Friday, June 24, 2022

Roe V. Wade

Trump, who never won a popular vote, and was and is an incompetent, dishonest, corrupt hack, put three Justices on the Supreme Court.

That Court is busily dismantling the Civil Rights of all Americans, not just those slutty, slutty women.

I'm in black despair at the moment. I don't see how we fix the damage Trump voters have done, and are still doing, to this country.  

Also, I'll remind you, if you think the GOP is going to stop with stripping women of their rights, I've got news for you. Justice Thomas said it straight out in his opinion: Birth control, Marriage equality, and the right for adults to have whatever relationship they want, those are up next:



And if you think they're stopping there, think again. They're after trans rights, free speech, minimum wage, child labor, the right to a public education -- it's a long list. Look at what they're talking about on their blogs, in their podcasts, on FB. The end goal is stripping every American of any freedom to be anything except ignorant, desperate, impoverished wage slaves.

And giving them all guns, also, so that the rabble can think they have freedom.

I saw a survey not long ago that said 70% of Democrats wouldn't date a Trump supporter. Wouldn't date a Trump supporter. That's the shit conservatives are whining about. They can't get a date with someone whose rights they want to strip away.

Wait until they find out they too are living in this country, and their rights as well are going to be stripped away. They think waving that flag and having those ridiculous bumper stickers will save them. And my goodness will they be surprised when they find out otherwise.

Things that used to be unprotected rights not that long ago:

  • The right to wear whatever clothing you liked
  • The right of woman to have their own credit cards and bank accounts
  • The right to own property if you could afford to buy it
  • The right of to make medical decisions about your own body
  • The right of unrelated people to live in the same apartment
  • The right to have whatever sort of sex you wanted in the privacy of your own home
  • The right to rent a hotel room no matter your marital status, your gender, your race, or your religion
  • The right to eat in a restaurant no matter your marital status, your gender, your race, or your religion
  • The right to not have your child proselytized in public schools
  • The right for your child not to be forced to pray to a God they didn't worship
  • The right to a public school education 
  • The right to buy birth control
  • The right to educate another adult about birth control
  • The right to be paid for work you've done
  • The right to leave a job when you liked
  • The right to attend a college, a medical school, a law school even if you were the wrong race, the wrong sex, the wrong gender, or the wrong religion 
  • The right to not be beaten into a false confession by the police (I know, I know, but at least it used to be illegal, and you could, sometimes, maybe, have legal recourse)
  • The right to vote, no matter what color, race, gender, or religion you are, and no matter what your level of wealth or the amount of property you held

I know I've only hit on some of them. Apparently Trump supporters think they'll still have rights, no matter what happens to those dirty Democrats. Ha. You'll get all the rights your rulers will let you have, losers.

ETA add: See also this:




6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are my people
I go to my anti racism group at work and they talk about niceness…
And now more people can carry a gun
I’m full of rage and fear

Anon in mass

delagar said...

Rage and fear on this end too.

D Shannon said...

"What do we need rights for, we'll be running things." -- A typical fascist.

Establishments won't discriminate against white people, or Christians, since they're in the majority. ("Hey, you don't like being second-class due to your religion? You can always change to the right one!") The police are there to serve and protect them (note how many white mass-murderers are treated with kid gloves). They don't need public schools, since they can arrange it so that tax money goes to their private schools, where they can exclude the right people.

Also, they get to have someone to bully without risk of punishment. They even have people lower than them that they can kill without punishment. It's a very good tradeoff for them.

But not for us.

delagar said...

They're assuming the world won't change, that they will always be in power. I grant that with the way they're destroying voting rights, it might seem like a good bet.

Athena Andreadis said...

I think that "If you think they'll stop at this..." is an argument to be avoided because "this" essentially abolishes reproductive freedom and body autonomy of half the US population -- thereby making them 2nd-class citizens and human beings. In other words: even if "this" did not result in removal of other rights, it would still not be acceptable in any way. I don't think any of the young women who were brain-washed into making reproductive freedom their single-issue target has any idea of what it means for them individually and collectively.

delagar said...

No, I agree. This on its own is horrific.

But people should realize that other rights are also not safe. If this court can strip away one right, it can strip away all of them.