Details here. Again- this is one person’s mother, so let’s not get too worked up…
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.
Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?
Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.
I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.
Republicans in disarray!
Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”
We are aware of all internet traditions.
Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.
In my day, never was longer.
The words do not have to be perfect.
Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
ppGaz
Roberts will be confirmed unless there is something we don’t know. Same thing I said on Day One. If I were a Dem senator, I’d vote to confirm based on what I know now.
Where’s the beef?
Mr.Ortiz
It’s Karl Rove! He’s trying to distract from his own troubles by smearing his own party’s nominee, and doing it so slopily it actually increases voter sympathy for Republicans. The man is a genius.
Okay, I don’t really believe that, but I wouldn’t put it past him either.
Geek, Esq.
Is there a soul on the planet that thinks that Roberts won’t vote to overturn Roe?
ppGaz
Probably, but it won’t matter. The future of the American Experiment does not hang on Roe v. Wade. An overturn of Roe will not suffice to return us to 1967. All it would do is stir up the churn and inflame the partisans. When it’s all said and done, somewhere way down the road when the country is grown up, people will have some kind of “choice” (whatever you think that is) and other things will be a lot more important. On the grand and global scale of things, this issue is way down the the list. It’s only up on the list now because it’s politically useful for it to be.
demimondian
I keep reminding people who start hyperventilating about this about something amazing which happened back when Casey v. Planned Parenthood was actually before the Court. A lot of “pro-life” Republicans started reporting having had “conversations” with their wives or daughters, and publicly reaffirming their general support for some form of an abortion right.
Had the Casey decision gone the other way that July, I’m quite certain that some form of the Roe test would have been back on the books before the beginning of the summer. But, to everyone’s surprise, Sandra Day O’Connor wrote a stunning decision, to vote to protect Roe, on the grounds that it was “settled law”.
Will Roberts vote against Roe? Quite possibly, although O’Connor’s wording is significant, given his own answers to questions. Will it be the end of the world? Not for American women, nor for the American experiment.