President Biden delivers remains remarks on the security assistance we are providing to Ukraine.
While we wait…
President Biden releases a statement, saying, “If the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose.”
My statement on the reported Supreme Court decision draft. pic.twitter.com/Kt3bP0kzqU
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 3, 2022
President Biden responded to today’s news about Roe, calling the decision “radical” if it holds, and adding, “The codification of Roe makes a lot of sense.”
First, my administration argued strongly before the Court in defense of Roe v. Wade,” Biden said, referencing oral arguments in December before the justices. “We said that Roe is based on “a long line of precedent recognizing ‘the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty’… against government interference with intensely personal decisions.
I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned,” Biden said.
Second, shortly after the enactment of Texas law SB 8 and other laws restricting women’s reproductive rights, I directed my Gender Policy Council and White House Counsel’s Office to prepare options for an Administration response to the continued attack on abortion and reproductive rights, under a variety of possible outcomes in the cases pending before the Supreme Court. We will be ready when any ruling is issued.
Third, if the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law.
It concerns me a great deal that, after 50 years, we’re going to decide that a woman doesn’t have the right to choose,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, en route to Alabama to visit a facility that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missiles. “But even more equally profound is the rationale used — and it would mean that every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question.
I am angry beyond belief. The part that shocks me is that they admitted out loud that they are also going after Casey.
Open thread.
Final note: In case anyone cares, the most accurate measure of my anger is how often I use “fuck” or “fucking”. I nearly typed Open Fucking Thread, which is accurately measuring my level of anger as pretty fucking high.
Alison Rose ???
I say fuck all the time no matter what my emotional state is at the moment. At times like this, I tend to just growl incoherently.
cain
Everything is projection – remember them all clamouring about activist judges. In this hold my beer moment, these judges are reversing decades worth of jurisprudence and settled law.
We couldn’t hold on to these laws for two generations. So angry.
Searcher
You know, it’s interesting to me that the Fourteenth Amendment begins “all persons born“; the people who have been born have their life and liberty protected by that amendment. Not the people who… haven’t.
debbie
@Alison Rose ???:
Me too, especially after working from home for two years with no one around to hear me. Frightening children may be in my near future!
WaterGirl
It may not be bloody, unless the date is Jan 6 or there are black males involved, but we are most definitely fighting a war here at home.
JPL
@Alison Rose ???: Luckovich nails it again
mike luckovich on Twitter: “https://t.co/92wVzKgDL5” / Twitter
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
We are incredibly fortunate in metro Atlanta to have Luckovich as our very own political cartoonist. The rest of the world is incredibly fortunate that we can share him at the click of a “copy-send.”
Old School
Unless I’m mistaken, codification of Roe can (and likely would) be subject to filibuster in the Senate.
Even if it can’t be done, I believe the entire Senate should be put their vote on record.
SpaceUnit
Any wagers on which of our MSM talking heads frames this as ‘Democrats failure to protect Roe v Wade’?
UncleEbeneezer
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m also really irritated by all the normies of a Liberal/Progressive bent in my world, who are now outraged, but haven’t lifted a damn finger to join these fights over the past 6 years. Despite my numerous, constant efforts to get them engaged.
How I’m feeling currently…
Old School
@SpaceUnit: You don’t think there’s enough people doing that here?
Dangerman
Righteous usage of all F bombs; heartily approved. My Mother didn’t say much about politics, but she was clearly and unabashedly pro-choice…
…and, under normal circumstances, I would never tell a woman to sit down and shut up, but Susan Collins needs to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. Mom would have been ok with that sentiment (maybe not the F bombs). Anyone admitting to that level of ignorance shouldn’t be saying anything other than “I resign in shame”.
SpaceUnit
@Old School:
Guess I didn’t notice. This is my first dip in the comment pool today.
WaterGirl
Biden started on time!
Bruce K in ATH-GR
TFG got me swearing a lot more than I did in the Before Times – back in the 20th century, I was the guy who let out a single curse when dealing with something incredibly annoying at work and caused heads to swivel and one person to exclaim “holy shit, Bruce never curses!” But the past decade? My language has gotten coarser, especially when dealing with the neo-fascists trying to take over my homeland.
Or as Charlie Stross put it in The Jennifer Morgue:
(ETA: would it be rude to ask what punted me into moderation? I kind of assume it was the quoted cluster-F-bomb, but did I break some other rule as well?)
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
We do indeed live in strange times!
trollhattan
@cain:
“We’re not activist judges, we’re de-legislating from the bench.”
WaterGirl
Biden: “There is an on-going battle in the world right now between democracy and autocracy.”
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Both outside and inside America, no?
different-church-lady
As I hinted on an earlier thread: the opportunity here, if there is one, is on very thin margins. Every single fucker who voted for Trump in 2020 is going to find Biden’s statement as *more* reason to hate him. There is no hope of peeling any of them away. Eliminating Roe will not change any of their minds. The only opportunity is to convert outraged non-voters into voters.
Even if it helps, it will lead to thin victories. Don’t be deluded with the idea of a wave.
WaterGirl
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: There is one word in the BJ-specific spam filter, and it’s the c-word you used above. I substituted *** and freed you.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@WaterGirl: Whoops! Sorry about that. I don’t actually use that word even to describe people I want to see dropped from the gallows and then roasting in hell, but given it was a quote … I shall consider myself chastised and not do it again.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Absolutely. Enemies foreign and domestic.
If biden actually said “outside and inside” I must have missed it as I was trying to remember exactly what he said so i could type it in.
WaterGirl
Biden is more of a “made in america” president than any Republican in my lifetime.
We used to invest in our nation, years ago – 35 years ago – 2% of our entire GFP went for research and development.
We have gone from #1 to #13. In my administration, we are changing that. Mentioned the chips act.
Since I took office, 465,000 permanent manufacturing jobs were created in America.
How can Biden be so unpopular. The mind boggles.
NotMax
@Bruce K in ATH-GR
As someone steeped in wisdom once said, “You don’t learn how the curse until you learn how to drive.”
;)
RaflW
@WG says “Open Fucking Thread, which is accurately measuring my level of anger as pretty fucking high”
Let’s bottle that anger and use it to perfume every fundraising and organizing thread from now to November! Which is my way of saying Thank You, WaterGirl, for all that you do to keep us focused on the goal and the tools.
NotMax
@NotMax
In dire need of additional coffee.
how the = how to
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I wasn’t listening, so I don’t know. But it occurred to me that these RWNJs are American Russians.
WaterGirl
Biden didn’t take any questions. I guess he wants this to be about what was intended – as a thank you for manufacturing javelins, etc.
Fair enough.
eachother
I appreciate it being said here to take a couple of days to sort out the high speed ball, that we knew was coming and has hit our head. Concussions are dangerous. They need a little reorientation time.
Then it’s empty the bench, repercussion time.
WaterGirl
@debbie: The Rs are definitely not rooting for anything that America has always stood for.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I worked in a lab for years before I got my driver’s license.
Just sayn.
WaterGirl
@RaflW: Thank you. I hope we can manage to do that, because the fight is for everything that matters.
This war is going to be won by the people who are paying attention, with boots on the ground, getting people into the voting booths. That needs to be our side, not theirs.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@WaterGirl: It’s easy to understand why Biden is unpopular: a good chunk of the media are mashing a thumb on the scales and pretending they aren’t. Admitting that one of the two major political parties has gone full-on fascist will fundamentally change the way they do business (not to mention open them up to retaliation when said fascists regain power, up to and including lynch mobs, as we’ve seen).
trollhattan
Digby has a nice roundup of public opinion on Roe, which shows support has not declined versus thirty years ago. And yet, here we are.
WaterGirl
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: These aren’t your father’s Republicans.
eachother
@WaterGirl: Well said in # 33 WaterGirl. And f*ucking right on!
Kathleen
@debbie: I had to chuckles over WG’s restraint. I go from 0 to auto spew in .6 nanoseconds. My mother was like WG. She would remain calm and measured all the time. When she summoned a “Crap” I knew I was in deep shit.
LongHairedWeirdo
Just in case anyone needs a primer:
1) abortion rights are predicated upon the woman’s burden, and risk, arising from pregnancy. Therefore, questions about paternal rights are not relevant, even indirectly – being a sperm donor (even if you intend to be the world’s best dad) doesn’t cause you to share that risk, or that burden.
2) abortion rights are also predicated upon a complicated question: when is a fertilized egg “a person”? Some profess to believe that it happens at fertilization, immediately; this can’t be supported, other than by using a circular argument. At viability, we have a clear presence of a person – if Star Trek transporter technology could transport the baby from the womb, there’d be two obvious patients. Prior to viability, such a use of the transporter wouldn’t matter – the fetus isn’t developed enough to survive.
(Granted, you need to have more reasoning power than a Supreme Court (in-)Justice to be able to figure out why viability is a bright-line concept.)
3) Given that no non-circular reasoning can show a single celled organism is a person, and given that viability is a bright line, where a second person has obviously entered the picture, people should have the right to make their own moral decisions in between those times. That’s what being in a “free” country means – the freedom to make choices for one’s self, even if those choices make some people feel all up-chucky.
4) Given the burden of carrying a pregnancy to term, and given the non-zero risk of death from delivery, it’s not merely “a good thing” to ensure these rights are available to all women. Given the burden, and risk of dying, is real, it’s *imperative* to giver women these rights – far more important than giving women the right to risk infecting others during a global pandemic, by foregoing a mask. The former actually protects something of value; the latter is a middle finger to common decency.
Kathleen
@SpaceUnit: All of them
Bupalos
I think the spluttering headline “security assistance provide to ukraine” and following typos clued me in.
She mad!
The Oracle of Solace
Swearing is appropriate, I think. There really is quite an emotional difference between knowing the hammer is coming down on Roe, and then suddenly getting to see the hammer.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: With me it was hanging wallpaper. Takes some strong language to get it straight and lined up, and make it stick.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: He will be in Cincy on Friday!
trollhattan
@Bupalos: My spouse is out jousting in traffic ATM and I pity any driver within a quarter mile of her.
SpaceUnit
@Kathleen:
Probably.
LongHairedWeirdo
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: It’s not just the thumb on the scale, in my opinion. They are presuming good faith – that if Republicans say something, it might actually represent facts on the ground, or home-grown sentiment, or even some bit of performance art that actually shows off “conservative values”.
They know full well that Republicans will say Democrats are wrong about everything, even when doing so will kill their fellow Americans. And yet, reporters still think it’s “all politics”.
Well, yes, it is. Republicans are killing people, and protecting themselves from facing consequences for doing so, because they have the political power to do so. And yes, they might nevertheless win enough elections to have even more power. That doesn’t mean killing Americans is okay… it means that no one has been speaking up, for those Americans being killed, sufficiently loudly.
trollhattan
@opiejeanne: Car repair. Say, snapping off a bolt you’ve reached by braille.
different-church-lady
@trollhattan: Getting out of bed.
Bupalos
@WaterGirl: We need to work smart too, not just hard. Republicans have a dead easy time at this point motivating folks because they have an overarching narrative banged home for decades now in fight after fight. It’s so simple and broad that it sticks and can encompass every issue confronted. It basically amounts to “wouldn’t you rather go backwards, away from these crazy people that brought you to the this horrible confusing present from the imaginary past we can help you remember? And wouldn’t you like to punish them? MAGA.”
We need the messaging that can encompass every issue consistently, that envisions a future that is better than the present which, in reality rather than in fevered right wing fantasies, is better than the past. Except where they’ve kept us stuck. Help us get to the future instead of retreating to their madhouse version of the past.
I dunno. Something in that vein.
There’s a big reason they’re passing memory laws and don’t want anyone talking about the realities of the past. They aim to own the past in order to cement their eternal war of a present.
The Thin Black Duke
As Mark Twain said, “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
Bupalos
@debbie: I get the sentiment, but they are as American as apple pie. I think it’s a bad idea to speak in terms that suggest this isn’t an organic thing that we own.
Might be a bad idea too in terms of polarizing American support for Ukraine.
prostratedragon
@different-church-lady: That is truly cutting to the chase, but let us not forget kitchen work.
Sister Golden Bear
I picked a bad fucking day to go in and get my blood pressure checked.
I’m having a hard time concentrating at work because I’m so livid (and because I barely slept last night).
Beyond Roe itself, yes I’m in California and relatively safe from the additional repeal of rights to come. But yeah, I am revisiting potential ways to leave the country if my existence is outlawed.
In the meantime I’ll continue fighting like hell.
prostratedragon
@The Thin Black Duke: Intersectionality:
“And may my last words not be ‘Oh shit!’
Amen.”
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I have been told by my mother and brother that I exactly mirror my dad in language and tone of voice in driving related cursing. I learned from a master.
Cacti
It’s not just abortion.
In his draft, Alito declares that it’s open season on everything post-1950.
RaflW
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: I mentioned the the earlier thread today that Politico is advising their employees to take heightened personal protection steps.
That our media hasn’t tumbled to the idea that the holding/scolding/taunting pens of the Trump rallies were just a speedbump on the way to actual deadly purges is one of the things that makes me wonder that they report on. Like, do they see mere inches in front of their faces.
West of the Rockies
@eachother:
Nice metaphor.
Gravenstone
Somewhat amusing, as an old aphorism of strong language is to “peel the paper from the walls”.
Cacti
Here’s your disturbing fact of the day:
When the draft decision is released, Wisconsin’s anti-abortion law written in 1849 goes back into effect because it was never formally repealed.
No exceptions for anything. Abortion is a crime, period.
RaflW
@Sister Golden Bear: As a midwestern gay couple living in MN (and with the outrageous good fortune to also have a condo in the CO Rockies), we plan to stick around and fight and live in progressive places.
But with a wary eye for the exits. We’ve read some of the stories of marginalized folks who stayed too long in, say, Germany. Part of what I ruminate on is how we’d use our privilege to take folks with us and/or leave lifelines behind? Moving just isn’t an option for many at risk.
Dangerman
@Cacti: 1850
debbie
@Bupalos:
Both have the same delusional beliefs about themselves. That was my point; poorly stated, but still my point.
They always defer to the rights of states to legislate rather than to the federal government. I know why they would lean that way, but is it supported by the Constitution?
evap
Americans with money can fly to Ireland if they need an abortion. Who’d have thunk it?
evap
A thought I had was is how much Covid deaths will impact the 2022 elections. I read somewhere that the number of Covid deaths in Florida is greater than the margin of victory in the last governor’s election. Of course, they aren’t all Republicans, but I suspect a lot more than half are.
Ksmiami
@Cacti: question, if some ahole tries to attack a woman for seeking an abortion, can she just shoot him and say she felt threatened so she stood her ground? Second Amendment and all
WaterGirl
@Bupalos: I am laughing because when I am upset is EXACTLY when I make all sorts of typos, leave out words, etc.
Funny that you picked up on that. Now i have to go find the typos and round up the missing words and fix them.
Cacti
Rep. Raskin made a particularly ominous point today.
If a state can jail you for having an abortion, who’s to say they can’t require you to have one if they deem you unfit?
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Are you going to go see him?
NotMax
@evap
Death (in some R eyes) not an impediment to voting.
//
Cacti
@Ksmiami: Time will tell, I suppose.
But I’m certain that their next move will be the passage of a Fugitive Slave Act for pregnant women who try to escape to a free state.
RaflW
@Bupalos: I don’t doubt that messaging is a component. But WG and others are right that it is organizing, at the person-to-person level, that matters most.
The GOP and especially the RW money machine has invested in decades of organizing. Progressives have done some, but face a serious lag. We’ve relied too much on a few key actors: Presidents, swing votes on a 4-5 and 5-4 Court, etc.
In my pessimistic days, I wonder if we can hang on until younger generations gets enough power. But we have to try. And it has to be broad-based.
The Thin Black Duke
@Ksmiami: If he’s black and she’s white, sure.
Cacti
@RaflW: If you can afford to purchase a home worth 400k Euros, Portugal has a program called the Golden Visa, where you can get lawful permanent residence for your immediate family, with a citizenship track.
brendancalling
I am beyond livid.
NotMax
@Cacti
Next B-J fund raiser!
:)
mali muso
@Cacti: Purchase in cash or qualify for a mortgage? Because I am definitely interested in exploring the option.
RaflW
@Cacti: I do wonder if some of these deals may dry up in response to how Russian oligarchs have used them to offshore and park stolen wealth?
(I also don’t relish the idea of trying to get my foggy brain to learn even rudimentary Portuguese. Though once one is established, it would open up various EU nations. And I’m sure I’d not starve in Lisbon, Porto or the like – I’ve done reasonably well visiting European countries or regions with low English usage. Being humble, patient, and willing to occasionally end up with a surprise works wonders. Oh, that was squid? Oh, I guess I’ll try it. (ftr, didn’t like, but non-fatal!))
bjacques
Biden’s speech in Troy, AL was a corker. But I’m surprised that a town that makes Javelins would be so far from Huntsville and its Redstone Arsenal that invented Stingers and Redeyes.
The Moar You Know
@mali muso: that would be cash. I am learning Portugese. My wife and I, we’re not staying.
Edmund Dantes
@Cacti: the state did. Sterilized a ton of people all legal like thanks to the Supreme Court. eugenics it’s been around for awhile.
taumaturgo
***Biden’s sympathies are with the filibuster, not ready to change it in order to codified Roe.*** Sorry ladies, arcane senate rules take precedent over your reproductive freedom.
“I’m not prepared to make those judgments now,” Biden replied to a reporter’s question asking him directly if the senate should do away with the filibuster to codify the Roe v Wade ruling that gives a constitutional right to abortion.
He did say, however, that such a law “makes a lot of sense”:
Ksmiami
@Cacti: Ireland too… but you have to put 1 million euros into a holding investment fund
prostratedragon
@taumaturgo: I’d take him literally about not being prepared to take that position, as he does not seem to like shooting from the hip. In any case, there’s a lot to do before worrying about the filibuster or prejudging the quality of his effort.
Ksmiami
Hmm leave or obliterate Republicans- hard choices
SpaceUnit
To be fair, Biden would not have the votes in the Senate to abolish the filibuster.
prostratedragon
(I know there’s a new thread, but it seems very specific and action-oriented.)
Elsewhere in shit hitting the fan, TFG’s head of Homeland Security has been caught trying to cook a report on Russian election interference:
Link to the report pdf
Geminid
@RaflW: Portugal is responding to long term conditions. It has long been the poorest country in western Europe, and it’s population is static. The national bureau of statistics projects that if current trends continue the population will drop from over 10 million to less than 8 million people by 2080. They know they need new people that can bring money even if they may not make Portugal their primary residence.
West Virginia’s incentive program is analogous. Wikipedia tells me that West Virginia is the only state in the U.S. that has fewer residents now than in 1950. That is reflected in in it’s Congressional representation. Up until the 1960’s West Virginia had six Representatives. Next year there will only two.
So, the state recently announced a $20,000 cash incentive for “remote workers” moving to the Morgantown area. Only 56 people who applied last year met the requirements, but the state now has made the southern city of Lewisburg a second “magnet” for this program.
Ohio Mom
@SpaceUnit: Welcome to the world of commenting! Stick around!
Cacti
@mali muso: Yes, it can be mortgaged.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SpaceUnit:
Schumer.
SpaceUnit
@Ohio Mom:
Thanks. Yeah, I haven’t been around too much recently.
I get into a funk every year around this time, and I just hate everything for a few weeks.
SpaceUnit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
His Most Royal Highness King Joe Manchin.
The asshole.
Cacti
Scratch that, you have to meet the minimum investment amount (i.e. cash purchase), which is:
$500k Euros in a high density area
$400k Euros in a low density area
$350k for a residential rehabilitation project
trollhattan
Always a month or so behind the times, America’s stupidest senator™ tells you a thing.
eachother
I picture myself on the porch drinking Portugal port.
Geminid
@eachother: Drinking port and watching your cork trees grow.
Sure Lurkalot
I’d pick Portugal but that language is inscrutable!
I admire all of you who love this country and will fight for it, whatever that means and entails. I miss the love I had for it as a child, but as the song goes, the feeling’s gone and I just can’t get it back. I have felt this way for decades, in my timeline, beginning with Reagan. I do not want to spend my remaining time in a fascist country with other people’s religious beliefs codified into law. Especially when what I thought were laws all along were really just norms and conventions to be ignored. Definitely giving serious thought to finding another way.
RaflW
@Geminid: I feel like we need to get some of the liberal very-rich to start post haste to sponsor other libs willing to move to lower-population red states. We’ve got to dilute their vote concentrations, and frankly all the cool kid places are packed full and super expensive!
Tired of the high cost of living and rising congestion and other issues in (Denver/SF/Austin/etc)? Move to Jackson WY, Pocatelo ID, or Morgantown WV. We’ll fund* $50K of down payment on a home and get you the blazing fast internet you need to WFH.
*Proof of “D” voter registration and having voted in the past two non-residential elections required.
SpaceUnit
Morgantown is lovely if you enjoy drunken redneck college students vomiting on your lawn and burning furniture in the streets.
trollhattan
@RaflW: Heh.
Wyoming is mathematically the easiest state to flip but nobody is going to afford Jackson; how does Casper sound?
Stayed in Pocatello a few times–starkly pretty but as Mormon as any place in Utah. Boise is okay, probably where most of the hippies live.
ian
@RaflW: The flaw with this (and other proposals I have seen like it) is we have no way (nor should we) of knowing how they actually voted last 2 elections or in future. A person could just change their registration to D to qualify for the cash.
Maybe it will work, but I suspect there exist better uses of the money than the gigantic relocation of voters. People will also need jobs and infrastructure lined up for where they move to, which increases the expense and difficulty of this scheme.
RaflW
@RaflW: Bah, I didn’t proofread: voting in the past two non-presidential elections! I’m sure some winger will cite my random anonymous comment as evidence that we’re urging voter fraud. Oops, no.
@ian: To the larger point, yeah it’s impractical. But there really could be some more targeted marketing campaigns that don’t promise specific reimbursement. There really are some great mid-size cities that I think a lot of progressives pass over because it doesn’t occur to them that they’d like it or thrive there. Our family moved to Tulsa in the 70s, and though it didn’t work out for my dad career-wise so we moved again, the city charmed us and really surprised us (we didn’t learn ugly truths about Black Wall Street for decades, but so many places have ugly histories, and that shouldn’t dissuade progs from moving).
I have a friend now who lives in OKC and while sure, the current political leadership pisses her off mightily, there’s much there that works for her and her family.
Bill Arnold
@WaterGirl:
It’s worth mentioning that that word is common in Scottish (and generally UK) English and is not the strong vulgarity it is in the US. It can be and is applied to men (and women). (That particular novel quoted has UK characters.)
One of those extreme English vs Real English differences.
Geminid
I expect that Mr. Silverman will cover this story in a post tonight, but the Times of Israel reports that Russian forces mounted a heavy assault today on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupal. Tanks and armord personnel carriers were used as well as landing craft for a waterfront attack
patrick II
@WaterGirl:
How can Biden be so unpopular? They compare what Biden does to what they imagine Trump could do. “There would be no war in Ukraine if Trump was president” — said a MAGA of my acquaintance
Gravenstone
@trollhattan: Trying really hard to overtake Tuberville for dumbest motherfucker in the Senate.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: They don’t release his itinerary until 24 hours before his trip so I don’t know where he will be. Last time he was on my side of town. He visited an IBEW training center about 4 miles from my house then held a town hall at a small Catholic university in my neck of the woods.
From what I’ve heard he wants to learn about manufacturing. Cincy has a lot of incubators some of which have funded alternative energy options for auto, etc. I’m sure he’ll get to meet our adorable new mayor for the first time!
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Kathleen
@SpaceUnit: I can relate. January is usually my Month of Funk and not the fun James Brown/Bootsy Collins kind.
SpaceUnit
@patrick II:
I’ve been taking the polls with a grain of salt.
persistentillusion
@RaflW: Come to Colorado Springs, represented by the only man nearly dumber than RonJohn, Doug Lamborn. When I moved here nearly 30 years ago, you whispered “i’m a democrat”. Over the yearss, although we’re still vastly outnumbered, our voices have gotten a great deal louder “I’M A DEMOCRAT, WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT?”.
SpaceUnit
@Kathleen:
Ha. That would be a month of funk I could deal with.
Yeah most people get the winter blues. I’m just an oddball I guess.
Sister Golden Bear
Dead thread, but there’s other ways to move to Portugal that don’t involve a Golden Visa, and a far more affordable.
Basically if you can show you’ve got outside income, they’re happy to take your money and let you live there. Albeit you do have to go through a different program for long-term residency.
If I remember correctly, after five years, you can qualify for a green card — but not actual citizenship. Citizenship being the big selling point of the Golden Visa, since you also automatically get EU citizenship. However, I believe a green card gets you most of the practical benefits.
Ksmiami
@trollhattan: drove thru Laramie- we could just buy up land and build new cool towns that look like Boulder and get a couple blocks of Angelenos to migrate
EarthWind&Fire (formerly bluegirlfromwyo)
@UncleEbeneezer: My feels with my Liberal normie friends who are world weary sighing about how democracy was good while it lasted. There’s some privilege showing.
EarthWind&Fire (formerly bluegirlfromwyo)
@trollhattan: Second on Jackson but Casper sucks. Laramie’s a nice town but has most of the limited liberals since it’s home to the sole 4-year university. Maybe Sheridan or Cody.
HeartlandLiberal
Watergirl, Te Absolvo for the fucking high comments. I concur entirely. This is a watershed moment in history of this here Republic, when one of three branches, the one that is supposed to uphold the rule of law, has gone totally rogue, and is in fact legislating from the bench. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch should be impeached for their lies at their confirmation hearings. The only way this gets better if is if ALL of us, w/o exception, votes Democratic, crawls over glass and nails to vote this November.
WaterGirl
@Bill Arnold: That may be true, but that doesn’t make the word not offensive to many of the women on this blog. Possibly similar to explanations of why the n-word wasn’t meant in an offensive way?
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Belated thanks for the reply that i am just seeing this morning.