…and repeat after me:
It is an opinion, not a ruling.
It is an opinion, not a ruling.
It is an opinion, not a ruling.
Yes, this definitely has the potential to turn into something truly horrific. And don't think for one second that the same religious lunatics who have their sights set on Roe don't also have designs upon Obergefell, Lawrence, Loving, and a host of other landmark civil rights decisions of the last sixty years. I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the right wing of this country want to turn the United States into a Republican wet dream dystopian handmaid's-tale theocratic hellscape where only straight, white, heterosexual christian males have rights or power.
While certain members of the court are already timidly braking, assuring everyone "the leaked draft is real but not final and can change," I don't believe a word of it. But I hope the backlash that results from this premature ejaculation will cause them to at least rethink it.
Fuck Alito. Fuck Cavanaugh. Fuck Gorsch. Fuck Thomas. Fuck Barrett. And most of all fuck Trump and McConnell and every.single.person who voted for the assholes who put those monsters in place.
The majority of the country is firmly in agreement with a woman's right to choose—as well as interracial marriage, gay marriage, and freedom to have sex with another consenting adult regardless of their sex.
And I find it ironic that the usual suspects on the far right are already braying about the leak itself, not its contents. They're more concerned that this information was released—no doubt because of the possibility that this will influence the midterm elections in the Democrats' favor—than they are at the contents of the leak and the warning klaxon it's sounding for rights across this country.
Maybe that's why it was leaked. Perhaps it was put out there by someone in full support of a woman's right to choose, hoping that the sleeping giant that is the majority of voters in this county can be woken from its slumber to beat this kind of mid-century nonsense back into the ground. This is something that has the potential to touch every single life in this country—and the right wing is scared shitless that when people wake up and realize this, they're toast.
And that is why it is vitally important that everyone vote BLUE in November.
At least that's the belief keeping me sane at the moment.
Not only vote BLUE. Vote Blue from lowest local elected official (dog catcher) to the highest federal elected official (senator) in 2022.
I do hope there is enough outrage to get Democrat voters off their asses and to vote BLUE and get rid of as many repugs as possible. I, for one, have had enough of their regressive agenda and do-nothing for America "law-making" – totally ignoring the real issues of health care, human rights, wages, homelessness, gun violence, and obscene wealth wielding unprecedented power and influence.
Thank you for the reminder that so far it's an *opinion*, not a ruling. Let's hope it has awakened those who have been slumbering through this past year.
I honestly don't think they antipated the shitstorm they've released.
Rick, they've been slumbering through the last 5-1/2 years.
I would also like to say a hearty and emphatic *FUCK YOU* to anyone who voted for Stein or Johnson in 2016 as well as anyone who didn't vote because they didn't like the candidates or thought they were the same. This. Is. Your. Fault.
This is going to affect the mid-terms negatively for Republicans. So will the January 6 Prime Time committee hearings. Personally, I can't believe those justices are this fucking stupid. Even if they dropped this at the end of June, what did they think was going to happen?