Seriously: they’re professional, globe-trotting CHUZ LYFE! grifters. They could certainly afford to adopt a baby, individually or as a couple — and they could probably find a suitable infant in their home countries, if they really cared — but they’re standing outside the Supreme Court, taunting American women whose personal autonomy has just been stolen, because it’s good for their brand.
I haven’t checked for a ‘Christian’ GoFundMe clone page, because ugh. But the real dollar value for these two is showing this photo, and its million social-media repeats, to deep-pocket donors looking for professional representation in the anti-autonomy sphere.
(that was a rhetorical question – the couple outside the supreme court with the “we will adopt your baby” sign is sebastian schuff and neydy casillas. they cannot actually adopt your baby because neither of them are US citizens) pic.twitter.com/NUC7yvH1M8
— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) June 27, 2022
(Mr. Schuff’s LinkedIn bio.)
Conservatives are all for “we will adopt your baby” until it’s a same sex couple trying to achieve the same goal pic.twitter.com/qatcAgpFYK
— alonzo (@alonzomars) June 28, 2022
"We will adopt your baby." pic.twitter.com/brWoltbDU7
— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) June 28, 2022
Sister Golden Bear
We saw your baby from across the room and liked its vibe.
ian
The best photo of these I saw today was Jared and Ivanka. Close second was the McClosky gun nuts from Missouri.
Mnemosyne
Now I kind of want a mother and teenager at one of those rallies to act out a little drama where they’re like, “Okay, here’s my baby! Yes, my baby is a 16-year-old boy. He’s being kind of an asshole, so he’s all yours! No give-backs!”
And then the teenage boy follows the protesters around for the rest of the afternoon shrieking, “Mom and Dad, why don’t you love me? You offered to adopt me and now you don’t love me!”
But I’m a sucker for bad street theater.
mrmoshpotato
@Mnemosyne:
LMAO! Yes!
I also want all of these creepy, Christo-fascist bastards to adopt all of the babies – after they’re the surrogates of the babies (Yes, the men too.).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
bouncing around my head is the horror movie I’m going to write based on this one: Let The Right One Out? Don’t Let The Wrong Out? For God’s Sake, Nail The Windows Shut?
I just can’t decide if it’s about vampires or zombies. Zombie Vampires? Definitely underfed and soulless.
stinger
@ian: This is my actual favorite:
https://twitter.com/curtisisbooger/status/1541590806594695168
stinger
@mrmoshpotato: If there, as I have read, are 600,000 abortions a year in this country, are they going to adopt 600,000 baybeez? Annually?
ian
@stinger: sure, but I would trust those two. The running joke is two people you would not want raising children. Great picture, thanks for sharing.
stinger
@ian: Sure, I get that — but Righty Whities would find way too many of that kind acceptable. Whereas, Booger and Lamar, not so much.
mrmoshpotato
@stinger:
I assume so! We’re talking about good people here, not lying, fascistic, misogynistic bastards.
Danielx
Quite sure that Andrew Vachss is nursing serious heartburn at the thought of these fucking hypocrites actually adopting a child of a different race.
Leslie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Jared is the zombie, Ivanka the vampire.
HumboldtBlue
Sweet Jesus beating an orphan with a selfie stick, I thought I had seen some takes on this.
Here are two Michael Jackson covers that are really fucking good and another.
Rockin’ Robin
Billie Jean
And here are The Ataris covering Boys of Summer.
frosty
“Adoption is rooted in trauma no matter the circumstance and is no substitute for abortion.”
As an adoptive parent this resonates. Our two sons love us unconditionally and we love them the same. But there is no forgetting the trauma that brought them to us.
And I will bet none of these people holding the signs has any intention of adopting anything but a white infant. Do you know the waiting list for one of those? I do.
Dangerman
I wonder if GoFundMe will allow a campaign to build out the domain GoFuckOff.
frosty
@stinger: No. A vanishing small number of those will be white. Duh.
@mrmoshpotato: A much better response than mine.
frosty
@stinger: Righty Whities. I am totally stealing that!
Leslie
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks for those. Good stuff.
Shalimar
My baby is a Mexican, Nigerian, Pakistani, Himalayan Buddhist mix. Still want her?
HumboldtBlue
@frosty:
Adoption is the noblest act I have witnessed from my fellow human beings.
Yes, it’s personal, and I love you too.
Sister Golden Bear
@Mnemosyne: It must be done! And pics or it didn’t happen.
JaneE
Of course they are happy to adopt your perfect white newborn. In the meantime there are still plenty of children waiting for parents, and waiting, and waiting.
Not that I would wish those people for parents on any child.
HumboldtBlue
@Leslie:
I left out the original rabbit hole.
Alison Rose
Adoption is an alternative to parenthood, not pregnancy. And I don’t give a shit what a lovely glowing beautiful time some people have during pregnancy, you could’ve offered me 10 million bucks to carry a baby to term and I would have run right past your open briefcase into the abortion clinic if I’d ever gotten pregnant. For some of us, for various reasons, the notion of being pregnant is in and of itself absolutely fucking terrifying. I didn’t want kids ever for a single moment, and I sure as shit wouldn’t put myself through hell just to fob it off on some grown-up children of the corn.
Also too, bet they wouldn’t be super interested in adopting a Jewish baby. Except that they would get to convert it.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
Spawn of Giuliani lost in the NY primary for Governor.
Lost by at least 21% (44% to 23%)
Dump didn’t endorse, even though Spawn had worked in his administration, while Murdoch endorsed his opponent.
Ha!
Mai Naem mobile
One of the local teevee stations has a regular feature with foster kids looking for their ‘forever home.’ I know their hearts are in the right place but I just find it so cringey because it’s done like they’re trying to get a problem dog adopted out. They’ve had this feature for as long as I can remember because there are so many kids in foster care in AZ. Ofcourse the vast majority are older, of color and usually have some medical issue like learning disabilities. John Roberts and his wife didn’t go out and adopt children like these. They went to Ireland to get their precious white replacement babies.
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose :
Ksmiami
Hmm- being the asshole I am. .. Maybe it’s God’s will that these people don’t have the natural plumbing to have kids. .. They should accept their fate
JeffH
This particular take made me laugh a lot.
https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1541575628998250497
FelonyGovt
@Alison Rose : I hated being pregnant, and mine was a wanted, planned pregnancy. It’s certainly not something that should be forever on anyone.
M. Bouffant
We Will Adopt Your Bird!
lgerard
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
I’m astonished that the former executive assistant to the president for golfing related activities got 23% of the vote.
What is wrong with these people?
Juju
That’s the same couple 20 years apart in the tweet from Your Mom, unless I’m missing something.
frosty
@HumboldtBlue: It wasn’t noble. It was how we could build a family. If you go into this thinking you’ll save a child you’re doing it wrong.
Origuy
Lauren Bobert, who won her primary Tuesday, says she is “tired of the separation of church and state.”
Urban Suburbanite
There was some group of “pro-life feminists” who were following protesters here a while back (I forget the name of the group, but I know their leader is facing charges for breaking into a clinic and assaulting staff) who tried this line around me. The loudest of them awkwardly scurried away when I pushed her (loudly) on why wasn’t adopting and she had to admit the state wouldn’t let her near kids.
We were talking about kids before it turned out the wife had cancer last year (she’s in the monitoring stage), and we’re looking at adoption (need to figure out some things first, including getting a larger place).
Fuck these people.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I notice that all the “we’ll adopt your baby” idiots neglect that they’re reducing the pregnant person from a person to an incubator.
But that’s what they want, isn’t it? For a person with a womb to be reduced to a life support system for that womb, regardless of their own life or health?
Joey Maloney
I Will Adopt Your Irish Baby
(twitter link)
Tony Jay
Adopt a child?
Those ‘play-basement’ looking gurners can’t even manage to adopt a non-gleeful facial expression. I wouldn’t trust them with a Tamagotchi, never mind an infant Homo sapiens.
They should stick to running fake Mommy & Daddy sessions for middle-aged adult babies and keep the fuck away from real world problems.
Ruckus
@lgerard:
What’s wrong with them?
I’d bet pretty much every fucking thing under the sun. Being born for them was the high point, everything in their lives has been downhill from there on. They expected something, something, who the hell knows what they expected life to be, they were born 2000 yrs too late or 2000 yrs too early, but they think that life should be better than what they’ve made of it and it is always someone else’s fault that their life isn’t what they thought they wanted it to be. Every thing should have been handed to them and nothing was. Boo hoo, life is unfair.
sab
We have lots of adoptees in my family. I have an aunt ( my dad’s only sibling), two cousins and a step-daughter.
The traditional “issue” is will we accept them. Silly framing. Of course we do. A kid in the family, of course it’s ours.
We rarely focused on how the adoptee felt. In retrospect maybe we should have given it more consideration. But on the other hand those were very personal questions for the adoptee.
I am guessing that the best we can do is acknowledge that those issues are there and possibly intense, but also very personal and thus private.
Ten Bears
Big business in black-market babies, they’re kidnapping them out of Ukraine right now. If I recall correctly, Pooty Poot was pretty pissed off, back at the end of the Obama days, about all the Russian babies that were being kidnapped, sent to rich white dogs in the states and put up for adoption. Was cover for one of Drumpf uck’s clandestine meetings with the Ruskies …
WereBear
I think it’s a case of their religion demanding fertility and if they don’t have their own, they will steal ours.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
Morning Joe is on fire
He’s calling for Dump’s prosecution
Banner Front pages:
FTFNYT (photo)
Daily News (photo)
LA Times (photo)
Atlanta Journal Constitution (photo)
Orlando Sentinel (photo)
Even Murdoch (photo)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Intermixed with the boy making random Donald Trump quotes lol
Baud
@Mnemosyne:
That’s beautiful.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch: Speaking of Dumb Ass Donny, this quote
It’s fascinating that The Base doesn’t see Trump as the overgrown spoiled toddler he is and shades of the Nixon’s tapes during Watergate that turned Nixon’s base on him when they found out Nixon used the f-bomb.
p.a.
Remember the Romanian orphan crisis? Because of Ceausescu’s anti-abortion, anti-birth control policies? Of course we have greater resources, but it’s the same path.
debbie
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
I like the FTFNYT photo. What a zoo that room must have been
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
Thinking about Peter Alexander’s injection of anonymous obfuscatory bullshit into the infosphere, and how he isn’t eyeing media criticism for unattributable sourcing.
Baud
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Good chance his source will turn out to be a GOP congressman.
Dorothy A. Winsor
You have to read those signs as threats
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Yep. What they did to migrants they will now do to Americans.
different-church-lady
“We will eat your baby.”
Percysowner
Years ago, a female coworker and I were discussing abortion and she basically said “who is going to adopt all these babies if abortion is outlawed” a male client was in the elevator with us and said “I will, once I finish my basement”. For years every time I saw him I had to beat back the impulse to ask him how finishing his basement was going.
different-church-lady
@Percysowner: Well yeah, where else are you gonna store all those babies?
Matt McIrvin
@Percysowner: DON’T GO IN THE BASEMENT
zhena gogolia
The Pinochet comparison is spot-on.
zhena gogolia
@Origuy: She read The Brothers Karamazov?
zhena gogolia
@p.a.: Absolutely.
MisterDancer
McSweeney’s has some sarcastic-as-hell things to say about this bullshit: We Are an Anti-Abortion Couple, and Don’t Worry, We Will Adopt Your Baby
(credit to my PNW crew for this link!)
Thor Heyerdahl
We see how caring these people have been with democracy.
Adopting your children? Fuck that noise.
The Pale Scot
That’s part of the point. They’re concerned about more white babies being available for deserving white families to adopt. That way, they don’t have to go thru childbirth
The Pale Scot
That was Catholic Canon once upon a time
thisismyonlinenym
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Maybe that kind of connects with why his flacks are now attacking the steering wheel story. He wasn’t in command.
He was swatted away from the steering wheel. He’s not in control. That’s what really breaks through to his worshippers
thisismyonlinenym
Oops, not needed
Ruckus
@frosty:
Righty Tighty Whities
Ruckus
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
The Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote that SFB wanted to join the protest/assault. He wanted to LEAD the assault. Be the HMIC. (head moron in charge)
thisismyonlinenym
@Origuy: Yeah, the white evangelical q-anon poisoned church. She sure wasn’t meaning the unitarian universalists.