I don’t think there is one bit of hyperbole in this Meidas Touch ad; I think it’s pretty spot-on...also, I know I linked to a Daily Kos post on Tuesday about how “Strip Search Sammy” Alito referenced this 1800s nut case Matthew Hale and his Neanderthal views of women as the precedent Alito chose to cite, which in itself gives away the game a lot...more on Hale is here - I don't know about you, but I'm pretty goddamn fed up with finding myself in a position where I just have to wait for the next "body blow" from this collection of conservative nut cases, aided and abetted by chicken Democrats, and I can assure you that I intend to do more than a little something about it...
...and this clip finishes with Chip Franklin, but it starts with Rachel Maddow discussing (with Josh Gerstein of Politico) how those SCOTUS Philistines basically want to take a sledgehammer to Roe to destroy it, along with the right to privacy of course (one way to respond is here)...
...and Joy Reid provides another recap and gives “disappointed” Collins the treatment she deserves, and Lisa Murkowski is acting like she got played too, though, to be honest, anyone with a speck of brain matter could have seen where all of this was going for easily the last 30-40 years...Lizz Winstead and Elie Mystal save some scorn for the Dems on this, which is partly deserved too; it has been pointed out that the “D” party could have codified Roe into a congressional law when the Dems briefly had a majority on Capitol Hill under Obama, which is definitely a fair point...I don’t say this lightly I assure you, but the Catholic Church has been itching for this fight ever since 1973, and they’re going to get it both barrels you might say...everybody may have some difficult choices to make including your humble narrator, and that definitely also goes for conserva-Dems like that guttersnipe Chris Coons and people like Jon Tester and Mark Kelly, and in particular Bob Casey of our beloved commonwealth...you won’t be able to just say, “well, I’m a Dem and I’m pro-life” because your funders are going to tell you to oppose Roe at any cost, and as far as I’m concerned, if you do that, you might as well be a Repug.
(Another brief aside –I was once a Catholic high school student, including during 1973, and we received complimentary issues of The Catholic Standard and Times. When Roe was handed down, that publication showed nothing but fetuses in jars from cover to cover for what seemed like months. That in itself was a misrepresentation because, in the majority of cases, abortions would take place long before the fetus had developed to that point. I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before, but viewing that stuff had an impact, though I don’t think it was the one the Catholic hierarchy desired.)...
...and Jayar and Adrienne Lawrence tell us about the thoroughly militarized tactics from the LA police in response to the recent protests over the leaked ruling on Roe...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 5/4/16, in which we learn about Zeke Christopoulos, a transgender man from Asheville, NC who stood up and opposed the utterly awful HB2 “bathroom bill” sponsored by then-Gov. Pat McCrory; easy to lose track of the battle the wingnuts and their acolytes are waging against LGBTQ folks given this week’s news on Roe...more here and here, and a current item related to this issue (depressing, but not surprising) is here...
Update: If these 5 Republican U.S. Senate idiots want to add a warning for LGBTQ content, then I want a GQP rating for excessive conservative horseshit (here). I’ll have to admit, though, that I didn’t have “Alleged Christians Try To Distract From Destroying Roe And Criminalizing Women’s Health Care By Trying To 'De-Gay' TV Shows” on my bingo card.
...and I’m just in a mood to hear tunes this week about women having to overcome BS from men, and I think this qualifies (the chauvinistic slogan in the title comes from a one-time ad for Geritol, which, as noted here, is a product with a bit of a dubious history for non-anemic patients).
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