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Smirky the Wonder Chimp
2020-10-23 2:38:01 AM  
28 votes:

Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.


Look, man, how many times do I have to explain this?  I. WAS. NOT. INSPIRED.
 
koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-22 9:15:52 PM  
23 votes:
I'd laugh my ass off if after confirming her they 7-2 deny cert.
 
Thanks for the Meme-ries [OhFark]
2020-10-22 9:12:22 PM  
14 votes:
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ChrisDe [TotalFark]
2020-10-22 10:53:00 PM  
6 votes:
Can we just reduce SCOTUS justices to 7? And remove the last two?
 
buravirgil
2020-10-23 5:40:35 AM  
5 votes:
ViolentEastCoastCity: We need a f*cking amendment.


That's what abortion is, no?
 
LurkLongAndProsper [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 5:26:19 AM  
4 votes:

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.

Look, man, how many times do I have to explain this?  I. WAS. NOT. INSPIRED.


Hillary would've been exactly the same anyway, or possibly even worse. You could tell because of how shrill she was and also how she never visited Michigan. It's just not your fault. Never your fault. No. The voters are not to be blamed! The candidate wasn't perfect so there was nothing you could do. If Hillary had really wanted to earn your vote she'd have come to your state and made a personal connection with you. She didn't and now bortion is illegal, sorry centrists, guess you should've picked a candidate who was more inspirational. This is why I'm voting for Hudson Hawk, the Green Party is clearly the only way out of this disgusting 2 party system.
 
Flappyhead
2020-10-23 8:00:49 AM  
3 votes:

quatchi: Hey look. The thing everyone jumped up and down 4 years ago and warned people was going to happen if Trump got elected is going to happen.

itshappening.jpg


Yeah, but Bernie should have gotten the nomination.
 
bluejeansonfire [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-23 5:38:35 AM  
3 votes:

Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.


This is also what happens when you've so utterly abandoned the average American citizen that not many average American citizens see the point in voting for you.
 
bluejeansonfire [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-23 5:36:01 AM  
3 votes:

Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.

Look, man, how many times do I have to explain this?  I. WAS. NOT. INSPIRED.


Sounds like the Democratic Party should do a better job at earning votes, then. That is a politician's job, after all. Who would be so stupid as to neglect to do their most important job in an election for president?
 
jst3p
2020-10-23 3:13:29 AM  
3 votes:
I am not OK with Roe being overturned. That being said, if you live in a right wing shiat-hole, farking move. I hear people say "Not everyone has the funds to move" and to that I say bullshiat. When I was 18 I moved from Cali (not a shiathole) to Washington state (again not a shiathole). I was broke as fark, that made it easy to move, everything I owned was liquidated in a garage sale or fit in my car.


When I was in my late 20's I had a fiance and a kid and I was living in Florida (long story but Florida is a shiathole) to the Denver metro area. We were still living paycheck to paycheck but we found a way to do it.

Now that I am doing much better financially it would actually be more difficult to uproot and move.

Tell these right wing shiatholes that they can go fark themselves by moving to a sane blue state.
 
gcc [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 3:01:36 AM  
3 votes:
Gentle reminder that if a democrats win control of both houses and the presidency and this still happens, they've decided it's ok if abortion is outlawed.

/ Don't let anyone off the hook, regardless of party.
// And by hook I mean coat hanger
/// Literal slashies
 
Cagey B [TotalFark]
2020-10-22 10:50:24 PM  
3 votes:
If this is the plan they may have played themselves. Biden is set up (albeit with the always lame "study panel" excuse) to move forward with court expansion after a provocation. Overturning Roe v. Wade would be the perfect such justification politically for adding four new Supreme Court justices.

Not that I want that to happen. Such a ruling would be the most harmful since Citizens United and contrary to what a lot of liberals say, would not be the end of the anti choice movement.
 
englaja [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 4:15:05 AM  
2 votes:

ChrisDe: Can we just reduce SCOTUS justices to 7? And remove the last two?


That requires a House majority and a Senate 2/3 majority.

Fortunately, adding new states only requires a House and Senate majority and Presidential approval.

So, an extra 25 states it is, all heavily Democratic. Give the Republicoonts a taste of their own medicine.
 
lolmao500 [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-23 2:41:41 AM  
2 votes:
What timing...

They kick this to SCOTUS just as the corrupt senate is gonna give the nazis a majority to overturn roe v wade.

Fark these people, they need to be put to the sword. They can take their christian taliban BS and farking die for their god.
 
Pinner
2020-10-23 2:36:11 AM  
2 votes:
Easy.
You have to show a democratic voter ID to get an abortion at a clinic.
 
Circle Girl [BareFark]
2020-10-22 11:06:08 PM  
2 votes:
Do the people in The Handmaid's Tale secretly worship Odin?  According to Michelangelo, God has two eyes.  🙃
 
Nah'mean [TotalFark]
2020-10-22 8:22:40 PM  
2 votes:
Going forward, I intend to refer to her only as Of Donald.
 
someonelse
2020-10-23 10:29:02 AM  
1 vote:
The time to prevent this was 4 years ago.
 
Froman
2020-10-23 10:27:22 AM  
1 vote:

LurkLongAndProsper: Smirky the Wonder Chimp: Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.

Look, man, how many times do I have to explain this?  I. WAS. NOT. INSPIRED.

Hillary would've been exactly the same anyway, or possibly even worse. You could tell because of how shrill she was and also how she never visited Michigan. It's just not your fault. Never your fault. No. The voters are not to be blamed! The candidate wasn't perfect so there was nothing you could do. If Hillary had really wanted to earn your vote she'd have come to your state and made a personal connection with you. She didn't and now bortion is illegal, sorry centrists, guess you should've picked a candidate who was more inspirational. This is why I'm voting for Hudson Hawk, the Green Party is clearly the only way out of this disgusting 2 party system.


We ran Jesus Christ in the primary and you didn't vote for him so you're getting what you deserve. Unlike Hillary, he wasn't going to have to go through Congress or the courts to get things done. He would have WILLED universal healthcare into law using the power of our unwavering cult-like love for him alone. All evangelicals would have totally changed their beliefs and stopped fighting to strip our rights away. Neo Nazis would have disappeared overnight. Cats and dogs would be living together in harmony and climate change would completely reverse itself. It would have been paradise but you idiots had to live in the real world. What's wrong with you people?
 
chewd
2020-10-23 8:17:28 AM  
1 vote:
Sharia law
 
makerofbadjokes
2020-10-23 8:03:37 AM  
1 vote:

Koodz: .

No contraception, no prostitution, no pornography, no masturbation.

They'd really like it if violence were the only catharsis left to us.


You can't stop me from masturbating til you pry my c0ck from my cold dead hand.

/Mt. Vesuvius reference.
 
qorkfiend [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 6:53:02 AM  
1 vote:

LordJiro: englaja: ChrisDe: Can we just reduce SCOTUS justices to 7? And remove the last two?

That requires a House majority and a Senate 2/3 majority.

Fortunately, adding new states only requires a House and Senate majority and Presidential approval.

So, an extra 25 states it is, all heavily Democratic. Give the Republicoonts a taste of their own medicine.

Don't need to add that many states. Could definitely do a lot of state-merging (as well as adding DC and Puerto Rico, at minimum). There is no reason we need two Dakotas, and Wyoming sure as hell doesn't need to be its own state either, just for starters.

Hell, the primary reason there are two Dakotas in the first place was because Republicans wanted extra power in the Senate.

And if the Democrats take the Senate, the first order of business should be to nuke the filibuster. The second should be to start prosecuting Republicans for abuse of power, general corruption, and a laundry list of other shiat they don't even bother to hide. Just enforce existing laws, and the entire GOP could be in jail before 2022.


Why should DC (population 705,000) be a state while the Dakotas (combined population 1.5 million) shouldn't?
 
makerofbadjokes
2020-10-23 6:50:43 AM  
1 vote:

buravirgil: ViolentEastCoastCity: We need a f*cking amendment.


That's what abortion is, no?


I see what you did there...


//username relevant.
 
ViolentEastCoastCity [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 6:48:49 AM  
1 vote:

buravirgil: ViolentEastCoastCity: We need a f*cking amendment.


That's what abortion is, no?


I lol'd.
 
fzumrk [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 6:25:27 AM  
1 vote:
fark Mississippi.  Yeah, that's right fark the whole state in general.  What net positive have they ever contributed to the country?  We'd be better off making Puerto Rico a state and demoting Mississippi to a territory.
 
buravirgil
2020-10-23 6:00:56 AM  
1 vote:
entitygm: Article III of the Constitution sets neither the size...As the nation's boundaries grew, Congress added justices to correspond with the growing number of judicial circuits: seven in 1807, nine in 1837, and ten in 1863.[76]

In 1866, at the behest of Chief Justice Chase and in an attempt to limit the power of Andrew Johnson, Congress passed an act providing that the next three justices to retire would not be replaced

Howdy Pardner

You seem to know a lot about this stuff.

That's an interesting story. Did you make all that up? I thought 9 was the number because of the Greeks, or something. Aren't America's institutions rooted the history of Greeks? Or is that Rome? Rome was second, right? Because Greeks wore fewer garments than Romans. They do now, at least.

I think I know what you're trying to say...You're saying after the Civil Warm and America got to steamin' again, by 1900 we were set pretty good compared to Mother England, no?

America was doing fine across the board compared to ANY nation with our industries and assembly line cars and making electricity before anybody else. I see why nobody would see much sense in fiddling with the number of Justices on the Supreme Court-- why fix it if it ain't broke?

And that's how it would have stayed... If Hitler hadn't started two wars and a God Emperor hadn't possessed Japan. You can't blame the Supreme Court for that, can ya'?

But these days are different. We're blaming ourselves. I don't think judges ought to allow it. I object!

How Many Judges did America have before the New Deal and now...after? And not only the top dogs. All Them Judges?  How many? Do we really need 'em?

Maybe we ought to cut out all the unnecessary judges since they're making so many mistakes and we're to blame. Slack up the deluuuuuge before we drown ourselves.

Thank ye'
 
LurkLongAndProsper [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 5:33:08 AM  
1 vote:

quatchi: Hey look. The thing everyone jumped up and down 4 years ago and warned people was going to happen if Trump got elected is going to happen.

itshappening.jpg


You're just fear mongering over the court. The real issue here is Hunter Biden's laptop.
 
ViolentEastCoastCity [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 5:20:44 AM  
1 vote:

MegaLib: Access to Abortion needs to be free and complete during every stage of pregnancy for any reason.  It is a right.  We will pack the SCOTUS with Progressives to enshrine this right


This.

We need a f*cking amendment.
 
Socrofece
2020-10-23 5:04:20 AM  
1 vote:
The Proud Boys and Junior Trumpers will cheer, and then realize that without the option of flushing any accidental spawn, women will want to fark them even less.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 4:49:59 AM  
1 vote:
So if one part of government continuously tries to hammer a square peg into a round hole, then one branch keeps allowing the definition of "round" to come into question, imagine when said part gets control of ALL branches.

Then imagine that many law schools, and law classes,teach people to take advantage of these loopholes.... and that Square Peggism is not only acceptable, but advised.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 4:45:01 AM  
1 vote:

voodoolady: puffy999: Albino Squid: Almost all cases that reach SCOTUS are being funded by either a state or a well-heeled interest group (including the good ones!). The costs associated are totally meaningless

Good point. I'm going on a lack of sleep so I'll change my post:

We need to fine and disbar every lawyer who tries to DDoS the legal system with the same frivolous lawsuits over things like abortion, which are now on the table because Federalist Society judges are being groomed, if not outright bribed, to destroy American law.

It's not someone suing to make abortion illegal. It's the legislatures writing these laws then individuals or groups like Planned Parenthood suing to get them overturned.

Or are you saying the suit to get them overturned is frivolous?


Well, no. The legislature is NOT paid to write these laws.

Lawyers, private and public, are the ones allowing this to continuously happen.
 
jst3p
2020-10-23 3:17:09 AM  
1 vote:

dark brew: 91% of abortions occur by the 13th week.  By 15 weeks, the vast majority of pregnant women are looking forward to having their child.  They have come up with a list of names, starting thinking about nursery colors, and are excited about seeing their little bundle of joy for the first time.  I know that the dumb Mississippi law contains some language for fetal abnormalities and emergencies, but such a law doesn't need to exist in the first place.  Women aren't carrying their babies for 4 months and then saying "nah, rather not be pregnant."  My wife had to undergo an abortion at 18 weeks.  It was the worst day of my life and one that I will never, ever, fully get over. We had a name, first baby outfit.  Those went into a grave.


To add to what you say (and so sorry for what you went through) there is a ballot initiative here in Colorado to ban abortion after 24 weeks. I am pro-choice but after reading it I ignorantly said out loud "By 24 weeks shouldn't she know though?"

To which my very anti-abortion but pro-choice SO said "Who the fark are you or the government to tell me what I can do with my body?!?!?"

I will be voting no on that initiative.
 
W_Scarlet [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-23 2:56:31 AM  
1 vote:
Any overseas farkers want to hire an American cook?
 
lolmao500 [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-23 2:51:26 AM  
1 vote:
These talibans farks want a crusade? They gonna get one if they keep this up
 
discotaco
2020-10-23 2:47:05 AM  
1 vote:

Squid_for_Brains: This is what happens when you don't vote.


Or when you do a cute little "protest" vote and vote third party or vote for Bernie.
 
inglixthemad
2020-10-23 2:29:44 AM  
1 vote:

Cagey B: If this is the plan they may have played themselves. Biden is set up (albeit with the always lame "study panel" excuse) to move forward with court expansion after a provocation. Overturning Roe v. Wade would be the perfect such justification politically for adding four new Supreme Court justices.

Not that I want that to happen. Such a ruling would be the most harmful since Citizens United and contrary to what a lot of liberals say, would not be the end of the anti choice movement.


Nine new justices, double the size of the court, ranging from liberal for one to the libbiest libs that evar libbed for the others.

Also, you're absolutely right. They want to outlaw birth control to ensure they have a steady supply of undereducated / uneducated people for their slave class.
 
fusillade762
2020-10-23 2:26:20 AM  
1 vote:

FlashHarry: Roe will be overturned. It's all but guaranteed. So wealthy women will still have abortions, but poor ones will wind up in one of hundreds of Kermit Gosnell butcher shops around the country to die of sepsis.


I still think Republicans are making a tactical mistake by getting Roe repealed.  A lot of single-issue abortion voters may simply stop voting.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2020-10-23 12:40:03 AM  
1 vote:
COVID. No health care improvements. No stimulus. No minimum wage increase.

For this?

The pulse of America is NOT ON ABORTION.
There is something more going on: a full-on coup of the legal system.
 
buttercat [TotalFark]
2020-10-22 9:21:02 PM  
1 vote:
I can see myself rage stroking out before this all rights itself.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2020-10-22 8:14:48 PM  
1 vote:
Roe will be overturned. It's all but guaranteed. So wealthy women will still have abortions, but poor ones will wind up in one of hundreds of Kermit Gosnell butcher shops around the country to die of sepsis.
 
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