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Nibbles McDaniel's avatar

Maybe it's just me but this "turn" as you put it strikes me as the last straw and, I hope, the catalyst for fundamental change in our courts and possibly in our electoral system. There is no way most of America is going to stand for this. Just the security apparatus necessary to police women's bodies (!!!) is going to be intrusive, not to mention the realities of surveillance, prosecution, imprisonment of "violators". The "party of small government" brought us this. The party that fights against government over reach, the Republicans, brought this to us. Remember that when a woman in your life need to terminate a pregnancy or, God forbid, is raped. I don't see Americans, in general, accepting this: law or no law. There have been too many instances where Americans have seen laws applied unevenly anyway, favoring the powerful, punishing the vulnerable, for Americans en masse to sit by idly while their constitutional rights are removed. If we have to share this country then there has to be compromise, and this is not that, and is nothing more than the very authoritarian regime we've been looking for on the horizon. I believe Americans will reject this. I feel the right way overplayed their hand and will pay dearly.

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Stefan Jones's avatar

Until this morning, I was "iffy" about rushing into cancelling the filibuster, and especially expanding the Supreme Court.

No more. After seeing that the court would take up that suit that would allow legislatures to call the shots, I am 100% in Team Expand.

I feel like I have to show off a bit. I wrote this tweet a year ago. May 8th, 2021:

<blockquote>"Following and repeatedly getting outraged by GOP f**kery is like following a goose wandering around your house and shouting LOOK, IT DID IT AGAIN! every time it takes a big runny green dump on the floor.

You're better off using your time GETTING THE GOOSE OUT OF THE HOUSE."</blockquote>

(Link to a whole thread about activism: https://twitter.com/StefanEJones/status/1391041770624983042?s=20&t=m6Ulge6yqeLtxoWrxsqt1Q)

Time to stop shouting "AUTOCRACY!" Time to stop quoting Hannah Arendt. Time to stop filling out the Fascism Bingo Card. Like, we KNOW already. It is time to do what we should have been doing all along: Registering voters, helping them get IDs, encouraging the reluctant, and helping campaigns and GOTV efforts.

I hope the January 6th Commission lands some heavy blows, and that the DOJ drags Trump and his lackeys to court. But that is only going to help a little. Far-right activists don't need Trump; they have the Supreme Court. They will tear down democracy and try to drag the country back to the 50s . . . the 1850s, if they can. They will whitewash history, subjugate women, and allow corruption and ineptitude to flourish.

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