Texas abortion ban is in effect again for now — the 5th Circuit has granted a temporary, administrative stay of this week’s preliminary injunction (which halted enforcement of the ban) to consider the state’s request for a longer stay pending appeal.
Funny how right wing courts can move quickly when there’s a chance to deny constitutional rights.
Poobah, it’s what they do. Assholes.
The court of appeals living up to its reputation of being packed by Trump with the aid of the Federalist Society. It also an argument for expanding the Supremes. It would be reasonable to have one Justice for each appellate court to do emergency reviews and recommendations to the whole. Right now that would be 13.
how CBS explained it:
a pregnant pause so to speak
Bill reminds Democrats that Donald Trump is like a shark that’s not gone, just gone out to sea – and he’ll be back to destroy democracy in 2024.
another slow mover to contemplate
note the name on the bourbon bottle: “old turtle face” nice touch. BTW is horsey secretly hinting about 2024 – that cat that mitch is holding looks an awful lot like desantis.
Trump was the symptom, not the disease, and we’re all infected
…laughable to assign societal rot to one guy, but sure helps with the fundraising, i’d venture🤷♂️
Yeah, no; the whole gop and many “independents” are rotten damaged deplorable people. Some will bubble up to the surface like the white part on top of a boil, but they are all horrible people.
Horrible either for being personally horrible, or for their going along with those who are.
There is No Excuse for all anti-sfb republicans not switching immediately to being Democrats. There is absolutely nothing they can do for their former party. It is, or soon will be (I trust), gone with the wind.
Kinzinger? Cheney? Ok, after the 1/6 hearings.
They think they’re good and we’re horrible, something’s gotta give
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.
—FW Nietzsche
Interesting political comments but nothing about the act of abortion, so here’s one for starters. It ain’t nobodys business but the pregnant woman’s. If an opinion or belief is wrong, then this will be dealt with at the pearly gates, that is, if you believe there is such a place.. It’s up to pregnant women to deal with the “decision,” and certainly not the government. I know more than a few who have already been birth’d that I would like to abort; now that’s talking about the law and not a woman’s decision. I’m ready for the hue and cry.
It’s totally up to a woman, in consultation with her family and her doctor.
It just ain’t nobody else’s business. And religion has no place in the discussion.
Nothing less will do.
Nietzsche certainly ain’t defending democratic principles in that quote.
Democracy means stupid people get a say
Even the inventors of democracy didn’t believe in democracy the way we think of it, because it’s ridiculous that the average rube should influence the broader administration of society- straight up nonsensical
Do you think i’m a moron? Hey, guess what, we agree on something, but my vote counts the same as yours!
i could get behind weighted democracy: 1 vote for a HS diploma, 2 for a Bachelor’s from an accredited institution, 3 for a graduate degree, and 4 for a doctorate
Should be an easy sell to this electorate, right?
Yeah he warn’t a big fan of equality .
lol i cheers you with my coffee, and a pleasant day to you, as well
Pilar, Don’t think it was original to him but Bill Clinton had a good line in 92 campaign: Abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”
As if we needed something else to worry about…
for sturge and bink
I invested a lot of time reading his stuff way back yonder because to me at the time his writing, even in translation, was like Beethoven’s music.
sturge, more like “melancholy baby” to me
I knew he was fulla shit but I swear that boy could talk a dog down off a meat wagon.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
Watching live interviews with Iowans before Trump speech tonight. So many talking about wanting civil war, much more than at past rallies.
I never really got Nietzsche. All that talk about God and no objective truth and perspective and such. He was the original alternative facts guy. I didn’t buy what he was selling.
Civil war my ass Poobah. Morons with guns talking stupid. It’s Iowa.
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