Gloves off: Rs want to literally burn women at the stake

[HariSeldon]

I mean, why is Alito citing Matthew Hale who -- historical fact! -- ordered women to be burned for witchcraft unless he wants America headed down the same road. Republicans aren't even saying "I agree with the conclusion but, gee, that English guy was a bit extreme"...no, the Republican response is "I can't believe someone violated the sacred confidentiality of the SCOTUS! Unbelievable!"

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Absolutely

These guys get off on the whole "women in distress" theme. And the actual women in their lives go along with it because it makes them seem superior. The only loser is the witch, but she was viewed as evil from the start.

[onecaliberal]

2. We're on a dangerous path.

[Budi]

4. Hillary Clinton was their 1st Woman to be burned at the stake.

She was the 1st chosen as their trial run of mass media, foreign troll farms, Silicon Valley messaging & money devoured the powerful good she would bring & puked it back up as a mass smear & debasing image re-make.

They literally recreated a negative image of her to justify a reason to purge the country of That Woman.

And the opportunists of quick cash & instant celebrity fame, politicians with zero creds behind the pure populist picture of themselves they drew, jumped right in and cheered as the flames were lit & then grabbed up HER mandate from the ashes.

They all screeched, men & women included, danced & applauded in pure tribal fashion & fed that fire that Burned Her & America's Democracy to the ground.

There's not a GdDamn thing any of them can say nor do to ever atone for that tribal political bullshit against the one woman who had it right all along.

So far not one has offered so much as a whisper of a mea culpa.

Yet here they all come now, with their campaign & 'send money cuz we're fighting for you' statements of Rights & Roe.

The Hypocricy is galling.

This is why they had to burn it all down:

Link to tweet

[mopinko]

5. i hate to be that person, but we didnt burn witches here. we hung them

and pressed them, and i think drowned them. but burning was a european thing.

i get the drama part. but it does leave an open question they should be asked- just how do you want to murder witches? lethal injection ok, or do we need to be traditional? if you were born w the mark of the devil, and had it removed, does that make you doubly evil?
trial by drowning still work? or will we keep this on the up and up and do it in the courtroom?

[Cerridwen]

8. Nevermind OP used "literally"

Left original for future use

Metaphor

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Metaphor

met·a·phor
/ˈmedəˌfôr,ˈmedəˌfər/


noun: metaphor; plural noun: metaphors

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor"
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Similar:
figure of speech

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
"the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"

[HariSeldon]

10. Americans didn't burn witches, but Hale was English

And it's Hale that Alito's draft opinion cites.

[Runningdawg]

6. So it has been since the fight for abortion rights started heating up in the 70s.

Rural OK Baptist church in 1972 - No woman can kill a child without being a servant of satan. Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.
The next inquisition has arrived and most are still in denial.
Let me remind you OK is (currently) the only state with a woman serving a prison sentence for murder by miscarriage. I feel certain OKs trigger law will make such offenses punishable by death.

[Ilsa]

7. Alito is Opus Dei, isn't he?

He would have been so happy living in the 16th century.

[DBoon]

9. Under the Spanish Inquisition

[Kaleva]

11. By "Gloves off", do you mean are going to continue what you've been doing for years?

[HariSeldon]

12. I mean I'm not self-censoring

I am trying, as I think all Democrats now should, to cast the observed actions of Republicans in their harshest possible light. In the past I have advocated trying to find common ground with reasonable conservatives and I know others personally and on this forum who advocate the same. The result, however, has been that Democrats look tepid while Republicans look passionate; this has a large impact on media representation, partisan enthusiasm (for Democrats), and swaying low-information voters. We need to change those things, so we need a change to our messaging.

Thus, I am allowing my inference a bit more play than previously: if the conservative justices of the SCOTUS feel that Hale has a valid point about abortion, why not assume they and their Republican legislative compatriots feel the same about all the ways Hale treated women -- including burning them for the practice of witchcraft?