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September 6, 2021

CHER is trending...

BAREFOOT & PREGNANT,WOMEN AT THE MERCY OF TYRANTSDouble exclamation markWOMEN WILL DIE FROM BACK ALLEY ABORTIONS,SAME AS BEFORE ROE V WADEDouble exclamation markPOOR WOMEN WILL BE HIT THE HARDESTDouble exclamation markCAREERS VANISHDouble exclamation markSEXISM,RACISM,
trumpism,CULTISM,
FASCISM,TERRORISM.
DEMOCRACY WILL WITHER & DIE,& DICTATORS WILL THRIVE

https://twitter.com/cher/status/1434692157093257223?s=20

September 6, 2021

I'm not pro-abortion.


I’m pro-Barbara who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.

I’m pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.

I’m pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.

I’m pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn’t mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.

I’m pro-Melissa who’s working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her. (Maybe one of those is a minimum wage job at Hobby Lobby, and she can’t afford birth control because her employer went to the Supreme Court to make sure her insurance plan doesn’t cover it.)

I’m pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.

I’m pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.

I’m pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster’s child.

I’m pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.

I’m pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.

I’m pro-Courtney who just found out she’s already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding.

You can argue and say that I’m pro-choice all you want, but the truth is:

I’m pro-life.

Their lives.

Women’s lives.

You don’t get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.

It’s not about which stories you don’t agree with. It’s about fighting for the women in the stories that you do agree with and the CHOICE that was made.

Women’s rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation - or how big their bank account is. Because, let’s face it, rich people’s daughters (yes, even the ones who voted for this bill) will always be able to find safe abortions. They did before Roe v Wade. Most poor women will still get abortions too, whether from centuries old, unsafe home methods or from opportunistic untrained, unsafe people. Roe v. Wade didn’t create abortion. It ended poor, desperate women dying from them.


Copied and pasted.
https://liberalsarecool.com/post/661545596039135232/im-not-pro-abortion-im-pro-barbara-who-found
September 5, 2021

GOP Children's Story

September 5, 2021

Vick's VapoRub was the ivermectin of the 1918 flu pandemic.

People "believed" in it as a cure-all. Some swallowed spoons full thinking it would cure the deadly flu strain. It couldn't. The ointment was introduced in 1905 as a "pneumonia salve." In 1918, stores frequently ran out



https://twitter.com/DelthiaRicks/status/1434460618371870723?s=20

September 4, 2021

This was one of the death threats Principle Diane Vargo received for simple doing her job,

Tucson, Arizona:

Principal Diane Vargo reads one of the many threatening letters she has received due COVID safety protocols recently.

Despicable and terrifying.

Please take a minute.

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1434176444859658253?s=20

September 4, 2021

McCarthy LIED- Jan 6 Commission asked FBI whether that Reuters report was true & FBI said it wasn't.

Sep 4, 2021

Bolton, MS & Wilson, WY—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) today made the following statement regarding Minority Leader McCarthy’s false claim that the FBI and Senate committees have concluded that the former President had “no involvement” in the January 6th insurrection:

“Minority Leader McCarthy has recently made statements regarding the January 6th investigation. He has suggested, based on an anonymous report, that the Department of Justice has concluded that Donald Trump did not cause, incite, or provoke the violence on January 6th. When this anonymous report was first published, the Select Committee queried the Executive Branch agencies and congressional committees involved in the investigation. We’ve received answers and briefings from the relevant entities, and it’s been made clear to us that reports of such a conclusion are baseless. We will continue to pursue all elements of this investigation in a nonpartisan and thorough manner. We also remind Minority Leader McCarthy of his statements following January 6th, including his statement from the House Floor on January 13th—which are inconsistent with his recent comments.”

https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-cheney-statement-mccarthy-s-january-6th-misinformation-campaign
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1434162007880708100?s=20

September 4, 2021

Jill Biden will spend 2 days a week teaching English at a Virginia community college.

Jill Biden returns to the classroom, live and in-person.
https://twitter.com/JoBarmore/status/1433754656791044096?s=20


After months of remote teaching, Dr. Jill Biden will soon get to see her students in person.

The first lady and longtime educator will return to the classroom next week, teaching classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), per a class schedule cited by the Washington Post.

According to the schedule, beginning Labor Day week, Dr. Biden will teach the in-person classes for 13 weeks.

Last semester, Dr. Biden taught her English introductory courses — including college composition courses — remotely, due to the ongoing pandemic. Though her in-person classes will resume, they will be subject to safety precautions.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dr-jill-biden-back-teaching-183447505.html
September 3, 2021

The mostly men who passed this law are savages who can't wait to bathe in blood of botched abortions

9/03/2021
RUDE PUNDIT
Have You Read That Destructive Texas Anti-Choice Law? It's Hot, Harmful Garbage


First and foremost, this is a tragedy for women in Texas. The incredibly cruel, physically and mentally harmful, and intentionally divisive anti-abortion law that the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect on Wednesday night will end up with women being maimed or killed or forced to be vessels for fetuses that they do not want to carry, including the products of rape and incest (which, let's be clear, is almost always rape no matter what other word you wanna use), including the fetuses of abusive men. They will be forced to carry those fetuses when they know that they cannot afford the baby (and one reason they cannot afford the baby is because those who are forcing them to carry the fetus provide almost nothing to support the baby). It is a tragedy because it tells a woman that whatever existence she thought she might have, it must become secondary to "mother" once she gets pregnant and doesn't abort the fetus prior to six weeks of gestation, before many women even know they're pregnant. The mostly men who passed this law are savages who cannot wait to bathe in the blood of botched abortions. That will sanctify their brutal, backwards actions and satisfy their desire to kill those who oppose their Christian extremism.

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The goddamn law just goes on and on, foreclosing nearly any avenue that might show even a bit of compassion for women. The bounty hunters have up to four years from the date when anyone did anything to help a woman get an abortion after six weeks. You can't bring up that Roe v. Wade is allegedly still the law of the land as a defense. And the burden of proof is on the defendant to show they weren't violating the law. That's right.

It's a fucking mess. It purposely turns citizens against each other. It pays people for playing Abortion Batman. It victimizes the women of Texas who were already being victimized by some of the most blindingly dickish anti-choice laws in the country. I mean, why would you talk to your friends about your choices after you find out you're pregnant? You'd be completely justified in thinking that you might get them in trouble or they might turn against you. Shit, a rapist can sue anyone who would try to help his victim get an abortion if he impregnated her as a result of the, you know, rape. Goddamn, fuck you, Greg Abbott and the Texas legislature. Just fuck you.

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The rest:
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2021/09/have-you-read-that-destructive-texas.html

September 3, 2021

I'm just gonna assume this is true,

Since it’s illegal in Texas to own more than six dildos, the Koch brothers should be arrested immediately as they own every elected official in the state.


I’m just gonna assume this is true, and as soon as I can stop laughing 😂 I’m gonna ponder over who decided 7 is one dick too many and 5 just wouldn’t be enough.

https://twitter.com/Michael50685419/status/1433630845491896320?s=20
https://www.chron.com/politics/texas/article/In-Texas-even-possession-of-a-sex-toy-is-11161211.php

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