abortion

Standard Republican Play Number One: Lie!

by MyBaconPress

Boy, they sure celebrated when Roe was reversed, didn’t they? Cons, I mean. They were all over it. They still are. They just don’t want anybody to know it. Arizona was downright giddy that their civil war era law against abortion was going to take effect automatically after Roe was overturned. The only exception to that law was for the life of the mother. A string of recognizable Arizonans made the rounds, thrilled at what they get to do to women, now. And some of them are women!

Sensible people fought the law in court. While that played out, the GOP started losing election after election. There has been nothing ambiguous about Republican intentions. They want all abortions gone. Period. There has been enough talk about a national ban at the Federal level that I believe them. 100 percent. They may or may not throw a bone to ‘life-of-the-mother’ concerns and occasionally even to rape and incest but they don’t WANT to. Every sperm is sacred, you know. Even as they lose elections, the red states seem to be competing to see which state can get away with being the most cruel to women.

But that election thing. People keep rejecting the GOP because we know what they did, what they’re doing, and what they WANT to do. It turns out, most Americans prefer choice. And then the Arizona State Supreme Court upholds the 1860’s law and it comes into effect. Now we’ve all been reminded that the GOP took women’s right to choose away and the GOP wants to make the procedure even more difficult to get, no matter what. We’re ALSO watching them try to remove access to contraception.

When your actual and honest goal is a complete, nationwide ban on abortions for all women, any age, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, but people hate, hate, HATE that your actual and honest goal is a complete, nationwide ban on abortions for all women, any age, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, what do you do?

Standard Republican Play Number One: Lie! Don’t lie a little. Lie a LOT! Lie everywhere. Lie on television. Lie on radio. Lie in the newspapers. Lie on the internet. Act confused as to why people seem to think the GOP wants to ban abortions. Where EVER did they get THAT idea? Dismiss the truth as though people have simply misunderstood. Blatantly claim the exact opposite of the truth. Lie, lie, lie! And sure enough, right on cue, here they come.

Virtually all of the Arizona Republicans who were so giddy when Roe was overturned have come out, one after another, to announce that the decision from the Arizona Supreme Court cannot stand, WILL not stand. They are OUTRAGED they got what they wanted. Just ask them. Then, the Trumpery himself comes out with a video statement full of, well, it’s Donny.

It turns out, Donny has a “tell” when he’s lying. (A “tell” is an involuntary physical movement or mannerism that occurs when lying, like a tic.) I don’t know how I missed Donny’s tell for so long but I can’t miss it now. Have YOU spotted it? It’s pretty simple. You can ALWAYS tell when Donny’s lying because his lips are moving. Yeah, I know, that used to be an old joke. Sadly, 45 has turned it into a new truth.

Anyway, he puts out this video. After years of bragging everywhere he could, at every chance he got, that he is the one who eliminated Roe (which was true, I’ve got to confess), NOW he puts out a video that claims he’s an abortion moderate. All he ever wanted, he claims was for individual states to choose just how cruelly they treat their females. (I want to write “women” there but some of the “women” in question are still little girls. No matter for the GOP. Bitch got herself pregnant, bitch can pay the price.)

In his lying video, he claims that “all legal scholars, BOTH sides, wanted and, in fact, demanded” that Roe be overturned. That’s a lie. He said Democrats “support abortion up to and even beyond, the ninth month.” Beyond the ninth month? What a stupid lie. The GOP, in it’s efforts to trick people into thinking false things, has pushed this false narrative that suggests Dems get pregnant just so they can wait until the ninth month to abort the baby because what fun that will be! Anybody who believes that is a drooling moron. I mean, I don’t mean to be unkind but…hey, wait a minute. Does that mean we can still “abort” Donny?

He wasn’t just “misspeaking” though. He doubled down on it. He went into detail about how killing babies after they’ve been born is “execution,” which, it would be if anybody was doing that anywhere. But they’re not. Then he repeated that he just put abortion back where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, also not true. At this point, thinking people had plenty to take issue with in his lying statement. But then, he lied that he thinks it’s in the right place, now, and individual states should decide for themselves.

Ooh, that angered the right. HOW, they wanted to know, could he leave it to the individual states after all of their years of claiming it’s a state’s rights issue? Doesn’t he realize that not ALL women suffer if some women maintain control of their bodies? In their fury, they have confessed their heartfelt desire to gain the very national ban the GOP politicians are now trying so hard to downplay. (read: lying about.)

Then he gave away the game; we must win elections. Then he said a bunch of things intended to scare his already terrified base, just standard stuff from the Dumbass, then reaffirmed “we have to win.” Even MAGA has realized that this is a losing issue for the GOP. In classic con style, they don’t rethink their position. They just lie about it because they can’t do ANY of their cruel desires if they have no power. The GOP MUST win. And if they do? Women across the country will lose. Bigly…

Suits and Laws…

by MyBaconPress

Here’s a name you likely wish you could forget: Ashli Babbitt. She’s the trump victim that got shot and killed during the J6 riot. She was trying to climb through a smashed out window into the House chamber. She was warned from the guy with the gun inside that he was going to shoot if they tried to climb through. She tried to climb through. He took the shot. On the up side, she won’t be charged with anything. (I should say, right up front, I’m extra irritated by Babbitt’s stupidity. She had been in the Air Force, my old service, and she made the AF look bad.) All she had to do to not be dead today, was what cons are always saying about black and brown people, “Why didn’t she just comply?”

MAGA tried to rehabilitate her reputation. They’re still trying. In their fantasized story telling about J6, she was just trying to direct the traffic of people. Aside from being in the building, she wasn’t doing anything anybody else wasn’t doing. The only problem with their story (and there’s ALWAYS a problem with their stories. ALWAYS.) is that video exists of the moment she was shot. I’ve seen it. She was clearly trying to climb through the window into the chamber.

So who are you going to believe, MAGA or your lying eyes? The reason I mention her is that her parents have filed a lawsuit against the US Government for defending itself from a violent insurrectionist. $30 Million dollars for Wrongful Death. Uh-huh. As it happens, one can file a lawsuit over just about anything if one can find a “lawyer” willing to do the work. What the suit tells me is that Babbitt’s family has bought into the whole reputation repair story and filed their suit based on MAGA lies, not the video. It also suggests the whole family was/is Q-Anon polluted and MAGA to the end. They must have been so proud of their traitorous daughter.

I’ll tell you this: I suspect, the government will simply show the video in court and, voila!, case dismissed…

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Doubled down? Tripled down? Quadrupled down? I had never heard of tripled down or quadrupled down but I’m watching the cons do exactly that right now. Idaho passed an anti-abortion law. It’s pretty complete. There are, technically, some exceptions but, apparently, you have to be carried in by angels (not “nice people,” actual angels. They have to show their wings as proof) on any day with a name that does NOT end in ‘Y’ to qualify. So, in effect, it’s a complete abortion ban. As you can imagine, people who prefer freedom have challenged the law and, no surprise, it has made it’s way to the SKCOTUS.

We all know, of course, how the kangaroos will rule. When it comes to enforcing the pretended dictates of their invisible super-friend, there’s no mystery left from this court. So, Idaho’s law will stand. THEN, other MAGA states will follow suit. All of this was the very predictable – and predicted – result of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade. These bans are already having disastrous results in people’s actual lives. Now Idaho has gone all-in. Why pretend? Cons LOVE ruining lives and this whole abortion question has been an absolute “God-send” (see what I did, there?) to them. At least, in their puny little “minds.”

I’m sorry for the troubles conservatives will cause women in the near future. These laws are going to rain trouble into people’s lives for years to come. Still, on balance? I think these laws, passed in individual states, are working against the Republicans more than helping them. In a very real sense, these evil laws will prove to be a good thing in the long-run. I’ll explain.

People are pissed off. Women, in particular, are really pissed off. As a group, that is. I’m sure one can find women who hate women as much as these men seem to hate women. Fortunately, the group of women who prefer freedom WAY outnumbers the group of women who want to punish other women. You know, for being sluts. Even if they’re raped.

The result of these rulings and laws is that women are coming out in droves to vote. Largely, they’re voting against the Republicans as a direct response to conservative restrictions. Ain’t that cute? Those little ladies want control over their own bodies. Republicans have lost election after election after election over the issue.

This horrifying development, of course, has been brought to you by Republicans and worse, MAGA. Stinky Don regularly brags – or he used to – about being the guy who packed the High Court with ideologues who hate women more than they love the law. Some of the higher functioning conservatives have realized the whole abortion thing is a loser for them but they’re not trying to stop the damage. They just think they shouldn’t talk about it. ”Hey, let’s not focus on that.”
“To hell with you, pal! We’re VERY focused.”

The thing is, since the SKCOTUS made their ill-fated ruling, the only way to put the lid back onto Pandora’s box (There’s a joke there, I just KNOW there is.) is with a Federal law mandating women’s privacy and freedom to make their own medical decisions and maintain absolute bodily autonomy. This, of course, is the law the Dems SHOULD have passed decades ago, instead of relying on a Supreme Court interpretation that could be, and now has been, overturned on a whim. Hopefully, maybe the Dems have learned their lesson and they’re now ready to step up for women. (Just like they did in de-scheduling cannabis. Oh. Wait…)

The thing is, Americans can’t pass such a law with cons controlling the House OR the Senate. We absolutely, positively have to vote out the cons in order to restore sanity. We’re going to have to stay engaged long enough to get it done. THEN, we’re going to watch the Dems very, very carefully. Nobody wants excuses. Americans from sea to shining sea want these cruel laws eliminated. But we HAVE to keep MAGA (and all other cons) out of government if we’re going to have a chance in the first place.

I doubt anyone has to explain the stakes to child-bearing women of voting age but do it anyway. Be like Taylor Swift and encourage young people to vote – for their own good. We, the people, of these United States can still fix this but we have GOT to get the Republicans out of Congress to do it. This is the year. Now is the time. Cast your vote (on paper). Vote for the Democrat of your choice but VOTE!