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An appropriate quote after yesterday.
I have some money saved up. Time to spend it to ensure a larger Senate majority.
The fascist evangelical dog finally caught the car yesterday – and now is going to get dragged, if young people in particular get up and vote to remove anti-liberty Republicans who say the states cannot restrain guns but can control women. Thomas’ dog whistle about taking away rights to contraceptives and gay marriage was a peculiar strategic error – but that was probably the section Ginni wrote.
spot on! OpenSpace you need to run for office!!
The sooner we begin to focus on the real enemy, the sooner we win.
The enemy is Christian Patriarchy. The theocrats are pervasive in the MAGAverse, and these latest circumstances are just part of a very long term plan.
It is the devout wish of the Neo-Christian, corporate alliance to create a religious state, not unlike the Taliban or ISIS. Religious leaders calling the shots…only True Believers in positions of power. The King James version of the Christian Bible as Constitution.
They are finally revealed.
They have played their hand.
The enemy has gone way beond Christian Patriarchy. That was the 1980's assimilation. Since then the GOP had acquired the Tea Party, the Randroids, the militant anti-government crowd, and whatever other bigots it hadn't previously round up. Then it sucked in the QAnon crowd.
It's gotten to the point that any random kook with any random belief system can put forward any random anti-Democratic conspiracy and get cognitive dissonance buy-in from the whole mob.
You're both spot on. But I would add that it's funded in large degree but very rich people using all that to get favorable tax laws & business regulations.
I agree. It's all about the money. Religion and other conspiracies are useful to keep the masses in line. But the bottom line is wealth and the power it buys.
That is plainly said and profoundly true.
'Twas ever thus.
Mr. Natural concurs!
This must be what they meant about that "big tent". If it gets any more crowded in there, some of them will wind up with their asses exposed to the elements.
Hopefully in time for a big old dose of electoral sodemy.
Duke, so right. And important to recognize the true impact of what PR references – the so-called-Christian Patriarchy has ARMED itself with those happy to use weapons, violence, and insanity to achieve and enforce the new autocracy – Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, cult members, etc. If folks don't vote this year – forget 2024 – no matter how difficult it will be in some jurisdictions to exercise your right to vote, they can kiss this country goodbye. I wonder if Canada is doing some planning to prepare for refugees from the U.S.
Are you sure Canada would take us?
Only some of us . . . . . maybe.
handmaids
The Sharia Court, minus 3.
"Thomas’ dog whistle about taking away rights to contraceptives and gay marriage was a peculiar strategic error"
Indeed. Why he (and/or his nut case wife) saw the need to include that gratuitous remark is peculiar.
Maybe he felt he needed to put Kavanaugh and Alito on notice that this decision was not necessarily a single rescission of a recognized constitutional right. Not that anything Kavanaugh says has any credibility.
You left out Gorsuch. It will be interesting to see how he figures in, going forward. Gorsuch has proven himself to be a good friend of Native American sovereign rights. Wonder how he'd react when the first anti-contraceptives case arrives at the SCOTUS in a couple years.
DITTO!!!!
When liberal groups lie – we need to call them out on it. These lies about Boebert are heinous.
If it was a conservative PAC pulling this shit in a Dem we’d have a giant clutch our pearl diary up here about it.
With you on this, David. There is enough already there.
Making up shit is what THEY do.
Told ya so…
And so you did, oh Great Stopped Clock! What was the other thing you were right on that day?
👍
Nope.
The GOPers lie all the time and they win elections. If Dimocrats lie and win—good.
Today is our wedding anniversary. Fifty four years. Two kids, two grandkids and numerous furballs.
Best wishes to our Online friends and foes and confusion to the Fascist Imbecile Front!
Congratulations to you and yours, V! Nice to have some good news anytime, but especially now. Wishing you the best for many years to come, and looking forward to your comments and insights in this most of interesting of forums.
Fifty four years…the woman must be a saint.. 😉
Congrats!!
Congratulations to Voyageur et ux.!
Many congratulations, V!
Congratulations on reaching another milestone, V & Mrs. V. May your joy abound in the coming year.
Thank you all so much. Growing old is not advisable as a solitary journey.
And a special shout-out to not a skinny cook and Karen, who have nurtured a long-term, loving relationship in the face of hostile bullies.
36 years and counting in about a month. We're catching up to you, V.
One of you is pretty lucky. Happy anniversary, V and Mrs.
Moi is the lucky one, skinny, but I still make her laugh.
That's the key, isn't it?
I just checked out the website for one of my state rep candidates: Dede Wagner.
Looks like she is a MAGA True Believer who has been endorsed by both Nevilles and Tim Leonard (didn't go to jail for contempt?).
She is also very disturbed about the "perverted LGBTQ sex education which the progressives are indoctrinating our children with" and accuses Colin Larson of being "the one Republican in the House who votes the most with the Socialist DEMs." (There are a number of things wrong with that sentence, but I digress.)
She also believes that "all men are created equal." Nothing about cis-gendered women or non-binary folk.
She is mostly silent on reproductive choice (a smart position in a state like Colorado) but trashes Larson for his 77% score from Planned Parenthood while he claims to be pro-life.
Yet more evidence that Ginni Thomas is a few tacos short of a complete fiesta platter.
Ginni Thomas left a voicemail for Anita Hill asking her to apologize for accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment (msn.com)
She wanted an apology? That's chutzpah. She's lucky Hill never sued him for the harrassment.
Abortion ruling protests across the country:
find an upcoming protest
In Colorado Friday
Met with violence and threats of violence
and the Pride Parade and other events tomorrow
This is Pridefest weekend in Denver, as it is in Oslo Norway, Was very saddened to read that a nutcase with a gun went on a rampage in a popular gay bar in Oslo. Last I heard 2 dead and 20 injured.
The war against hate never ends.
From the fine folks at Pueblo Indivisible.
Interesting peek at what’s happening in CD 3.
Secretary of State daily report of State Primary Ballots Returned: June 24, 2022
I compared the Unaffiliated voting pattern statewide and in CD 3. Of those turned in and processed:
State Unaffiliated Primary Ballots Returned: June 24, 2022
Seems like a sizeable surge of Unaffiliated voters choosing to vote in the Republican primary.
Ratfucking is popular, you say.
I don't understand, Dave. How is it rat fucking if they are unaffiliated?
There are some (as yet an unknown number) who registered and voted in previous Democratic primaries, but in 2022 decided to become Unaffiliated in order to have access to a Republican primary ballot.
Detailed analysis will be possible AFTER results are known. But there is a possibility that embarrassed or "establishment" Republicans, appalled former Republicans who moved out after January 6 and became Unaffiliated, and strategic Democrats who temporarily shifted their registrations to Unaffiliated will vote for Bim Boebert to join Madison Crawford as a flash in the pan MAGA star.
Thanks for digging into the results data. Its working!
History of the Supreme Court by Ian Milhiser at Vox.
Enlightening, PH. Thanks.
So…
Roe v Wade is history.
Now the Evangelical Army, the Catholic Establishment, and their myriad troops have won their victory.
They will celebrate, then turn themselves toward their next target. They are not done.
This is not about babies. This is about power.
For a change, Duke, you don’t go far enough.
Overturning Roe is about the imposition of foreign law on the country; Catholic dogma as promulgated by the Vatican and adhered to by some of the far right evangelical groups.
Catholic dogma forbids any kind of contraception and encourages abstinence; the so-called “rhythm method.” Dogma also considers homosexual “behavior” as being immoral (even though it’s genetic, and not necessarily a choice).
Indeed, they are not done and the words of Justice Thomas foretell a possible future. For now, the most important action is to protect Colorado.
Our own resident religious nutcases have plans, of that I am certain. Wanting to know some plans is the main reason I’ve never un-subscribed from the Centennial Institute’s emails, which I found myself on when I attended part of the Western Conservative Summit a few years ago.
Sixteen KOOKS demonstrating the stupidity of liberalism. Well done!
"Sixteen kooks??" Personally, I like the picture of the four women holding the yellow signs at the state line. That picture needs to be shared far and wide.
Ah yes, the "stupidity of liberalism." Come back after you discover empathy, you fascist
And arithmetic. Four does not equal sixteen, except perhaps in MAGA “alternative facts” land.
Q is back.
The Leader of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Returns – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Not a Catholic, but leery of some of the anti-Catholic scapegoating I see in response to SCOTUS' abortion ban. Catholic justices make a perfect smokescreen for propertied interests, just as they did in the early Church when Roman property rights were at stake before the new Faith.
The issue here is protecting PATERNAL inheritance, as it always has been, and you always see it rise when an aristocracy is threatened. Look to the money that made this happen, not the ideology. Ideology never wins the day historically without money.
Meiner, I for one am not “scapegoating” anyone. I was born & raised Catholic; even spent my freshman year of high school in a monastery studying to be a priest. The moral upbringing was good, but the hierarchy doesn’t practice it. If you want to learn more about the moral depravity of the church, read “Absolute Monarchs,” by the late English historian John Julius Norwich.
The enemy here is the ordained hierarchy. Studies & polling that I’ve seen for years reveal about 1 in 4 Catholic women of child-bearing age has gotten an abortion. Around 80% of the same women use artificial contraception. The bishops can’t control their own flocks, so they try to control others.
One interesting study was just covered by a Daily Kos writer:
The survey was not exclusive to Roman Catholics. Actually, it focused on women who said they had terminated a pregnancy
Though old (2014 publication), Guttmacher Institute published a study that found
I can't find a statistic on women's religious affiliations in 2014 (or nearby years). My impression or reaction: Those numbers seem a close match to proportions of religious affiliations for women for Catholic, mainline Protestant, and "other," It seems low on Evangelicals and high on "no religious affiliation."
Great Pridefest ar Civic Center today. Thousands, easily, in the crowd. All peaceful- good security- this was the first time I had to have my backpack screened at one of these events. Dozens of cops at every entrance or intersection, so no opportunity for cowards to plow into crowds with their vehicles.
Official it is. Avs win game 6, 2-1, to capure Stanley Cup.
Okay, Marx was wrong. Sports are the opiate of the people.
But how sweet it is!