The Seattle teachers are still on strike. I hope the school board can get their shit together. Jeez.
In the meantime, students can get free meals. Scroll down to “SPS Meals at Seattle Parks and Recreation Sites” for locations and times.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
If Seattle teachers are unhappy on their jobs, perhaps they should consider employment in the private sector.
@1
SPS can’t fill all of their open teaching positions because many teachers have done as you suggest.
@1. What he really means
“How dare those leeches demand more tax dollars?. Its more important to spend everyone’s tax dollars on me”- one alfalfa
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 40 years has shifted $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax. This has been the agenda all along.
Tax the richest to pay teachers better.
Guys like @1 a a real piece of work. They want teachers to have 4-year degrees and bitch when they don’t want to work for peanuts. Plus they bitch more when there is a student loan forgiveness, because, well, for a variety of reasons, they don’t think degrees such as History and English are worthwhile degrees in the first place.
Stupid fucks like One Alfa are never happy. Probably because some teacher in the past labeled them as “slow” and put them in remedial classes.
@1 one alfalfa, if you don’t want your tax dollars to teach teachers better, you should move. Missouri, Florida or Louisiana would be a better fit.
SHIT! Maybe that American Rescue plan, Build Back Better, and Infrastructure is working! We have got to turn this around.
@7 hopefully Democrats will take credit for it. Rightly so.
I recall years ago a GOP legislator in Olympia introduced a bill to pay all state employees at minimum wage.
He was merely displaying their true colors.
In a Detroit suburb yesterday, a Trumper driven insane by QAnon and Trump’s election loss shot his wife and daughter, then blew away the family dog, before shooting at police.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/09/11/walled-lake-man-killed-police-after-killing-wife-shooting-daughter/8058356001/
A pregnant woman arrested for marijuana possession in Etowah County, Alabama, was held in protective custody for 3 months, without trial or opportunity to post bail, to keep her from harming her fetus.
While in protective custody, she was assigned to an occupied bunk in the overcrowded jail, and slept on the floor.
Holding pregnant women in protective custody, without a court hearing, is a routine practice in Etowah County.
I don’t see how this can possibly not violate their constitutional rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/alabama-jailing-pregnant-marijuana-users-protect-fetuses
Several years ago the Etowah County sheriff, who runs the jail, made national headlines by pocketing $750,000 of taxpayer money intended for feeding prisoners. Under an archaic Alabama law, this was perfectly legal. There were, of course, complaints about the jail food.
Presumably including by pregnant women in no-bail custody to protect their fetuses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/06/an-alabama-sheriff-kept-750000-meant-to-buy-food-for-inmates-voters-just-replaced-him/
Republicans. “Its being done to poor people and criminals so its ok. It’s not like they are Republicans.
Nothing says “I’m completely socially inept and mad about it, but if my dictator makes an underclass for me to punch down on, I’ll be happy” quite like voting for Donald Trump.
>> Ha! True.
I’m 100 percent pro SEATTLE Seahawks.
40 of my closest advisors under subpoena. That seems like the have nothing.
How impaired is Fetterman?
Greg Price
@greg_price11
In case you were wondering why John Fetterman’s handlers won’t let him debate…
7:04 AM · Sep 12, 2022
So impaired that The Even Bigger Fucking Moron could out-debate him.
This is the worst I have seen. So far.
The hoodies, explained.
What Is That on John Fetterman’s Neck?
My guess is a skull osteoma.
“U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will lead Senate Republicans in a push to pass a nationwide ban on abortion in a press conference Tuesday, less than two months before the November midterms, according to multiple reports.”
https://www.rawstory.com/nationwide-abortion-ban/
This is great news! I wonder how much the DNC had to pay him?
MJT plans to introduce her articles of impeachment against President Biden “as early as this week.” Her grounds? Green energy is a “threat” to America.
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-tells-steve-bannon-she-plans-to-impeach-joe-biden/
This is great news, too! I expected her to wait until Republicans control the House and she’s speaker or something, so they could actually pass the damn thing.
@17 A dead dog would make a better senator than your party’s candidate. The dead dog doesn’t peddle quack Covid remedies.
Well, so much for “there has been no inflation in the last month”, Democrats.
Inflation rises 0.1% in August even after decline in gas prices
The consumer price index unexpectedly rose month over month in August even as gas prices eased, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
The index gained 0.1% for the month and was up 8.3% year over year. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a month-over-month decline of 0.1%.
Core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy costs, rose 0.6% from July and 6.3% year over year.
What Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does not understand @ 19 about his spew is that what’s being whispered is a ban on abortion after 15 weeks. Which polls differently than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would like to believe.
I’d like to quote @ 8 The Even Bigger Fucking Moron WRT today’s inflation news:
Give them enough time and First Vegetable Joe Biden and minions will fuck up everything.
Y’all libbies should keep today’s inflation news in mind when the White House, later today, holds its event to celebrate the
public butt-fucking of Joe Manchinpassage of the misleadingly named Inflation Recovery Act.A lot of conservatives said “oh you silly, overreacting, emotional liberals, it’s just a states’ rights thing now. If you don’t like it you can move to another state.”
Republicans: Overturn Roe because it should be up to the States to decide!!!
Roe gets overturned.
Republicans: The States shouldn’t decide!!! We need a National ban!!
Thank you Lindsey, you gave a big gift to the Democrats. See, forced birth Republicans do want to take your rights away. Forced birth Republicans are not going to stop at abortion. Gay marriage, contraception, and basically anything you do in your own home is going to be under Republican scrutiny.
@23
What a propagandist who’s posting edited video to remove the pause for applause to make someone seem frail fails to mention is a poll completed BEFORE even the leak of Dobbs is not likely relevant anymore.
What he further fails to mention is decades of GOP bleating, “Leave it to the States” not just on abortion but on most major issues has just become “Take the decision FROM the states!”
And finally, in supporting claims, if you take surely un-biased polling from a forced birth group running fake pregnancy centers and add the 12% supporting an outright ban, AND the 23% supporting a 15 week ban and ignore that the first 12% are part of the second 23% you STILL don’t have a majority.
But thanks.
“If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, which I believe was one of the largest power grabs in the history of the Court, it means that every state will decide if abortion is legal and on what terms.
That, in my view, is the most constitutionally sound way of dealing with this issue and the wat the United States handled the issue until 1973.”
Lindsey Graham, May 3, 2022
10, (7,)
You think that’s bad, take a look at how this Republican is blowing apart his life in spectacular fashion:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-jones-phone-records-exwife-spying-jan6-1234591212/
We live in a very special time, my friends. One way or another, it won’t last forever. I highly recommend staying tuned in and enjoying every moment of it. I know that’s exhausting at this point. We spent the four years of the most recent Republican Fayle-administration doom-scrolling Sobbing Guatemalan Toddlers™, WALL SHITDOWNs, and Nazi torch rallies. It really was exhausting.
But this is the payoff. Watching them destroy themselves in an extravagant fit of hubris, anger, and regret is why I came to the party. The thing to remember is to keep a safe distance. Don’t ever make eye contact. And try not to directly engage.
@28
My bad. I said in no way should the states get to decide for themselves. It was clear as day. It is LITERALLY what every state deciding means. It means that the total of states here at the Federal Government get to decide. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
@29
“The Jews did 9-11” – Me
26,
I’ve now read responses from four different nationally conducted focus groups of “pro-life” Republican women who voted for Trump in 2016 from swing state suburbs – Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia. Conducted by long time GOP survey companies after Dobbs.
Of course there’s an expected diversity of responses about specific candidates and specific legislation. But the most impressive consistent theme is how much they regard Republicans as now being “extreme” and “overreaching” with regard to reproductive rights. Whether they support total bans or support choice or fall somewhere in between, whether they support states deciding, or patients deciding, they all now regard Republicans as the “dangerous”, “extreme” party when it comes to reproductive health.
Dobbs is going to have a massive impact on this mid term and in future cycles. And that’s both because Dobbs has activated women and younger lean-D voters, but also because it has permanently alienated a very large and very key demographic among lean-R voters. The seeds of that alienation were planted in places like Texas with Abbott’s Bounty Law. But they continue unchecked in every other Republican controlled state with ever more extreme new laws. And however much frauds like Oz or Masters scrub their socials and their campaign websites, that onslaught of wildly extreme state laws will continue well into the foreseeable future.
Because that is precisely what Roe was holding back for the past fifty years. There was never any chance that Republican Evangos and thumpers were going to be anything less than blind, crusading zealots about abortion. At the state level they are often the most empowered, most unified, and most aggressive wing of the Republican party. And the state level is precisely where Dobbs seated all the power with respect to reproductive choice. It will take at least a decade to transform Republican state party organizations and legislative caucuses into something less strident and extreme, and more reflective of the mean views of their own voters. In that time they will permanently lose up to a third or more of all white women. And as much as half of all college educated white women.
They won’t be able to election-rig their way out of that. But they’ll have to try, I guess. Not going to be surprised when they start offering new voting restrictions specifically targeting women.
@22
Well I don’t know about that. Gas is still too high but remember when we drove to Cocoa Beach and the gas was over $5. $3.70 is looking good. And I can afford food again. The Winn-Dixie has a dozen eggs for $1.65, same as it was three years ago. I never saw any of that $10 bread Fox News was talking about. I just paid $.88 here in Tallahassee. I could have even splurged for the fancy Sarah Lee White for just another $.50. But I’m a simple man. I don’t need no bread of the elites. Milk is $3.07 which is weirdly EXACTLY the average in 2019 at the Piggly Wiggly.
I guess .1% is a lot? Is that more or less than the 10 year average? Hell I don’t know. I ain’t no mathematician. I just love that white bread and mayonnaise for all my sammich.
That’ll do. Sprinkle in some Junk science about fetal pain, add in 16 weeks is “Late Term” plus a dash of fetus is a child and BINGO! We got a winner here. The women apparently love us now. I wouldn’t know. I’m not into girls.
Forced Birth Republicans. Voters will punish Democrats for any inflation. The nuance doesn’t matter.
Forced Birth Republicans. Voters will take a nuanced view of abortion and not punish Republicans for forcing women, nation wide, to give birth, after the 15 week window.
Forced Birth Republicans will say anything.
22,
I thought Degen had already reached his peak stooopid.
But then here he is pimping for 0% inflation.
“The costs of maintaining zero inflation would be a permanent reduction in gross domestic product of 1 to 3 percent and a permanent drop in employment by the same amount.”
B of A to Degen: “Fuck off, Grandpa.”
Some people doing science on pregnant women were lying and got some patients killed. THIS is why we have to make sure there are no exceptions for ‘life of the mother.’
They are just our breeders after all.
Republicans: Let the states decide about abortion.
States: OK, we voted to keep it legal.
Republicans: Not like that.
Women who die from pregnancy can’t vote against Forced Birth Republicans.
In their reply brief Trump’s clown car included a bunch of nonsense about presidents having a broad authority to declassify materials, and arguing that “disagreement exists” about the classification status of some of the materials. Noteworthy in the extreme is the fact that nowhere in their brief raising the issue do they ever argue even once that Trump did indeed perform such a declassification with respect to the recovered materials that they are suing the government over (and thus rendering their argument entirely irrelevant with respect to their own lawsuit). Not a single time in this most recent response, nor in any of the previous motions or responses.
A note on why this continues to matter technically:
The Clown Car wants Judge Cannon to consider “declassification”, even though in order for her to do so there must be evidence presented that the materials in question were declassified. She’s liable to do it anyway, given her performance thus far. But the fact remains and will remain that the evidence is missing from the record. And the 11th will base their review on the record. The Clown Car can make whatever the fuck arguments they like to the circuit. But the circuit will base their review, and their consideration of such arguments, on the record. So omitting that evidence will eliminate consideration of any such arguments and would render any lower court orders citing such arguments as in error.
Pre overturning Roe it was forced birth republican’s rallying cry and now that forced birth republicans have achieved that, they don’t have the pull without it. Forced birth republican are the dog that caught the bus and lost their way.
A national ban is another way to reenergize those groups, the next bus to chase. A national ban is perfect for forced birth republicans, like repealing Obama care, because it is probably unachievable and they can use that like they used Roe for years to come.
In that sense this is probably forced birth republican’s best strategy. They need to keep signaling to their base that they’re on their side and this is an incredibly safe way to do it.
In a deep red state? Vote yes and signal to your base you have their back and to the base in other states that the party has their back.
In a purple state? Vote no to show that you’re one of the good ones.
In a blue state? Do either as suits your goals.
This isn’t designed to become law, it’s signaling.
Prior to opening trial today the Connecticut judge presiding in Alex Jones next defamation damages trial had to rule on a few motions.
““I’ll make the following observation: This stunningly cavalier attitude with respect to their discovery obligations is what led to the default in the first place. The defendants have consistently engaged in dilatory and obstructionist discovery practices, from the inception of these cases right through to the trial.”
Among the sanctions imposed by the judge, Jones will be barred from mentioning or suggesting that he did not profit from the defamation.
Bob is jerking off to inflation. He is sick
40,
“This isn’t designed to become law, it’s signaling.”
I definitely agree. However, it’s going to weigh heavily on the candidacies of Republicans in swing states and swing districts. As soon as any nationwide abortion ban becomes tied to the party brand, candidates like Glen Youngkin are in very serious peril.
It is not their best strategy. But I agree it is the strategy the GOP is most likely to adopt.
That explains why it was quiet in front of Franklin High while I was on the way to the station this morning. Tentative agreement.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/education/strike-seattle-eatonville-bargain-school-districts/281-f7179ea0-830c-4f69-be63-6fba40702c44
Well first of all I slept in this morning, so I didn’t even see the stock ticker until the Dow had dropped 800 points, much less the politics happening today.* It’s now down 1100 points or something like that; the exact number doesn’t really matter. This is nowhere near the financial disaster that Doctor Dumbfuck predicted because the Dow is still above 31,000. So I did some stock transactions today, which took a couple hours, because there were a lot of them. I bought over $50K of stock this morning, not all in my place, just sampling the candy store.
* I saw a headline in Seattle Times, haven’t had time to read the story yet, that Seattle Pacific U. is “imploding” over its anti-LGBQT bigotry (ST calls it “policy”). School’s running a $10M deficit, enrollment is dropping, faculty and students are leaving in droves. Good. Serves ’em right, the head-up-ass trustees I mean. Let this be a lesson for bigots everywhere.
In a blue state? Do either as suits your goals.
Heh. I’m registered to vote multiple times in each of seven battleground states, four times in Michigan alone.
God bless our democracy.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR5gvpR4/
Beto!
The Culture War fuckheads suck my dick
@46 That’s nothing, you should see how often the Trumpers in Florida’s “The Villages” vote! Talk about fired-up voters, sometimes they don’t even wait for the next election to vote again!
http://handbill.us/2021/12/14/.....d-found-2/
Welcome back Steve, God Bless you.
@23 And every female voter in America will pick up on that nuance after reading the headline, “Republicans introduce nationwide abortion ban bill in Senate,” and go “hmmm, I support that because 15 weeks is exactly where I think the cutoff should be, even in cases of rape and incest.” Have you figured out yet why we call you a “dumbfuck”?
@27 Well, they certainly want to leave it to the states on voting, especially in the southern states, where Republicans are already dusting off black poll taxes, black literacy tests, and police roadblocks on streets leading to the sole polling place in New Orleans.
@28 The way his state handled the abortion issue until 1973 was with coathangers. Now, 49 years later, it’s back to coathangers, except now you swallow a little round coathanger thanks to improved coathanger technology.
@39 “Noteworthy in the extreme is the fact that nowhere in their brief raising the issue do they ever argue even once that Trump did indeed perform such a declassification with respect to the recovered materials that they are suing the government over …. Not a single time in this most recent response, nor in any of the previous motions or responses.”
Because they don’t want to go to prison and lose their hard-won licenses to practice law.
“And the 11th will base their review on the record.”
We hope. I’d hate to rely on the Supreme Court for rule of law.
“The Wisconsin Republican senator Ron Johnson, a vocal critic of Beijing who has vowed to launch investigations into the Biden family’s alleged relationships with Chinese businesses, declared $57m in income in his first 10 years in office in connection to his ownership stake in a company whose growth has closely been linked to China. Financial disclosures show the senator’s wealth has sharply increased during his years running for and serving in the Senate thanks to his holding in Oshkosh-based Pacur, a plastics maker where Johnson previously served as top executive.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/ron-johnson-income-china-links-pacur
If you’re gonna be a hypocrite on China, you might as well get rich from it.
Remember when a five-figure gain was a BFD to our modest means bloviating fool Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
Anyone think he’ll regale us with his five-figure loss today?
2-year Treasury rate highest since 2007 now.
The yield inversion is getting steeper, y’all.
Good news for those of us who sold covered calls.
@ 54
…the senator’s wealth has sharply increased during his years running for and serving in the Senate…
Those are the same years that my wealth has sharply increased, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. I have never been elected to public office.
Correlation does not equal causation.
@ 54, 57
The reason that Johnson’s wealth increase is noteworthy to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is that there has been no increase in the Dumbfuck Rabbit family’s wealth over the same period of time.
Janet Yellen is preparing the country for another increase in oil prices, y’all. And First Vegetable Joe Biden will keep tappin’ that SPR and put the nation’s future at risk in order to minimize the risk to the Democrat party this November.
U.S. emergency oil reserves tumble to lowest since 1984
Kailee DeSpain was right at fifteen weeks when she learned that her son Finley had heart, lung, brain, kidney and genetic defects and would either be stillborn or die within minutes of birth. Carrying him to term would put Kailee at high risk for severe pregnancy complications, including blood clots, preeclampsia and cancer.
Maybe in some other, fantasy private healthcare system envisioned by forced birth Republicans like Degen, all expectant mothers would have good communication from their caregivers and timely access to checkups, monitoring, testing, and support. Every expectant mother in that imaginary forced birth system would know well ahead of the fifteen week cutoff that their unborn child was guaranteed to die suffering upon delivery and might kill or injure them in the process. Every expectant mother would have the time needed to make the terribly sad decision and arrange to terminate their pregnancy in a neighboring state.
But we live in the real world. And especially in places like Texas, if you aren’t lucky enough to be a pretty blond lady with good employer provided platinum health insurance, you won’t get that constant contact from providers. Your husband’s employer’s insurance company will hate you for getting pregnant, especially if you are high risk. Because you are high risk you’ll have enormous difficulty finding a doctor at all. You won’t get timely access to testing and monitoring. And in plenty of cases you’ll find out too late for any imaginary, Utopian, pie-in-the-sky arbitrary 15 week cutoff. Your insurance will not pay for travel to another state for treatment. And your relatives might not even be allowed to help you pay for it. You’d probably be encouraged to consider sterilization, just like Kailee is now being encouraged. But you would not have the option of moving to another state like Kailee still does.
If Degen’s proposed ban were to be imposed nationwide Kailee DeSpain might be just as dead today as her unborn fetus is. The only safe way for her to avoid that would be to undergo a sterilization procedure to prevent all future pregnancies. Because there would be no option for her to travel to New Mexico to escape Greg Abbott’s Gilead. It would certainly be close. Maybe she could somehow arrange to have an exceptional doctor who would proactively order tests and schedule appointments. Maybe Kailee would take it upon herself to pester and nag her providers and her insurance companies to order and approve the testing. Maybe she’d find out in time. Maybe New Mexico clinics would have an appointment available within the cutoff. Maybe her relatives would come through with the funds in time to pay for her travel and procedure in another state.
But in the real world, probably not.
In the real world envisioned by Degen and the GOP all high risk women like Kailee can do is get sterilized.
Even a fake doctor can’t even get this shit right. Fifteen weeks clearly is not “exactly” where any arbitrary cutoff should be. It would not account for the reality of prenatal health care services in the United States. And it would never account for the variability of circumstances that make each woman’s pregnancy unique.
But this may be the most authentic “doctor” thing Degen has ever posted. It would be entirely typical of any doctor of his advanced years to treat all patients as scientifically identical widgets conforming to a mean, to be examined, tested, and then lazily processed with a checklist of treatments regardless of their unique circumstances and health status. He may actually be a doctor after all.
He’s a useless, clueless fuck, and not even in charge of his office, much less the country.
In his second act as king, Charles issued pink slips (in England they’re called “redundancy notices”) to 100 members of his staff, some of whom loyally served him for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/king-charles-staff-given-redundancy-notice-during-church-service-for-queen
Your headline du jour:
Biden celebrates ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ as food, rent prices climb
Which may be Headline l’ Année, the way things are going.
Man, Reuters is on a roll lately.
Ken Starr has died.
@55 “Anyone think he’ll regale us with his five-figure loss today?”
It’s smaller than yours, given that you’re much richer than I am.
@65 Feel like an idiot yet? This is what happens to a fool of a pitcher who serves a slow-hanging curveball to a rabbit.
In January 2021 only 27% of voters surveyed for the Harvard Harris poll said their personal financial situation was worsening.
This month, under First Vegetable Joe Biden, that number has doubled and is now at 54%.
In that poll @ 67 inflation is either the # 1 or # 2 priority for 55% of respondents.
Abortion is #1 or # 2 for 15% of respondents. All of whom are Democrats who would never consider voting for a Republican in the first place.
Tears because unemployed and cant scam money anymore. Boo hoo hoo, cry with me.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR5pKDgQ/
@59 At that rate the SPR will be depleted in 52 more weeks.
56% have doubts about First Vegetable Joe Biden’s mental fitness, and 63% think my senile, incompetent, imbecilic president is too old to be president.
They need to have a poll on whether breeding will save them.
If Biden doesn’t run in 2024, 26% of Democrats want Momala to be the nominee.
14% of them want #CrookedHillary to be the nominee.
9% want Fudgepack Pete and 6% want The Fat Cow.
50% of Democrat voters think the Hunter Biden laptop contents are gen-U-wine.
That’s Democrat voters. Half of them know that he’s a fucking scumbag.
Overall, 57% think Hunter Biden was influence-peddling, and 55% think the FBI is slow-walking the investigation to protect the POS’ father, my senile, imbecilic, incompetent president.
63% think the tech companies were in on the suppression of the Hunter Biden story and an equal percentage think that a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the motherfucking POS.
@64
That perv was super into sex scandals. Until he wasn’t. Campus rape didn’t bother him at all. Personally overturned my suspension after I got caught. Love that guy.
@75
Maybe I shouldn’t have passed it around at parties, gave only photos of emails instead of the actual data sets to Fox News begging them to run the story, and made up a bunch of shit about how I “just happened” to come across it tainting the chain of custody. We got Dan Rather on shoddy documentation. Fool me once.
I could have called the FBI as soon as it was offered.
But it’s all tears watering the Four Seasons Landscaping now. I really fucked that one up. This whole thing cost me my law license.
Does anybody really think that Lindsey Olin Butterball Bartholomew Graham the third really gives a flying fuck about “fifteen weeks” or twelve, or sixteen, or ten or any other purely arbitrary number? Why do you suppose Forced Birth Zealots have chosen fifteen weeks as their arbitrary number? I promise you it is not because of some fetal developmental benchmarks. That’s a crock. Every pregnancy is different. Every fetus is different. And the benchmarks can only ever be averages that taken out of that context describe only a small fraction of pregnancies and fetuses.
It’s because they know they need to show results. That is they need to show their rabid base of Bible Thumping, Evango-loon zealots that they have made progress, not just in ruining lives and stripping women of their rights and freedoms, but in reducing abortion numbers. Pro Choice doctors and activists have been preparing for this moment for at least a decade. There is even a potential risk that despite overturning Roe there won’t be any meaningful reduction in the numbers of abortions in the U.S. Republicans know they can only distract from that for so long.
91% of all abortions in the U.S. take place in the first trimester. 95% (or more) of all abortions in the U.S. take place by the fifteenth week of gestation. 98.7% of all abortions by week 20. For any proposed nationwide ban to have any political salience among the Christo-Fascism, Pro-Gilead base, enough for it to produce a change in turnout by November, they have got to promise numbers.
The voters Graham and his fellow Christo-Fascists are appealing to already know all of these numbers by heart. These people are the true believers. They live and breathe this insanity every day. It is their life’s cause. They know week by week the precise number of abortions any cutoff would eliminate. The number can’t be too small. In round numbers, five percent nets them about 30,000 fewer abortions. That’s a number you can talk about and use to make people feel things. And it falls at an arbitrary point where the numbers of true horror stories that will arise from it can be managed. Yes, women will die. Yes a bunch of fetuses with profound defects incompatible with life will be delivered at enormous expense to the healthcare system and insurance companies. Yes, some adolescent girls will be forced to give birth to and coparent their own father’s rape-babies. But not so many as to provoke a full blown crisis. The baggage is manageable and can be made to seem distant and abstract.
But it will give them a number they can talk about and reference for political purposes.
As a starting point, of course.
77,
I’d argue leaving the folder on the drive labeled “Biden Smear Job Photos” dated right after you obtained it from your Russian GRU friends was a mistake too.
@71 Nobody has any doubt about your mental deterioration, which began the day you were born (hatched?), and has gone downhill ever since.
@74 Hunter Biden is a shady character. I wouldn’t vote for him.