It’s heartening…but really, should medical care be based on what most people believe?
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The craziest part is that the people who still cannot get this concept through their heads are largely the same people who insist school children recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
What exactly do these people think the word “indivisible” means??
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Indivisible white community that gets rights, with an underclass to serve them, generally speaking.
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Oh it definitely is, but I’m not so sure it’ll lose them ground any quicker - the past few years have shown how much of a grip they have on a pretty significant chunk of voters nationally.
Although it seems to me, part of that is idiots who just don’t like being told what to do and Republicans have been pretty successful in framing things like pronouns and basic respect/health precautions as liberals telling people what to do - or making trans and progressive folk out as perverts who’ll transition to perv in bathrooms.
There’s plenty of fodder here for Democrats to run a campaign framing Republicans as the creeps who want to tell you who to have sex with and how, what to do with your own body etc
Couple in bed, in bursts a prude with a clipboard dressed in stereotypical conservative fashion: “Just checking there isn’t any homosexual activity going on in here”
Couple: WTF? Get the hell out!
Conservative tries to climb into bed with the couple: “Are you married? What sexual positions do you use? I’m going to have to have a quick look at your junk…”
Couple beats him over the head with a ballot box or something and chases him out of the room.
THE REDS WANT TO GET INTO YOUR BED, TELL THEM TO GET THE HELL OUT. VOTE BLUE.
Open on kids playing sport. Girl scores, crowd goes wild, a group of men in suits rush the field and drag her off.
Parents yelling: Hey leave my daughter alone! What the hell is going on here?
Conservative official: Sorry folks, your daughter is too good at sports. So she can’t play until we test her testosterone levels. Also we’re going to have to take a little look at her junk.
Parents: Oh hell no, you can’t do that you fucking paedo.
OH, BUT THEY CAN IN [List of states that have passed or are trying to pass transgender bans in kids sport].
UNLESS YOU STOP THEM.
Crowd of parents pelt the men in suits with ballot boxes or something and drive them off.
VOTE BLUE.
If there are people who can’t be convinced to oppose this bullshit for the sake of others, the left needs to make it viscerally and emotionally clear that said bullshit is going to land on their heads too.
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I am late to this discussion, and there are too many comments about the whole “let’s let them have Texas” bullshit for me to reference specifics comments, so I’m just going to add my perspective.
I was born and raised in Texas and lived the first 29 years of my life there. I am also a trans woman, although I didn’t transition until after I left Texas. I was living in Oklahoma when I transitioned, so…about the same, really. Then I moved to Kansas City, Missouri and lived there for 11 years. So…about 49 years of life spent in red states, and states that got more red the longer I lived there, actually. Anyway, in 2019, I moved to my first blue state: New Jersey! I was excited! YAY, a blue state! No more Republican bullshit! Then reality hit. I live near the Jersey Shore. This area is decidedly NOT blue. This is, without a doubt, the whitest, most Republican area I have ever lived in in my entire life. And most of New Jersey, in area, is like this. If it weren’t for North Jersey and the parts of the Philly metro in New Jersey, New Jersey would be a Republican stronghold. My point in all this is that no state is a red or blue monolith. The reddest of red states has progressives, and marginalized people in danger from Republican policy ideas. The bluest of blue states has hard core, right wing, Trump loving nutjobs just waiting to take over if given the slightest opportunity. Abandoning a state like Texas to the fascists there would be pure, fucking insanity, and anyone who proposes that idea seriously is in need of a metaphorical 2x4 upside their head. We save this whole fucking country, or it’s all lost. There is no in between.
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I did want to reply to this graph, though, because this is related to something I’ve been thinking about recently. Polls consistently show that a majority of Americans are pro choice on abortion, are in favor of marriage equality and other LGBTQIA+ equality issues, and are in favor of common sense gun control. And on some of those, polls even show a slight majority of Republicans, at least in some demographics, are in favor of those issues. So why do Republican politicians so steadfastly hold on to their opposition to these issues? Because Republican and Independent voters don’t vote based on these issues. Many of them claim to be allies to the LGBTQIA+ community, but come election day, they still pull the lever for the GOP. Their support and allyship only go so far. At the end of the day, they are stuck in the mindset that GOP=good for my bank account, Dems=bad for my bank account, and that informs their vote. Even though it’s bullshit. So the minority fascist Republicans will continue to be in control until supposed moderate Republicans and Independents actually stop voting for them. Too many of them are still thinking that “anything is better than a Democrat.”
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1890’s? Hell no! That was after the 14th amendment. 1850’s now, there is their sweet spot.
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So, they not only officially reject the concept of Rule of Law, they reject reality itself.
Not surprising, but still disturbing to see that they have proclaimed they will stop at nothing to gain and retain power.
The Texas GOP is now officially an insurrectionist, terrorist organization.
It will be interesting to see the agenda of the upcoming session of the Texas Politboro.
I’ll be surprised if they don’t pass a provision giving our criminal AG the power to overturn the results of any election in the state.
Sure they can.
After all, the Constitution is just a goddam piece of paper…
There’s a reason it is called ‘The United States’, remember?
And try not to conflate the population of a State with the leadership, since you are probably aware of things such as gerrymandering, voter purges, etc.
In the case of the so-called ‘leadership’ of this State, yes, they need to be purged.
In the case of the population, not everyone here is a drooling redneck.
Besides, I live here & *I’m not going anywhere; I was here before all of those evil bastards.
You don’t have to live here in order to help, so I call bullshit.
This is red meat for their voters in the hinterlands, but the larger cities are solidly blue/purple; and suburban women are highly concerned with abortion rights & school shootings.
This fascist bullshit may well [hopefully!] blow up in their faces.
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”_old proverb
Just wait 'til after the elections this fall…
Those are just words that are memorized & dutifully parroted. No thought is involved, because that pesky ‘liberty & justice’ part at the end is cheerfully ignored.
The Independents would be easier to woo, since I’m not sure very many ‘moderate’ Republicans exist any more; if you would vote for the likes of You Know Who [or his wannabes] then you aren’t a moderate.
True, that.
It might be easier to convince 'em not to vote.
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No. Sacrificing literally millions of women, LGBTQ folks, brown and Black folks will not make things better. Fascists will never tolerate free folk living on their border, and they will never accept that there is a border. Hiding won’t work. Punch them in the face.
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Too bad for them that Back to the Future was merely fiction, and there ain’t no fuckin’ time machines.
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I don’t believe in just waiting to prepare for violence directed towards me and mine.
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It has now been 0 days since Texan politicos have been an utter embarrassment to their state
It’d be nice to, IDK, be able to get the above sign up into… double digits someday? I’d take a week at this point.
God help me, but the ambivalence I’ve got about finally returning home is colossal.
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He’s term limited out. There. Done.
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Sure, but we’ve already heard that Trump’s first term didn’t really count because Democrats didn’t let him do everything he wanted. I am sure his second term doesn’t count for the same reason, so he is entitled to two more.
It doesn’t work to appeal to the rules to people who don’t care about them.
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Oh fuck right off with that right wing bullshit. The DNC does not need to waste time courting violent treasonous self important manbabies. They need to be far more aggressive in opposing them. There is no common ground with fascists. There is either fighting them or fighting from them. Abandoning values such as civil liberties, rule of law and a nation for ALL Americans is not a recipe for winning elections. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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