It isn’t for those who are insulated from the policies and the laws that Trump and Pence and a Republican Congress want to enact. To claim it isn’t the apocalypse for people who can’t, for example, simply fly to another state for an abortion, or are in fear of the threat of internment camps or the loss of…

My main hope here is that a) John Roberts wants to be remembered as a legendary jurist along the lines of Earl Warren (not necessarily ideologically but in terms of the soundness of the precedents he set) and has no interest in overturning law that has been settled for 43 years without a constitutional justification…

Yes, and scratch below the surface of rabid anti abortion activists and they always end up railing about “women being allowed to have sex anytime they want without suffering the consequences”. It was never about babies. These are the same assholes that don’t believe in any government funding to help women with…

He would never have won. He is like that person you couldn’t date in highschool. Forever perfect because they never got the chance to actually do anything. Trump & his team would have eaten him alive because they fight dirty & the best dirty fighter the Dems had to put up against them was Hillary.

I’ve told this story here at Jez but I will repeat it again. And I’m calling my former rep in PA and telling them and anyone who will listen the same story over and over again until they vote this 20 week ban down when it comes up again.

At our 20 week ultrasound we found out our son had a condition where he…

It’s a law designed to turn us into incubators.

Shout it from the rooftops. Don’t let them lie and gaslight you about ‘baaabies.’ They don’t give a flying FUCK about ‘life.’ They just want women controlled and desperate.

Even if you are anti-choice you should be concerned about the overreach of this kind of legislation. It becomes not just about the procedure of abortion but about the criminalization of all choices and actions by pregnant women. Once we say a pregnant woman is housing a full human with full rights, the woman is now…

“You would treat the death of an unborn child like you would any other human being,”

I have RPL (recurring pregnancy loss), and had five miscarriages before I had my son. I’m scared shitless for all women, those who might need an abortion and also for those of us who miscarry and end up getting investigated and persecuted for not being able to prove our loss was outside of our control.

Can you imagine a group of women that were so obsessed with what men did with their bodies that they locked themselves up in a room and spent hours discussing and drafting legislation that banned the use of viagra or prostate exams and then brought that legislation out in public and argued it in front of crowds? Can…

Can we literally survive this? Most of us, probably. What will the soul of the country come out looking like at the other end, though?

Bush was a good ole boy surrounded by men and women (hello Condeleeza) far smarter & powerful than him. But he had been a governor & came to the office with more than a decent understanding of how government works. Trump is a charlatan. There is nothing at his core except narcissism. It is potentially a far more…

I am still grieving. I am angry at the hate and the bizarreness of the whole situation. But I also grieve for the things we could have had - family/medical leave, higher minimum wage, enhancements to the ACA, lower teen birth rates and better education, relief for college students. Who knows? It’s done now. It’s done…

You remember how a lot of people lost their minds when Obama got elected and we got a grassroots activist push that pushed their tea party agenda (as incoherent as it often was) all the way to congress?

I’m falling asleep, so forgive some grogginess; but we have had historically horrific presidents before. There are huge parallels in my mind to Jackson and Nixon in particular. Will Trump go down as the worst? Absolutely, but the race to last isn’t as tight as one would think. Buchanan. Hoover. They were all terrible…

Okay, we need to get some Biden up in the hizzy. They need to form a Super PAC/Fountdation and just lay her platform down opposite his in a checklist format a start checking things off all “see, here I am doing the job better than you. You can live where you want Donny Boy, I’ll still be the President.” I think…

Right, for sure. I’m sure that most everything Pence would do as President would be something I’d disagree with, but at least I’d feel confident that he’d abide by the Constitution during his presidency, not get us into WWIII, and that we’d have a free and fair election in 2020.

i keep using the nerd example of lawful evil vs chaotic evil. If you watch Adventure Time, Hunson Abadeer is chaotic evil. People in the nightosphere never ever know what’s about to happen. I’d rather take lawful evil any day.You generally know how they will act. They may try to change laws to suit their needs but…

Still not as bad. Trump has Twitter battles and will get the secrets and codes. His temperament is explosive and with the secrets has shown no compunction to be vindictive even if it hurts the country.