Exactly. There’s real consequences now. They were probably secretly hoping the SC would temporarily stop the law so they could continue the fight. Well, they got it now.
There are two groups worth mentioning here though. There's a group of super cynical politicians who would love to keep abortion is a permanent campaign issue in order to win elections, and there's a rabid electorate who is genuinely clamoring for the dangled changed. You can only make promises without fulfilling them for so long before the electorate starts primarying you and putting their own crazies in elected position to get the job done. That process began years ago, and there are a good chunk of politicians now who are either much more base-aligned, or full-on nutjob members of the base themselves. You can't dupe the rubes on abortion forever, it's not tax policy for heaven's sake.
Lots of them still aren't happy, though. Local right-wing radio host, Roxanne Flores (a cunt of the highest order) is bitching that it's not enough, because abortion is still legal. Every argument that woman has boils down to: "I'm Catholic, I'm a mom, and I'm a Republican, so fuck you."
Being a Catholic is NOTHING to brag about. I can’t think of a group that harms the planet (and especially it’s kids) more.
So Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the fact that the new law bans rape victims from seeking an abortion isn't an issue, because Texas is going to "eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas". So uh... was this in your power the whole time? Was Texas able to eliminate rape all along and just... chose to allow rape instead?
And send them back to Mexico right? Is he going full trump? dude must have fallen off his wheelchair one too many times
When I’m elected, my first order of business will be making it illegal to break the law. I don’t know why nobody has thought of this before.
Believe me, getting a vasectomy isn't as easy as that meme makes it out to be. Back in the "before times," (twenty years ago), I tried to get one after Li'l Bandit was born. I went to three different clinics, and they wouldn't do it because they all said that I was too young. I'd get one now, but I can't afford it. Every time some dipshit brings up banning guns after some mass-shooting, I say the same thing: JUST MAKE MURDER ILLEGAL ALREADY.
Can we take a moment to talk about Trump's absolutely nutter butters "statement" about Robert E. Lee? Even by his standards it was crazy. He came this close to claiming the Civil War was "rigged". The numbers don't make sense. Lee had 75,000 in his column, then suddenly he's got 28,000 fewer? And it only happened in a Yankee Blue State? You know what they say, "bad things happen 100 miles outside of Philadelphia." Sleepy Joe Hooker isn't even in command, this was all just a conspiracy to get Meade in the big chair.
Do any Canadians know how to vote on Monday? 1. I do not care for Trudeau in general, or how his party has handled the pandemic. Particularly the asinine "let's call an election weeks after we said we won't, two years into a five-year term and as a fourth wave hits." So, the Liberals are out. 2. My incumbent is Conservative (Marilyn Gladu). Normally I'd be fine with voting Conservative, but this woman is a piece of work. She refused to support a bill banning conversion therapy for gay children. She's publicly said that Covid can just be treated with hydrocondone, and then never clarified or retracted her statements. She shoved her face into the Israel/Palestine negotiations (WTF?). She was recorded last year, when speaking to one of our city councilors who didn't agree with the policy they were discussing, saying, "Why would you want to make your enemy?" and implying a threat. I just can't swallow the thought of purposely choosing her on a ballot. 3. The PPC is a party that, on paper, is also not too far off for me on many areas. With the big caveat that they're borderline white supremacists and have loads of racist dog whistles. Also, the guy running in my area has worked with my colleague before and she found him to be really questionable. 4. The NDP is way too socialist, no way will I sign on. 5. The Green party don't know the first thing about the economy. And there's no Bloc or independents running, so that's it. What do you do? Do you spoil the ballot?
I assumed you just smear a syrupy fingerprint on either a goose or a moose, is that not how it works?
No, smartass, it's not. First you have to bore a hole through the ice with an auger, but only an agent of the Crown is allowed to do that. So you have to register with Her Majesty's Voting and Auger service on the eve of your eighteenth birthday to be assured that, when it comes time to pull your salmon out of the ice, they have you on the list. Then you take the salmon and carve your choice into it and toss it to a polar bear. But only the male polar bears, because the female ones are used for the First Nation voting. Then we get into the electoral riding system, which is a bit more complicated.
You can spoil a ballot by marking it in such a way that there is no way to tell who you wanted to vote for. Also I believe that you can reject your ballot at the voting place, but that option may not be avaiable. Honestly unlike every other election where I feel like even spoiled/rejected ballots matter to the process consider staying home the election workers are all going to spend a day in a "high exposure" situation and every person they don't come into contact with is one less chance of something spreading.
So I voted and, my god, it was so government-run it's insane. The previous times I've voted were held in the gymnasium of a small community centre (I think it used to be an elementary school). You'd go in, be directed to your polling station, show some ID and be given a ballot and told to pick an empty wicket. This year they changed the venue to a large community centre. I presumed due to Covid spacing. Ha. HAHAHAHAHAHA. I show up and the line is out the door and not moving. Eventually work inside to the lobby where you have to give your name and phone number for contact tracing. Wait some more, then be told to go and see the lady at the wicket inside the voting area so she can tell you what ballot box is yours. The "voting area" was the size of a garage. I counted the ceiling tiles to pace it off. 24' x 26'. It contained three polling stations, plus the sign-in wicket. And there was no one directing traffic, so the "lines" were really just people standing shoulder-to-shoulder, not knowing that they were in the wrong cluster. I saw the sign-in wicket, who informed me that a driver's license alone wasn't sufficient ID. I had to go out to the hall and read her the poster that said, clearly, it was. She then brought out a binder and asked a coworker who confirmed, yes, a DL is all you need. Then we realized that people from ballot station #119 were in our line and had to be re-directed. Then she told me that I was also to go to ballot station #119, which was the only station anyone else had been told. The other two stations sat there with the attendants doing nothing while the rest of us coiled through the space, trying not to touch each other. The ballot people were only attending to one person at a time. As in, "Let me verify you again, give you a ballot, wait for you to vote and bring it back, put it in the box and leave, and then I will take the next person." I finally got to the front and, again, the lady didn't think a DL was sufficient and had to ask and drag out a binder of some kind. I voted, and then when I went to leave I realized that we were all using the same door for exiting as entering. Despite this being an anteroom with four different ways to exit leaving the space. No doors were open, no windows to be had, and everyone packed into this little room and leaving the same way they came in, back past all the other people still waiting. What. The. Fuck. If we're really worried about Covid and limiting exposure, why the fuck was there an election and how was this one polling office so poorly handled. Rant over, but man. This was the most government I've ever seen the government do.