Yep, this is purely a bluff to conservative branch of Cleric Court (that’s what my brother now calling them, so I am calling them too).

I think this is going to turn out to be one of those maneuvers that just happens to be okay when it’s in service of a conservative goal, but not in service of a liberal goal because founding fathers.

As far as I can tell, Nixon was the turn. When an evil cabal of ratfuckers engages in antidemocratic measures to grasp and hold onto power and gets away with it, that sets one hell of a precedent.

As a Californian, I am deeply pleased with this No Fucks era of Newsom. More please. 

Fucking brilliant.  We really do need more states to follow, I’m looking at you Washington and Oregon.  

It started going appreciably, visibly, downhill during the Reagan years.

How about just banish the EC. I know it won’t happen, but I can dream. 

This is correct. If you are just right of center, then the GOP is about 8 miles to the right of you.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s and traveling around Europe a few times, Italy was notorious for the men catcalling, groping and pinching any woman with a pulse who had the temerity to go out without male accompaniment. I don’t know if they directed it at Italian women as well, or how they dealt with it, or just at…

Apart from general wealth the US was already the laughing stock of developed nations for many years now, but the turn over the last few years feels like a whole other level and actually quite scary. 

a “sinking swamp” of “parasites” with “illicit dreams and schemes.”

Manchin will vote against it anyway, so what's the point.

They would make it NOT illegal to deny contraception.  For any reason including as petty as “my religion thinks you shouldn’t have nice things”

Lol. America has become such a backwards nation. You may turn in your “1st world” card at the door on your way over to sit at the 3rd world table.

Also over-policing communities of color and blocking attempts to legalize drugs like marijuana, to feed bodies into the prison-industrial economy of legalized slavery that has persisted since the 19th century.

Of course they can’t. Since when has the GOP cared how many families live in poverty? A desperate workforce is a captive workforce, and unpaid labor is still a bonus for everyone. Study after study shows that even in two-parent working households, women still end up doing the lion’s share of the “housewife” work. No…

I’m not sure anyone can afford a one income household with kids. Even women who would like to stay home

Unfortunately this doesn’t surprise me. BC to many Pro-Forced Birthers is abortion.

Exactly. Without legal slavery, segregation and the subjugation of women, there’s only one way to have a large, cheap, uneducated work force: end all reproductive freedom, destroy the middle class.

Again and again, this is partly religious and partly economic. Before women poured into the workforce in the late 60s/early 70s, your average white man had an unpaid indentured servant who performed cooking, housework and childcare in exchange for free room and board, leaving Daddy free to smoke and work. This was…