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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Yes indeedy, people are too *suspicious* of our fine SCOTUS justices. Just because they lied like cheap rugs to the Senate during their confirmation hearings, calling Roe settled law, is no reason to believe they would lie again when they say they will not go after marriage equality or birth control.

But that’s us liberals for you, always worrying that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Tsk tsk.

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"I may have to reconsider my decision to even bother to explain things to you next time something like this happens."

Dare to dream Roy...

I could be wrong ( I often am)

and who really knows about other people's sex lives, but I suspect the intimate moments in the McMeagan household consist of Mister McMeagan shoving the $20 bills (that he stole out of his wife's purse) into Crystal's G string down at the Diamond's Gentleman's Club and the associated furtive handjob in the Champagne Room later on while Mrs. McMeagan stays home alone leaning up against ridiculously expensive small kitchen appliances as she cycles through the various speeds.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

As a straight White man married to a straight White woman who is well past the child-bearing years, I just don't get what everyone is upset about. So what if they make abortion illegal? It matters nothing to me! Same thing with contraception or gay marriage or even marrying someone of a different race--I'm not doing any of these things, so what's all the hullabaloo? As an American conservative, if an issue does not directly affect me, personally, it's just not an issue.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Hi, it’s me, the ghost of Antonin Scalia. Miss me? No? I don’t care!! When I invented the idea that modern life has to be governed by some white guys’ idea of what 18th century white guys thought was ok, little did I know that it would become the battering ram the fascistas would use to undo 200 years of social progress. As if that’s a bad thing! Now my fellow Italian Catholic Alito has applied it to reproductive rights and although most of you disagree, he’s gonna pull it off. Genius! And the cherry on top of this shit sundae is the way he took my other great legal fersnoggle - from Bush v Voters’ Intention to Elect Gore - that a completely fucked-in-the-head legal decision can be justified by saying it can’t be used again, even if everyone knows it can be. So, little people, Tony here signing off from the Great Beyond, which is a little warmer than I expected, but not too different from Phoenix in July without the swimming pools. Enjoy the country I bequeathed to you and tell Clarence I have a spare room for him and that nut job wife of his.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I can't even laugh. And as an Old, this unwanted pregnancy thing is beyond me. So will you look at me, another bleeding heart lib caring about other peoples' rights. It's Communitastic, I tell ya.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Of *course* Thomas Jefferson would have been against abortion. I mean, where would this country be if a man could no longer sell his own children.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I looked at my wife this morning and said: "Roy's funny in his usual disturbing way." That's a compliment by the way.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Nailed it. And the pains the Maestro surely goes through to be able to craft these gems, oy!

Except to say McGargle’s correct. The next group to find themselves without any rights will be the gays. Meanwhile, anxiously waiting to see how SCOTUS decides that outlawing miscegenation is a state right because, I guess, states know better than the feds whether mixing of the races should be banned or at least subject to state control. I presume Alito will bang that one out unless the Deep State gets to him first like they did Scalia. Of course, the DS was following the order of a Dem POTUS and Sleepy Joe’s the last one of those we’ll be getting in any of our lifetimes unless, I guess, we get a Manchin Democrat/DINO who fully supports the GOP.

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

For what it's worth, Jefferson's on the record (in the Notes on Virginia) admiring Native women for being so resourceful on the abortion question: "They raise fewer children than we do. The causes of this are to be found, not in a difference of nature, but of circumstance. The women very frequently attending the men in their parties of war and of hunting, child-bearing becomes extremely inconvenient to them. It is said, therefore, that they have learnt the practice of procuring abortion by the use of some vegetable; and that it even extends to prevent conception for a considerable time after." https://bavatuesdays.com/thomas-jefferson-on-abortion/ Note the absence of shock or judgment of any kind.

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Forty years ago when I got out of the Army, I hung out with a bunch of self-styled libertarians (please don't ask how or why). They were all basically reactionaries who didn't like being upfront about what they were. Anybody who calls themself that stupid, made-up title is either a fool or a jerk (or both) in my opinion. Bad cess to them all.

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"As a Libertarian," is your signal to step away from the pod person...

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No byline on this, but I think we all recognize the inimitable brain-pickled stylings of Peggy Noonan.

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Alito's hit list of other rights to be subject to rational basis review and accordingly subject to legislative elimination also included the right to control your kid's education. That one stumped me until I realized the goal is state-mandated religious instruction. It is not enough for the theocrats that we be forced to subsidize their religious observances and indoctrination. Our kids must be compelled to endure it as well. Also, too, laws against adultery will easily withstand rational-basis review. Criminalizing masturbation, at least for men, might as well. Will no one think of the sperm?

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I think it simple: libertarians are right-wing because the regime they favour would result in what we have but more so, with all the historic faults reëmphasised. (Notably, most libertarians have no trouble with Statist interferences in the Most Holy Market that are corporate-friendly, viz esp. corporate personhood, and bankruptcy.)

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Perfection, Roy. I have a rather large liquor collection (I'd count just my many bottles of Amari but I'm lazy), and a well-crafted cocktail is one of my pleasures in life. If a guest at one of my small soirees came out as Libertarian I would throw my cocktail shaker at their head. Just saying.

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Gee thanks, Roy, until this moment I hadn't ever heard of this Orin Kerr fellow, who can't add 48 to 32 and see that the sum is many, many times bigger than 19. I'll have to go back and check his past work, somewhere in his late 2020- early 2021 output there must be an essay entitled "74 million votes is really a little bit more than 81 million votes, once you round it and don't think about it too much after that."

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