As angered by and hostile to conservatives as I am, it is literally NOTHING compared to the rage I feel at my own side. I’m not surprised, necessarily, because the Dems love to *talk* about rights for women and BIPOC and LGBTQ folks, they’re just a lot less keen to *do* anything about them. But I am incandescently furious.
Being so gaslit by spurious allegations of conservative victimhood that they immediately form human shields around any fascist who claims to feel ‘fraidy-scared is just too much for me. If Dem politicians can’t find a way to fucking FIGHT BACK, if only politically, around a move which is opposed by more than two thirds of the country, why don’t they just hand the keys to the White House back to Donald Trump right now.
"Oh, don't worry a bit about abortion being banned. It will be a big electoral loser for Republicans!"
Well, maybe. But you've read the decision, right? You've noticed that it lays the groundwork for basically doing away with the right to privacy, right?
"Oh, you're just being hyperbolic!!! Republicans would never do such a thing. Just because they're stripping one right away doesn't mean they'll take any others."
By the way, how's that John Lewis Voting Rights bill coming along? Still dead as a doornail, right? And not one single member of the Democratic leadership has tried to revive it you say?
"Oh, you activists just get worked up over nothing. If you'd just let us professional centrists take care of everything, you'd see you have nothing to worry about. Just give us your money and your votes, shut the fuck up, and remember how important it is for Democrats to keep their powder dry. So very dry."
“0h, surely that’s too severe, Roderick. They’re merely unwashed and foul-mouthed. But raise the drawbridge anyway.”
Our overlords are always a little nervous as they tiptoe toward Full Fascism and that includes many Democrats who don’t want to believe a fellow Representative carrying a gun into the House is a threat greater than peaceful protesters standing in the street within their First Amendment rights, as delineated by Chief Just Us Roberts when allowing anti-abortion protesters to harass women entering Planned Parenthood. But the reality is Republicans have held Democrats outside of solidly blue states to futile rearguard actions. Here in Wis-ala-sissippi, the US and State Supreme Corpses have solidified gerrymandering as the law of the land, leaving the Governor and State Attorney General as the only bulwark against full Texasification of a once proudly progressive state. One Republican victory in this fall's Governor election and the path is set: no reproductive rights, no voting rights, degraded public schools, hard rock mining in critical watersheds. But someone set a fire at an anti-abortion office in Madison, so time to call for comity in the face of oppression!
It would be bad if Democratic voters most concerned about abortion got the idea that Dem pols worked them for money on the subject the way Rep pols work the rubes on Gawd, guns, and freedommmmm, right?
Maybe it’s me, but I miss the point here. Is it the lack of a hue and cry from Dems and the establishment punditocracy?
Working backwards, as I keep saying, based on what our leaders do and have been doing for a couple of decades now, neither party cares what the majority or people want or need. My latest example, of course, is the shit show of a nationwide response to Covid. I mean, it’s pure shithole stuff, nothing like what a civilized developed nation would do, culminating, of course, in SCOTUS’ recent decision that OSHA couldn’t act in regard to promoting workplaces safe from Covid because it didn’t exist when the enacting legislation was passed.
The Dems are fully complicit in this shit pulling and have been for ~30-odd years. Job 1 for the DNC has been to be as much like the GOP as possible without alienating their own voters too much. This, notwithstanding that it’s been a clear failure both electorally and for the nation. The Dems run on a one plank platform and not very hard at that: GOPphobia but without noting the worst about the GOP’s goals. Which, by the way, Alito did an excellent job of laying out in the leaked draft.
As for the liberal media’s pundits: That liberal is a right wing BS term like pro-life and nearly no pundit offers actual insight.
As for the leak, a few things I find more interesting than the leak, protesters at Blackout Brett’s mysteriously financed house or where’s Alito are:
Not only are leaks far more normal than the mainstream media would have one think but there’s the recent one on which the WSJ’s recent piece was based and there’s a third one IIRC. But the media is fixated on only one.
More fascinating to me, from a legal POV: The Griswold decision is built on a shaky foundation as was always known. What I can’t recollect from class is the exact role that the idea of freedom played in it. But I think there’s an idea floating around in it that there about an implicit right of freedom -- that’s there’s a right to be free of restrictions from the state. And being a crabby old fart, I would make the case that given (by me if no one else) that the nation was founded on the freedom from state interference in accumulating wealth, likewise for a shit ton of other private acts like, I dunno, using contraception, marrying someone of another race, or, I dunno, a woman’s choice to abort an embryo, even a viable one if health and life requires it.
All of which is ignored by the media.
Then again, we live in a time when the opposition party, with a majority in Congress, can’t or won’t or refuse to pass the most basic election rights law, so clearly my opinion is way off.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wish there was a Pulitzer for substacks, but they'd probably give it to that asshole David French. Who, every time I see his name, I can only think "Weren't you going to be president?" That's how seriously the serious people take him. Because nothing to challenge "The Apprentice" like "The Dispatch". I get it. No one wants to be uncivil to a guy you might end up working with.
Also, this?
"The Washington Post dudgeoned up like six Peggy Noonans."
These are Dark Times, for sure, but on the other hand, nearly every day I see something that makes me very, very happy that I canceled my subscription to The Atlantic.
I really hesitated about doing this, because it's cruel, grossly irresponsible, and likely to cause the deaths of innocent people. You know, kind of like banning abortion.
But since some people obviously need their noses rubbed in the fact that they don't get a say in what other people do with their own bodies, I'm refusing to donate blood, plasma, or organs until bodily autonomy for women is enshrined in the law.
I'm doubtful it will catch on because the people who make such donations are far less vicious and vindictive than I am, but it's what the bastards who are pulling this shit - and the Democrats who helped them along - deserve.
she worries that “maybe a swing set peeking over the backyard fence will become as sure a sign of a household’s partisan allegiance as a Blue Lives Matter flag…”
I realize that this is a dumb question, given everything, but I have to ask it anyway: how can anyone possibly believe something so fucking stupid?
All of these trimmers need to be forcefully told to SHUT UP and stop giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If they're too stupid or cowed or delusional to realize we're fighting a bunch of fascists, the best thing they could do is go away.
First off, why am I not reading this column in the NY Times? Aside from the fact that it's better written than most of what they publish, the opinion it expresses is completely missing from the newspaper. Instead, today they saw fit to publish something titled "Overturning Roe Will Disrupt a Lot More Than Abortion. I Can Live With That." written by some über-Catholic male (of course). He's another Conservative With A Heart (maybe they should call it "compassionate conservatism" or has that been done before?) who writes "opponents of abortion should commit ourselves to the most generous and humane provisions for mothers and children (paid family leave, generous child benefits, direct income subsidies for stay-at-home mothers, single-payer health care) since "children who would not otherwise have been born will live lives of utter misery". Prior to the specter of Roe overturned, like anti-abortion protesters, they must have taped their mouths shut while silently praying for family leave and income subsidies because this is the first anyone's heard about it. It's identical to other noonanist wankers who are suddenly and momentarily in favor of The Safety Net. That some Democrats would join them in this shit, or just fall for it, is infuriating.
Exactly. They know they're next.
So I guess we shouldn't be holding our breaths for a law protecting abortion & other reproductive care?
As angered by and hostile to conservatives as I am, it is literally NOTHING compared to the rage I feel at my own side. I’m not surprised, necessarily, because the Dems love to *talk* about rights for women and BIPOC and LGBTQ folks, they’re just a lot less keen to *do* anything about them. But I am incandescently furious.
Being so gaslit by spurious allegations of conservative victimhood that they immediately form human shields around any fascist who claims to feel ‘fraidy-scared is just too much for me. If Dem politicians can’t find a way to fucking FIGHT BACK, if only politically, around a move which is opposed by more than two thirds of the country, why don’t they just hand the keys to the White House back to Donald Trump right now.
"Oh, don't worry a bit about abortion being banned. It will be a big electoral loser for Republicans!"
Well, maybe. But you've read the decision, right? You've noticed that it lays the groundwork for basically doing away with the right to privacy, right?
"Oh, you're just being hyperbolic!!! Republicans would never do such a thing. Just because they're stripping one right away doesn't mean they'll take any others."
By the way, how's that John Lewis Voting Rights bill coming along? Still dead as a doornail, right? And not one single member of the Democratic leadership has tried to revive it you say?
"Oh, you activists just get worked up over nothing. If you'd just let us professional centrists take care of everything, you'd see you have nothing to worry about. Just give us your money and your votes, shut the fuck up, and remember how important it is for Democrats to keep their powder dry. So very dry."
"after the Trump years and the attack on the Capitol, no one should believe conservatives about anything,"
I haven't believed a Republican since Iran - Contra.
I always appreciate your straight commentary. Thanks.
“Sire, the peasants are revolting!”
“0h, surely that’s too severe, Roderick. They’re merely unwashed and foul-mouthed. But raise the drawbridge anyway.”
Our overlords are always a little nervous as they tiptoe toward Full Fascism and that includes many Democrats who don’t want to believe a fellow Representative carrying a gun into the House is a threat greater than peaceful protesters standing in the street within their First Amendment rights, as delineated by Chief Just Us Roberts when allowing anti-abortion protesters to harass women entering Planned Parenthood. But the reality is Republicans have held Democrats outside of solidly blue states to futile rearguard actions. Here in Wis-ala-sissippi, the US and State Supreme Corpses have solidified gerrymandering as the law of the land, leaving the Governor and State Attorney General as the only bulwark against full Texasification of a once proudly progressive state. One Republican victory in this fall's Governor election and the path is set: no reproductive rights, no voting rights, degraded public schools, hard rock mining in critical watersheds. But someone set a fire at an anti-abortion office in Madison, so time to call for comity in the face of oppression!
Something else that's not mentioned in the Constitution: in vitro fertilization.
In Europe, the Holy Roman Empire finally came to an end two centuries ago.
But here in the good ol' USA, the Holy Roller Empire is just getting started.
It would be bad if Democratic voters most concerned about abortion got the idea that Dem pols worked them for money on the subject the way Rep pols work the rubes on Gawd, guns, and freedommmmm, right?
Maybe it’s me, but I miss the point here. Is it the lack of a hue and cry from Dems and the establishment punditocracy?
Working backwards, as I keep saying, based on what our leaders do and have been doing for a couple of decades now, neither party cares what the majority or people want or need. My latest example, of course, is the shit show of a nationwide response to Covid. I mean, it’s pure shithole stuff, nothing like what a civilized developed nation would do, culminating, of course, in SCOTUS’ recent decision that OSHA couldn’t act in regard to promoting workplaces safe from Covid because it didn’t exist when the enacting legislation was passed.
The Dems are fully complicit in this shit pulling and have been for ~30-odd years. Job 1 for the DNC has been to be as much like the GOP as possible without alienating their own voters too much. This, notwithstanding that it’s been a clear failure both electorally and for the nation. The Dems run on a one plank platform and not very hard at that: GOPphobia but without noting the worst about the GOP’s goals. Which, by the way, Alito did an excellent job of laying out in the leaked draft.
As for the liberal media’s pundits: That liberal is a right wing BS term like pro-life and nearly no pundit offers actual insight.
As for the leak, a few things I find more interesting than the leak, protesters at Blackout Brett’s mysteriously financed house or where’s Alito are:
Not only are leaks far more normal than the mainstream media would have one think but there’s the recent one on which the WSJ’s recent piece was based and there’s a third one IIRC. But the media is fixated on only one.
More fascinating to me, from a legal POV: The Griswold decision is built on a shaky foundation as was always known. What I can’t recollect from class is the exact role that the idea of freedom played in it. But I think there’s an idea floating around in it that there about an implicit right of freedom -- that’s there’s a right to be free of restrictions from the state. And being a crabby old fart, I would make the case that given (by me if no one else) that the nation was founded on the freedom from state interference in accumulating wealth, likewise for a shit ton of other private acts like, I dunno, using contraception, marrying someone of another race, or, I dunno, a woman’s choice to abort an embryo, even a viable one if health and life requires it.
All of which is ignored by the media.
Then again, we live in a time when the opposition party, with a majority in Congress, can’t or won’t or refuse to pass the most basic election rights law, so clearly my opinion is way off.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wish there was a Pulitzer for substacks, but they'd probably give it to that asshole David French. Who, every time I see his name, I can only think "Weren't you going to be president?" That's how seriously the serious people take him. Because nothing to challenge "The Apprentice" like "The Dispatch". I get it. No one wants to be uncivil to a guy you might end up working with.
Also, this?
"The Washington Post dudgeoned up like six Peggy Noonans."
That hit me like chocolate.
These are Dark Times, for sure, but on the other hand, nearly every day I see something that makes me very, very happy that I canceled my subscription to The Atlantic.
I really hesitated about doing this, because it's cruel, grossly irresponsible, and likely to cause the deaths of innocent people. You know, kind of like banning abortion.
But since some people obviously need their noses rubbed in the fact that they don't get a say in what other people do with their own bodies, I'm refusing to donate blood, plasma, or organs until bodily autonomy for women is enshrined in the law.
I'm doubtful it will catch on because the people who make such donations are far less vicious and vindictive than I am, but it's what the bastards who are pulling this shit - and the Democrats who helped them along - deserve.
she worries that “maybe a swing set peeking over the backyard fence will become as sure a sign of a household’s partisan allegiance as a Blue Lives Matter flag…”
I realize that this is a dumb question, given everything, but I have to ask it anyway: how can anyone possibly believe something so fucking stupid?
All of these trimmers need to be forcefully told to SHUT UP and stop giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If they're too stupid or cowed or delusional to realize we're fighting a bunch of fascists, the best thing they could do is go away.
First off, why am I not reading this column in the NY Times? Aside from the fact that it's better written than most of what they publish, the opinion it expresses is completely missing from the newspaper. Instead, today they saw fit to publish something titled "Overturning Roe Will Disrupt a Lot More Than Abortion. I Can Live With That." written by some über-Catholic male (of course). He's another Conservative With A Heart (maybe they should call it "compassionate conservatism" or has that been done before?) who writes "opponents of abortion should commit ourselves to the most generous and humane provisions for mothers and children (paid family leave, generous child benefits, direct income subsidies for stay-at-home mothers, single-payer health care) since "children who would not otherwise have been born will live lives of utter misery". Prior to the specter of Roe overturned, like anti-abortion protesters, they must have taped their mouths shut while silently praying for family leave and income subsidies because this is the first anyone's heard about it. It's identical to other noonanist wankers who are suddenly and momentarily in favor of The Safety Net. That some Democrats would join them in this shit, or just fall for it, is infuriating.