Literally the Republican Way™©®
It disgusts me to no end. “It’s wrong and should be punished until it happens to me!”
Saving this! Who knows when it might come in handy…
Privileged people do get an exception - they can afford to fly to another state for an abortion.
People like this think they’re part of the in group because they’re white or christian, but the only war is class war. To our rulers we’re all the enemy.
My fucking Trumpy brother in law has this attitude. He lives in the south, votes for Trump, and has a wife, two daughters, and a son. His wife has had a couple of complicated pregnancies that, had they happened now in the place they currently live, could well have resulted in her death. His attitude when asked ‘what if one of your daughters gets raped?’ is to say he can just fly her somewhere else to get an abortion, because he has money. Fuck you, dude.
These are people who don’t want rights, they want privileges. They don’t want equality, they want hierarchy. They can’t say “gimme gimme”, they say “take America back”.
From who? Americans. They want to take what you have. Now that Republicans control the Federal Government they will start to take from each other.
This literally happened during the first Trump administration. Does no Trump supporter remember how they all fought for attention and sucked so badly?
All animals are equal but some are more equal.
Two legs good, four legs bad.
Edit: actually think I got that backwards.
Four legs good, two legs bad. And if I remember correctly, there was an amendment for ducks/chickens/etc to be good. Haven’t read that book in like 35 years.
Lol where do geese stand?
Wherever the fuck they want.
This made me laugh a bit harder than expected lol, you’re absolutely right.
They also poop wherever the fuck they want. Geese staying in place rather than migrating make so many lawns unusable
Right between me and the goddamn tree I want to read under.
I remember the hilarious part where they all campaigned for years on “repealing Obamacare”. Then they had House and Senate majorities + the Presidency, and guess what didn’t get repealed?
It was like that silly video where a dog is barking viciously at another dog, looks super serious and mean, and then the barrier between them is removed and they both act real cool immediately. Then, barrier back in, vicious barking again…
2016 - It will be so easy, it’s the worst law in history. We’re going to repeal and replace it in the first week.
2024 - I have concepts of a plan.
How fucking dumb is half the country… At least that fucking dumb.
Really really fucking dumb.
So dumb I can’t help but wonder where I’m that blind
I like to think that they’re all just non-voting leftists - it helps get me through the day.
I remember the hilarious part where they all campaigned for years on “repealing Obamacare”. Then they had House and Senate majorities + the Presidency, and guess what didn’t get repealed?
For a while, there were a surprising amount of people who wanted to repeal Obamacare, but keep the Affordable Care Act.
Letting it be called Obamacare was probably a misstep for his administration. It’d likely be less disliked if it wasn’t tied to his name, and they went with something like “Americare: Because America Cares for you”.
Republicans are the ones that nicknamed it that, to try to make their supporters hate it as much as a Black man, even if it hurts them.
Worked pretty great. Of course part of the ratfucking they did was to cripple the actual legislation, too, not just the image of it, so it doesn’t work nearly as well as it should.
So now they have to vote in Congress to keep a thing people need but which they themselves made much crappier, while also being expected to scream about wanting to get rid of it altogether, while also being unable to make any useful changes to the legislation at all. And this is on healthcare, probably the most directly impactful issue faced by their actual voter base.
Messaging and propaganda are seriously like game-breaking IRL exploits.
I hear you, but their messaging was going to be their messaging, and it was going to be effective and adopted by their base. No one “let it be called Obamacare”, that was strictly Republican, and very deliberate. There was never a point when the GOP was gonna just allow a massive popular win by the other side, they were always gonna ratfuck it every way possible, do everything they could to make it unpopular.
Associating it with scary brown guy was pretty much inevitable, I can’t put even a piece of the blame on the folks who fought for that legislation to be passed.
There’s a reason they’re so threatened by words like equity and inclusion. When the culture of your ancestors was based on exclusionary hierarchies it can be very hard to embrace all people as equal, even if that is a fabled part of the American ethos (on paper, not in practice).
I’m putting that first line in my pocket and gonna use it often. Thanks
Yeah, if you can get a MAGAt to be honest with you, at some point, the core of what they want comes down to, “I support Trump because I want people who are different than me to have more misery in their life than I do.”
If that means taking on some extra misery themselves, be so be it, as long as it’s even worse for them.
It’s a sad type of cruelty.
Many states put a bounty on anyone found to be helping someone travel out of state to get an abortion.
States specifically target liberal groups for harassment and penalty. Conservative physicians will be ignored.
The point of these witch hunts is to torment opposition groups.
It’s two birds with one stone…
I know Texas does this, but do other states?
Texas also has many local abortion travel bans so you can be punished for using their roads while going to the other states if you can’t afford to fly over them.
I love that they referred her to an anti-abortion crisis center, because there’s a 99% chance they’ll just tell her the same “pro-life” garbage she’s been spewing and send her ass home.
Remember, God makes no mistakes 🤗
I really do hate myself for a lack of sympathy in this situation, but these people need to experience what they’re doing to everyone else.
What’s sad is that people who agree with her won’t see the threat to her life as a valid reason either. They don’t know her so they don’t care for her. They’ll lump her in with the people they torment outside of Planned Parenthood regularly.
Just another woman who spread her legs and is too cowardly to accept the will of god.
I’ll be honest, I’m burned out. I need a break from morons and their stories. I really do.
I have accepted that two things can be trust at once: I can be sad for her and amused at the leopard eating her face. I have no problem containing both of those emotions at the same time without hating myself one ounce.
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She is the leopard eating her face. I see no reason to be sad. She is dying for her beliefs, a martyr.
It wasn’t part of her plan but (her) God chose her for this. We should she be happy. She should be happy. This is (her) God’s will.
I’m not sad for her, but more for the brutal response she got at the end of the article. That’s how they treat everyone that comes to them with issues like that.
She wanted that too.
Not for herself, of course, but anyone else.
I’ve given up on being sympathetic for people who actively try to put these things in place. Like, I’m just jaded now. You voted for this. Congratulations, if this is fatal for your stupid decisions, that’s on you. I’m sympathetic to the people with brains who knew this would happen, those people get my sympathy and caring.
I felt similar about people asking for the vaccine right before they went on the ventilator. Something like 3m people in the US died from Covid.
It’s been estimated that there were at least 232k preventable deaths because people didn’t get vaccinated. That doesn’t include people who suffered permanent damage or long-COVID.
Sometimes people have to get hurt before they learn a lesson.
Sometimes that won’t even work. Maybe just a little cognitive dissonance.
Don’t feel bad. Everyone has limits. At some point you have to worry about yourself and those around you.
I’ll be honest, I’m burned out. I need a break from morons and their stories. I really do.
You need to stop going out of your way to doomscroll on social media, then. It’s ultimately entirely in your power to not be exposed to them.
I’m being serious. It’s not good for you–social media makes it extremely easy to be exposed to negativity 24/7 if you’re looking for it, since you’re 1 person in a world of over 8 billion. You don’t have to get even close to 1% of the people being assholes, for this to be not only possible, but trivially easy.
The human psyche is literally not designed to withstand the kind of barrage technology has made possible. Please do not feel guilty about giving yourself a break at times, to say the very least.
Thanks for this (I’m not the op). While I tend to agree that doomscrolling doesn’t help my mental health, I’m not sure how to square burying my head in the sand vs not paying attention to the crazy shit going on.
I don’t expect an answer or anything, just venting. I feel powerless and my taxes are apparently going to fund a concentration camp.
RSS feeds or
Don’t worry, they’re all gonna feel the pain when the plans for tariffs, deportations, and budget cuts are implemented and everything costs more (so much is imported and no Americans are going to pick crops) and everyone has less money (they’re looking at benefits, VA, and federal employment cuts). Maybe they’ll cry He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting. but my hope is they learn who to never elect again at all levels of government.
It’s going to be a rough 2 years until the midterms when we flip one of the chambers of Congress and stop any more insanity, but we’ll survive. And if we do what we can, we’ll get back what’s ours and then some in 4 years.
For what it’s worth, this particular case happened 2 years ago, in Missouri:
Good lemming. Keep doing good things.
From the article:
She was already at "risks of maternal thrombosis given her history of (deep vein thrombosis during a COVID-19 infection)
Why do I picture this lady as an anti-vaxxer & anti-masker?
80% white. 40% with a high school education or less.
In 2022, over 100 anti-vaccination protesters rallied at the state Capitol against health director Donald Kauerauf’s confirmation, despite his opposition to mask and vaccine mandates. Protesters displayed signs reading “God-given natural immunity” and “We’re not guinea pigs.”
In 2024, House Bill 1424 was introduced to prohibit COVID-19 vaccination requirements for transportation access. Missouri Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt co-sponsored federal legislation to ban mask mandates through 2024.
The state as a whole gives a certain vibe…
Nutpicking. For every “Haha! Instant Karma! Suck it, idiots!” front page circle jerk, a thousand conservatives will get abortions under the table without a problem.
You’ve got to go two years back on this shit because its ultimately the exception, not the rule.
Missouri just voted to make them legal again, so not sure your point.
because its ultimately the exception, not the rule.
I think that’s what makes it notable enough to be reported on?
The only moral abortion is MY abortion!
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The only moral abortion is my abortion!
Hope she learns from this shit that her choices have consequences. Vote better next time
She won’t
Judging her type if I had to place a bet the next thing she’s gonna do is trying to sue the next best (probably innocent) person for the biggest bullshit reasons just to feel better. (And maybe go to a more liberal state to get an abortion)
I wonder if it was more an assumption that the rules only applied to viable pregnancies.
I mean I’m pro-choice but I’d assume anyone pushing to ban abortion is aiming to prevent viable pregnancies from being terminated while still allowing medically necessary or unviable pregnancies to be terminated.
Youd be quite disappointed
How do they justify that? I mean I can see why people would be against aborting viable fetuses, but a fetus that will never live seems absurd.
I guess we also force dying people to wait it out, so maybe it’s on trend.
Religion, mostly
Nah. The point of this is to punish women for having sex.
If they die, the harlot shouldn’t have spread her legs.
If she was raped - no she wasn’t.
The whole point is to punish women for taking control of our bodies and then becoming full citizens. Cis white men HATE women.
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Reminds me of brexit. You were warned, lady. You just chose not to listen because you didn’t think it would have a negative impact on you.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
-Francis M. Wilhoit
The Only Moral Abortion is My Own.
“First they came for…” you fucking ghouls.
You signed a death warrant for us all and for our children’s supposed future, and your ignorance and cowardice was the ink.
And just in case anyone had any hope of the next generation fixing things… they’re also targeting education.
Targeted for decades, just now finishing the job with singling out option for education to only vouchers to religious schools. Even then, they will slowly decrease value of vouchers so eventually you are out of pocket for a poor quality education and religious indoctrination as cherry on top.
People who voted for the Leopard Eating People’s Faces party suddenly shocked when the leopard eats their face.
And sadly, most won’t learn that lesson.
“Actually I like having my face eaten.”
Leopard Eating People’s Paces
I just pictured a leopard that would pounce on people’s footprints and eat those. Like dirt and all, I loled.
Autocorrect for the win. Fixed it.
And nothing was actually learned.
So she got what she voted for? I don’t see an issue
Oh my god the end of that article is brutal… Yes, leopards eating faces and all, but holy shit that response was heartless
Being heartless is a basic requirement for being Republican.
They believe she is a piece of trash, not a person, so what did she expect to be treated like. Used her for her vote, and then threw her away.
Yes, heartless as she as been heartless. Brutal as she was. Live by the sword? Well ya know the rest 🤷♂️
She did it to herself. Not a drop of sympathy from me.
ETA: I’ll take the downvotes on this one. Shower your disapproval. Fuck this lady and her leopard eaten face.
I don’t really feel happy for anybody in this case. Everybody loses. We can only hope that this person learned their lesson.
Absolutely agreed - her situation is a shit one, and I hope she learned her lesson. She chose her journey, though, in the face of all the contrary evidence.
I did a little digging and she is pro choice now
https://jezebel.com/former-pro-life-missouri-woman-denied-emergency-abortio-1849688390
