Roe v Wade to be overturned

[B00M 6,414]

16 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Because she's a Catholic integralist who desires a monarchy:

*closes Bruenig tab* 

[WhatTheBuck 28,775]

Probably no reason why she shouldn’t be rounded up by the authorities and “disappeared.” Sounds like that’s the kind of state in which she wants to live.

 

[F250 28,764]

16 hours ago, hpslugga said:

A preference without a roadmap is a fantasy.

[gmr548 16,576]

This country is done. Just hope it’s a bloodless breakup as opposed to a fascist dictatorship.

But of course the Louisianas of the world can’t survive on their own, so the GQP isn’t going to just let the west coast and northeast walk.

[Brisketexan 105,079]

1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

This country is done. Just hope it’s a bloodless breakup as opposed to a fascist dictatorship.

But of course the Louisianas of the world can’t survive on their own, so the GQP isn’t going to just let the west coast and northeast walk.

Nope.  This gets more violent.  We'll look back on Jan 6th as quaint.

[synoptic 138]

21 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Because she's a Catholic integralist who desires a monarchy:

I've never heard of this lady but she is obviously not being serious. It is a facetious reference to the philosopher kings described in the Plato's Republic as being divinely inspired and compelled by a superior power to have the charge of the state.  Sounds like her original point is that merely being democratic is not sufficient for just governance.                                                 

[Satchel 6,934]

On 5/7/2022 at 11:33 AM, Dr. Teeth said:

This shows a basic misunderstanding of Republicans that the press and Democrats have. The Republicans are great at messaging. They know they won. They just don’t want to make themselves the issue now. They get the timing helps them. They will make it an issue again when it isn’t a huge story in the fall. Their base is celebrating right now. No need to push it. Dems will be at home in November because Biden didn’t do something that no one is capable of doing in any climate. So why give the press more stories now. 

What makes you think Dems will be home in November?

[softlynow 1,813]

7 minutes ago, Satchel said:

What makes you think Dems will be home in November?

Has the American electorate and electoral system been replaced by rational counterparts from a different universe yet? No? Prepare your anus for the fascist buttfucking.

[Satchel 6,934]

1 minute ago, softlynow said:

Has the American electorate and electoral system been replaced by rational counterparts from a different universe yet? No? Prepare your anus for the fascist buttfucking.

In my circle, people are pissed about the continuing effort to suppress voting. This will be the first mid term election in recent memory wherein Dems will gain seats in both the House and the Senate.

[F250 28,764]

16 minutes ago, synoptic said:

I've never heard of this lady but she is obviously not being serious. It is a facetious reference to the philosopher kings described in the Plato's Republic as being divinely inspired and compelled by a superior power to have the charge of the state.  Sounds like her original point is that merely being democratic is not sufficient for just governance.                                                 

I figured it was a joke and a nod to Plato's Philospher King as well. But on Twitter hyperbole is business and business is good. Her political views would make more sense in Europe or Latin America than here in the U.S. There isn't room on the political spectrum for christian socialism here in America.

 

[gmr548 16,576]

In my circle, people are pissed about the continuing effort to suppress voting. This will be the first mid term election in recent memory wherein Dems will gain seats in both the House and the Senate.

Surely you troll.

But if not, you can get pretty favorable odds on that claim if you’re willing to put money on it.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

19 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Surely you troll.

But if not, you can get pretty favorable odds on that claim if you’re willing to put money on it.

they're not trolling. I know many people who feel the same way. some lifelong dems, others converts leaving the ratfuck ship that is the GOP. they see what is going on and aren't gonna lie down. hell, trump got my parents to vote for the first time in their lives - against him. and they are 100% the type of people the GOP wants, but is losing in droves

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

oh, and born and raised catholic and very much pro-life most of my life, my mom is now very pro-choice. it's kinda fucking crazy, but here we are, somehow

[gmr548 16,576]

12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

they're not trolling. I know many people who feel the same way. some lifelong dems, others converts leaving the ratfuck ship that is the GOP. they see what is going on and aren't gonna lie down. hell, trump got my parents to vote for the first time in their lives - against him. and they are 100% the type of people the GOP wants, but is losing in droves

Oh I 100% believe that is the sentiment in his specific circle. It's a big country though. 

[DaysOff 7,947]

oh, and born and raised catholic and very much pro-life most of my life, my mom is now very pro-choice. it's kinda fucking crazy, but here we are, somehow

She must not rage watch FNC like my mother. "Oh I don't really watch, it's just on in the background."

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

16 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

She must not rage watch FNC like my mother. "Oh I don't really watch, it's just on in the background."

nope. my folks rag on FN as much as we do. and refs. my dad fucking hates refs.

Edited May 10, 2022 by Longhorn_Fan68

[bonnieblue 542]

30 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Oh I 100% believe that is the sentiment in his specific circle. It's a big country though. 

I’m choosing to drink this koolaid.

Dems keep house, increase the senate, and an owl attacks Ted Cruz and he falls down the stairs.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

Just now, bonnieblue said:

I’m choosing to drink this koolaid.

Dems keep house, increase the senate, and an owl attacks Ted Cruz and he falls down the stairs.

would be funnier if it was a golden cheeked warbler, only found in Texas, that attacked his Canadian ass

[TheStoicPaisano 9,922]

15 minutes ago, bonnieblue said:

I’m choosing to drink this koolaid.

Dems keep house, increase the senate, and an owl attacks Ted Cruz and he falls down the stairs.

 

[Bojack 2,075]

23 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

would be funnier if it was a golden cheeked warbler, only found in Texas, that attacked his Canadian ass

Even though they're not native to Texas, a cassowary or ostrich would be funniest.  

[Pods 7,551]

26 minutes ago, Bojack said:

Even though they're not native to Texas, a cassowary or ostrich would be funniest.  

Cassowary all the way. They are the Texas Longhorns of bird toe claws. 

They launch and kick, sweeping down, attempting to disembowel the target. 

[Brisketexan 105,079]

1 minute ago, Pods said:

They launch and kick, sweeping down, attempting to disembowel the target. 

That is particularly scary to Ted Cruz, who is made of 100% bowels.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

that's a helluva coke nail

[bonnieblue 542]

14 minutes ago, Pods said:

Cassowary all the way. They are the Texas Longhorns of bird toe claws. 

They launch and kick, sweeping down, attempting to disembowel the target. 

I amend my prior prediction!

[atomheartbevo 89,629]

Yeah, that argument is going to win plenty of women over.

 

[bolverk 29,656]

3 hours ago, Bojack said:

Even though they're not native to Texas, a cassowary or ostrich would be funniest.  

Holy fuck! First I've ever heard of this bird. I saw the photos of their claws, and that was frightening enough but then found this. 

Spoiler

My blood curdles.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Holy fuck! First I've ever heard of this bird. I saw the photos of their claws, and that was frightening enough but then found this. 

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5 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

my dad fucking hates refs.

brother?

[MidTexHorn 822]

4 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

nope. my folks rag on FN as much as we do. and refs. my dad fucking hates refs.

Son?

[WhatTheBuck 28,775]

On 5/9/2022 at 2:29 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

Hopefully this doesn’t get taken down. But watch it before it does, just in case. Coincidentally, Oliver cited the same Clinton quote I did earlier. As always, he’s nails.

And also fuck the son of Ferdinand Marcos running for President in the Philippines. And fuck Duterte too and every other Trumpian dictator like all the others we’ve known throughout history.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add:

Okay, that video of the whole episode got taken down. Usually videos of the whole show don’t stay up and they just release one of the top story, omitting the first segment which is more comedic. But in an unusual step, since they basically had two “top story” segments, they put up the part on the repeal of Roe. And yes, Oliver can say “we” because he’s an immigrant who’s become an American citizen. (Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!)

 

[Thatguy 8,682]

On 5/9/2022 at 4:35 PM, wildcat09 said:

Because she's a Catholic integralist who desires a monarchy:

Ideally the Lord?

  Man, the atrocities committed in the name of the Lord, especially Catholicism, should make people cringe upon hearing that. "The Lord told me to kill all would be opposition and appoint myself the new King of the United States" has a nice ring to it. Let's start with the R's.

 

https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/televangelist-jesse-duplantis-god-wants-me-to-have-new-54-million-jet.html

[Bateshorn 9,927]

I don’t want to unsettle anyone, but Elizabeth Bruenig used to write opinion pieces for the NYT, and I believe currently writes for the WAPO.  If she’s talking straight up autocracy, that means the intellectual right is now all in. 

[synoptic 138]

4 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I don’t want to unsettle anyone, but Elizabeth Bruenig used to write opinion pieces for the NYT, and I believe currently writes for the WAPO.  If she’s talking straight up autocracy, that means the intellectual right is now all in. 

I just google searched this person.  She is a democratic socialist opinion writer for the Atlantic.  A self described leftist and socialist opinion writer makes a joke reference to Plato's Republic on twitter and the conclusion is that the intellectual right is all in on autocracy.     

[Jive Turkey 12,594]

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell ya. 

 

[wildcat09 29,347]

3 minutes ago, synoptic said:

I just google searched this person.  She is a democratic socialist opinion writer for the Atlantic.  A self described leftist and socialist opinion writer makes a joke reference to Plato's Republic on twitter and the conclusion is that the intellectual right is all in on autocracy.     

Plenty of reactionaries describe themselves as on the left. It doesn't make it true.

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5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Plenty of reactionaries describe themselves as on the left. It doesn't make it true.

So she has been writing articles advocating for democratic socialism for several years now to gain followers as a sleeper reactionary right agent?  

[wildcat09 29,347]

5 minutes ago, synoptic said:

So she has been writing articles advocating for democratic socialism for several years now to gain followers as a sleeper reactionary right agent?  

No. She just likes certain things the left advocates for and wants to associate with them, but is primarily motivated by conservative religious impulses.

The world is full of liberals who say they aren't liberals and conservatives who say they aren't conservatives. She's hardly unique.

[David Dennison 18,851]

9 minutes ago, synoptic said:

So she has been writing articles advocating for democratic socialism for several years now to gain followers as a sleeper reactionary right agent?  

She's an extremely pro-life social progressive. I imagine there are a lot of women like her in the Roman Catholic Church.

[synoptic 138]

6 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

No. She just likes certain things the left advocates for and wants to associate with them, but is primarily motivated by conservative religious impulses.

The world is full of liberals who say they aren't liberals and conservatives who say they aren't conservatives. She's hardly unique.

As mentioned by F250 above, she expresses typical Christian socialist views that are common in European countries and other parts of the world.  Not in any way a spokesperson for the American right.  She's also not really a monarchist.  She is also just a sole person who is just an opinion piece writer, so not a representative of anything except maybe the upper middle class millennial US Christian socialist demographic.    

 

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

She's an extremely pro-life social progressive. I imagine there are a lot of women like her in the Roman Catholic Church.

Yep.  Lots of them in Europe.

[Bateshorn 9,927]

I don’t think anyone on the left claims Elizabeth Bruenig.  She the classic “progressive” who spends most of her time “just asking questions “ about progressive views. 

[synoptic 138]

33 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

I don’t think anyone on the left claims Elizabeth Bruenig.  She the classic “progressive” who spends most of her time “just asking questions “ about progressive views. 

Christian leftists/christian socialists/catholic communists that are more common in Europe don't fit neatly into either US political camp.  But if you were to poll them on various positions they would have more in common with the US left.  Another way to put it is that if their choice was between Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders they would choose Sanders in a heartbeat.  But the US left not claiming them (even if true) does not somehow make them the voice for the intellectual right.      

Edited May 11, 2022 by synoptic

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

3 minutes ago, synoptic said:

Christian leftists/christian socialists/catholic communists that are more common in Europe don't fit neatly into either US political camp.  But if you were to poll them on various positions they would have more in common with the US left.  Another way to put it is that if their choice was between Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders they would choose Sanders in a heartbeat.  But the US left not claiming them (even if true) does not somehow make them the voice for the intellectual right.      

there's an intellectual right?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

 

[synoptic 138]

4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

there's an intellectual right?

Using the phrase from Bateshorn:

7 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

I don’t want to unsettle anyone, but Elizabeth Bruenig used to write opinion pieces for the NYT, and I believe currently writes for the WAPO.  If she’s talking straight up autocracy, that means the intellectual right is now all in. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

"no" would have been fine

[Bama Chick 28,596]

Elizabeth Bruenig and her horrid husband can both go eat glass.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,867]

[Bateshorn 9,927]

When no actual intellectual conservative movement exist, a questioning left fills the void. 

39 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Elizabeth Bruenig and her horrid husband can both go eat glass.

Also this. 

[synoptic 138]

Leftists with questions need to get their shit together. 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2,663]

4 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell ya. 

 

so did the Dems purposely advance a bill that doesn't just codify Roe so that cunts like this have an excuse? I don't get it.