If you’re female and pregnant in a Red state, the legislature and police of that state own you and your body, regardless of your maturity or life circumstances...
You rightly draw attention to the harms suffered by young women, some hardly out of girlhood, who experience pregnancy and childbirth. These are amplified if the pregnancy has been the result of rape or incest; typically the women remain trapped in abusive circumstances thereafter.
However, we must remember the fate of the children, who suffer lack of care or outright abuse at the hands of a parent who is not old enough to manage their own life well, never mind take on the demanding care of a young child. There are frequent shocking reports of children subjected to physical abuse by young male partners of an immature teen mother; a recent example being the fellow who murdered his girlfriend’s toddler in his “care” (she was at work, of course) because the child interrupted his gaming activities. Poor kid probably was hungry and crying for some food……
If we ever get through this fascist attack on our democracy, two remedies need to be put in place: 1. Legislators must consult expert, researched, verifiable sources before enacting legislation outside their expertise. In other words—THEY MAY NOT PRACTICE MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE or enact legislation that research has shown to be deleterious; 2. We must enforce the separation of Church and State.
Citizens United is a fascist tool for placing a democracy in chains and for handing over exorbitant powers to the wealthy few. It must be revoked.
The RNC operates as an organized crime syndicate run by fascist billionaires, foreign and domestic. Those that aren’t foreign operatives are traitors—and they need to be dealt with as traitors. NOT ONE Republican in office is uncorrupted—they all answer to their Puppet Masters, the Koch Gang of Billionaire Fascists (he calls them his “cadre.”) I say, hang the entire cadre and burn their houses to the ground.
Everything that makes my life bearable as an independent older female was possible because Democrats (many of them women) found a workable program or solution to make it so. Examples are: Social Security, Medicare, public education, labor laws, family planning choices, and the list goes on. Plus, I've had the chance and time to participate in the politics involved, because I haven't had to marry and have 12 kids to work the farm.
What a difference some democratic principles, freedom from religion, and a century makes!
I have to get back to the little girls. What Republicans are doing is further proof of their lack of empathy, as if picking a psychopath for a candidate wasn't enough! I wonder what appeals to them about a tiny little girl giving birth. Is it the pain and suffering? Is it the misery of a child having a 12 year old mother? Or is it just one more way to reaffirm their religious view that pain and suffering are their sick way to get to their "heaven", which no doubt is run by a MAN and his SON.
God damn these misogynists and sadists. Bless you Thom and all the men fighting with women to cast off this burden. When every child is wanted, loved, and planned this will be a better country and a better world.
It’s time we give the Grifting for Oligarchs Party a break. Since it’s clear that they never intend to fulfill their Constitutional Purpose (i.e., promote our general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for us and our posterity), they need a special strategy to put them over the top.
In addition to voter suppression and election fraud activities, perhaps the most important thing is that they need to build and maintain a critical mass of poorly educated authoritarian followers that will vote in a block for the oligarch’s candidates of choice. And that’s where their wedge tactics provide an elegant solution to serve the wealthy.
All it takes is a way to make the MAGA cultists feel in control, feel safe and feel superior. And that just takes the incessant repetition of wedge issues to separate the cult members from the rest of society.
First, we have the “Pro-life” (or anti-Womens’ reproductive rights) wedge, so the menfolk can be told by those who grift in the name of the Lord to feel in control of their womenfolk (as is so excellently described in Thom’s Daily Take today).
Second, make them feel safe about their sanctimonious attachment to guns with non-stop propaganda (and sales opportunities) regarding the subject of the 2nd Amendment.
Third, make them feel superior to everyone who is not part of the cult by flooding social media (and the MSM) with all the bigot-related wedge issues like racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.
Although the 1st Amendment tells us that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” Texas District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk opined that ‘the use of contraception (just like abortion) violates traditional tenets of many faiths, including the Christian faith plaintiff practices.’”
The question I have is, since we now have a democracy that has laws that support the beliefs and interpretations of the grifter Christians in power, how can we go back to the Post-Roe/Pre-Reagan Era when women’s reproductive rights were finally acknowledged and sanctioned?
Donald Trump takes a daily bloodbath. He brags of bringing down Roe v Wade, and as Thom clearly described, the blood of all those women and girls, made to carry pregnancies to term, is on him. We cannot let him wash that " damn spot" off!
The GOP is an intrusive control apparatus, targeting women and girls. The Heritage Foundation is biased , corrupt money machine with no care at all for women or girls rights. These girls who are rape victims are not the ones to punish . Spend the time and effort to apprehend rapists, not to remove the rights of the victims in these situations. Girls and teenagers are being ruined first by their perpetrators and then by the second string perpetrators, the MAGA Republicans, who lack basic decency and remain punitive to females of all ages. Send these stats to the Supreme Court alleged “Justices”.
They are corrupted by the Heritage Foundation and their willingness to play to them for a price.
It’s legalized bribery.
And now we take their cruelty to a whole other level. Refuse to allow contraception?
They’ve abused their own wives and daughters with these laws. And women who think things “will get better “can still vote for these freedom denying butchers.
But they might want to thing if their daughters who will be abused over and over and have freedom denied to them expressly because they’re women .
The mentality of this group is twisted so tightly in the wrong direction , and , often in the name of Christianity, which is a simple outrageous lie by Republicans to rationalize horrible controlling violence against women and girls.
Women and their male supports need
to organize and raise hell .
The ERA was not ratified expressly to facilitate this evil.
Texas is the current leader of lying doctrine against women and the truth.
But the Red states have all piled on this issue and are complicit w the evil . All trying to outdo each other. As far as Donald Trump supporting abortion and calling it family values, he wouldn’t recognize a family value ever. Consider his unfettered criminality.
He calls for a ‘bloodbath ‘ if he’s not re-elected.
If he is re elected, it will be years and years of a bloodbath largely directed at women, LGBTQ, African Americans,
Anyone that isn’t a White fake Christian male will be punished.
I read this and it still is beyond comprehension that this is current reality. It's as if everyting is turned upsiide down. Unbelievable. How the hell did we get here.
Any fool can see that we are massively overpopulated, 3,000 times more numerous than were our ancestral Hunter-Gatherer clans/bands just a few thousand years ago, the last members of our species to live in an ecologically sustainable manner worldwide. The ever greedy corporate/Wall St. overlords, like Elon Musk, keep driving the pro-growth/pro-natal narrative in order to force women to bear unneeded/unwanted clones (37% of US pregnancies are "unintentional"--CDC) in order to provide an oversupply of laborers competing for ever more limited job opportunities, and our disastrous "consumer culture" devouring unsustainable natural resources while producing worldwide pollution. We are in a full bore state of existential climate collapse, so my message to those prospective wannabe parents is this: do you really want to bring another innocent child into this dying world to live an increasingly miserable life?
There are only two ways to keep populations from unknowingly mating with your own children. Life long mate (Paul's method) and controlling women to be exchanged between outside groups which necessitates male total control and female non choice and frequency of mating partners. Does this mean the GOP has given up on Christian life long mates and wants us all to go back to hunter societies solution? No sure as rape in red states is rising.
What are the causes of death? Are they medical, mental illness related, addiction related, or trauma?
I heard on my car radio that an organization is asking for donations to pay for sonograms of pregnant women seeking abortions to save babies. They claim women change their minds due to sonograms.
For 40 years, we heard Republicans say we have to vote for them to protect the unborn. This one issue has shifted countless Democrats to Republicans or to vote Republican. Now a lot of these people can finally look at the other issues and vote for the Democratic party. Please, let's not put Roe back on the table.
This election cycle, we should campaign for women’s rights such as making the pill and birth control legal and low cost nationwide along with IVF. Allow abortions for rape, incest, to protect the woman’s life and to protect her fertility health. But please let's not mention Roe except to say that it was overturned.
We should be respectful of people who are strongly against abortion and acknowledge this is an area where it’s very difficult to make a judgement call as to, at what stage of development and of what circumstances, if any, should the rights of a fetus to live, override the rights of the woman to not have the child.
Even though the Republicans dominated the Supreme Court with the passage of Roe and since, Democrats have been called baby killers for 40 years. This has been a very powerful voting tool for Republicans. With Roe being overturned, millions of people now feel they can consider all issues and vote for the Democratic party.
Most people who want Roe completely restored are already voting for the Democratic party. We need to get people who want to vote for Democratic values but feel they can’t if they feel they would be complicit in killing babies as depicted on billboards. We need all voters. Please, let’s take smaller steps and not make Roe an issue this election cycle.
You rightly draw attention to the harms suffered by young women, some hardly out of girlhood, who experience pregnancy and childbirth. These are amplified if the pregnancy has been the result of rape or incest; typically the women remain trapped in abusive circumstances thereafter.
However, we must remember the fate of the children, who suffer lack of care or outright abuse at the hands of a parent who is not old enough to manage their own life well, never mind take on the demanding care of a young child. There are frequent shocking reports of children subjected to physical abuse by young male partners of an immature teen mother; a recent example being the fellow who murdered his girlfriend’s toddler in his “care” (she was at work, of course) because the child interrupted his gaming activities. Poor kid probably was hungry and crying for some food……
Remember all the hand-wringing by the GOP over the ACA, screaming that “government was gonna make your healthcare decisions?”
If we ever get through this fascist attack on our democracy, two remedies need to be put in place: 1. Legislators must consult expert, researched, verifiable sources before enacting legislation outside their expertise. In other words—THEY MAY NOT PRACTICE MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE or enact legislation that research has shown to be deleterious; 2. We must enforce the separation of Church and State.
Citizens United is a fascist tool for placing a democracy in chains and for handing over exorbitant powers to the wealthy few. It must be revoked.
The RNC operates as an organized crime syndicate run by fascist billionaires, foreign and domestic. Those that aren’t foreign operatives are traitors—and they need to be dealt with as traitors. NOT ONE Republican in office is uncorrupted—they all answer to their Puppet Masters, the Koch Gang of Billionaire Fascists (he calls them his “cadre.”) I say, hang the entire cadre and burn their houses to the ground.
Boys will be boys, but girls will be owned.
Everything that makes my life bearable as an independent older female was possible because Democrats (many of them women) found a workable program or solution to make it so. Examples are: Social Security, Medicare, public education, labor laws, family planning choices, and the list goes on. Plus, I've had the chance and time to participate in the politics involved, because I haven't had to marry and have 12 kids to work the farm.
What a difference some democratic principles, freedom from religion, and a century makes!
I have to get back to the little girls. What Republicans are doing is further proof of their lack of empathy, as if picking a psychopath for a candidate wasn't enough! I wonder what appeals to them about a tiny little girl giving birth. Is it the pain and suffering? Is it the misery of a child having a 12 year old mother? Or is it just one more way to reaffirm their religious view that pain and suffering are their sick way to get to their "heaven", which no doubt is run by a MAN and his SON.
God damn these misogynists and sadists. Bless you Thom and all the men fighting with women to cast off this burden. When every child is wanted, loved, and planned this will be a better country and a better world.
It’s time we give the Grifting for Oligarchs Party a break. Since it’s clear that they never intend to fulfill their Constitutional Purpose (i.e., promote our general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for us and our posterity), they need a special strategy to put them over the top.
In addition to voter suppression and election fraud activities, perhaps the most important thing is that they need to build and maintain a critical mass of poorly educated authoritarian followers that will vote in a block for the oligarch’s candidates of choice. And that’s where their wedge tactics provide an elegant solution to serve the wealthy.
All it takes is a way to make the MAGA cultists feel in control, feel safe and feel superior. And that just takes the incessant repetition of wedge issues to separate the cult members from the rest of society.
First, we have the “Pro-life” (or anti-Womens’ reproductive rights) wedge, so the menfolk can be told by those who grift in the name of the Lord to feel in control of their womenfolk (as is so excellently described in Thom’s Daily Take today).
Second, make them feel safe about their sanctimonious attachment to guns with non-stop propaganda (and sales opportunities) regarding the subject of the 2nd Amendment.
Third, make them feel superior to everyone who is not part of the cult by flooding social media (and the MSM) with all the bigot-related wedge issues like racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.
Although the 1st Amendment tells us that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” Texas District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk opined that ‘the use of contraception (just like abortion) violates traditional tenets of many faiths, including the Christian faith plaintiff practices.’”
The question I have is, since we now have a democracy that has laws that support the beliefs and interpretations of the grifter Christians in power, how can we go back to the Post-Roe/Pre-Reagan Era when women’s reproductive rights were finally acknowledged and sanctioned?
Donald Trump takes a daily bloodbath. He brags of bringing down Roe v Wade, and as Thom clearly described, the blood of all those women and girls, made to carry pregnancies to term, is on him. We cannot let him wash that " damn spot" off!
The GOP is an intrusive control apparatus, targeting women and girls. The Heritage Foundation is biased , corrupt money machine with no care at all for women or girls rights. These girls who are rape victims are not the ones to punish . Spend the time and effort to apprehend rapists, not to remove the rights of the victims in these situations. Girls and teenagers are being ruined first by their perpetrators and then by the second string perpetrators, the MAGA Republicans, who lack basic decency and remain punitive to females of all ages. Send these stats to the Supreme Court alleged “Justices”.
They are corrupted by the Heritage Foundation and their willingness to play to them for a price.
It’s legalized bribery.
And now we take their cruelty to a whole other level. Refuse to allow contraception?
They’ve abused their own wives and daughters with these laws. And women who think things “will get better “can still vote for these freedom denying butchers.
But they might want to thing if their daughters who will be abused over and over and have freedom denied to them expressly because they’re women .
The mentality of this group is twisted so tightly in the wrong direction , and , often in the name of Christianity, which is a simple outrageous lie by Republicans to rationalize horrible controlling violence against women and girls.
Women and their male supports need
to organize and raise hell .
The ERA was not ratified expressly to facilitate this evil.
Texas is the current leader of lying doctrine against women and the truth.
But the Red states have all piled on this issue and are complicit w the evil . All trying to outdo each other. As far as Donald Trump supporting abortion and calling it family values, he wouldn’t recognize a family value ever. Consider his unfettered criminality.
He calls for a ‘bloodbath ‘ if he’s not re-elected.
If he is re elected, it will be years and years of a bloodbath largely directed at women, LGBTQ, African Americans,
Anyone that isn’t a White fake Christian male will be punished.
Wow. I thought I was up on this horror show, but the statistic on premature morbidity of young mothers was a whole new level of the wrong being done.
I read this and it still is beyond comprehension that this is current reality. It's as if everyting is turned upsiide down. Unbelievable. How the hell did we get here.
Any fool can see that we are massively overpopulated, 3,000 times more numerous than were our ancestral Hunter-Gatherer clans/bands just a few thousand years ago, the last members of our species to live in an ecologically sustainable manner worldwide. The ever greedy corporate/Wall St. overlords, like Elon Musk, keep driving the pro-growth/pro-natal narrative in order to force women to bear unneeded/unwanted clones (37% of US pregnancies are "unintentional"--CDC) in order to provide an oversupply of laborers competing for ever more limited job opportunities, and our disastrous "consumer culture" devouring unsustainable natural resources while producing worldwide pollution. We are in a full bore state of existential climate collapse, so my message to those prospective wannabe parents is this: do you really want to bring another innocent child into this dying world to live an increasingly miserable life?
WOW that video is powerful.
There are only two ways to keep populations from unknowingly mating with your own children. Life long mate (Paul's method) and controlling women to be exchanged between outside groups which necessitates male total control and female non choice and frequency of mating partners. Does this mean the GOP has given up on Christian life long mates and wants us all to go back to hunter societies solution? No sure as rape in red states is rising.
What are the causes of death? Are they medical, mental illness related, addiction related, or trauma?
I heard on my car radio that an organization is asking for donations to pay for sonograms of pregnant women seeking abortions to save babies. They claim women change their minds due to sonograms.
If Trump loses, expect to see Project 2029. Then Project 2033 if the GOP candidate loses ...
Rinse and repeat till the cows come home.
Vote BLUE.
Let’s Not Make Roe an Issue This Election!
For 40 years, we heard Republicans say we have to vote for them to protect the unborn. This one issue has shifted countless Democrats to Republicans or to vote Republican. Now a lot of these people can finally look at the other issues and vote for the Democratic party. Please, let's not put Roe back on the table.
This election cycle, we should campaign for women’s rights such as making the pill and birth control legal and low cost nationwide along with IVF. Allow abortions for rape, incest, to protect the woman’s life and to protect her fertility health. But please let's not mention Roe except to say that it was overturned.
We should be respectful of people who are strongly against abortion and acknowledge this is an area where it’s very difficult to make a judgement call as to, at what stage of development and of what circumstances, if any, should the rights of a fetus to live, override the rights of the woman to not have the child.
Even though the Republicans dominated the Supreme Court with the passage of Roe and since, Democrats have been called baby killers for 40 years. This has been a very powerful voting tool for Republicans. With Roe being overturned, millions of people now feel they can consider all issues and vote for the Democratic party.
Most people who want Roe completely restored are already voting for the Democratic party. We need to get people who want to vote for Democratic values but feel they can’t if they feel they would be complicit in killing babies as depicted on billboards. We need all voters. Please, let’s take smaller steps and not make Roe an issue this election cycle.
Thank you,
Doug
Fact! Unfortunately, republican women have become part of the cult voting against their own gender!