“I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans,” Manchin said in a statement Friday.
4.
Betty Cracker
Pleased that Biden noted Roe is on the ballot in November. I’m not sure how much GOTV momentum we can get from this, but damn it, we have to try.
Biden also called out Thomas by name for threatening rights on contraception and gay rights. Said the court is on a dangerous path. Asks that protests remain peaceful.
Power Over Others. That’s what animated turning Chattel Slavery into full-bore Racism. It’s what has fueled Patriarchal attitudes for millennia now. And it’s what has led to LGBTQIA+ people being pushed to the margins of so many cultures, for far too long.
All of this is fueled in modern America by finally trying to make America as open and honest as we’ve said we were from the Founders, on. But, just as said Founders didn’t want even poor whites to vote in many cases, so today do many profess to believe in American ideas, but only so long as the exercise of those ideals allows them to stay in power.
Every Backlash comes from allowing a group to share in power.
21.
JPL
@zhena gogolia: And I assumed it was the closeted frustrated gays. That might still be true, when you think about it.
22.
Pharniel
My hope: Biden addresses the nation on the 4th of July, and actual use of the Bully Pulpet lays out that the SCTOUS is inventing rights for the 2nd amendment, but removing others, and lays out a slate of legislation that addresses these issues and asks for public support and notes all of the stances are approved by 60+% of the country.
Fuck, note that the Founding Fathers were pro-abortion.
I’m not sure it would work, but it would be far more of an actual Fight than the dems have done so far.
23.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: I think the self-declared Republican party numbers are already falling.
It’s the “indpependents” — the embarrassed GOP voters and low info voters and glibertarians — who might be moveable.
24.
JPL
Update: Disney just informed employees it will indeed cover travel expenses for employees in red states that want an abortion. Big because Disney has so many people in Florida.
I desperately want DeSantis et. al. to declare war on corporate America for not toeing the line and threatening to nationalize them all. Please let them step on their own dicks.
Mousillini, Putin, et. al. had the good sense to wait until they had fully secured their grip on power before deciding to seize all the ‘unfriendly’ private property.
28.
JPL
@Suzanne: Yup there is that. I hope they offer a 1,500 for extra expenses for everyone. That might not cover the entire cost, but it would help.
29.
Kelly
@Elizabelle: In Oregon independents, non-affiliated in Oregonspeak, are the largest group here. Probably our very easy registration process is part of the reason for that. Another piece is folks that do not understand politics is a team activity.
30.
MisterDancer
@JPL: Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced similar support as well; $4K for travel to get an Abortion.
As a result: Their stock is up ~10% in trading today.
31.
taumaturgo
@raven:
Anything coming out of his mouth is not believable, unless he declares his willingness to do away with the filibuster.
32.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yes. Got to reach the non-voters. They are not the same thing as disenfranchised voters.
Dare to vote!
33.
Kelly
I’m certain the gleeful overturning of a 50 year old precedent includes a bit of “Abortion was illegal for longer than that”. Same will apply when they come for Brown, Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
34.
Cameron
I don’t know how the other networks will carry it, but I’d bet a few bucks that Fox will spend copious amounts of time on Biden’s statement that Roe went too far and that women shouldn’t have sole say over their bodies. Of course, that statement was made in 1974, and we all know that nobody ever has changed their thinking about anything.
35.
Elizabelle
Michael Beschloss tweet today:
This is how three of these Supreme Court Justices got there: One appointment was stolen from Obama. Another vacancy occurred after Trump worked to entice a sitting Justice to leave. Trump rushed third appointment onto Supreme Court exactly eight days before 2020 election he lost.
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Elizabelle
Yessss. Do not forget “Justice” Anthony Kennedy stepping down. Look into that.
37.
sdhays
@raven: “I’m sorry, everyone, that I am so stupidly naive that I blindly accept promises from people saying that they won’t do the thing that they have organized their entire careers around ultimately doing if and when they are ever given power. It’s a wonder I’m able to put my pants on in the morning.”
38.
JPL
This is the peaceful protest that Biden called for NSFW
@JPL: No projectiles, no blood flowing? Sounds peaceful enough to me.
40.
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: It will drive Dem turnout for sure, but also Republicans alarmed about expanding the court or passing a national law to codify Roe.
Thanks to Clueless Clarence tying the decision into birth control and privacy, I think a lot of otherwise disengaged Dem-leaners will join us usual suspects. So, advantage 21st century types.
I just found out that NYS reapportionment has stuck me with Elise Stefanik as my rep. Needless to say, I intend to fight for team Blue, even though the seat is considered likely GOP.
After a few weeks of canvassing I will have a better idea whether the non-engagees are breaking like I hope.
41.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I dug around YouTube for that clip from the beginning of the third Indiana Jones movie – where the mercenary tells Indy “you lost today, kid, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it”, and gives him the Hat.
I’m just not sure it’s appropriate. It feels trite to me. And it feels like I’m not the best judge, given that I have no uterus and am therefore not a first-order victim of the Dobbs decision.
What does the jackaltariat say? Appropriate to the day or no?
MSNBC’s Chris Jansing just had a smug fuckface from an anti-choice group on — Mallory something or another. Ugh. But the extremist was right to note that her forced-birth organization and other anti-choice groups worked toward this moment for decades. There’s a lesson there
ETA: Jansing is pretty good, IMO. I hope she replaces Andrea Mitchell, who really does need to go.
I don’t get it either and I don’t think it’s actually a religious thing. People are using the religious argument because it’s the acceptable cover for what is some kind of irrational thing they might not be able to explain themselves.
As a dude, to a dude? No. No, people don’t need cute-by-half Indiana Jones business, today.
47.
jonas
For years there have been a lot of “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” independents and Republicans that have voted GOP for deregulation and tax cuts while assuming that Roe and other important civil rights were relatively safe, because, you know, “precedent” and all that. Well, all that lies in ashes now. So the question is, are these people — mostly probably fairly privileged white people — going to shrug their shoulders and continue voting for tax cuts, especially if they’re in a “safe” blue state — or are they going to freak out, especially over Thomas’s opinion, and start voting Dem, or at least withhold their vote and $$ from anti-choice Republicans?
48.
Jinchi
@raven: If only Manchin were in a position to do something. Maybe he and Susan Collins can brainstorm a solution for us.
49.
H.E.Wolf
For those of us who are not in the US Senate or the White House, here is one of the many things we can do: https://www.facebook.com/TonyTheDemocrat.org/ [June 22 post: should be the most current one still.]
As I’ve mentioned before: I like this volunteer project because slow, intermittent, WhiteOut-dependent writers like me can participate with ease. They do 90% of the work for me! :-)
50.
sab
Tim Ryan running for Senate from Ohio could use some bucks.
51.
Jinchi
@Betty Cracker: Wow, Biden flat-out called the court out as extremist
Awesome. That’s the reaction I was hoping for. Time for every Democrat running to pick up the baton and start running with it.
Hopefully girls will be sensible, like my mother’s generation, and we will have a lot more incel males out there. Also too now there is DNA testing, do lots of not incel males will be looking at 18 years of child support.
Tough luck for married women with failed pregnancies.
I am not heartless, just very very angry.
54.
CaseyL
@Betty Cracker: Biden also laid out specific things people can do: help folks from Red states go to Blue ones for essential medical care, and vote in a bigger, better Democratic majority in November. to codify Roe into Federal law…
…he did not say, “Oh, and also to expand SCOTUS,” but if by some miracle there is a Blue Wave this November, we can start pushing for that, too.
55.
Mai Naem mobile
@JPL: i don’t want to fuck Kavanaugh(ewwww), Clarence(double ewwww) or Alito(triple ewwww.)
56.
Ceece
@H.E.Wolf: I write for postcards to voters also, as well as reclaim our vote (targets POC) and field team 6 (targets unregistered).
“My public persona is once again revealed to be a huge gullible idiot, and I won’t be changing my behavior one bit because in reality I’m an entirely different person from how I present myself to you folks.” https://t.co/CEZPQu8tec
I don’t get it either and I don’t think it’s actually a religious thing. People are using the religious argument because it’s the acceptable cover for what is some kind of irrational thing they might not be able to explain themselves.
I’m certain it’s the latter. I’ve seen it called the “ick factor”. Few people are willing to admit that gayness puts them in a near-homicidal rage only because it squicks them out.
My reading of Leviticus is that the author didn’t disapprove of homosexuality per se; they disapproved of men not having sex with women for any reason because the Hebrew tribe needed more Hebrews. Population mattered in a place where tribes competed with each other. Come to think of it, that’s how today’s white-wingers feel.
Manchin is not naïve; he is malign and corrupt. He doesn’t care about women’s rights. He wanted Kavanaugh on the court for the economic agenda.
Exactly. The media can play these games, but we don’t need to.
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cain
@JPL: It’s a wedge issue – but I think it comes from those who are in the closet and are completely uncomfortable about it. Homosexuality and transgender has been around since humanity began – there is nothing wrong with any of it.
@JPL: Gay men upset the patriarchy. We upset the idea that a man is lord of his manor and brood.
The wildly inappropriate question of who does what to whom (yes, in the 90s straight people actually asked that) is a stand in for the real question: How can you ‘be a man’ if you share power with an equal?!
Follow on is (eek): Surely one of you is submissive, and hence the woman and of low rank and power, and a betrayal of manhood.
So, surprise, homophobia is at least partly misogyny, shifted.
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Alison Rose
I admire the ASL interpreter for not just waving middle fingers at the screen.
Cervantes
Is Susan Collins concerned?
raven
“I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans,” Manchin said in a statement Friday.
Betty Cracker
Pleased that Biden noted Roe is on the ballot in November. I’m not sure how much GOTV momentum we can get from this, but damn it, we have to try.
Biden also called out Thomas by name for threatening rights on contraception and gay rights. Said the court is on a dangerous path. Asks that protests remain peaceful.
Baud
@raven:
Oh Lordy.
Break the filibuster then, asshole.
jnfr
@Alison Rose :
No kidding!
Just had to add: Fuck Joe Manchin.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: This is going to be a political tsunami.
Betty Cracker
Wow, Biden flat-out called the court out as extremist. Good for him. It’s true.
JPL
@Baud: She along with Murkowski could do that. I say call her bluff.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: I hope you’re right!
SiubhanDuinne
Hella speech.
“THIS IS NOT OVER.” Thank you, Mr. President.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: He also mentioned birth control and same sex marriage. So glad he brought up Thomas’ comments.
JPL
Even though I’m in my seventies, I still don’t understand gay hate. Jesus didn’t hate the gays, so it shouldn’t be a religious issue. What is it?
Eolirin
@JPL: Paul did.
zhena gogolia
@JPL: Fear. Also what Eolirin said. Paul screwed up everything.
Raoul Paste
I want to see Biden‘s comments on the goddamn evening news. Lord knows they covered every fart from TFG
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: It will depend on how many abandon the Republican party because of this.
Tom Levenson
Biden!
Not a happy day, but he gets it.
JPL
@Raoul Paste: Good luck with that. It was a great speech.
MisterDancer
Power Over Others. That’s what animated turning Chattel Slavery into full-bore Racism. It’s what has fueled Patriarchal attitudes for millennia now. And it’s what has led to LGBTQIA+ people being pushed to the margins of so many cultures, for far too long.
All of this is fueled in modern America by finally trying to make America as open and honest as we’ve said we were from the Founders, on. But, just as said Founders didn’t want even poor whites to vote in many cases, so today do many profess to believe in American ideas, but only so long as the exercise of those ideals allows them to stay in power.
Every Backlash comes from allowing a group to share in power.
JPL
@zhena gogolia: And I assumed it was the closeted frustrated gays. That might still be true, when you think about it.
Pharniel
My hope: Biden addresses the nation on the 4th of July, and actual use of the Bully Pulpet lays out that the SCTOUS is inventing rights for the 2nd amendment, but removing others, and lays out a slate of legislation that addresses these issues and asks for public support and notes all of the stances are approved by 60+% of the country.
Fuck, note that the Founding Fathers were pro-abortion.
I’m not sure it would work, but it would be far more of an actual Fight than the dems have done so far.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: I think the self-declared Republican party numbers are already falling.
It’s the “indpependents” — the embarrassed GOP voters and low info voters and glibertarians — who might be moveable.
JPL
Update: Disney just informed employees it will indeed cover travel expenses for employees in red states that want an abortion. Big because Disney has so many people in Florida.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: And non-voters too. This affects everyone.
Suzanne
@JPL: Imagine having to tell your employer that you want an abortion.
Pharniel
@JPL:
I desperately want DeSantis et. al. to declare war on corporate America for not toeing the line and threatening to nationalize them all. Please let them step on their own dicks.
Mousillini, Putin, et. al. had the good sense to wait until they had fully secured their grip on power before deciding to seize all the ‘unfriendly’ private property.
JPL
@Suzanne: Yup there is that. I hope they offer a 1,500 for extra expenses for everyone. That might not cover the entire cost, but it would help.
Kelly
@Elizabelle: In Oregon independents, non-affiliated in Oregonspeak, are the largest group here. Probably our very easy registration process is part of the reason for that. Another piece is folks that do not understand politics is a team activity.
MisterDancer
@JPL: Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced similar support as well; $4K for travel to get an Abortion.
As a result: Their stock is up ~10% in trading today.
taumaturgo
@raven:
Anything coming out of his mouth is not believable, unless he declares his willingness to do away with the filibuster.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yes. Got to reach the non-voters. They are not the same thing as disenfranchised voters.
Dare to vote!
Kelly
I’m certain the gleeful overturning of a 50 year old precedent includes a bit of “Abortion was illegal for longer than that”. Same will apply when they come for Brown, Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
Cameron
I don’t know how the other networks will carry it, but I’d bet a few bucks that Fox will spend copious amounts of time on Biden’s statement that Roe went too far and that women shouldn’t have sole say over their bodies. Of course, that statement was made in 1974, and we all know that nobody ever has changed their thinking about anything.
Elizabelle
Michael Beschloss tweet today:
Elizabelle
Yessss. Do not forget “Justice” Anthony Kennedy stepping down. Look into that.
sdhays
@raven: “I’m sorry, everyone, that I am so stupidly naive that I blindly accept promises from people saying that they won’t do the thing that they have organized their entire careers around ultimately doing if and when they are ever given power. It’s a wonder I’m able to put my pants on in the morning.”
JPL
This is the peaceful protest that Biden called for NSFW
philip lewis on Twitter: “Protesters shouting “Fuck you SCOTUS! Fuck you Alito! Fuck you Thomas! Fuck you Gorsuch! Fuck you Kavanaugh!” https://t.co/lJyBTbRqxV” / Twitter
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@JPL: No projectiles, no blood flowing? Sounds peaceful enough to me.
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: It will drive Dem turnout for sure, but also Republicans alarmed about expanding the court or passing a national law to codify Roe.
Thanks to Clueless Clarence tying the decision into birth control and privacy, I think a lot of otherwise disengaged Dem-leaners will join us usual suspects. So, advantage 21st century types.
I just found out that NYS reapportionment has stuck me with Elise Stefanik as my rep. Needless to say, I intend to fight for team Blue, even though the seat is considered likely GOP.
After a few weeks of canvassing I will have a better idea whether the non-engagees are breaking like I hope.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I dug around YouTube for that clip from the beginning of the third Indiana Jones movie – where the mercenary tells Indy “you lost today, kid, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it”, and gives him the Hat.
I’m just not sure it’s appropriate. It feels trite to me. And it feels like I’m not the best judge, given that I have no uterus and am therefore not a first-order victim of the Dobbs decision.
What does the jackaltariat say? Appropriate to the day or no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KALd3ynNH60
Betty Cracker
MSNBC’s Chris Jansing just had a smug fuckface from an anti-choice group on — Mallory something or another. Ugh. But the extremist was right to note that her forced-birth organization and other anti-choice groups worked toward this moment for decades. There’s a lesson there
ETA: Jansing is pretty good, IMO. I hope she replaces Andrea Mitchell, who really does need to go.
James E Powell
@JPL:
I don’t get it either and I don’t think it’s actually a religious thing. People are using the religious argument because it’s the acceptable cover for what is some kind of irrational thing they might not be able to explain themselves.
Alison Rose
@JPL: Yeah, I wasn’t happy with that part of his remarks. Come on, Joe. You’re really gonna admonish us like little kids to be nice about this? FOH.
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
California has a large portion of Independent voters. They tend to vote for Democrats. They also tend to be reasonably well-informed.
MisterDancer
As a dude, to a dude? No. No, people don’t need cute-by-half Indiana Jones business, today.
jonas
For years there have been a lot of “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” independents and Republicans that have voted GOP for deregulation and tax cuts while assuming that Roe and other important civil rights were relatively safe, because, you know, “precedent” and all that. Well, all that lies in ashes now. So the question is, are these people — mostly probably fairly privileged white people — going to shrug their shoulders and continue voting for tax cuts, especially if they’re in a “safe” blue state — or are they going to freak out, especially over Thomas’s opinion, and start voting Dem, or at least withhold their vote and $$ from anti-choice Republicans?
Jinchi
@raven: If only Manchin were in a position to do something. Maybe he and Susan Collins can brainstorm a solution for us.
H.E.Wolf
For those of us who are not in the US Senate or the White House, here is one of the many things we can do:
https://www.facebook.com/TonyTheDemocrat.org/ [June 22 post: should be the most current one still.]
As I’ve mentioned before: I like this volunteer project because slow, intermittent, WhiteOut-dependent writers like me can participate with ease. They do 90% of the work for me! :-)
sab
Tim Ryan running for Senate from Ohio could use some bucks.
Jinchi
Awesome. That’s the reaction I was hoping for. Time for every Democrat running to pick up the baton and start running with it.
jnfr
@JPL: That’s just good old free speech!
sab
Hopefully girls will be sensible, like my mother’s generation, and we will have a lot more incel males out there. Also too now there is DNA testing, do lots of not incel males will be looking at 18 years of child support.
Tough luck for married women with failed pregnancies.
I am not heartless, just very very angry.
CaseyL
@Betty Cracker: Biden also laid out specific things people can do: help folks from Red states go to Blue ones for essential medical care, and vote in a bigger, better Democratic majority in November. to codify Roe into Federal law…
…he did not say, “Oh, and also to expand SCOTUS,” but if by some miracle there is a Blue Wave this November, we can start pushing for that, too.
Mai Naem mobile
@JPL: i don’t want to fuck Kavanaugh(ewwww), Clarence(double ewwww) or Alito(triple ewwww.)
Ceece
@H.E.Wolf: I write for postcards to voters also, as well as reclaim our vote (targets POC) and field team 6 (targets unregistered).
Every postcard is 40 cents of therapy for me.
Steeplejack
@sdhays:
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Manchin is not naïve; he is malign and corrupt. He doesn’t care about women’s rights. He wanted Kavanaugh on the court for the economic agenda.
...now I try to be amused
@James E Powell:
I’m certain it’s the latter. I’ve seen it called the “ick factor”. Few people are willing to admit that gayness puts them in a near-homicidal rage only because it squicks them out.
My reading of Leviticus is that the author didn’t disapprove of homosexuality per se; they disapproved of men not having sex with women for any reason because the Hebrew tribe needed more Hebrews. Population mattered in a place where tribes competed with each other. Come to think of it, that’s how today’s white-wingers feel.
James E Powell
@Steeplejack:
Exactly. The media can play these games, but we don’t need to.
cain
@JPL: It’s a wedge issue – but I think it comes from those who are in the closet and are completely uncomfortable about it. Homosexuality and transgender has been around since humanity began – there is nothing wrong with any of it.
cain
@Kelly:
BTW Fox News is at it again – my wife heard about it through the educator grape vine.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/oregon-bipoc-teachers-claims-eye-rolling-example-harmful-practice-rooted-white-supremacy
My wife has direct knowledge of shit going on there.
kalakal
Good for Biden calling out these bigots for what they are. This ruling is not just hateful, it’s murderous.
Here’s a current example from a place that has a total abortion ban
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/22/us-woman-left-traumatised-after-malta-hospital-refuses-life-saving-abortion?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I’m so angry I could spit
ETA
Update it seems that these murderous, sanctimonious jerks will ever so generously allow their victim to get real medical help
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/23/us-woman-denied-abortion-in-malta-flies-to-spain-for-termination-andrea-prudente?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Captain C
@Elizabelle:
I think the technical term is ‘blackmailed.’
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@MisterDancer: That’s what I figured. I wasn’t sure, though, and figured there wouldn’t be that much harm in asking a closed group for a sanity check.
Thanks
Felanius Kootea
@topclimber:
Dems outnumber Republicans.
RaflW
@JPL: Gay men upset the patriarchy. We upset the idea that a man is lord of his manor and brood.
The wildly inappropriate question of who does what to whom (yes, in the 90s straight people actually asked that) is a stand in for the real question: How can you ‘be a man’ if you share power with an equal?!
Follow on is (eek): Surely one of you is submissive, and hence the woman and of low rank and power, and a betrayal of manhood.
So, surprise, homophobia is at least partly misogyny, shifted.