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Who are you and what have you done with Tucker Barnhart?

Oh, they'll like this one ... To be clear, to a reasonable person, there is nothing wrong with this tweet.

"Well-spoken" is what clueless old white people say when they try to compliment black people they like, e.g., Biden about Obama. Republicans will come bearing their teeth. She's going to be a socialist communist BLM Antifa social justice warrior pushing the White House's agenda to implement CRT in schools and private workplaces. Or something like that

Does The Week have a pitchbot account?

Let the character assassination proceed apace!

Great thread, although the first tweet in it kind of buries the lede:

That sounds good to me, as long as they can get around voter-suppression strategies such as accepting gun permits as valid Voter IDs while rejecting student IDs for same.

Does it matter? Americans oppose overturning Roe by 2-to-1 and that's not going to stop the Court. And leafing from there, logically speaking, the Court can't not overturn Obergefell, or all of the rest of them, because they all rely on the same 14th Amendment due process right-to-privacy argument Roe does. I don't see how that 14th Amendment can apply to some of them but not to some of the others. And good luck getting a permanent national right-to-abortion, right-to-marry-who-you-want, or any other similar-type law through Congress, since even if they could get enough legislators on board to pass it, it would surely be struck down by this or a similar court on 10th Amendment grounds.

OK, Just asking because you said that a game in which the Tigers are beating the Pirates 3-2 is "such a pathetic baseball exhibition." 😉

But it's against Jesus or something, so that's enough.

Pirates fan?

Ke'Bryan Hayes was rewarded for his misplay at third by moving up the spectrum to short. 👍🏼

I see TORK! has been learning to catch those foul popups back of first base.

Don't be surprised if deep red states outlaw same sex partner benefits at the same time they outlaw same sex marriage, because religious liberty.

Well, that was fun while it lasted …

It does seem that once Roe is overturned, there really is nothing to keep them from overturning Casey, Obergefell, Loving, Lawrence, Griswold, or any of the rest of them. None of these will be considered settled law anymore. I personally hope that once Loving is overturned and the Thomases travel to a state where interracial marriage is newly outlawed, they get arrested and imprisoned for being married. I would also accept his getting arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a white female. 😉

Between this and the earlier revelation of Chad Wolf blocking the Russian Trump DHS report, the lesson I’m taking away from this is that the veneer of civilized behavior really is very thin as long as there is no universally agreed-upon enforcement mechanism in place to discourage and punish malfeasance.

Banning the shift would not have gotten TORK! a base hit there.

And yet AGAIN! Robbed a base hit from center field!

That’s OK, I’ve seen that before here. I remember in 2016 when my various hypotheses that certain elements of a Trump presidency might lead to fascist autocracy would be dismissed in a single sentence as “Alarmist Non-sense”. But hey, denialism is easy, cheap, and, I guess, fun. Which is fine for a free mostly anonymous online forum since there are no stakes here but reputation. After all, whenever any of the Alarmist Non-sense does come to pass, they can just shrug their shoulders and be like, “oops, guess I was wrong, oh well.” Or perhaps simply forget or deny they dismissed it in the first place. Also, not for nothing, only one person here brought up the idea that killing minority children would be doing them a favor, but I don’t see anybody here advocating anything even close to that idea. Don’t hold your breath waiting for evidence of it.

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Honestly, as an idea, "let Planned Parenthood sort it out" sounds completely unbaked. It's going to take a lot a lot more than seminars and bootstraps to help women and girls who are completely ignorant and unmotivated about parenting to raise an actual live child with any level of success. And adoption is not an option for a lot of women or girls, because for a lot of them, carrying a baby completely to term and then immediately giving it up for adoption is far more traumatizing than having an abortion would have been. I understand that namby-pamby concepts like traumatization don't penetrate the hearts of the hardest anti-abortion people, but healthcare professionals, social care professionals, and most of the rest of us recognize that as real barrier to the freewheeling have-the-baby-and-put-it-up-for-adoption solution that sounds oh so easy. I get that for the hardcore people it's supposed to be all about punishing the girls for the temerity of having sex in the first place, but that doesn't mean it's right.