One of the interesting things we learn from studying evil is that it often begets good.
Here’s a great example.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is one of hundreds of corporations that has announced that every one of its employees will have access to an abortion as required.
Kudos.
He continues: Attorneys across the nation indicated that they have been swamped by requests from clients seeking to incorporate as soon as possible.
I know I do a great deal of gushing about Borowitz and his amazing wit, but clearly he’s done it again.
It’s the melding of two news items that have no real connection, in this case, banning abortion and Citizens United, in a way no one (and I mean literally no one) could have foreseen.
If I were to attempt something like this, I guess I would build a spreadsheet of perhaps one hundred different topics, update it daily, and pore over it to constantly see if I could come up with anything that works.
It would be a full-time job, and even then, I doubt I could come anywhere close to the master here.
Hawley is obviously incorrect here, but that doesn’t mean his followers are smart enough to understand why.
In the first place, the states with abortion bans are already deep red. We will have colonized Venus before a Democrat carries a moral hellhole like Mississippi.
The second reason is that anyone who has the means to pick up and move to a blue state just because of this regressive legislation has the means to travel for a few days as required to have an abortion.
A true boob.
Let’s not forget about how overt and direct Ginni Thomas was in lying to Mark Meadows in order to solicit his help in overthrowing the U.S. government.
These people doubled down on this crap at dozens of times and places around the country–and damn near succeeded.
Now it’s time for justice.
The U.N.’ s statement (see photo of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres) about the U.S.’s overturning of a woman’s right to an abortion echoes what we all know from even a cursory review of the data: The only thing we’ve done here is condemn more women to agonizing deaths.
What I hope the U.N. and the rest of the world understand is this: We simply don’t care. This repression of women is deeply ingrained into the minds of the ultra-right-wing, and, as of yesterday, it became law.
This video is entitled “Vivaldi on Marimba from South African schoolchildren.” A better title would be “Vivaldi on Marimba from South African schoolchildren whose parents are amazingly rich.”
This level of quality in education isn’t common, anywhere around the globe. Regardless, two points:
This will bring warmth to you heart, especially when you behold the look of pure joy in the performers’ eyes, and
the loss of music from our kids’ school curricula is a tragedy.
As of yesterday, a pregnant 11-year-old girl in Arkansas who was raped by her father, whose fetus has no chance of being born alive, could find herself in prison if she receives an abortion. The doctor who performed the operation could receive an even longer sentence.
Now, perhaps from your vantage point in Vermont or Oregon, you might say, “Well, that’s just one more good reason not to live in (or go anywhere near) Arkansas.” I can’t say the thought didn’t cross my own mind.
Yet I think we need to be more high-minded. It’s painful to live in a country that permits this level of cruel stupidity.
Until there is a federal law banning abortion, California and the other states that are home to the vast majority of the country’s population, wealth, productivity, and academic achievement will be forming pathways for women in repressive states to receive abortions.
What happens after that point is anyone’s guess.
Until the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on guns, abortion, and Miranda rights, any of us could have been forgiven for believing that the judiciary had no political bias. All that’s out the window now.
At this point, we are all forced to admit that we live in a repressive society in which our constitution, which Americans uniformly revere, has no more real substance than a shadow.
At least in the United States, the promise of a government of, by and for the people, to paraphrase Lincoln, is in the process of perishing from the Earth.
Federal prosecutors are expanding the charges against nine high-ranking “Oath Keepers” to include seditious conspiracy, which carries far more prison time than using “force to oppose the authority of the federal government” and “the lawful transfer of power to President Biden.”
Fine by me, but I think I’m joined by essentially all progressives in expressing my hope that the DoJ prioritize the architects of the coup attempt, as opposed to the morons who stormed the Capitol.
