruling/index.html

stop scaremongering, they’re on the case

I know there are women out there who are afraid. To those of you who feel alone and scared: I want you to know the President and I are fighting for you and your rights. We are in this fight together. pic.twitter.com/1J54ZY2aYk

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 24, 2022

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/haley-carter-july-4-parade-threats-jesse-kelly-17261619.php?t=1c5cd956cd

Jesse Kelly's Twitter account is the predicted horror show.

just going full-on Turner Diaries now

Big Brain Jesse K(KK). when asked about using Cancel Culture:

Because I’m not a Republican. I’m not “better than that”. I’m a monster. I believe in hitting people who hit me.

I already got a DEI director fired in Miami for putting on a drag show for children.

This is The New Right. We embrace cancel culture.

a drag show for children

Like...panto?

President Xi, my country yearns for freedom

— Blkpnthr☭ (@highbredvenus) June 24, 2022

our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

FUUUUUUCCCCCKKK

wow. Mask off https://t.co/9pXEYuXyyV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2022

"well see I was trying to say 'right to life' but lol oops said the quiet part loud again!"

"I thought I said 'Night Life'--I do love to boogie!"

“My rights should not be a fundraising point for the Democrats.” 💯💯💯 pic.twitter.com/6hNLQ5tZry

— GOOGLE LASD GANGS (@PplsCityCouncil) June 26, 2022

I wonder how the courts will interpret the attempted extension of the 14th Amendment and what it means in terms of judicial philosophy if there is such a thing. The wrongness of something at one point in time may be unimaginable; it's acceptance at another point in time may be equally unfathomable, viz. slavery. (So what exactly does this undermine?) I think the birth of a child is meaningful in terms of the acceptance of responsibility for human life, not because abortion is murder but because living one's life and living for another (as parents do) involve choices or sacrifices that may be weighed differently. (Rhetorical questions that seem silly to ask: Why has pregnancy been so frequently fictionalized? Why is there so much drama attached to pregnancy?)

The sweet, sweet mystery of life.

It's interesting that the 19th Amendment passed in 1919. I think women worked during WWI. No additional rights came to be attached to that amendment. Was that a deliberate choice (i.e., there is a previous amendment that is broader in scope that can be used to adjudicate on consequences deriving from moral relativism, and gender is not yet within the scope of reconsideration by an overwhelming majority that seems unlikely to change simply in terms of numbers and the convenience of power, which always seem to corrupt and which one can never forego)?

Fascism is here. Out in the open. This Texas Republican lawmaker is describing plans to overrule elected Democratic DAs by allowing Republican DAs from other counties to prosecute and imprison residents outside their jurisdiction. https://t.co/elQ7HTSutU pic.twitter.com/wu0xqpBJ3A

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 26, 2022

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

― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Friday, June 24, 2022 3:17 PM (two days ago)

yes and sometimes they do it anyway? But ... my analytical brain has a tendency to look for patterns, precedents, analogies in order to make sense of new horrors, and the closest I can think of is Jim Crow post-Reconstruction. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but there wasn't a huge exodus until there was a "boom" elsewhere, a highly promising sense of possibility for masses of people elsewhere.

it's sad that her family let's her keep going out here and doing this

And here's the clip. She said "use this victory to change itself." pic.twitter.com/SDCleEQWxx

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 26, 2022

Slipped the surly bonds of her gott damn mind.

Surprised Chuck Todd let everyone break the cardinal rule of Meet The Press: "Thou shalt not laugh in Peggy Noonan's face."

"Keep Ketel One away from Peggy before 10.a.m."

A faction of the pro-life movement believes that the logical next step is to dramatically expand the social safety net. I talked to them about their hopes for the movement -- and the likelihood that those hopes become reality. https://t.co/508HL9z19R

— Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) June 26, 2022

so how many Atlantic writers are this gullible and how many know they're peddling horseshit?

I mean, the headline is correct.

Rudy nearly got assassinated today?!??

Rudy on his assault today: “All the sudden, I feel a shot on my back. Like somebody shot me! Lucky I’m a 78 year old who’s in pretty good shape, cause if I wasn’t, I’d have hit the ground and cracked my skull .. Suppose I was a weaker 78 year old and cracked my skull and died?” pic.twitter.com/F0Ut5utsdR

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 26, 2022

oh.

WATCH Former New York City Mayor @RudyGiuliani, now 78, claimed he was assaulted by a 39-year-old Staten Island supermarket employee who exchanged words with him. pic.twitter.com/jCC01RcG7Y

— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 26, 2022

Maybe the 10th Amendment should be reconsidered. It may have been and be used to justify more progressive environmental laws in CA, as well as more restrictive laws on abortion in TX and other conservative states, but it seems increasingly untenable with globalization and the internet to think that regional differences are so profound and the United States so large that we cannot agree as a nation upon fundamental values, rights, and obligations. So it seems that states' rights are just an excuse to increase partisanship and skew majority rule without truly protecting any minorities from the two major parties.

Or confess however much you don't like it that the statisticians seem to have the upper hand on you and that no individual agency (or presumption of intelligence or foresight) seems to be the best policy. Just let the mass of votes count.

There are exceptions, like marijuana legalization, but in general "states' rights" is invoked to justify something terrible.

Lucky I’m a 78 year old who’s in pretty good shape, cause if I wasn’t, I’d have hit the ground and cracked my skull .. Suppose I was a weaker 78 year old and cracked my skull and died?

'Just imagine how bad that could have been' is not a description of anything outside of Rudy's mind and what happens in his imagination is hardly grounds for a prosecution.

Suppose I was a weaker 78 year old and cracked my skull and died?

Mmmmm keep up this foreplay Rudy

- Restrain judicial review
- Expand the court
- Clinics on federal lands
- Expand education and access to Plan C
- Repeal Hyde
- Hold floor votes codifying Griswold, Obergefell, Lawrence, Loving, etc
- Vote on Escobar’s bill protecting clinics

We can do it!
We can at least TRY

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 26, 2022

“We can always least try.”

These are the magic words.

“We can AT least try.”

hoping there's just been a major spurt of energy put into the left for the midterms.
Cos Polyyannaing is always a positive innit.
Or could just lay back and go well America's a bit over innit.

Optimism is like necessary like or everything just becomes a damp funk.
With enough impetus you might eventually get equity or something. Or just outright oppressed.

afaict, the absolute best case scenario for the midterms is an exact continuation of the status quo, so idk

but sure, pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will always sounded wise to me

whether you should spend that energy on national electoral politics is another q though. there's optimism and then there's repeatedly putting your faith in liars