Roe v Wade is almost certainly going to be overturned. It’s awful. It’s going to mean a lot of women, trans men nonbinary people, and other people who can get pregnant are going to have much worse life outcomes. Including, but hardly limited to, dying in childbirth and raising unwanted children. Awful.
It will probably be state by state for a while. Here in Washington abortion will still be legal for now. Of course the people who spent the last several decades talking about states rights will try to take bans national.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Think how many more paternity suits Hunter Biden would have faced had abortion not been accessible to the women he banged.
At least Hallie was smart enough to use BC. Or swallow.
@1 indeed, loudly and proudly…
Heh.. “serious”..
trans men nonbinary people
I don’t know what this is.
Question for Evan McMullin:
Why can’t a state that feels free to prevent a woman from marrying a man who is married to other women also tell that woman she cannot abort a child after, say, 16-20 weeks of gestational pregnancy?
she cannot abort a child after, say, 16-20 weeks of gestational pregnancy?
Of course she can, even in Utah..
Unless Utah is into murdering women.
Now we know why kreepshit has been traveling risking a breakthrough infection…
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/valencia-college-lawsuit-forced-vaginal-exams-students
To “train” the next generation of female medical technicians.
May the Fourth month of pregnancy be with you until full-term.
@7 the article @6 says the female students were “punished”…
dang, kreepshit, a “twofer” of sorts… You couldn’t lose on that junket..
May the Fourth month of pregnancy be with you until full-term.
John James had that wish for Gary Peters’ wife.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-gary-peters-shares-his-abortion-story-n1243164
Odd definition of “full term”..
Because a Republican majority in Congress beat them to it?
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/29/senate-trump-20-week-abortion-ban-316002
9,
Under Graham’s 2018 nationwide abortion ban Peters’ ex-wife would have been spared, albeit with some additional legal hurdles.
Current Republican versions being circulated and backed by the leading anti-human-rights groups would consign her to die rather painfully following long months of suffering.
For the principle.
When you see “conservatives” posing as “reasonable” people with “philosophical” objections…
…don’t believe them.
Don’t say unstoppable.
Say President DeSantis.
There is very real risk that swimsuit inspection/book burning/$5 gas will be knocked out of the top three of voter concerns going into the midterm campaign season.
Not only is the risk that Republicans with a majority in Congress would use this decision to implement sweeping nationwide ultra-bans very real. It is purt near guaranteed at this point. Anyone claiming otherwise is either stupid or lying. Other worries about extending Alito’s reasoning to ban other human rights including marital choice and access to birth control medicine are speculative and would probably unfold only incrementally through a process of legal challenges.
But a nationwide ban enacted by Congress is the whole point of their struggle to game The Court for the last two decades. And they aren’t shy about saying so, either. And they’ve been proposing various versions of this nationwide abortion ban legislation regularly for years now whenever they’ve had a majority in either chamber. Right now that is the deal. Given the majority that’s what they intend to do.
And like Alito’s decision, such a ban would be wildly unpopular with voters. And by “wildly” I don’t just mean by that it would be extremely unpopular with some narrow but highly vocal and highly motivated minority of voters. I mean undeniably it would be unpopular and offensive to two thirds of voters. That’s a big fucking problem for Moscow Mitch, My Kevin, and every other “aggrieved” Trumpaloompa out there end-zone dancing in orgasmic delight right now.
Twenty four hours later Degen has calmed down enough and read enough tweets from Red State to have
come tobeen issued the same conclusion. Republicans will now be ordering you to only talk about The Mole Hunt and then quickly resume grumbling and making excuses for inflation. Some time within the next 48 hours Degen is going to resume his relentless copy-pasta Firehose of Flasehood about bathroom rapes and economic doom-casting. And whenever their plans to ban abortion nationwide come up, he’ll turn back to speculating about The Mole Hunt, etc.It’s more than just abortion, of course. Right away it’s gender warfare targeting 51% of the electorate. It’s also generational warfare, in that women under 40 will be far more directly and meaningfully impacted by the GOP’s plans for them. And the gender politics will probably go badly for them. They always seem to. They are about to let their Wife-Beater Freak Flags fly just in time for Trump to get his Twitter account back.
So DO AS YOU”RE TOLD AND “STFU”.
Otherwise Moscow Mitch might have to retire in the minority and Gym Jordan might have to give up his dreams of ultimate power.
Good boy. More please.
Lash out and drive the Chief closer to the other three.
That leaves us all just one Bacon of the Month subscription for Thomas closer to a reversal.
DeSa[ta]ntis[t] seems unstoppable.
With its own rasputin whispering sweet evil in its ear???
dishonest harvard/yale fatboy’s prospects as a repuke shaman look fine indeed.
look how addled is kreepshit…
@ 13
Not only is the risk that Republicans with a majority in Congress would use this decision to implement sweeping nationwide ultra-bans very real. It is purt near guaranteed at this point. Anyone claiming otherwise is
either stupid or lyingbased.Meanwhile, the Fed is just getting started.
Saying your daughters should “enjoy” being raped isn’t a winning platform.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-regan-carol-glanville-lie-back-rape_n_62728870e4b0b09c69d90f20
“Robert Regan, the Michigan Republican who said rape victims should ‘lie back and enjoy it,’ lost his bid for the state House to Democratic opponent Carol Glanville in a special election on Tuesday. The district …, a conservative area north of Grand Rapids whose residents are primarily white, has only ever been held by Republicans, …. Glanville received about 52% of the vote, trumping Regan’s 40%, according to … unofficial results from the Kent County Clerk’s office.”
Another stolen election! STOP THE STEAL!!! Nominate better candidates.
Rick Wilson on klown desatanist, its evil tools and how they’ve addled freeks like kreepshit:
https://youtu.be/JIqjJsIAXeM?t=189
Great interview with a 5th generation Floridian no matter what you may think of him.
The part about the amygdala is priceless..
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Newsmax has fingered a suspect in the SCOTUS leak. Ketanji did it!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/newsmax-grant-stinchfield-accuses-ketanji-brown-jackson-leak_n_62728b96e4b0b09c69d9174f
Isn’t Newsmax one of Doctor Dumbfuck’s “sources”?
@12 “Say President DeSantis”
Blue states might have some say about that. Purple states, too. Maybe even pink states. Not everyone wants a president who sends teachers to jail for mentioning slavery, swats state employees for calling him the liar he is, and would let biological warfare kill us all.
@14 Doc has nothing on Newsmax. And he must not have read it today. Otherwise, how did he miss that one?
Meanwhile, the Fed is just getting started.
Whatever.
You posted a comment the other day in which you quite civilly addressed some of the remarks I made about radiology departments and imaging rooms. I appreciate that! I tried to respond with the same civility as you did. It’s at the end of the last thread.
Above it looks like Carl, the worst political blogger in America, actually posted something that resembles a political blog post. I had believed for some time now that he was utterly incapable of doing so.
I suppose I should congratulate Carl for rising above his usual mediocrity, but I won’t. To me he’s a worthless POS.
16,
“Based” Stickman?
Probably would claim it. If he hadn’t had all his teeth smashed out in the prison shower a couple of years ago.
It’ll start with guys like this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1521797001175834625
But I promise you that before the summer recess the blatant misogyny and “cunt-punching” will have become mainstream GOP.
The hate is encoded in their DNA.
19,
I’ve commented on this before, and Wilson is quite right about it.
This process hearkens back of course to Andrew Breitbart and Roger Ailes before him. But it has mutated considerably away from how either of them conceived it.
The stimulation is addictive and self-reinforcing. But over time the “dose” required to obtain the “high” becomes greater and greater. A self-stimulating “conservative” like one of our trolls actively seeks out the stimulation. They look for something “outrageous” to trigger the reptilian brain. This is the “proof” they seek that not only confirms their biases but also provides them with the much needed rush of exhilarating, righteous “outrage”. They visit their carefully curated sources for “the good stuff”. And with the rise of modern, instantaneous, “hot take” media they get plenty of it. The supply is limitless.
But that supply also exists in a highly competitive ecosystem fighting second by second for eyeballs, clicks, dwell time, and click-throughs. As they gradually become desensitized the ecosystem supplying their stimulation is constantly adjusting the dose upwards in response. It’s Oxy-Contin for flaccid angry idiots.
Nearly every single one of Degen’s “Cosplaying Grandmothers” is a perfect case-study. It explains how some guy with a successful business maintaining and repairing Range Rovers for Napa wine makers one day finds himself building pipe-bombs in his shop late at night.
I’m a lot less impressed by Wilson’s analysis of Florida and the Democrat’s big failures there. He’s a communications guy. It is in his interest but also built into his DNA to believe deep down in his dark little heart that voters can be persuaded and that elections are won and lost using persuasion. He’s fairly old school in that sense. And I’m sure he knows the state much better than I do. But there are people who know it better than him and who are not burdened with his biases.
Florida Republicans practically built their entire state apparatus around turnout. And it has paid enormous dividends to them over the years. Florida Democrats are a good decade or more behind. The Florida GOP doesn’t just know their own voters, make sure they are registered, make sure they are registered absentee, make sure they fill out and sign their ballot, buy them stamps, drive them to the drop box, and then follow up religiously to cure every ballot every time. They also know the Democratic voters, probably better than the Florida Democratic Party. They know where they are, where they shop, where they work, etc. They challenge their registrations. They challenge their ballots.They robo-call them to send them to the wrong polling places. They robo-call them to misinform them about deadlines. The Florida GOP’s turnout game is across the board more thorough and more advanced than any other in existence and has been that way for at least twenty years.
@17 Tell us something we don’t already know. And investors like it, to the tune of 932 Dow points.
This who they are now.
Houston GOP candidate defends her lynching threat towards ‘banana eaters’
“I was sick at the time and you’ll do things sometimes that you wouldn’t normally do when you’re sick,” Andrews claims.
Indeed, like revealing who they really are because their ability to conceal that has been compromised.
A link to Raw Story. Sorry about that, especially if it caused anybody’s head to explode.
The last three Republican presidents have left a economic mess behind, even disasters. Of course, they absolve themselves of all responsibility and blame the Democrat who inherited the economic problems they created.
@25 I assume they’re not getting laid, too.
North Korea has every right to launch dicksles.
She’s married to a banana eater.
Breeding will not save her.
Oops!
Infant dies after being left behind in hot car following arrest of father
Conservatives seem to think that every woman is going to keep the unwanted. I think orphanages are going to surge unless Conservatives make that illegal too.
@33 Breeding will not save them.
Bunch of Vagina Eaters.
What the chances Chappell’s tackler is a breeder?
@33 He says he told the cops his baby was in the car. They say he didn’t. If he didn’t, he’s a baby killer. If he did, they’re the baby killers. Somebody’s going to prison for this. What are the chances cops would lie in a situation like this?
The fact OK’s honcho tried to call Trump on Jan. 6 to get reserve force callup orders, but a Trump staffer wouldn’t let him, doesn’t implicate Trump. It does implicate him. And the fact he told associates he was prepared to use “lethal force” to derail certification should send him up for life.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/oath-keepers-wilson-rhodes/index.html
What are the chances cops would lie in a situation like this?
Cops lying?? That will never happen. Heh.
Hey all you people who were saying “My body, my choice” concerning Covid vaccines…you better be saying the same for women right now!!!!
Thank You President Joe Biden! God bless you, Joe Biden.
Heh.. Alito’s opinion heavily relies on a 17th century English jurist who had two women executed for “witchcraft” and was a fierce advocate for a “man’s right”
to marital rape…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095562/-Alito-s-opinion-nixing-Roe-v-Wade-draws-heavily-on-old-timey-witchcraft-believing-rape-advocate
i.e. a fucking misogynist.. kreepshit has creamed its depends… Alito has sealed its legacy for all time.
@40 You are truly dreaming.
It turns out Alito got his intellectual inspiration from a medieval English judge who hanged “witches,” supported executing children, defended marital rape, and didn’t know where babies came from.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-leaked-draft-arguments_n_6272b1b4e4b00fbab6291298
The Supreme Court is about to become a laughingstock.
Rightwingers are now targeting LGBQT youth suicide prevention.
https://www.aol.com/news/wing-groomer-attacks-target-suicide-130037348.html
and didn’t know where babies came from
Sir Matthew Hale and teh kreepshit of widbee read St. Augustine and babbled,
“that’s obscene… I was taught the stork delivered me and that’s the truth..”
Thank You President Joe Biden! God bless you, Joe Biden.
God bless you, Gman.
Looks like Northern Ireland could be seeing a seismic political shift. Brexit has split the Unionist block in the Northern Ireland Assembly, possibly putting nationalist Sinn Fein in as the largest party. Tomorrow’s election is just an opening act. Forming government under the Good Friday Accords requires a consensus of both the Unionist and Nationalist blocks. The last one took 3 years and collapsed over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which traded a potential for a strong border with the Republic, for a border on the Irish Sea and the rest of the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-61301730
, “Groomer Project posing as suicide prevention.”
The Groomer GOP Party posing as governance people are really a bunch of animal fuckers and trying to hide their secret mission of one day to be able to have horns and tails like a devil.
Tweets that a couple of million times to Elon.
Turn your free speech into a boxing glove or go extinct.
Fight fire with fire. That Groomer Party posing as people are the devil. Get serious people or let them take you over.
It’s not stooping to a level it’s about boxing back….put your fucking gloves on!
Groomer = Any influence that might have my child think differently than I want them too.
The republicans REALLY want him gone. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has a video circulating on social media that appears to show the conservative congressman in the nude, making thrusting motions near the face of another man.
Not there is anything wrong with it, unless you run on making that behavior illegal to further your political career.
“Oh my yah yah OH!” “Oh my yah yah OH!” I don’t think he’s doing to win his primary. Just say’n.
‘We can’t wait on the Supreme Court’: In Louisiana, abortion could become a crime of murder
https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/05/04/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-make-abortion-crime-murder/9648833002/
“If the Supreme Court ignores the (U.S.) Constitution, you should ignore the court,” Pierce said. “The Legislature has the right to disregard the Supreme Court.”
a video circulating on social media that appears to show the conservative congressman in the nude, making thrusting motions near the face of another man.
According to the klownservatics there’s no right to privacy.
Behold!
The “future” of the GOP:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1521876977220730882
It’s fine.
He’s fine.
Nothing to see here.
Apparently Team Biden wanted her in whiteface and wearing a sandwich board.
Every Republican accusation is a confession and a justification. It’s about what they do, sure, but it’s also the foundation for how they sleep at night. They really believe everyone is awful so they can be awful too.
@ 55
Let this be a lesson to those who still think that Chelsea Clinton running for anything is a good idea.
53,
“The Legislature has the right to disregard the Supreme Court.”
It’s lawless in the extreme. But entirely unnecessary. There is absolutely nothing in Alito’s draft, joined by the other four, that requires any disagreement from state lawmakers who want to imprison pregnant women and execute them for murder/attempted murder.
What it illustrates, however, is how delegitimizing this is for The Court. The entire forty year project to politicize the court around this issue is delegitimizing. But ultimately, it is the tortured and flawed legal and textual reasoning that is most delegitimizing.
In hundreds, perhaps even thousands of cases over the last five decades litigating these “culture wars” grievances, courts have routinely dispensed absolute and utter garbage, consisting often of arguments so tortured and crippled with internal conflict and illogic as to be almost laughable if the consequences were not so dire. Lives ruined. While society is tasked with looking away to avoid the cognitive discomfort. It takes a toll on everyone concerned.
Apparently unlike the degenerate troll, in the sixteen years since the very first tweet I have never seen or been sent anything originating from Chelsea Clinton.
But that’s probably because I don’t follow Peter Brimelow.
52,
Helps explain why Cawthorn’s “wife” never lived with him and filled for divorce within 8 months of being married.
We sent Anthony Weiner to prison and put his name on a sex registry.
Republicans sent Cawthorn to the Congress and put his name on a sham wedding registry.
Can we get a copy of the video? Not really interested in seeing him, just want to see if he’s really authentically getting into it.
that midget.
@61 Bob wants to see his boobies!
What a Twat Eater.
Breeding will not save them.
“This is not a party that gives a damn about those babies who are actually born and what happens to them after they are born,” Scarborough continued. “It’s so hypocritical.”
That is their brand. It’s all about keeping power.
If it was about the sanctity of life the GOP would support:
Bolstering healthcare to reduce the US’s abysmal maternal mortality rate
Providing free services for mothers such as lactation consultation
Ensuring child birth is fully covered by insurance with zero surprise bills (or any bills at all)
Better funding our foster care system to ensure among many other things that thousands of foster kids aging out of care do not end up homeless like they currently do
Maternal and paternal family leave
Extending child care tax credits
But conservatives instead bleat about irrelevant fantasies involving the Clintons.
Great interview with a 5th generation Floridian no matter what you may think of him.
What I say to Republicans like Rick, Cheney, Kinzinger and Jonah Goldberg and other Republicans who are taking a stand and are fighting to save our republic is this, “Your sins are forgiven. Go forth and sin no more.”
Since passing the bounty law abortions in Texas have declined by 10%. Overturning Roe will have a greater effect. But best estimates, based on careful statistical modeling, are that in combination with existing trigger laws and new laws in states most likely to pass them, abortions will be reduced by between 16 and 18 percent in those states.
This will ultimately be deeply dissatisfying to guys like Degen and other superstitious womb-worshipers. Put simply, not enough “cunts and bitches” will be suffering. Too many will have easy access to pills-by-mail. Too many will gain free or reduced cost access to out-of-state services. The media probably won’t help. They’ll report on all that activity and they’ll do it in a way that is most “triggering” to these people.
So it’s very safe to assume that before too long, nearly all of the “reasonable” and “principled” opponents of reproductive rights you may be hearing from right now will feel compelled to extend and expand state interventions. It’s only a matter of time. The politics are what they are. They are rigid, inflexible, and based in moralizing zealotry. And the politics are fruitful for “conservatives”. It produces turnout, cash flow, and plenty of free media.
Louisiana’s murder statute is the future. Worse will follow. It is inevitable because of the people and the politics involved. We will watch them change in more or less precisely the same way we watched them change and radicalize under Trump. Things we thought to be ridiculous and unimaginable in 2016 came to be orthodoxies of the GOP. This won’t be any different.
On the other hand, if someone like our stupid fucking doctor came crawling to me on his hands and feet pleading for forgiveness, I’d deliver a kick to his fucking face and tell him that he’s damned lucky that’s all I did to him because it’s far less than the punishment I believe the low IQ POS deserves for his fucking treason, which is a firing squad or a rope.
@ 59
What it illustrates, however, is how delegitimizing this is for The Court. The entire forty year project to politicize the court around this issue is delegitimizing. But ultimately, it is the tortured and flawed legal and textual reasoning that is most delegitimizing.
Some examples of behavior that, apparently, do not delegitimize The Court:
• Packing it for partisan purposes.
• Accusing nominees you do not like of racism, bigotry, physical assaults, because you do not like them
• Pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court during protests because the Constitution is being followed on the other side of them.
• Issuing executive orders in direct contradiction to issued Supreme Court opinions.
• Lounging in a hammock in a Seattle high-rise while joking about the murder of two SCOTUS justices because a billionaire is paying you to embarrass him, too.
The jurisprudence delivered from a court in the form of the arguments and reasoning described in its opinions is the source of true rule-of-law legitimacy and public support.
It’s perfectly understandable, however, that ignorant people steeped in superstitions and fears of invisible powers would instead come to rely upon ceremony, rhetoric, and “sacred traditions” to underpin their sense of institutional legitimacy.
• There is no “magical” correct number of members on a court
• Nominees to a permanent lifetime position on a court with universal and unlimited authority should be judged on their personal character, past associations, and past behavior.
• A legitimate institution enjoying public support can easily withstand criticism
• A legitimate co-equal institution enjoying broad public support can easily withstand challenges from another co-equal branch
• A legitimate institution enjoying broad public approval and invested with universal and unlimited power is hardly going to be threatened by a guy in a hammock
You’re Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You fucked your family over an entire career as a failed, poorly compensated so-called attorney.
You bloviatingly defended GE’s prospects, all available information to the contrary.
You bought 3M, Citigroup, and AT&T, and are sitting on 20 % losses for each.
This morning you wake up, untangle your rectal and urethral catheters, open your LX286 computer, and find that the Street’s in a panic.
As the Dow sinks over 1,000 points, signs of panic-selling emerge in stock market
Hey, at least the financial ruin faced by the Dumbfuck Rabbit family, like that faced by YLB’s kids, was made possible by the HA contributors from each family. Asked for and granted, a financial ass-fucking it shall be.
Lie back and enjoy it.
Liberal women apparently are gonna withhold sex. ’cause Roe gettin’ its just desserts or something.
Gee, I just don’t know what I’ll do if Amy Goodman closes her legs and people standing within 30 feet of her no longer feel nauseous from her caseous stench.
I’ll reiterate that I offered the opinion that the DJIA would see 30,000 again before it sees 40,000, and that y’all libbies laughed at me for it.
I wonder if Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is still into claiming that the market hasn’t really entered a correction phase.
Have heart, y’all HA libbies. Not everything is falling.
Oil’s up nicely today.
Hey, we’re in Joe Biden’s economy. WTF did y’all expect would happen?
72,
Revision is his only salvation.
We laughed at him for declaring that there would be a 15 point drop in the DOW last December, and then bragging that he was moving into cash.
No wonder he’s been so butt-sore about the price of horse truck fuel.
@ 74
December.
Also December:
Know who doesn’t find a mere five-figure movement in an account balance noteworthy?
A real millionaire.
The DJIA still isn’t below 30,000. In fact, right now it isn’t within 2,800 points of 30,000. However, it’s almost within 20 points of where it was on March 7, 2022.
Panicky behavior was starting to set in on Wall Street on Thursday,
yawwwwn…
“greedy when others are fearful…”
@76 So, according to you, a 9.99% move in a $1 million stock portfolio isn’t “noteworthy”? Interesting math you do there, son.
@52 The worst part is he can’t feel anything below his navel. (He has no feelings above his navel, either. No Republican does.)
Oil’s up nicely today.
Oil was $183.96/barrel in June 2008.. or $245.65/barrel in today’s dollars.
Whose economy was that?
Oh an economy a certain shithead from widbee voted for twice.
@58 What’s Chelsea got to do with Donny’s palsy?
@68 You’re misrepresenting our position. We only believe in “Accusing nominees [we] do not like of racism, bigotry, physical assaults,” if they did it.
@68 “Issuing executive orders in direct contradiction to issued Supreme Court opinions.”
Is that similar to passing legislation in direct contradiction to issued Supreme Court opinions?
Scalito’s reign of error..
https://theintercept.com/2022/05/04/roe-abortion-supreme-court-samuel-alito
@ 81
By your rationale of picking a historic date and dancing like a fool twat, YLB, I could say that in 2009 Obama had a filibuster-proof Senate majority and yet failed to codify Roe.
Both are true.
a financial ass-fucking it shall be.
“that certain day” will be your “ass-fucking” as you won’t be alive to babble here at HA or anywhere else about your fookin’ munee..
But the ashes of that shitty munee can be your burial shroud.. well krap, no doubt it will..
then it’s yours, fucking forever… heh. no one will miss you or that shitty munee. And the world will be a better place.
@70 “You’re Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You fucked your family over an entire career as a failed, poorly compensated so-called attorney.”
My family has a comfortable burrow, an organic garden and all the lettuce they can eat, veterinary care, and don’t have to put up with horses asses or horse manure. They think they’re doing all right. What about yours?
picking a historic date
A date you helped put into action…
TWICE…
Did you feel somewhat “deflated” back then? Well, you had more hair for sure. That’s something I guess.
in 2009 Obama had a filibuster-proof Senate majority and yet failed to codify Roe.
That’s a myth..
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debunking-the-myth-obamas_b_1929869
A myth that trolls here couldn’t babble about enough here back in the day.
Baseless accusations. Like no other significant factors of the present, or past (before President Biden – God Bless him) have any play here.
Complete dipshit and Dumbfuckery from the Dumbfuck
@72 Well firstly, the DJIA rebounded over 300 points in the last 30 minutes of trading today, and secondly, the DJIA is now 10.7% down from its 52-week, which is barely in correction territory and it took a 1,063-point drop to get there, and we’ve seen these drops barely last a day or two. So let’s see what happens tomorrow.
When crows sit on the phone wire flapping their wings and squawking, I toss them some peanuts. Do you want some peanuts, too?
Heh.. kreepshit is a funee freek.. It brought up the subject of the oil price and “whose economy”..
And when yours truly brought up an oil price and the economy of an empty suit it voted for twice?
all of a sudden it goes misogynist and changes the subject to Roe..
Heh.. And now it’s nowhere to be seen.
@85 I still like my parsing better:
“Alito got his intellectual inspiration from a medieval English judge who hanged ‘witches,’ supported the death penalty for children, defended marital rape, and didn’t know where babies came from.”
A Huffington Post writer did a pretty decent job of taking down Alito here. As she pointed out,
“Alito repeatedly argued throughout the draft that Roe v. Wade was a mistake because, up until the 1973 ruling, banning abortion was simply the American way. … Alito is right: Abortion was widely banned throughout the centuries of U.S. history when women were legally regarded as second-class citizens, kept out of medical institutions and public office and banned from owning property. They didn’t gain the right to vote until 1920, and Black women faced barriers to voting until Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 ― just eight years before the court decided Roe. It wouldn’t be until after the Roe decision that all women in the U.S. gained the rights to apply for a credit card without a man’s permission, demand protection from being fired over a pregnancy, and sue workplace sexual harassers. Up until the 1990s, several states did not recognize marital rape as a crime.”
There will be many more parsings of Alito’s handiwork, none of them flattering. Even a cursory reading exposes it as work product that would embarrass a first-year student. The logical conclusion is that the task of burning down Roe was delegated to the least intelligent and articulate justice because Clarence Thomas was busy, Roberts wanted nothing to do with it, and the FNGs decided it was better to hang the mockery on the old guy who’s going to be dead soon anyway, whereas they still have the entire judicial lives in front of them.
@87 He’s so desperate for a market meltdown the dumb twat must have shorted the SPY.
@90 One of the consequences of not having a supermajority is that Obama was able to get only a $900 billion rescue package to save the country from another Great Depression, whereas most economists agreed much more was needed.
It was enough to ward off a replay of the 1930s — just barely — but contributed to the decade of anemic growth that followed.
For which Republicans blame Democrats.
Marital rape was not completely outlawed in the United States until 1993. Let that sink in. Hale’s Historia was being invoked in our American legal system all the way up until that point to justify rape by a husband. Alito is well aware of Hale’s lasting influence in our laws.
OMG!!! No wonder the repukes hated Clinton so much. The outlaw of marital rape correlated with the practical downfall of the Republic..
Clinton was no shining knight but the hate and the fear was off the charts among the dittoheads and other nutjobs back then.
drumpf lucked out that it got its licks into Ivana before this.
Our system is set up so the dumbest one-third of voters can put in office a party that can’t govern, which ensures an endlessly repeating stream of economic and other disasters.
This system guarantees that Democrats will return to power every few years because somebody has to clean up the messes Republicans leave behind.
@ 92
…DJIA is now 10.7% down from its 52-week, which is barely in correction territory…
The much broader S&P 500 is down 14%, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
And then there’s the 3,400+ company NASDAQ composite index, which is down a bear-market 24%, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
You’re a bloviating fool and an unsuccessful investor. Cherry-picking does not disguise that, asswipe. We’re well past simple correction, and you know it.
You don’t go to Drinking Liberally because you’re scared shitless that you might have to buy a round. You haven’t got it to spend.
Leila Cohan
If it was about babies, we’d have excellent and free universal maternal care. You wouldn’t be charged a cent to give birth, no matter how complicated your delivery was.
If it was about babies, we’d have months and months of parental leave, for everyone.
If it was about babies, we’d have free lactation consultants, free diapers, free formula.
If it was about babies, we’d have free and excellent childcare from newborns on.
If it was about babies, we’d have universal preschool and pre-k and guaranteed after school placements.
If it was about babies, IVF and adoption wouldn’t just be for folks with thousands and thousands of dollars to spend on expanding their families.
It’s not about babies.
It’s about punishing women and controlling our bodies.
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If it was about avoiding unwanted pregnancies, unwanted childbirth, unwanted pain and discussions, men would wear condoms.
What if abortion restrictions increased in some places and people just sucked it up and made do with the new reality?
Dumb twats in the Democrat party are a dime a dozen.
Perhaps the argument most likely to sway a potential wavering SCOTUS justice is that aborted fetal tissue is necessary to conduct research that might aid the rapidly deteriorating brain function of First Vegetable Joe Biden.
You’re never too old to split dark oak.
Biden taps 1st Black woman, LGBT White House press secretary
Doesn’t anyone employ editors anymore?
(H/T: Monster’s Ball)
This is getting good. Clinton’s campaign, Hillary for America, asserted attorney-client privilege over its communications with Fusion GPS.
Oh, and Durham granted immunity to a Fusion GPS employee. She has been described as Fusion GPS’ “tech maven”.
I can wait.
@99 Nasdaq is not a broad market index, it’s the antithesis of such, an index of a single sector (of the 11 S&P sectors), and one populated by the market’s most overvalued stocks and gambler-mentality investors.
Anyone who uses that as an example of a “bear market” qualifies as a “bloviator.” And then attaching “cherry-picking” language to his bloviating is, you might say, the cherry on top.
Last Friday the DJIA dropped over 900 points, the S&P something closely equivalent. This Monday, the DJIA bounced back over 800 points, the S&P also. We’ve seen this movie repeatedly. A “correction” is not the major indexes spending one fucking day in what is technically and arbitrarily defined as “correction territory.” But if you want to believe that, and sell on the drops and buy on the bounces, I won’t stop you.
I go to Drinking Liberally infrequently because it’s very hard to get to. The location is tucked away in a corner of Capitol Hill that has few land bridges to the rest of the city, and those only via twisting, winding streets that dead-end instead of feeding into thoroughfares.
I saw your post that said you might show up last night. I seriously considered going for that reason. I’m not only not afraid to meet you in person, I’d be delighted to. I’ll pay for your first two beers (and then tell the bartender to cut you off). But I saw you posting on HA right up to 8 pm, and then past 8 pm, and knew you wouldn’t be there. I assume because the ferry is busted and you’re cast away on your island painting a smiley face on a soccer ball until the ferry is fixed, whenever that will be.
@101 Well, seniors don’t need abortions, do they? Except when paying for their grandkids’ abortions so they don’t get stuck taking care of babies their grandkids can’t take care of.
I wonder what Doctor Dumbfuck’s argument will be when police SWAT teams in Florida kick down doors and search for bedrooms looking for condoms.
Or mixed-race couples are arrested and imprisoned after conservatives reinstate the anti-miscegenation laws that were struck down by a Supreme Court that inferred rights which “strict texualists” like Alito and Thomas and the Gorsuch-Kavanaugh-Barrett gang can’t see in the text of the Constitution and can’t find in their cobwebbed brains?
Does anyone really think this stops with abortion if privacy rights are swept away?
@104 “to split dark oak.”
From the poster who accuses me of posting racist shit.
@ 109
Read the H/T.
And clearly you did not catch the double meaning from the AP headline, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Middle Age Riot May 3
Republicans: “Why should I wear a mask in the grocery store when it’s slightly uncomfortable and keeps other people safe?”
Also Republicans: “Why can’t women who want an abortion just carry the baby around in their bodies for nine months so someone else can adopt it, or not?”
Middle Age Riot May 3
Republicans won’t be happy until women can’t vote and white men get one vote per gun.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 108 makes clear just how much trouble Democrats are in this Fall, and that abortion alone won’t be a big enough issue to make any difference in the outcome.
Keep throwin’ shit against the wall, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Somethin’s bound to stick sooner or later.
I can wait.
Unless “that certain day” comes first..
the day.. according to YOUR OWN babbling here at HA.. that will..
be so GOOD for my kids…
AMIRITE???
AmazonLoni
Y’all so pro-life but don’t think about the lives of the mothers. Or orphans. Or foster children. Or the poor. Or the abused kids whose parents didn’t want them. Y’all just care about the fetuses you didn’t help make, won’t raise, and won’t think about once they’re born.
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Forced Birthers: Life begins at conception and ends at birth.
108 Doctor Dumbfuck will sit back and laugh. He delights in the cruelty to Others. Bonus points if the Other is black or a woman. He is sure the cruelty won’t effect him as much as it does the Others so he’s great with it.
“I do not believe that just because you are opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, a child educated, a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.” – Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister (Actual Christian)
@110 Pleading innocence, are you? Tell it to the judge.
@111 I haven’t heard that one before, but it sounds about right.
@112 It’s not me who’s “throwing shit at the wall,” it’s nine law professors who are.
https://www.vox.com/23055107/supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade-constitution
Take it up with them. Present them with your best argument that they’re just “throwing shit at the wall” to see if something sticks, and all they care about this fall’s elections, then see what they say. Better yet, write down your best argument and use it as an essay for your law school application, and see what answer you get from the admissions office after they consult with the professors who will have to try to educate you in law if the admissions officer lets you in.
@115 Well, we already know the guy doc wants to be our next president is willing to use SWAT raids against people he doesn’t like, because he’s already done it.
And we also know the Supremes are already thinking about other privacy rights if this one goes, because Alito wouldn’t have written about it if they weren’t.
And he did make the point that there are no privacy rights in the Constitution, according to how he interprets it.
Over at Fox, they still don’t understand why pregnant women can get jobs, and wonder why employers hire them.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kilmeade-pregnant-woman_n_62744bdfe4b009a811c141da
Louisiana says “The Louisiana Legislature has the right to disregard the Supreme Court.”
In Michigan, you have
Attorney General Nessel refuses to use office to defend Michigan’s abortion ban
who won’t follow the dictates of the Supreme court the other way.
Congrats Republicans. You have abolished the Rule Of Law. Shut the fuck up when you try to say you are the Law and Order party. You killed that.
“to split dark oak.”
Thank you.. Will point to that the next tortured, tiresome, bogus accusation of racism..
It’s a lock that slur is a favorite at teh widbee vip lounge.
“ to split dark oak.”
That’s a line from a movie called “The Monster’s Ball.”
Eggplant is a vegetable. Looks like this:
https://homyden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ripe-purple-eggplant.jpg
@122 The difference is AGs have prosecutorial discretion, but Supreme Court decisions aren’t voluntary on the states.
Also, you left out sheriffs who won’t enforce mask laws they don’t like. Mostly, if not entirely, rightwing sheriffs.
@124 And here’s what it means:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=split dark oak
complete with “n” word. Like I said, doc is a racist; or, if he’s not, he sure does a hell of an impersonation of one. Or maybe the HA comment threads are a movie and we don’t know it (like “The Truman Show”), and doc is one of the actors in the know and is just reading his lines.
What do you think?
I’m going to be plain and say that, fundamentally I find this idiotic dick measuring by Degen and Roger demeaning to both of them, in the extreme. And that is why I decline to get into the middle of it, other than to mock Degen’s side of it.
But I’ve actually known and worked directly for more than a few “real millionaires”(+++). And while I can readily see that Degen is attempting a rhetorical flair here, I must also point out that only someone with at best a distant familiarity with the incredibly wealthy would not pull up short on this kind of statement.
Every single blazingly wealthy person I have ever had to directly serve (yes, that was absolutely the relationship) and come to know fairly well has been, not just greedy in the extreme, competitive to a fault about it, and entirely preoccupied with “how much” everything costs and “how much” everything is worth, but they have all to a one been exactly the kind of person who is keenly aware of and preoccupied by “a five figure movement in an account balance”. I could easily tell stories to illustrate the point. But why bother? All of it looks exhausting to me. And that is coming from somebody who works way too much and knows it.
Degen has undoubtedly done well enough with his financial situation to spend literally almost every hour of every day doing what we see him doing here. That’s nice. I guess.
Seems lonely and weird.
But also not very convincing that he knows much at all about extreme financial success. And as I’ve pointed out so many time before, for a guy who early on in life must have demonstrated an exceptional drive and discipline, to have chosen medicine for a professional career does not qualify him among that rare breed. Any plain idiot knows full well at the age of twenty that, while a person can be financially very well off being a doctor, that is not a path to fantastic, generational wealth. It’s much more often a path to alcoholism, depression, and family dissolution.
Not at all unlike lawyers, btw.
119,
Relax, Roger.
You’ve got him shitting himself.
Count on it. Whenever Degen sees that the political tides have turned against him his instinctive first reaction is to beg “liberals” to help paddle him back to shore.
Fuck him. Fuck them. Let them all drown.
Hey, we’re in Joe Biden’s economy. WTF did y’all expect would happen?
I don’t know about the others, but I was expecting you to say something really fucking stupid and you came through for me once again. You never disappoint that way, Doctor. It’s the low IQ stupidity.’
@129 “Let them all drown.”
Shouldn’t we toss a rubber ducky into the bathtub?
@128 “Every single blazingly wealthy person I have ever had to directly serve”
I assume as either their tax attorney, divorce attorney, or criminal defense attorney …
I can wait.
I doubt that, ya low IQ stupe. My prediction is that you’re going to die much sooner than you think. Just to comfort you, I’ll probably be very sad. Hell, I might even shed a single tear.
You don’t have any money. If you do, explain why your living on a shit-hole island like Whidbey. Even with your low IQ, it doesn’t make a lick of sense.
You don’t have any money. Hell, if I had the money you keep inferring you have, I wouldn’t be living on Whidbey. I wouldn’t even live on Orcas. The nine hole golf course there is like playing golf in a pasture. In fact, except for the 1st hole, that’s exactly what it is.
No, I’d probably live in the Lodge at Pebble Beach, a just few steps to the ocean. Walking distance to the first hole tee. An equestrian club. A tennis club. Lunch at the Tap Room. Dinner in the restaurant. A short drive to Carmel. Oh, and the women. What a life. And the eternal spring weather? So nice. Fuck Orcas Island. I’d say you can have it, but it’s obvious to me that you can’t afford to live there.
Tell the truth for once in your miserable low IQ life. You don’t have any money, do you?
Hell, the low IQ traitor isn’t even a radiologist, just a low IQ tech passing himself off as a radiologist. That why he came off as a low IQ idiot in his response as to why AFB hospital imaging rooms are designed the way they are.
AFB hospitals have hyperbaric chambers and you have no clue why that is, do you?
You’re a just a low IQ fraud and a dumbfuck traitor.
Stanford University Hospital would have had the first MRI scanner in America (the first in the world was in India) except the stupid fucking contractor took 5 years to complete the fucking project instead of the 2 years that it was scheduled to take. That’s what allowed Loma Linda Hospital to lay claim to having the first MRI scanner.
You didn’t know any of that, did you?
Texas socializing getting rid of public schools under the excuse of not paying for education of illegals.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greg-abbott-plyler-doe-public-education-1348208/
It seems ludicrous, but it’s clear that after the Supreme Court’s draft decision on Roe v. Wade leaked earlier this week, conservatives are plotting out which other cases they can turn out to advance their broader goals. Justice Alito’s draft decision on Roe specifically referenced both Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized sodomy, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, saying that “none of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history.”
The Austin American-Statesman reports that Abbott on Wednesday said Texas “will resurrect” a 1982 Supreme Court case requiring states to provide free public education to all children, including the children of undocumented immigrants.
The Boomer demographic doesn’t mind. Their kids are no longer in public schools.
Republicans catering to greed and loss of privilege to cling to power, are going to be the destruction of this country. But you all knew that. I state the obvious.
But only when a majority of white men agree.
@ 138
But only when a majority of white men agree.
Three women on the Court now, and a fourth in the wings.
Only one dude necessary for them to control the majority opinion come Fall, and he won’t even have to be white. Sisters before misters.
You should attempt to widen the competence gap between yourself and Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, QoS McHillbilly. You’re headed in the wrong direction.
Nother.
Five years for one of the GOP’s “cosplaying grandmothers” who tried to kill a cop while engaging in a terrorist attack on Congress.
By pleading guilty and accepting the middle range recommendations Young’s attorney was able to convince DOJ to drop the attempted murder charges. This is the GOP terrorist fuck stick who tried to disarm Michael Fanone while screaming “KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN!”
This will be hardest of all for Fanone. He almost died in that violent mob of terrorists, suffering a heart attack and a traumatic brain injury. He’s now permanently disabled because of what Trump’s maniac supporters did. And this one wanted to kill him and tried to do it.
Young’s treatment during the next five years in the custody of Federal Bureau of Prisons officers will undoubtedly be reflective of Fanone’s hardship. But it is not enough.
Given obviously relevant text from an article in the original Bill of Rights the best any upstanding, superstitious, womb-worshiping “conservative” white guy can offer in response is an appeal to the authority of a secret society that nobody ever once voted for.
I for one am perfectly willing at this point to discard the legitimacy and credibility of the Supreme Court as it currently exists and move on to version 2.0.
Somehow, I doubt that is what this dumbshit troll would prefer.
However, given not only this response herein, but the general and easily anticipated response of “conservative” white men in general, I’m pretty confident that is exactly where we are heading. Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the Court. It’s probably only a matter of when, largely to be determined by how incomprehensibly stupid these “conservative” white men will be in their continuing overreach. Ron Johnson may as well start growing the beard.
That will not look good.
Goldy has never understood how to make a woman happy.
Cunnilingus might rumple his sweatshirt, and WHO THE HELL DOES THAT?
@ 141
I for one am perfectly willing at this point to discard the legitimacy and credibility of the Supreme Court as it currently exists and move on to version 2.0.
You can leave it in a heap on the curb, next to the discarded legitimacy and credibility of your bar exam results and license to practice law.
For you, Version 2.0 is Dumbfuck Rabbitville.
For the GOP, Version 2.0 is right here.
Even as far back as Newt Gingrich they’ve had it in their own power to turn back. They did not have to nominate Trump to defeat Clinton. They didn’t have to vote for him. Having done so they didn’t have to turn back to these long failed culture wars themes to sustain their support. And they did not have to openly declare war on 51% of all voters.
There’s nothing sacred about the Supreme Court. Its composition, funding, operations, administration, and procedures are all entirely subject to the laws of Congress. Its basis in the Constitution only requires that it exist, that its members can only be removed by impeachment, that they are paid, and the scope of jurisdiction.
Beyond those few minor constraints, the people’s elected representatives can change the court as often as they like however they like. Moving into that future the GOP will now be relying on the likes of Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and this guy.
I look forward to it.
@ 144
There’s nothing sacred about the Supreme Court.
Says the guy whose party beatified RBG.
How often it’s been remarked that “conservatives” seldom comprehend irony.
A primer:
Irony
Not irony
#youbuiltthat