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maxrandb

(15,337 posts)
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 02:05 PM Sep 2021

The Supreme Court decision on the Texas vigilanti case is just a smoke screen

The real travesties are yet to come as they destroy the social safety net, workplace protections, corporate regulations, environmental protections, collective bargaining and the New Deal and Great Society programs.

The Federalist Society hasn't spent 60 years packing the courts and law schools with corporate stooges because they are opposed to reproductive rights.

You think Mitch, or Lindsey give one fuck about abortion, or life?

All of this was on the ballot in 2016.

It's going to take decades to fix the stuff this court is going to fuck silly.

Maybe this next time, after decades and decades of hard work and bloodshed and tears and potentially, violence to get these rights back, we won't give them away so easily.

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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,648 posts)
1. You just might be right.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 02:14 PM
Sep 2021

Republicans certainly do not care about abortion, or life.

What they care about is power. Getting it, and keeping it.

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
3. This won't end until the Repug/Fascists have been completely destroyed by us.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 02:28 PM
Sep 2021

Our representatives, the Democrats, have to finally find the balls to do it. The Republicans must be eliminated to save democracy.

Grins

(7,218 posts)
6. Federalist Society packed the courts because of reproductive rights?
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 03:59 PM
Sep 2021

They are FAR WORSE than that!!

Reproductive rights are pretty low on their horrific list of priorities. It’s more a means to their vile ends.

DSandra

(999 posts)
7. We may be in one of the most insane times anyone has had to live in in human history
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 04:32 PM
Sep 2021

Too many insane people with power and influence, and a huge swath of society being turned insane as if a virus corrupted their minds. Longstanding virtues of humanity being turned into vices.

bluboid

(560 posts)
8. Thank you for STRETCHING our VIEWPOINT for us... it's time to get out of the haze...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 04:34 PM
Sep 2021

& get clear about what's coming at us.

12. Manchin . . . Sinema . . .sigh . . .
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 05:22 PM
Sep 2021

We're screwed.

Who has bought them off? It's the only thing that makes sense -- nothing they've said so far justifies their intransigence, and their total commitment to ending the American Experiment of self-governance in the face of the Repug assault. When the GQP writes the history books they'll be lauded as patriots, right along with the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

erronis

(15,307 posts)
13. They were never democrats (in the small 'd') sense. They were opportunists perhaps intentionally
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 05:43 PM
Sep 2021

put into positions of power by higher interests with lotsa money.

Sleepers?

Trouble with being a Democrat (big D) is that we tend to be trusting of others' good intentions. And we don't learn from our mistakes.

jaxexpat

(6,838 posts)
11. 24-7 vigilance. Commitment to fact-based living. As if god was watching and keeping the tab.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 05:08 PM
Sep 2021

The spirit of Edward Rutledge lives to damn us all. One cannot be too careful. Oops, we've already been quite careless, you see.

When will someone finally write a novel about the nightmarish torments and recurring guilt which R. E. Lee surely had through the late winter and spring of 1865? Title? I give you, "The Mexican Victory: I Hope Utah's Worth It".

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
14. I can't live under fascists rule.
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:00 AM
Sep 2021

I have no money to escape this country.

Once they take my SSI and housing away I will have nothing left to lose..I won't have my meds which will kill me because I have diabeties. My psych meds would go too.
Under fascist rule I would die. If they kill disabled people first like the Nazis did, I'm a goner.

I hope we secede before they destroy everything.

Let the republicans have their greatly desired hellscape dystopia with thier brain dead followers
In thier red states.

If we secede away from them up north we can have nice things and we'd have to build a proper wall and guard it to keep the republicans out.

Once these right-wing assholes destroy everything I love I will take as many out as I can and kill myself,as last resort. Before my own body kills me.

I hope it never comes to that.
But sometimes I wonder if it will come to that.

I fucking hate anything conservative.

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