The Supreme Court thread

[elevenism]

This is minority rule. Americans support roe like 70/30.

It all about the evangelical right and their incestuous relationship with the Republican party.
These fucking christian dominionist extremist groups are INSANE. They want a THEOCRACY, literally.The problem is, they're also INSANELY well organized and INSANELY influential.
And they've been planning this shit for decades. It's hard to put an exact date on the beginning of this.
Falwell got things rolling with his first anti abortion sermon in like 78.
But I think Reagan attending the Religious Roundtable in Dallas in 1980 was the true birth of this fucking unholy marriage of church and state: that's the one where the televangelist guy gave the rousing speech on how disgusted he was with "commies and perverts coming out of the closet" to a basketball stadium full of angry, influential lunatics.
And then, old Ronnie said something like "You can't officially endorse me, but I endorse you!"
And then, they were off to the races.
Countless evangelical and dominionist think tanks and lobbying groups sprung up and flourished, and have continued to do so to this day.
Extremists moved from the shadows to the senate.
We got both Bushes.
Preachers started giving sermons on politics, to the point that a LOT of them these days MOSTLY talk about politics.
I've long thought trump was partially just a useful idiot to get those judges in.
PENCE, though...pence as running mate was no accident. He was chosen to seal the deal with the hardcore evangelical voting bloc. Pence was a walking dog whistle.

And, HERE WE FUCKING ARE. Radical Christians spent 40 years finger fucking our political system, power hungry moderate Republican leaders took their money and advanced pieces of their agenda (while largely not really GIVING a fuck about any of it), poor people voted AGAINST themselves fiscally because their crazy preacher said to, partisan supreme court picks blatantly lied to us and ignored legal precedent, and now, it's Welcome to Handmaid's Tale Land!

Also, yes, RvW should have been enshrined/codified into law when we had that supermajority. And RBG should have retired, god love her.

Oh, and didn't like ALL of the current conservative judges say or at least insinuate that Roe and Casey were settled? Yeah, fuck those people.

It won't stop here if we don't fight back HARD. Maybe this galvanizes the left, and the red wave I fear is quelled.

But I could damn sure see a full on abortion ban in the US come 2024.
And then they'll go for birth control and marriage rights.
We could definitely move backwards on race, too, because I know most of you aren't into theology, but I can tell you that a LOT of these eerie "evangelical" fucks believe that white Europeans are LITERALLY the twelve tribes of Israel. So, white Noah, Moses, Abraham, Jesus.

These are the "christians" you SHOULD be afraid of.

It's years of watching THIS shit, and a Democratic party with no TEETH, that caused my wife and I to attempt to find a way to leave the US not in 2016, but 2013.

Fuuuck me, though. I foolishly thought Roe was safe, at least for.now.

[allegate]

oh, so it's perjury as well? nice.

also Stephen does a pretty good Phil Hartman grandma, yeah?