Politics The Elephant in the room...The GOP today

Try getting the Elephant Turds to admit them going along with the election fraud lie helped cause the 06 Jan 21 insurrection. To admit hoping that ignoring it will cause it to fade from memory. Even though for many of them their lives, or at least wellbeing, were at stake.

Us vs Them is totally out of control.

 

One of the most restrictive abortion laws in the US went into effect on 01 Sep 21 here in Texas. Basically no go after 6 weeks ( how many women even know they are pregnant at 6 weeks?). I hope it is shot down in the higher courts.

I don't like abortion being used as afterthought birth control. But I also don't believe females should be forced to give birth because they are females. How many of our male politicians who have followed the usual high school, college, law school, then politics path would want to interrupt that path to physically have a baby? To face the decisions involved in an unexpected pregnancy?

 

While abortion rights is not the issue I care about very much, the crazy right wing lawmakers are making me a lot more pro-choice with their tactics. They don't seem to want to do anything to the guys who get these women pregnant, nor teach people how to avoid unwanted pregnancies in the first place. I've seen how people wear masks, I now know why birth control fails so often.

However, I also blame the left for not wanting to fight the "culture war" and eliminate the debate. They would rather have the issue remain a problem to fundraise an get people riled up to go vote it seems. If the conservatives don't want sex ed taught in public school, let alone private or religious schools, well I'm sure a certain "hub" website could produce a fantasy version of sex ed for guys. And every horny 12-15 year old will be finding it on-line. They also need to make a remedial sex ed for adult couples too.

Planned Parenthood should do what other companies do and spin off a unpronounceable named company (something like LWWRG?) that is pro-abortion and providing information and services to women.

And then show the data that any of these laws is not deterring any woman, and is just wasting time and resources.

 

I am unconditionally pro-Healthcare rights for women's reproductive health.

I've always thought the philosophical lack of clarity around the notions of life, consciousness, the existence of the human "soul" basically made it a moot point.

I really think the point that the same women being denied abortion aren't legally required to register as organ donors - regardless of need of the orientation potential recipient or relationship shows that the arguments for anti abortion are bullshit. If that fetus goes through childbirth and immediately thereafter needed a skin graft from the mother to survive, she wouldn't be required to give it and the baby would die on the table.

In my opinion, the both major parties are corporate funnels for money saved control. The GOP is just more brazen because it's a fundamental part of their philosophy. Democrats have to at least pay some attention to the middle class and the poor.

[/b]edit/: finally was able to edit a small grammar thing.

 

It might change some of the purple areas, but I don't see the demographics destroying the GOP anytime soon in the Midwest.

We will learn more with how the 2022 and 2024 elections play out, but even with 700,000 Covid deaths and hundreds of thousands of deaths from overdoses and other causes, along with more young people turning 18, it still is going to take a long time to win in a lot of places.

 

View: https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1448393694890057734


"The evidence is clear: Republicans need to reject these fraudits."

Every once in awhile, we are reminded that there are still decent, honest Republicans who refuse to support Trump's 'Big Lie' about a "rigged and stolen" election and his continuing attempt to undermine the electoral process across the country.

Republicans for Voting Rights

 

Three thoughts:
Excellent!
What took so long?
We need more, much more.

 

^ Is the merge function is malfunctioning? ^

Your post made today, 11-04-21,
has been merged with your
post made on 10-13-21.

This is somewhat confusing to read.

It screws up my ratings of the posts, which are kind of important to me, even if they're generally meaningless.

I've noticed this before, but this time the roughly three week gap really stands out.

 

We should know in about three weeks .




Yeah, I know,
not funny .


Maybe a little funny.

 

I don't know if it would be less scarier without him. I think it would be more, because they could do a lot without breaking any laws and using overwhelming force when they do. And people will think they are the successful country club or church guys types that aren't 'bad' when they do this. Anything their team does is justified to allow their supporters to maintain their lifestyle. Had the mob stormed the Capitol with guns to install Pence as President (same with Gore in 2000), they are both reasonable, non-corrupt public officials. But the changes that would happen to rural life would be worth fighting for in many people's minds.

This is a think tank experiment report that they did to play out what might happen in a few different scenarios. It is written by one of the guys who spoke at the rally on Jan 6th in DC, but it isn't as crazy as it is made out to be. It isn't necessarily out of the realm of what was possible, and might have provided a playbook for how to go about actually using the law enforcement across the country to assert power and put down any objections to actually stealing a close election with recounts and doubt. (page 25-31 of the pdf)
https://www.claremont.org/79daysreport.pdf

My fear in the last election was that it was going to be a 269-269 tie. If GA, AZ, Nevada, and the 1 district in Nebraska would have gone the other way, it would have been a huge mess. What if it was 270-268? How much pressure would have been on that one Nebraska elector? If it was a tie at 269, I think each state has 1 vote and whoever has more house of Representative congressmen from their party would win. What if it was just one state that swung the election like just GA or just AZ? We kind of know what happened with Georgia and the pressure on that state's GOP officials to flip. But if it did come down to just one state like it did in 2000, I don't think things would have been as civil as that time. I couldn't imagine 538 votes and some hanging chads (or provisional ballots) making Biden the President would have gone over very well, when a four state victory made them storm the Capitol.