I have no words. The only people responsible for this are morons who voted for someone with no political experience to lead the country at a time when it was evident that democratic justices were likely to retire. This was no secret. The Trump/Pence supporters knew they were voting for the repeal of Roe v Wade when they cast their vote. Taking away a woman’s right to choose is gut wrenching. If abortion is against YOUR religion, then DON’T GET ONE. I cannot image what damage all the FEDERAL judges Trump appointed are going to do.
Will same sex marriages be next? IVF? Most likely that and other freedoms we have taken for granted for years.
In his concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas already said he wants to go after all of that next. It’s really as bad as it feels, and then some. I’m so afraid of the future.
Of course they do. Thomas needs to be removed for his wife’s partisan behaviors. It would still be five to four. But still.
January 6 committee needs to subpoena Ginni Thomas and obtain ALL her communications with all of Trumps minions trying to stage a coup.
Yes, and she and her fellow coup plotters should have been arrested for insurrection and sedition a while ago. It’s infuriating how these fascists are getting away with their crimes.
Even if in the VERY unlikey situation they were tried and convicted, the next Republican President would pardon them.
There’s a long list of people who need to be charged with sedition. It’s unfortunate that the Justice Department will most likely let all those traitorous actions slide in attempt to not see the country explode in right wing violence.
He better be careful of going after certain things especially marriages outside whatever he thinks is the norm. Loving v. Virginia 1967.
He’s married to a White woman and there are still many who don’t like the “races” mixing.
As for abortion, we can stop a lot of them from happen by clipping men. Especially those who have six baby mommas and don’t take care of any of the children.
Mhnnn . He has forgotten when it boils down to it, his skin color is a problem for the proud boys , et al . Appointments for life are fucked up. And his wife is a deluded cunt who thinks her shot doesn’t stink. FFS, she is she in wolf clothing. Stupid bitch I s clueless as to the way the real world works.
Ps- no I es on my coors light megafauna pint lol. I’ll take that W, bc no mother fuckin man here to make some shitty comment . God to m old af and I don’t even care. I lived in OK when Anita was a professor . God bless her and Susan not that anyone listened or GAF. They were truth tellers and I stopped any and all donations to OU after that. Funny thing… there’s a lawsuit against their med school for excluding any POC, females and Native Americans from receiving scholarship funds as they all went to white males . Not that any media other than medical journals with subscriptions who have paywalls can vie this info yep. FACTS
Amen. Why can’t men be held accountable? Last I checked they are all able to wear condoms.
Yah. Especially with the kind of relatives he has. Ginni’s ultra conservative mid west family said of Clarence when he first showed up with Ginni on his arm:(I paraphrase): We weren’t used to such things like this. But once hwe got to know Clarence, we found him to be such a lovely person, we were able to look past him black. He seemed like one of us”.
Really? WTF Ginni? Your husband is almost a full person to your family… almost?
Yet Clarence went for it. Tells you what you need to know about him too.
What a disgusting couple.
Oh yah, almost forgot this little Clarence Thomas gem: Overheard by an aide: “The liberals have made my life miserable for 40 years. Now I am going to spend the next 40 years making them miserable.” Nice goal for a supreme court judge, huh?
So, in a nut shell, because Thomas has hurt feelers, and despises female empowerment, and gay love, he will burn it all to the ground for women. Nice.
Agree!! Those two are mentally unfit, along with being racist misogynists which is surprisingly masochistic.
Tamara, delete if not allowed. there is a community on reddit r/auntienetwork that has over 100k women volunteering to help those pregnant to get to their camping spot. if anyone is interested go there and sign up to be an Auntie. I’m scared shitless to get involved but this is one hill I have always said I would die on.
I grew up in the 70’s and firmly believed in the equality of women. (I was born in 1958). it was our time back then. I was a Gloria Steinem fan. read MS magazine. had 2 abortions when I was 20 and 21 because I was a raging alcoholic and knew I wasnt fit to be a mother Nor have I ever yearned to be a mother. I’ve never had regrets and thank all that’s wonderful that i had that choice without finding it under the cover of darkness.
So today, I must fight and help others who I can assist. and it scares me because it will be illegal with consequences.
So far, we are still allowed to “go camping.” Props to you!
There is a group on Reddit. But it’s hard to get on Reddit. It requires daily posts over 30 days. That’s tough for busy people.
Along with some other women, I secured “camping” domain name. Will be building website network to match volunteers with women who really need to camp.
I’m based in CT, which has enacted laws in may to expand camping & making it illegal to share medical info with anyone/any other state.
Our group has another conference call in an hour. I’d love to be able to post about it when we are up and running with your permission, Tamara. Hopefully, by the end of this week🙏🏻
I can’t sit by and not help. My doors are open to campers!!!
Of course, Sunshine! Post anything you’d like!
I’m actually quite proud at how civil (FOR US, LOL) most of these conversations are. It’s time like this that women need to fight like hell against the oppressive laws and but our minor spats, political and otherwise to the side, or address them with calm heads.
Was just reading an article about abortion pills and women are already helping there, too! Talking about renting airb&b’s and having friend ship them there (I had not idea a package was coming!), ways to ship them, get them, get around the horrible laws states are/going to be enacting. My drunken anger and hangover are gone. Time to roll up my sleeves and get busy working on this!
Hi – have you reached out to
https://www.reachfundct.org/about ?
They are a CT based abortion fund. We have a huge fight in front of us, & it’s important that we as ok are working together & not duplicating out efforts. Our time is precious & deeply needed!
The bigger fear needs to be that they will go for a ban of ALL contraception’s RX or otherwise. Will all men that have had a vasectomy be forced to do a reversal? Will vasectomy be outlawed?. That scares me more than “them” going after same sex marriage.
This is TERRIBLE!! I’m so upset.
I just feel gutted by it. The supporters are the VERY same people who insisted nobody had the power to make them wear a mask, they controlled decisions about their bodies and they’re taking away a woman’s agency over her own body/reproductive system. Wtf?
Preach! THIS!!!! Amen!!! 💯‼️🎯 I live smack dab in the middle of people with these opinions. Many are family members my age or older. I’m ready to move to a damn cave.
ALL Conservative Supreme Court justices LIED during their confirmation hearings. Remember they all said Roe v. Wade was settled.
I am NOT pro-abortion but I AM pro-choice.
I’m with you in being anti abortion but pro choice. I take the view abortion should be rare but legal. The most infuriating point of all this is the ABSOLUTE HYPOCRISY of conservatives who for years bitched & bellyached about an activist Supreme Court, but yet here they are applauding the destruction of 50 years of legal precedent and repealing a law which has wide spread public support, somewhere in the 70% range IIRC.
They didn’t just lose. They lied UNDER OATH !
Yes, they all lied and that’s perjury. I am sure THETY will all say: at the time of my conformation hearing I felt differently until I read some new case law that changed my mind.
What they said was that it was settled case law. So it would not be in play. There is no new case law because it WAS settled law. THEN ONE OF THE FIRST THING THEY DO IS REPEAL IT.
I am getting mad all over again.
I hear you. I calm down then I get mad again after absorbing the gazillion ways this has destroyed women’s rights.
As a nation-we are going backwards.
I see all those mainly white young women right now in front of the Supreme Court dancing, cheering and celebrating the overturn of Roe. They were not alive when abortion was illegal. I remember the desperation of women who tried to get abortions which often resulted in botched efforts and deaths. The privileged women managed to find actual physicians, others resorted to clothes hangers and unscrupulous unqualified means.
And I see all these older white pundits act so smugly on TV and social media: “Well, abortion is still legal on the coasts. It’s not actually *Handmaid’s Tale* over here.” Meanwhile the Governors of Florida and Texas are leading witch hunts on LGBTQ+ kids, and the anti-choicers are already talking about pursuing a national abortion ban. A whole lot of them are in a whole lot of denial on what’s coming next.
Yes heading to Handmaid’s Tale for sure. Where will we be in 5 years? Contraceptives gone, same sex marriage gone. And all those self satisfied heterosexual “Christians”- you know most of them used contraceptives to plan their families. What hypocrites!
I’m writing from Australia and I just want to let you know that we had our own right wing Pentecostal Prime Minister who was taking us down a very dark path… he was a major fan of Trump, he even got an award from trump ffs anyway my point is women of Australia rallied around independents and a Labor govt ( like democrats) and we got rid of our PM even though Murdoch’s media ( sky news like an Australian Fox News ) worked tirelessly to sway the election outcome. Women united are a force to be reckoned with you have allies in Australia we support you and fear for your country if this attack on female autonomy continues… I just fear that the LGBT community is next.
Thank you! This comment gives me hope. We need a blue tsunami in November. Vote Blue!
I remember my freshman year at college, a sophomore girl got a “back alley“ abortion from a local doctor and died from it the next day, and I was just shocked. It made waves through the whole campus. Then right after that Roe Vs Wade was enacted, and I thought hallelujah no more people dying from this.
This posted before I was finished:
I remember my freshman year at college, a sophomore girl got a “back alley“ abortion from a local doctor and died from it the next day, and I was just shocked. It made waves through the whole campus. Then right after that Roe Vs Wade was enacted, and I thought hallelujah no more people dying from this. For the record, I am Pro Choice.
Good documentary streaming right now on HBO Max, called, “The Janes”. It’s probably on Amazon too. It’s about a group of young middle class white women in the early 70s who helped women get access to safe abortions. It’s very interesting on many levels, over time, as abortion became legal in NY etc they were helping more under priviledged women & minorities and learning to navigate issues regarding class and differences in culture etc.
This. Must see tv.e anyone with endometrial biopsy or d & c w no anesthetic BEWARE.
“The court said its decision was limited to abortion, because it alone involves the termination of a potential life. But in a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the line of cases related to Roe—which under the constitutional guarantees of due process and liberty recognized rights to birth control, struck down sodomy laws and, in 2015, provided for same-sex marriage—should be overruled as well.”
—Washington Post 😭
Truly awful! Never thought I would see this in my lifetime! The only thing to do is VOTE people!!!!
And… get Ginny Thomas off the Supreme Court? (And her husband too…ffs)
Thomas never should have gotten confirmed in the first case because of Anita Hill. URGHHH!!!
FUCKERS!!!
What a sad day for our country. In 2022 — women now do not have the same rights, protections and freedoms as a man. So I can carry a concealed gun that I can whip out to kill someone but I can’t make medical decisions about my own body? I (unfortunately) live in Texas right now. My governor only cares about a fetus/life until it comes out — once it is out it can be shot, it CANNOT go to school in our state and be required to wear a mask and it can be executed in the prisons. I hate our governor and sadly fear that our insane nation is headed toward his idiotic political and religious views. The separation of church and state exist(ed) for a reason.
It’s not just your Governor. Your legislature wanted this. The people who voted these politicians in wanted this. Do all you can in your state to not only remove these legislators from office but to keep them and their ilk out of “public” service.
Trust me I know! I am constantly emailing and contacting leaders – local, state and national to share my opinions and concerns! My mom worked for DOL for years and congresspeople would respond if they got more than 3 emails on a topic. I am proud to say I am one of those emails. I also vote and work hard to inform and give facts to others. Sadly facts don’t matter much anymore.
Htown here. I’ve done the same. Deaf ears and outnumbered by the nazi fucktards. It’s futile in our state.
When I watch food shows that take place in TX it’s all about diversity, especially in Houston. But the white guys are running everything I guess and the latino vote is not democrat. I hope Beto wins like I was hoping he would win against Cruz. I remember when TX turned Republican because of redistricting and all the dems. left the state to delay the vote. And there were Ann Richards and LBJ elected (god I must be old). I’m in FL and hoping we get rid of Rubio will Val Dennings. The gov. election is always close, like republicans winning by half of a percentage point. URGHHH!!!
One word: Gerrymandering. And then we can add closing the polling places and tossing mail in votes due to the law they snuck in. And, sounds like you’re my age and we might be old but we are wise and can see the blatant fuckery !
Oh and diversity my ass. Fucking KKK ALIVE AND WELL HERE I SHOT YOU NOT
I lived in Htown most my life. I’ve lived in Missoula Montana for the past 2.5 years and trust me…the Nazi fucktards are way more prevalent here.
That’s disappointing. I really liked Yellowstone. It was the only show Costner didn’t come off like another pussy. I digress. So many douchebags from here it’s embarrassed.
JenKen, This sums up my views too. I’m so sad for you and your country. 💔
Hello Tamara,
I’ve not commented in a long time. This is so scary and insane to me. I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone. I wish us all safety and hugs and love. Thank you for being my Internet friend. You make me feel unalone at times like these.
I read here a lot still, just don’t comment much as I haven’t had tv since the panny hit me hard. (I’m good now, just fuck the corporate behemoth who kicked me while I was down; I refuse to give them my business.)
We need to have civics classes again. People need to understand the difference between state and federal issues.
Amen!
Unsure what you mean?
JRich is trying to say Roe should’ve never been ruled in favor of in the first place. That it isnt a fundamental right under the Constitution. I’m sorry, but what I do with MY body should be a fundamental right! Not decided on by a bunch of out-of-touch old F&*^ who have sexually harassed/assaulted women themselves.
thank you. nothing has been banned.
This is a false statement.
So many inaccuracies in your interpretation. First this puts it back to the individual states to decide abortion law. This would have been the correct way to do it 50 years ago as per RBG.
Thomas specifically said he didn’t tie this to anything else and same set marriages are NOT affected by this. Also as a woman’s rights supporter how come Ginnie Thomas is supposed to be controlled by her husband? No man influences my decisions and I’m sure I don’t theirs. Try actually reading the opinion.
You are naive AF
Yes indeed Marsha Ward. Wait til your rights ( the ones you care about) are eroded.
Let’s say all abortions is illegal in your state. You are poor, raped, have no means to travel to a place where one can still get an abortion. You would be forced to carry to term a rapists baby.
I do understand the ramifications of this ruling.
Watch Fox much?
Your smugness is showing and it’s not a good look.
You’re either naive or stupid. There is a boatload of conservative dark money ready to take on the next phase which is to institute a total abortion ban on a national level. But I’m sure you know that….
It is her activities/associations with the January 6 attempted coup of this nation while her husband is a sitting member of the Supreme Court that’s questionable. There was some recent ruling (I can’t recall what) that he participated in that many felt he should have recused himself from because of his wife’s questionable involvement in the attempted coup. These people tried to take over the United States and threatened to kill the Vice President. This wasn’t a movie on Netflix — it’s a disgrace and it’s dangerous. I think she is supposed to testify before the Jan 6 panel so we shall see the extent of her involvement then.
And, once these people start chipping away at rights there will probably be more things taken away. Women’s rights are lumped together with civil rights. The movement behind this is a religious fascist movement with racism, homophobia, antisemitic, anti-female, white supremacy all thrown in for good measure. America is in some serious trouble.
Thomas did NOT say it wasn’t tied to anything else that was Alito. Thomas said they need to revisit all of the cases about contraception, same sex marriage, etc. Why don’t you try reading it.
Alito sought to allay fears about the wide-ranging nature of his opinion. “To ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion. ”
But in his concurring opinion, Justice Thomas said the legal rationale for Friday’s decision could be applied to overturn other major cases, including those that legalized gay marriage, barred the criminalization of consensual homosexual conduct, and protected the rights of married people to have access to contraception.
That motherfucker better visit the laws about miscegenation too!
And I bet he likes himself a little blowup now and then. That was illegal until the late 1960s in some states! “A crime against nature. WTF? Have they ever WATCHED nature? Animals are all about the licking and sniffing.
Motherfuckers!
Every man in government now controls your decisions this is a fact. every change they are making impacts women’s control of their bodies while affecting a mans body or actions not at all. And for the record I’m truly Pro life. I care about the people in our society having food , clothing, housing and educations. Surprisingly all these bleeding hearts crying about saving lives seem to lose interest once the fetus becomes a person. In PA our republican candidate want to make all abortions illegal including rape and incest hows that for caring and “Christian” values. And don’t get me started on the women who regret their action so they believe they should now be able to control everyone else’s
You’re ballsy enough to call out TT and say her interpretation is wrong, but then you went on to completely misrepresent RBG’s thinking on abortion and Roe. She NEVER said it should be decided on by the States. She simply expressed concerns that the landmark ruling would be open to attacks due to how it was structured. She thought there was a different case that should’ve driven the debate and that it was more about equal protections than privacy. She never thought Roe was big enough to carry the burden. Perhaps you should do some reading and research yourself.
As someone who was privileged enough to actually take a class from RBG at gtown, I concur. Her path to freedom was inordinately before her time. time. Rip RBG . You are so NOT forgotten. And I might be wasted but you should all be scared af that I got accepted to both Ivy League law school and med school bc off $ and. connections And PF and a fucking BRAIN INJURY, like my father before me who had a BRAIN TUMOR. Sorry to bust your bubble but SHIT AINT. FAUr.prolly gonna pass our soon but facts z
. I hope someone still has balls to talk to me here when I sober up tomorrow. Just ask Erika Janyne, booze=truth serum. lol btw,my psycho mom Spey every x
Of the estate,fraudulently canceled my health insurance. sand now I’m poor af. with cancer again and no $ or ins. perspective. . I think I’m officially done. Thanks for the community here. It it prolonged my will to live immensely. ❤️
How are you feeling today? I’sorry you’re going /through such awful shit hang in there, this community needs you.
Does your state have “Obamacare?”
If you have cancer, you can apply for temporary long-term disability from Social Security. It’s easier to get than permanent disability.
Not in TX . Pandemic clogged it up and been denied twice. Ffs, I can’t even renew my vehicle registration bc they sent renewal to wrong address and now have to wait a year for renewal to be sent to correct address in a year. They have no ability to send updated renewal to correct address! Can’t waste the printer paper and online instructions are circle jerk. Harris county has a sliding scale program which is run by bottom of their class medical residents and students but we call it the tag and bag hospital, but even still don’t qualify with any asset ie a car even though it’s old af they cut me off. Can’t get to said tag n bag place with no car as no public transport goes to BFE. The red tape is enough to discourage the most committed and desperate. It’s a cruel joke. Unless you are a gunshot victim which is increasingly a problem as well. Then should you survive are presented with a bill more expensive than a house. Suicides up exponentially. Zero mental health access unless cash pay much less any other specialists. Stupid is as stupid does here. I’m refusing treatment at this point as my support system is now all dead and I’m not going through surgery and chemo again. Haven’t told kids yet and might not ever. They lived through my 13 surgeries and 2 years of chemo once already and they both have important productive lives I refuse to disrupt their commitments to providing care to under privileged. I am just a number of many others in my same situation- not a special circumstance. Finally executed a DNR should it get unbearable. And I’m okay with it. Life’s a bitch and then you die. I’m still strong-ish and stubborn and ready to fight this latest fuckery bc PISSED and a new challenge of this nature gives me purpose if that makes any twisted sense? I’m more inclined to fight for others than myself for some reason which I can’t explain without over taking the thread completely.
I come here partially for your feedback on political topics because you are my spirit animal. Drunk or not. Probably more so drunk. Keep on keeping on IJC.
THEY LIE.
Do the Federal Fox Force Five ever fly in the same plane? Just wondering…
This is just horrendous. A dark day for women’s rights.
Apparently we have a fourth branch of the US Government – christian religion. Fuck all the religious beliefs of Judaism, Buddism, and all other forms of religion that recognize a woman’s right to their own body autonomy over a dividing cell that may or MAY NOT end up being a human.
I am so disgusted that this stacked joke of a court will give more rights to a zygote than to a 12 yr. old girl raped by her step father and impregnated or a woman w. a tubal pregnancy that will never produce a child but could cause the woman to bleed out in 3 minutes if it is not aborted.
This joke of a court also ruled that New York does not have the right to make their own gun safety laws, but then they turn around and tell us that same state has the right to make abortion illegal. Fucking white supremist hypocrites. I am livid!
Tell it girl! I’m drunk but not stupid or retarded. (Calm down peeps, retarded or anyone disabled or otherwise undesirable will be cleansed & the word itself will come back in fashion). Perhaps I should eat something or stop drinking through a straw bc my posts are devolving as our country is. Today I am committed to getting fucked up and self medicating bc this is just too much to digest/process. Any other ppl day drinking today please hollanack.
It’s so appropriate on the day we returned to second class citizens/breeding mares. No matter the color of your skin or sexual orientation, we are ALL collectively FUCKED. The religious right /superior elitist mother fuckers who have never known what it feels like to go hungry are planning to exterminate us all especially those who a vagina. Wait til ur in the position of not even being able to get a credit card without a husband’s signature even if you make more money than him. They will ethnically cleanse anyone who sympathizes AGAIN. Our daughters and granddaughters will be barefoot and pregnant again and forget interracial anything or anything remotely questioning heterosexuality. Trump was the equivalent of Hitler. Just had the internet and cable tv. DAZ DA TRUTH.
I challenge anyone to get the free trial of Netflix and watch the ltd series Web of Make Believe produced by Ron Howard and then ask yourself if you have questions. I’m sure the people who needed to watch the hearings didn’t and the ones
Who already knew just got more incensed but I’m done making excuses for the self serving elitist pussies with no spines, or sense of decency. and I used to be a fucking Republican. Not something I am proud of as an American today.
I’d tell you which episode but it’s only 6 hrs Total and the flow of the arrangement is important, if not uncomfortable to say the least. More important than RH today ffs.
Ps- another fun fact: in DC , they call Hawthorn hot wheels lol
This is a very sad day and the beginning of so much more of our rights being taken away.
Apparently we have a fourth branch of the US Government – christian religion. Fuck all the religious beliefs of Judaism, Buddism, and all other forms of religion that recognize a woman’s right to their own body autonomy over a dividing cell that may or MAY NOT end up being a human.
I am so disgusted that this stacked joke of a court will give more rights to a zygote than to a 12 yr. old girl raped by her step father and impregnated or a woman w. a tubal pregnancy that will never produce a child but could cause the woman to bleed out in 3 minutes if it is not aborted.
This joke of a court also ruled that New York does not have the right to make their own gun safety laws, but then they turn around and tell us that same state has the right to make abortion illegal. Fucking white supremist hypocrites. I am livid!
I’m taking a knee. I’m marching. I’m protesting. I’m taking a stand.
It’s disgusting and sad. What the hell have I been fighting for and protesting for 47 years. It’s as if the hands of time are going backwards to 1953 when WHITE men ran the government and corporate America.
And so the question of what ” make America great again ” really meant.
Sooooooo True
This is GREATNESS for them. Twisted bastards
Every freaking woman in this country better show up at every election. Period.
There are a hell of a lot of freaking women who support the inhumane decision to overturn Roe. I jettisoned one friend who voted for the orange menace for just this reason. She lived in the most conservative part of California (the Central Valley), but recently moved to where it’s even more right wing (Idaho). I want to smash her in her fat face today. Plus I just got banned from Facebook for 24 hours for suggesting that we need Lorena Bobbitt to chop off more penises to avoid the need for abortions. She can start with Clarence “Pubic Hair” Thomas. Yeah, I’m livid too.
*DISCLAIMER*
Apologies in advance. I cried nonstop for an hour or so then said fuck it. It’s a very dark day. I then went to the corner store unwashed and got a case of beer and carton of cigs while I can still buy them without a man. Pity party for one as my daughters will now NEVER move back to their home state of backwards ass Greg Abottville/Ken Paxtonville (tbd). One is in DC at work as MD and idk how tf she’s supposed to drive home safely when her shift is over. I can’t think of a better excuse to get blotto as our country devolves further. I’ll probably be posting some drunken rants and hope I don’t get banned but wtf does anything matter anymore now that I’m a second class citizen again. It’s only going to get worse. FWIW, I’m not even a drinker so this is probably a terrible idea but IDGAF , I’m self medicating so wtfever. And I was already depressed and Pissed so there’s that.
Attempted Coup ✅, Misogynistic Fuckery ✅, White Patriarchal Supremacy ✅, Misinformation to your cult ✅, Abolishing Division of Church and State ✅, Shitting all over the sacred constrtutional and civil liberties ✅, Banning books ✅, Last but not least, DESTROYING DEMOCRACY ✅. Next up , autocrac, civil war and eugenics aka the second Holocaust. Cheers alt right! You stupid fuckers won , now stfu and GDIAF you racist elitist homomophobic mother fuckers! I am already drunk and sofa king Pissed and I started typing this on my first beer. Y’all are in for some shitshow from me and TT might want to put me in mod rn IJS
Ps- FUCK CLARENCE THOMAS the predatory fuck, and Kavanaugh the rap*st, Alito, the fucking fossil with dementia, and Amy Cuntsatchel Barrett straight outta the Margaret Atwood novel. How many red coat hangers can a dry cleaning place sell?
IJC – wish I could start drinking but have to wait until hubby’s doc appt. Everything you said is correct and spot on! Fuck these morons who did this!!!
My daughter is in DC too! Mayor Bowser just had a nice tweet that it is and will be legal there..
I just can’t believe we are officially in Hamdmaid’s Tale territory! FFS!
Fun fact: abortion used to fall into the caegory of “womens work” in the 1800s. As in word of mouth between women. At that time, pregnancy was determined by a woman self reporting a feeling of “fluttering “ (olden times referred to as “the quickening “). The men , including husbands who frequented brothels and had white men money and there were no female drs, used to patronize a French female physician who performed “safe” abortions- I use quotes bc it was the 1800s and lots of women still died but no one cared because, women.) Then the men got Pissed she was making money so all the white men in the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION put her in jail and decided to outlaw it with exception for discreetly taking $ under the table for the whores they knocked up- illegally. FUN STUFF! Those who don’t learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
Yes. Birth control (such as it was) and abortion were in women’s control from ancient times until men got involved. How dare they legislate what doesn’t happen to them!
Wow thx for this. The AMA took it away of course.
Thomas and Kavanaugh get their revenge? Puke.
And what about birthday control, what will they do about that now?
Girls and women will have to get even more scared now of going out and have fun at night, what freedom of having sex is there now with this law..?
Horrible.
Oh, birth control is next. Bet on it. Does anyone remember when they only had diaphragms and would only prescribe with a husband’s consent? I found my mom’s one day at the bottom of the laundry basket while doing chores at like 8 yrs old while she was passed out on drugs per usual. Sadly, she didn’t have one before she had me for whatever reason (my theory was to trap my dad-RIP) She has resented and tormented and reminded me my entire life. My heart bleeds for all the unwanted children to come. It never leaves you.
This is the part I feel is grossly overlooked. All the unwanted children. We already have many in a broken foster system.
And the kids born with fetal alcohol syndrome and to mothers on crack and opioids.
The women can’t even take care of themselves. They’re barely scraping by. How many suicides will kill both mom and baby?
This is extremely problematic and dangerous, and yes it will lead to suicides among women who can not take it being pregnant. And mothers (plus fathers too) to teenage girls, what are they going to say to them? This is so dark.
Damn autocorrect, BIRTH control it should be well you got it.
Things will get worse. The Republican Party has a bench of very scary middle aged men -senators and governors— who meet the qualifications to be president. They are dangerous because they are much more intelligent, focused and driven than Trump. Who do the democrats have besides very old men and women and light weights like AOC? Where has Elizabeth warren been? She was out due to a lack of a realistic position on healthcare. Has there been even one discussion about healthcare in the last two years. The only goal the dens had was to defeat Trump. After that? —crickets.
So I went to straight to Fox News to see what the hell they were saying. There was a WOMAN on there saying that the “woke Dems” ARE JUST MAD THEY CAN’T FORCE THEIR OPINIONS ON US!!!!! It’s literally THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING!
Welcome to my world. It’s dark in here.
It’s like Desantis saying there is too much government except for his junk.
I woke up this morning to news alerts about Roe v Wade being overturned. When I read what Clarence Thomas said, I nearly threw up. Those lying sacks of shit conservative justices won’t be happy until they’ve turned the clock back to the 1800’s. I did notice the only thing Thomas isn’t trying to backtrack on is interracial marriage. Wonder why? I hope Democrats turn out in full force in November and fight to gain back the rights these assholes are taking away from us.
Let it be known that CARENCE THIMAS IS TOTALLY DOWN WITH THE SWIRL.
The fucking swirl!
I laughed so hard my iPad fell,off the bed.
And the bs about the abortion rights not being in the Constitution? Which was written 246 years ago? Are we going to overturn voting rights? Slavery? Anything that has come up in the last few hundred years? Come on!
My thoughts exactly. My Bf just said “We (meaning Men) gave you the right to vote!” I cringed and questioned why I’m with this “knuckledragger.” Smdh.
I don’t know how old or attached you are but take a word of advice from someone living it: get out now if you can. Don’t marry him. It will only get worse.
I second that. I feel like in the past few years the divorce rate has skyrocketed.
Ruuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnn 🏃♀️
Do not give up. That is what they want. We in Ca (and NY) will not put up with this injustice. We do have a great Gov (Newsom) in Ca and great, for the most part, congress people. We also have the bucks. First order we have out here is to help any woman as best as possible, no matter where she lives. Things are in progress right now trust me and it will be a long fight. I just hope we can get a great Dem leader to run in a few years. The Supreme Court is lost for now, but, things will change.
thank you.
Nothing big – but I have spent the morning calling and emailing companies that are supporting Roe and providing employees with time off/help traveling to get abortions. We need all the help we can get in this fight so supporting them by shopping/using/contacting them might keep them on our side and contributing to like-minded candidates.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-03/how-u-s-companies-are-supporting-workers-on-abortion
That is something big! Thanks for doing it. While you have their ear, ask them if they will also stop contributing to the Republican party.
NO. Just fucking NO. What the hell is this country becoming?
I fucking burst into tears at work. I marched at 16 in 72. I am shaking. I will take a knee. I will take a stand. I want to get into my car after work and head to DC. I AM FUCKING FURIOUS
I wish there was a word to describe how I feel. Furious doesn’t cut it. when I see faces like Ted Cruz, Greg Abbot, and Clarence Thomas anywhere my body fills with rage.
We know how this happened but I just can’t understand how people are supporting this. “They” have been slowly taking away our rights for a while and now here’s the biggie. We have to do something before we are walking 3 feet behind men.
If I cannot have autonomy over my body living in a “free” country, why am I paying taxes here? and I pay a shitload.
I have never commented on anything anywhere before but I can’t keep silent about this. I want to share something from an article in my local newspaper that focuses on the 13th amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. This is the legal way we will need to proceed because keeping someone pregnant against their wishes is involuntary servitude. I am as appalled, disgusted and broken hearted as you all. Had the option of abortion not been available to me when I was younger I don’t know where I would be today but I guarantee it would not be a good place and that “baby” would have not have had any chance at a good life. Keep up the good fight all and I pray for our country.
We knew it was coming and yet it’s still a shock to be real, isn’t it? Forgive my ignorance, but why IVF? Do they view it as unnatural?
Because IN THEIR OPINIONS, gay people, especially the men, should not be allowed to have children.
And, as if that isn’t bad enough, they care not a whit for anyone else who can’t get pregnant, or carry to full term, a baby.
This is absolutely sickening! Even Ireland, a Catholic nation, allows abortion up to twelve weeks or in the case of fetal abnormality. What the duck is happening to our country? It’s becoming unrecognizable.
HI Tamara,
I had posted something but it didn’t show up. I’ve never posted anywhere before but I thought I did it right but it said it was being sent for moderation?? What did I do wrong?
Mariposa
Nothing at all. All first time comments go through moderation until I can release them and I’ve been under the weather lately and not online as much. You are good to go now. Thanks for commenting!
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys, let them be doctors and lawyers and such… unless they’re a girl. FICK
FUCK
Well America, you didn’t show up in 2016 because you didn’t like Hillary. Enjoy the new political and legal landscape, because unfortunatley it’s going to stay this way for the forceable future.
Our government will turn authoritarian swiftly if people don’t flip the Senate and retain the house as Democratic. Republicans will change the laws so votes can be overturned easily. They already came close. Current Republicans simply want power and money without consequence. They are not the principled ones of the 1970’s. Put your helmets on autocracy is coming.
I am going to be 40 in a few months, and I am completely fucking flabbergasted that our country is somehow going backwards. As a teenager and a young woman in my 20’s, I believed that I could do anything. I would have never in my wildest nightmares imagined that my reproductive rights would be restricted.
I had my first son at 31 and my second son at 36. I’m gonna be honest, where I live that is old. I was very lucky and thankful that I qualified for state medical insurance. Every time I went to the OB/GYN, I was by far the oldest pregnant person in the waiting room. I was surrounded by 15 to 17 year Olds. So our elected officials need to expand that coverage and other programs that can assist. We need lots of money invested in early childhood education and WIC.
Try livinginastate where they won’t expand Medicare. Pts Wiih h cancer can’t afford chemo or Antibiotics or hospice have to wait until they are dying within 24 hrs so they can get pain meds in the ER IF THEYRE LUCKY WHILE THEY DIE. Meanwhile, pts with any maany can stay for thousandands of dollars a worth of meaningless Dx tests at no cost and Lea ANAlM bc they’re bored.welcome to merica.
I totally agree with you.
And that’s who this hurts the most, pregnant teenagers. What a bunch of pigs these white religious billionaires, that own our country, are.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls U.S. court decision overturning Roe v. Wade ‘horrific’.
“My heart goes out to the millions of American women who are now set to lose their legal right to an abortion. I can’t imagine the fear and anger you are feeling right now,” Trudeau said in a social media post.
Trudeau said “no government, politician, or man” should force a woman to carry out a pregnancy, women in Canada know that we will always stand up for your right to choose.”
Wake TF up all you mothers who have sons and are part of the fucking problem. Newsflash: your sons, once they leave your nest whether it be high school , college or some sports scholarship. YOU ARE FUCKED TOO. All the effort/dreams you put in to “raise them right “ will not supercelde a drunk night of blue balls and you will have zero control where they get their dicks wet. I can’t wait for y’all to wake the fuck up “bc the boys wil be boys”’ bullSHIT hit will come to a screeching halt for you clueless naive enablers. FFS, you and the horse your white privileged ancestries fucked . FWIW, I am white and was privileged. Doesn’t make a shit of difference if you have no compassion or empathy: you’re all a bucnch of hypocritical cunts. Not sorry. Take a number in line to suck Trump’s Dick. It’s not very big around but it’s short. Kinda like an amuse buche for the stupid fucktards that don’t realize money can’t buy a lot of shit that actually matters on your fucking deathbed, and just wait til he beats the shit out of you because he can. Even if you are paying for everything. No worries. He has a penis .
I’d rather be drunk and smart than stupid and sober any day of the week. This might actually be a forecast for alcohol abuse but under the ciccumstances, I’d rather be comfortably numb.
Also please Liz forgive my grandma and typos, I’m so fficially wasted intentionally and having difficulty commenting to the yards. But for those of you enjoying my drunk rants, soak it in bc it prolly won’t happen for another 20 years if I I’ve that long
— she ggmed water and devastated.
They will find a way for those pregnancies to get taken care of, trust and believe. They will have a doctor friend or send them out of state. Look at Dirty Dancing…not that far off from our current reality. Hypocrites.
Ladies, now we have to figure out a way to turn our vaginas into guns so we can have more rights.
I didn’t come up with that, but saw it on social media and had to share it here.
I wonder what will happen when a daughter of a rich conservative gets pregnant with an unviable fetus. She is in her third trimester but she will be forced to carry and deliver because her state has made abortion illegal and every doctor, pharmacist, friend will not help her out of fear of the ramifications. She may give her life for a fetus that woud never live.. They think they are taking away “birth control” for minorities and low income households when in reality they have made pregnancy a punishment for their own daughters, wives, and sisters.
Wonder what will happen when the daughter of a rich WHITE conservative gets pregnant from a BLACK man. Suddenly … abortion won’t seem so bad …
Laws never apply to them.
In addition please ban viagra or make a rectal exam necessary for a prescription. Or, I don’t know, maybe make having a limp dick illegal.
Lol. True story. Guy with penile cancer impregnated a minor with a fucking stump of Dick, in Tx. He died bc no ins and she got pg with twins, both special needs& both poor af. Totally cool in America. . Both white no $ or ins. I shit you not. He could barely take a piss but managed to cum wtf.
horror stories aboundin physician circles. Ty for small lam blessings as I no longer practice. It’s SO FUCKED UP. Independent but ACA fucked it all up. Corruption at every level. I need to pass but, muh sea turtles bc loose lips sink ships. Oh , my fucking sea turtles. I’m crying again. Where tfistu ur shop when ur wasted and ranting? ( (Barry dogwhidtle)seriously I am super drunk and have eaten nothing since before noon .forgot nicotine is an appetizer suppressant. . I’m sofa king wasted yet still need validation I’m not crazy.
Here I am so distraught and yet LAUGHING so hard …
“Oh, my fucking sea turtles …”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So this is the side that won’t teach realistic sex eduction, but rely on abstinence. Good luck on that.
Force a woman to have a child that they can’t or don’t want to take care of.
And then underfund public assistance to help take care of the child.
And also demand that we don’t step on their 2nd amendment rights.
But they feel free to take away a women’s right to her body.
I love America but it is getting harder to believe in our country’s future.
Those values only make sense to repressivly religious, white, misogynistic , male billionaires. It’s based not on any legitimate values, it’s based on their desire to rule the rest of us.
“The Supreme Court has stripped women of their liberty and let red states replace it with mandated birth.
This is an attack on American freedom.
CA, OR and WA are creating the West Coast offensive. A road map for other states to stand up for women”.
Time to fight like hell. We need to fight back with our pocketbooks along with our voting. I know GA will stand with us along with many states on the East Coast. While I don’t think we want to separate our great country, you know what happens when you let people, such as the extreme right, dictate how to live. This could and will get worst unless common sense govt is allowed. (Look what happened to the NY gun law overturned by the s court). Thank God for the small legislation recently to pass re gun laws. A very small step but shows what can be done when the DEMS and some REPs get together.
I had an abortion 33 years ago, the doctor found severe spina bifida in the fetus. I have no regrets about my CHOICE then or now. America today I don’t recognize and my heart breaks for women who will be forced into being a uterus for the state.
theres a railroad already in the works for helping young women get to states that allow abortion. if anyone in MO would like to go camping in Illinois, I know the best spot for camping. it’s so beautiful, it will always be our secret we went to Illinois to go camping.
I have seen several of these references on social media, and I now know that it is referring to.
Don’t tell Porsha Williams about the railroad. She won’t know where to get on. Or off.
WOW! IJC lasted a lot longer than I thought… LOL. She’s gonna be feeling rough this morning. For those of you wondering why I allowed it. She just needed to get it all out.
IJC was the gift that kept on giving! Thanks TT!
IJC hope
You are feeling ok today!
Ditto.
Thanks TT.
Feel better IJC.
Rough is the understatement of the day. I can’t bring myself to read my multiple illiterate word salads yet, lol. I can’t believe you didn’t at least put me in moderation. I thank you for the grace because I did need to let it rip so mission accomplished?
I feel so fortunate for this group and sorry y’all were subjected to my public meltdown-hopefully it was mildly humorous given the levity of the day.
xxoo
*gravity not levity! Back to bed!
Frightened & shocked by these current events.
Is it me or does this ruling make the political ads on TV even more distressing.
Here in GA we have Hershel FUCKING WALKER running against Rev. Ralph Warnock for senate.
He is LITERALLY STUPIDER THAN MTG. Every time he opens his mouth he lies or says weird things.
He recently said there are 52 states in the United States.
He claims to have a body spray that kills Covid. Or as he calls it, CORvid.
He claims to have graduated from UGA, my alma mater, and he did not.
He claims he ran a business with 800 employees. He did not. He had some sort of defunct business with EIGHT employees.
He is functionally illiterate and cannot pronounce half the words he attempts to string together.
He very clearly suffers from CTE and there wasn’t much up there to damage anyway.
And Yes, he was chosen and endorsed by the Orange one.
I can’t imagine anyone beating Warnock, who is wise, and you know, qualified, and the incumbent.
But there were a lot of things I could not imagine until yesterday.
Herschel Walker is the same fraud (one of many traits he has in common with Dump Truck) who has constantly criticized black men who create “fatherless” homes by abandoning their children.
Well… On June 14, the Daily Beast reported that he has a 10-year-old son whom he does not see, and whom he did not legally acknowledge until being taken to court.
Then, on June 15—that’s one day after June 14—the Daily Beast reported that Walker has a 13-year-old son as well.
In confirming this, Walker’s campaign also disclosed that he has a daughter who is about 40 years old.
How many secret children does this fraud have?
He played on DJTs USFL team back in the 80s, which was a total failure. Imagine! Walker’s been his toadie ever since. I hate it here. I feel like I’m in the fucking Twilight Zone. The only reason I’m not divorced yet is I”m waiting to have somewhere to go. And my dog has cancer. Fuck me.
Hey, I know. Let’s have no universal healthcare (do free clincs even exist anymore or did that make too much sense for poor people?), no family leave, let’s restrict access to assistance as much as possible while allowing the ultra rich to plunder every system we have and rocket back to robber-baron era, and then let’s make women have children. States’ rights, my ass. Why don’t you shove that AR 15 (IT DOESN”T STAND FOR ASSAULT RIFLE I FUCKING GET IT) straight up your ass?
It cost me nearly $3000 dollars to have breast cancer tests done and I have “insurance.” I live in a state that didn’t expand Medicare. But let’s make sure we address and strike down precedent around abortion rights. They’re dying to do it with ACA too. LIke it could suck any more. Good idea, assholes. I would ask how else we could rocket backwards, but they spelled it right out to us. Amazing
Hey, where are all the poor endless victims of all the meanies picking on them all the time?? No soapbox for your bullshit pearl clutching superiority? Boo hoo.
The second Donald Trump Jr. The brother from another mother.
The scariest thing … if Porsha Williams and Hershel Walker got drunk and had an oops I’d and she got pregnant … no abortion. IQ < 45.
Three words for you. Marjorie. Taylor. Green. Talk radio says if he/she has an R in front of their name then vote for them-qualifications be damned. There is only one remedy and that is to show up at the polls and vote.
Garbagy Trailer Trash Gangrene – something you would find in a Petri dish!
You know what astounds me, is how I need to have a bachelors degree to do customer service, yet people like Gangrene who could stand to be on psychotropics is given a soap box to spew her trash…..
Well, there is a big difference between MTG And Hershel. MTG represents a tiny redneck district (that she doesn’t actually live in but claimed as her legal residence to get elected). There are some good people running on the blue ticket but not really enough to outnumber the mouthbreathers.
Herschel is running for a state wide Senate seat that means I get to vote. We turned GA blue last election. Warnock will get all the votes from cities and towns where people have family trees that actually have branches and forks. People who know how many states there are in this country.
Also, there is a tendancy to assume that all Republicans support the orange one. That is not true. Many are educated, fiscally conservative and in favor of things like strong borders and never bought into the flim flam man.
Also, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE STACY ABRAMS. SHE IS A FORCE! Kemp isn’t the worst person in the world. His love of guns is problematic but Kemp and Raspenberger (close enough?) did not bend their knee to Trump either.
No difference in terms of fitness to hold public office. Georgia is a very interesting state Regardless of being condemned by Trump the S of S still said he would vote for him. They may not like Trump sticking his nose in their politics BUT they like his policies and believe that economically the republicans are better. The senate will be in play and so people may hold their nose and vote Walker
May? Hahaha. Oh, they WILL. No nose holding. It’s so important people go vote. So, so important.
I throw this back at you…
What has Biden done? Specifically.
Trump isn’t out of office – Exhibit A bei g the Supreme Court.
ROFLMAO. Y’all are funny today. So is JFK Jr Vp?
You didn’t answer.
Specifically, what has Biden done? Specifically
Whoever was asking about IVF there is a female GA senator on CNN talking about our situation, and she says that in Georgia, a fertilized egg has PERSONHOOD and is covered by all the laws regarding people
(This is me talking now not her) . So all of these people who have “fertilized eggs on ice” will no longer be able to “destroy” the left over embryos because that would be murder. Eggs that are not fertilized are not affected. At least that is my understanding.
Your understanding is correct. I explained this in the original thread when the draft leaked. Several states have trigger laws that will go into effect and are written as defining life as a fertilized egg. The dumbasses didn’t think it through. The number of fertilized eggs in chryo banks is astounding because they have to make multiples in order for one to actually implant properly and grow. Never mind all the potential complications that arise and are life threatening. People should start shipping their embryos to another country immediately.
Also, can we just drop the whole I am pro abortion or against abortion rhetoric? This is not about abortion. It is about controlling women and girls autonomy over their own bodies. Its about taking a big step backward toward male control again. Keep em poor, keep em pregnant, keep em dependent.
Abortions will still happen. Politicians will still pay off mistresses abortions. Women with money and connections will still get abortions.
This has never been about abortion. This has been about a 40 year goal of stacking the court using religious zealots and a message topic to go after it. The republican party groomed conservative religions to get on board. Regan went from signing abortion rights bill as a Governor to preaching from the pulpit as President about the evils of abortion and how it is destroying the American family.
Up until the 1990’s, the baptist conventions was still preaching that abortions were fine for the sake of the mothers health. Evangelicals were pushing the same message. Then in 1 fell swoop, they changed their position and went full on radical over abortions during the Bush eras. George HW Bush went from never mentioning abortion to it may a main theme anytime he spoke at republican events during his Presidency.
So whether you are for or against abortion, just know this is not the real issue here. It’s about control. Its about keeping women suppressed. Its about their next steps to control further “fringe” groups by going after contraception, gay marriage, private sex acts, and any other basic human freedoms afforded other free world countries that are counter to their new radical religious base.
You know shit is getting serious when a billionaire DEM supporter has a Zoom meeting with 8 other billionaires to talk about how losing the 2022 midterms will set republicans up to god what they are planning for 2023, set up 2024 election to win whether the American people vote for them or not. When billionaires band together to spend money on a common cause, its a big, big deal! Their messaging is that this really is the most important mid term election we will ever face as a Nation, yet 1/3 of America is completely checked out, the other third is operating under cult like conditions. It will take deep voting involvement to prevent losing this Nation. No bullshit. No inflated red flags. Just facts.
Like a German told my brother while he was over there: You lose your democracy and gain a dictator an inch at a time, not in one fell swoop. Be careful America.
Yes, yes, and yes. Because as much as Rs like to point fingers, there are a ton of low information, single issue voters on their “SIDE.” If I had a nickel for every time I heard that “people” (read: brown people) shouldn’t be allowed to vote for being too stupid, I’d have a shitload of nickels. That started somewhere around John Kerry. Alsong with that completely manufactured swift boat shit and targeting a veteran because partisan. First time I really thought, uh oh. And here we are.
Oh, and Reagan? He’s no saint. The “christian” coalition? What a shithow. Goldwater’s been quoted into the ground, but it’s true. You think Joe Biden has dementia? HA.
This is breaking news in Atlanta.
3 kids dead after woman tries stabbing them inside burning house, deputies say
Deputies say firefighters found seven kids inside the burning house when they got there.
So perhaps every woman is not cut out to be a mother maybe?
I was sad, infuriated, angry, pissed, dismayed, flabbergasted, … you name it yesterday. Even though I knew it was coming, the actual opinion hit me HARD.
It doesn’t seem much can be done now (especially with Do Nothing Joe (I couldn’t be more disappointed with him)), so I think …
these rich, white males are about to reap what they sowed.
It won’t matter until it matters & it matters when Senator A or President B or Executive C can’t pay their side pieces to get abortions. 18 years of child support & being outed as an adulterer.
I don’t know what else to do. Aside from making rich, white, men feel pain. Or young men faced with the potential of multiple child support payments. Then, it might matter
This is so bad, Fam. Really really disgusted.
What is it that you would like Biden to do exactly?
He had the opportunity to pack the Court and did nothing. He can eliminate student debt has failed to act. He could focus on voting rights. Climate change. Student Lunches. Woman’s rights.
He said he was going to tax the billionaires to fund these programs. He has done nothing with this. NOTHING!
Exactly what is there to praise Biden on? And I’m a hard core liberal. Exactly what has he done aside from giving the DoD more money and finding Ukraine (not saying that’s wrong). But domestically, specifically, what has he done?
Dude is scared of his own Shadow.
Look how much Trump accomplished by just acting. Granted, they were horrific acts.
Why won’t Biden do ….. anything?! Even with Roe v Wade, he yet again, wiped his hands of it. As if he isn’t the most powerful man in the World.
Really? Really? That’s the best you got Biden? Fuck you. I voted for him, I won’t vote Red, but this man is wholly incapable of performing his duties.
I think you might be confusing scared with thinking before he acts.
For me the most important thing he has done is get Trump out of office.
He has managed to get congress to move at least an inch on gun reform.
He passed an infrastructure bill we have needed for decades.
He got shots in arms and passed a huge pandemic relief bill.
He smoothed relations with all of our allies that Trump blew up.
Did I mention he is NOT TRUMP?
I am not his biggest cheerleader, nor am I a Democrat. I am not a fan of dowdy old white men from either party.
He inherited a shit storm and is giving it his best shot. Is it enough? NOPE. But it is not NOTHING. And I am not sure he has the backing from Congress pack the court.
WE NEED AGE LIMITS ON THE PRESIDENCY! On that, I think we can all agree.
I have to say I’m impressed. These are the questions lots of Americans are asking but no one is listening because it’s an “us versus them” mentality now and win at all cost even if winning means destroying the country. You make very good points but you also know that now we’re going to get skewered and told we’re C U Next Tuesdays. Oh, and since I’m going to get lambasted anyway, President Obama also thought there were 52 states. But I guess when he said it, it was just an honest misstep; when Herschel said it, he’s a flaming idiot who can’t read.
Herschel is a flaming idiot who can’t read. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It would seem your reading skills need some improvement as well.
This is what Biden said:
President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced funding for 500 projects across 52 states and territories that will strengthen our nation’s supply chains, improve waterways, and bolster climate resilience.
In case there were too many words to get through (RHOBH), the keywords are “AND TERRITORIES!”
Perpetual victimhood, I knew it would show up sooner or later! He’s taught his minions well.
I mean no harm and really hope the new generation will effect positive change. However, Sara is clearly 20 years old and while I hope she shows up to vote with allll of her friends, she thinks that Biden can press a button (or sign an executive order, amirite?) and fix not only the federal government, but every impending disaster AND wipe out all the student debt, the biggest issue in the history of like, ever. And I got fucked by Sallie Mae a long time ago, 8-10% graduated interest rate compounded annually. It’s loan sharkery, but that’s besude the point.
Go waaay back up there and see that thing about civics. It’s no accident it’s not taught anymore. Bu but but Obama. JFC. It’s ALL broken. We can’t come up with anybody better than a 100 year old career politician or a nearly as old and clearly insane wannabe dictator? This is not your dude is it? I remember typing that here a very long time ago. Might as well try to ask my coffee mug.
And Hershel isn’t educated. Sad, but true. I went to UGA. All he had to do was play football, period. Then he rode that to every scammy dollar he could make ever since. But what a hero that nobody heard of outside of GA for the last 40 yrs until he suddenly out of nowhere became the best candidate to run against Warnock, wink wink!!
Sam! I didn’t know you were a fellow alum. I got my Master’s (and undergrad) there and I was focused on developmental studies reading. My internship was babysitting the football team during their “mandatory study hall” though there were some very studious young men, most of them were just sitting in there doing their time. Several of them could not read at all and were not required to learn if they were starting team members who scored lots of points.
Herschel and others like him were failed by the the school system where being a standout athlete meant you didn’t need to bother with an education. So, he had little brain matter that was functioning to start with (he was way before my time but I had a sibling that was closer to his age).
Then they put them out on the field for years to get their heads bashed in, helmet or not. Hershel VERY CLEARLY has CTE. While it can only be be diagnosed postmortem, It’s obvious. Then along comes Trump to prop him up and use him some more.
Hershel Walker will always be a LEGEND for us UGA folks. It it is exceedingly sad to see him still being used by others for their own gain
GO DAWGS!
Will we still have the Vote in 2024?
We probably would not if Trump were in office…
I’m afraid I am not even kidding.
Scary times.
WE BETTER USE IT WISELY AND ALL TURN UP AT THE VOTING BOOTH. Women already vote more than men do. WE JUST HAVE TO ALL GET OUT THERE AND DO IT.
I am really looking forward to casting a vote for Charles Booker here in Kentucky. He is the Democratic nominee running against Rand Paul. It has been awhile since I have felt passionate about a political candidate. I urge you fellow TT readers to look him up. He will fight for many issues that I gather this little community here thinks are important.
I hate to confess this but I used to support Rand Paul. Then suddenly, it seemed he lost his everloving mind. Or maybe I came to my senses. I blame John McCain for my stupidity. He and his cronies were so mean to Ron Paul when he was running. It was painful to watch like he was the kid in the lunchroom the cool kids picked on.
I have since come to my senses. Sort of.
FWIW, Rand was allegedly asked to leave Baylor U under mysterious circumstances. He then transferred to a small Christian college that is no longer in existence. He actually never got his Bachelors degree. That part confirmed. He got into Duke med bc they still were grandfathered in back then and because of his dad was accepted under the old grandfathering rule as Duke didn’t require a bachelors in the writing of acceptance at this time. (Insert old saying about assuming here) If he’d stayed in college to graduate he would have missed the cutoff for grandfathering. Was never board certified either. I’m also curious if he has a bit of CTE after the neighbor attack. Speculation and sharing random sip of tea. People forget he’s originally from here. I have thoughts about him moving to KY as he has always been a joke here. IJS
Please research Charles Booker. He grew up in the poorest zip in Louisville, the worst area in all of Kentucky. He is an ally to all of us. I don’t believe any politicians, but I believe him. Because he knows what it is like to go without.
America – where life begins at conception and ends in a high school shooting – all thanks to the GOP
Someone posted this on Twitter and I thought it was brilliant.
“So child support will start at conception right? Social security numbers will be assigned? Women can claim fetuses as dependents on their taxes? Right?”
Um Y’all…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders after her gubernatorial primary win: “We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they’re as safe as they are in a classroom.”
WHAT STATE IS VOTING FOR THIS MORON? This can’t be real life!
Goooo Arkansas! What’s really sad is the current governor actually has sense, but he is term limted and his time is up.
It’s the same type that will vote for Hershel (give him the ball!) or that kook in Illinois who said overturning Roe was a victory for white life. Slip of the tongue, really. Maybe JObama said it at some point to0? Memory fails…
Okay, so after nursing my hangover, I put on my big girl pants and went down the rabbit holes of Reddit and camping and other global rabbit holes to see how to help. The posts are heartbreaking. Especially the ones from teachers in Texas. I don’t recognize my state or my country. They’re literally dictating hairstyles, ridiculous dress codes, and banning books.here in public schools-which are mostly shit education anymore here anyway and they are indoctrinating their chirrun really early too. So sad and gross. Segregation is probably soon because racists and Bible Belt can’t/won’t accept anyone else. I can’t for the life of me figure out how the ginormous Latino population here is pro trump like wt actual F? Forget Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus,etc, god forbid atheists! Baptist or die basically. Idiots everywhere have never even heard of the Druids. And plenty graduate with no ability to read or write. Especially athletes.
(Side note: all the football players in the big 12 will figure it out when they knock someone up. I predict our precious Baylor, Rice, UT, A &M, TCU, OU, OK State will lose recruits with NFL dreams. The black players are accepted because $$$$. Don’t even get that twisted.)
While I applaud the efforts of aunties and camping guides I don’t know how we can sustain anything close to what we did the last time. How can it work now with the invention of the internet and cell phones and locations being monitored by the man?. The MFers are listening and will infiltrate just as they did with the clinics posing as abortion clinics only to shame judge and preach their beliefs onto unsuspecting young girls in crisis. FFS, even speaking about it to the wrong person is forbidden and punishable here. So much for free speech. Protesters getting tear-gassed again. I’m sorry to be a Debbie downer but this is not a democracy anymore. We are slowly dividing and devolving to fucking communist dictatorship. THEY DID NOT FIGHT FAIR SO I SAY FUCK IT AND FIGHT Back unscrupulously. The SC is now functionally illegitimate so why not PACK IT?
“When they go low, we go high” IS NOT WORKING.
Again I recommend watching the limited series on Netflix called WEB OF MAKE BELIEVE which is a documentary that should scare anyone into action.
I’m ashamed that I was as naïve as I was and thought I had a decent understanding of shit, I mean I knew it was really bad but now we’re basically 3rd world country. As much as I have love for RBG I wish she’d retired under a dem prez. I just don’t know how we come back from this in my lifetime because the hits are going to keep on coming. Sad to be American today, especially in Texas. Can’t afford to move or I’d be getting the hell out of dodge. I feel absolutely helpless and I don’t think my vote counts anymore here. The gerrymandering disenfranchised the already disenfranchised more making so hard for them to even vote. They redistricting the big cities to stack in their favor, closed permanently polling places that had existed for decades. and changed mail in requirements with zero notice or coverage of it, so tens of thousands of votes were tossed. I’m only thankful I raised caring open minded giftedly smart kids because they are the future at this point but they have ENORMOUS mountains to climb and don’t remember much of the world without internet and cell phones and social media.
I’m old, sick, disabled but not dead yet and I’m willing to pick up my bony ass and die trying to do something good right-fair or not, illegal or not. I’m not a pussy and have endured enough to be angry af.
FWIW, TMZ report says that ivanka got abortion in high school and was outed by the friends who helped her and she then ditched for bigger and better. Not sure how reliable this is but I can totally believe it if true. SMH
If anyone has any suggestions or reasonable solutions please share.
Feeling defeated in HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM (or 99 problems)
Sorry for the additional rant. At least I’m sober today lol.
IJC – glad you are here!
I have not gone down that rabbit hole yet – argh..
Going to start Web of Make Believe tonight! Watched the trailer – so damn scary!
Gerrymandering is also big and alive here in Ohio…. Wtf
Also Lauren Santo Domingo outed Ivanka. She is a socialite who grew up w Ivanka. She took her post down – prob got death threats – but bravo!
Also some lady tweeted in response to Arizona governor, Doug Ducey commenting about AZ being a pro life state, that his son made her take Plan B. Fuck all these politicians!
Also I’m just going to say it – Obama should have asked RBG to resign when he was in office. She was at that age. Sorry not sorry.
Off topic but I can’t help wondering what Elon is going to do with the AH embryos now that he resides in TX! Oopsies court tv is fun
Omg – my one fave Insta accounts (@houseinhabit) said she has new stories to post this week and one was about the embryos!! When she posts, will let you know! Also I subscribe to her newsletter and she actually spoke to Johnny before the trial! Completely unexpected and while she was in her van w two of her boys – trying to bribe them w toys so she could continue
The call! Lol
Omg please update and mention it ALL!
Will do!!!
(CNN)Sarah Huckabee Sanders will win the GOP nomination for governor of Arkansas, CNN projects, putting her in strong position to win the governorship in this red state in November.
Apparently, it’s Arkansas. It’s a red state. So… there you have it.
Fuck SHS! She said when kids are in the womb, she will make them
Safe as in the classrooms… wtf?!!!! Tone deaf??? This nation has gone mad.
Are you kidding me? I still can’t watch the never ending tv coverage as it boils my blood. But safe as in the CLASSROOM? Is she hitting the crack pipe? Like Uvalde? Columbine? Sandy Hook? And, and, and, and….. my god it’s like Ted Cruz wanting teachers armed. And the uvalde investigation is a keystone cops episode of stupidity. If it wasn’t so damn scary and REAL I’d think it was a dark comedy.
You won’t be the same after watching that Netflix show just so ur warned it’s deeply disturbing but really what isn’t anymore?
And my kids forwarded me screenshots of ppl calling Serena Joy from Handmaids tale a role model and hero. Can’t make it up.
Yep safe as a classroom! Insanity!!!! Tone deaf!! FFS SHS – karma will not be good for these people!
I have not seen the Serena Joy posts but that’s downright scary!
I can’t find the post by someone who got “spanked” by Twitter or FB.
I wonder what would happen if I posted the last verse of Bruce Cockburn’s song, with changes to the last line:
… I want to raise every voice—at least I’ve got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher
FIVE SONS OF BITCHES WOULD DIE!
So I’m dipping my toe into news coverage tonight. MTG thanks Trump “for victory for white life” but campaign states she misread her statement. Mmmkay, guess that’s a coincidence with the other one in iIllinois was it? Sorry but the shit is already out of the horse on those comments. Much like SHS statements. Smdh.
In better news: ABBOTS NUMBERS HAVE DROPPED DRAMATICALLY SINCE UVALDE clusterfuck. And now that Beto has vowed to overturn heartbeat law and ensuing trigger laws which are even worse; he is now focused on reproductive health rights. A ginormous uphill battle given the landscape here but it’s SOMETHING. the asswipe in the wheelchair now only has a 5% lead. This all paraphrased from Tx tribune. Never thought I’d hang my last hope on Beto but here we are. He at least has the honesty to acknowledge our system in Tx is broken in many ways including the AR guns bs but a Tx dem Governor would be an awesome start. Time to put issues over party if we hope to regain any sort of a country resembling democracy again. Meanwhile, CPAC praising Hungary. And Susan Collins still can’t believe that men (SC Justice noms) lied to her under oath! Gotta laugh at that. Any other fence sitters who fall in line are equally at fault imo. Literally twilight zone level shit. Then again, might be a lot of days late and a few trillion dollars short. Seriously how are they planning to pay for all this? Sigh…I need a gofundme to expatriate lol.. I’d like to to move on but I’m still in shock/processing and obsessed with trying to figure out how to navigate the new world I now live in. Physicians will not jeopardize their licensing for fear of the new repercussions and malpractice insurance suits or jail time so $ won’t buy them off this time around. They are scared shitless too. It’s sooo different now.
I will paraphrase Lincoln here : a house divided against itself cannot stand-or something very similar. Memory fades.
Still devastated to the point of having difficulty sleeping. A true living nightmare. I knew that the internet would be a blessing and a curse and that the shit people would use it nefariously but couldn’t even imagine it destroying our country. Ironically it provided this forum/community which I find so much comfort and community now that I’m old and alone. Love you all!
Sorry I keep clogging comments but I’m alone and feel like I’m talking to another human being when I post here. Sorry for over sharing and verbal vomit-can’t seem to stop myself yet.
Minuscule loophole found! For tattlers living in Oklahoma or card carrying tribal citizens anywhere: regardless of the Hyde Amendment, which has to do with federal funds for tribes, if you are a card carrying tribal citizen and your physician is a a card carrying tribal citizen as well which is not uncommon seeing as tribes fund medical education to tribal citizens in exchange for commitment to service practicing x number of years at IHS facilities (kinda like military but protection is law), you can still get reproductive services including termination in cases of rap*, incest and maternal life threatening circumstances. Ignore headlines and articles saying it is not a realistic option EVEN IN OK. They can’t do shit to you or ur dr if you’re both actual tribal citizens and clinics on tribal land which is HUGE in OK. This will NOT be a safe haven for others who are not tribal citizens and if you qualify as such, start your paperwork NOW as they are slow as balls and will take a year minimum to verify your status. You’ll need birth and death certificates going back 3 generations and proof that someone on either paternal or maternal side of those documents were on the rolls. PSA for indigenous population. No gestational cutoff until somewhere in 3rd trimester. Also if you are not an actual tribal citizen you will be jailed for fraud in this matter. 23 & me etc dna tests do NOT make you a tribal citizen *cough* ie Elizabeth Warren.proper paperwork is paramount.
FEIW, if your paperwork is legit, it will protect 3 generations after you. I know this as fast because when MIL died the paperwork was in her bank box and I did all the work and was divorced but it got my kids protected and the loser in-laws all piggy backed on the tedious work I did. They are now entitled to free healthcare and anything else including burial costs. Should they ever need it. Cradle to grave paid for protection until the nazi MFers take it away too. Start NOW if you qualify. Worth digging. No one had a clue until she died bc all fair skinned blondes.
Welp, never mind on this. OK Governor Kevin Stitt (who is A POS), got a victory from our lovely illegitimate Supreme Court. Granted it was a horrendous case but it set precedent and overruled a previous ruling about not interfering with tribal lands. So I guess they’re also chipping away at Native American sovereignty too- like killing them and stealing their land wasn’t enough. I assume because poor and brown. they can and will continue to chip away everything this country ever fought for. They feel superior and emblazoned. Every fucking day it’s something else lost. Fly me to the moon I just can’t take it anymore. Even still, no matter where you go, there you are. Arrrrgghhh
As people are discussing the uptick in female suicides that will happen due to this horrid ruling, can we also mention the uptick in fucking murders that will occur on pregnant women by their boyfriends and husbands?
That right folks, it happens when a man thinks about supporting a child for 18 years that a woman decided to have. They imagine having to give up their cushy lifestyles with their big truck, big guns, power boats, vacays and other associated financial privileges (looking at you Scott Peterson).
They will choose what they think is the ‘easy way out’.
There will be even more murders of pregnant women.
That is right. Also families of religions that do not accept their childrens choice of partners and if there will be an unwelcome pregnancy….😞
I had an ectopic pregnancy. Developed in Fallopian tube, wasn’t viable. I would not be alive today without the abortifacient and the D&C. Surely they will not try to ban a life-saving procedure but these are crazy times. Pro-life should be more than pro-pregnancy. Can’t wait to see the reports of surges in foster parenting courses and adoptions by conservatives 😏
Yep. Women already dying in TX since September of ectopic pregnancies. I’m so sorry you went through that. It’s extremely painful. I was screaming about just this on here when they passed the 6 week ban here. One of many complications that kill women and men don’t know how any of it works, nor do they care. In less than a month, trigger laws will go into effect and life will be determined as a fertilized egg, whatever it’s location (frozen, stuck in a Fallopian tube, etc) and will have more rights and value than a living woman.
Never been a huge fan of AOC, but she’s the only one talking any sense about a solution. Lying under oath during confirmation hearings should be impeachable offenses for all three of Trump nominees. In addition, good old Thomas (who said the quiet part out loud because he has no fear of consequences much like other emblazoned assholes)and he had no business not recusing himself on cases related to insurrection and has not stayed neutral as evidenced by his political donations which he also interfered with cases related to the big lie 2020 election.
Something to do about cloture which is over my head but time to impeach the illegitimate justices on the court, and pack it with appropriate replacements who value ALL civil liberties and don’t lie, cheat, steal or rap*, or have an ax to grind because they’re still embarrassed about a pube on a Coke can. If that dipshit constitutional lawyer Eastman thinks he’s smart enough to figure a legal way to usurp a democracy, surely there’s a smarter one out there somewhere who can figure out how to fight back fairly and legally and by actually interpreting the CONSTITUTION to SAVE a democracy. Impeach, replace, pack and CODIFY. God help us all.
We also need to make term limits for justices. I calm down for like a second and then I just get more Pissed off again. I can’t handle the powerless feeling. Not super happy with Biden but ffs we’re going to be looking at either the orange psycho or death desantis very soon as the only other option. UMMM NO FUCKING WAY. I can’t. And I give Joe grace with the fuckton of shit he got handed (a pandemic, war, coup attempt, etc ain’t no easy task) So I’ll still support him bc no one in history of time gets anything done in one term. He does need to move fast and boldly though. Joe needs to step up and consider the options of impeachment, court packing and we need a blue wave to end the filibusters. That all I got right now, but it’s still early and I’m only getting madder.
IJC – my 80 year old aunt sent me a tweet of AOC this past week and said she’s really laying it all out thoughtfully and I agree!!!!
Also agree about Biden – he got handed a ton of shit but it’s time to ACT!!
Thanks for replying to my rants. I often feel like I’m screaming into the void like a crazy person (which I am, but still, lol). I love your 80 year old aunt please hug her for me. Where there is a will there a way and we are the smarter sex, second class or not. Given the brightest minds surely ONE OF US can figure out the way to the light and explain it to Joe!
Hell hath no fury like millions of women scorned. 🔥
IJC – always look forward to your posts!
I vividly recall my aunt ranting about Tricky Dick during Watergate and I was 10 years old! Ha!
Yeah I will never understand why the Dems dont just unleash their fury?!!! Playing nice isn’t working
Time to ban Viagra then too..!
And how’s about banning masturbation for men, hell how many swimmers are they throwing away. I’m in the UK where abortion is safe and legal (for now) as long as two doctors give the sign off but I stand in solidarity with all women all over the world. Interestingly in Prime Minister’s questions in Parliament today a female MP asked if Abortion rights would be incorporated to the Human Rights bill that’s currently being written and he gave a wishy washy answer saying it wasn’t needed. I do not trust the conservative government one bit. I’ll keep you posted on any developments this side of the pond. Much love to you all x
I live in France myself and I can say the same here: so far so good, but the extreme right winds are blowing around here and things have become very different since the past years where I live.