Showing posts with label illegal. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 13, 2023

The Comstock Act shows Republicans are tying to nullify and repeal the last 150 years

By the Power of Comstock
I, hereby, disband the FDA
And outlaw Mifepristone
No Vaccines either
Republicans have nothing to offer the American people.

In many regards the Republicans have to outlaw Abortion, for over 40 years Republicans have been telling their conservative drones give us power and we will ban Abortion in the United States.  Now this was originally a cynical power grab by the Reaganite criminals but, multiple generations have grown up being fed this rightwing agitprop and expect payment for their work.

The Republican Party is eliminating Abortion.  The Republican Party is going to do away with birth control.  The Republican Party will outlaw gay marriage.  The Republican Party is going to make Interstate travel illegal for pregnant persons. 

Legal concepts like standing, statue of limitations, settled law, precedent are of no consequence to the Rightwing agenda.  None whatsoever.  All that matters is pushing through the Republican agenda of oppression. 

Nullification is a concept rightwingers never truly abandoned.  They tried to nullify and repeal President Obama's tenure, especially Obamacare.  Rightwingers tried to nullify President Biden's election.  Now, Mullah Kacsmaryk choose to Nullify the FDA.

But, these things get lost in the fine grain, day-to-day political writings by which the Corporate Media blob and pundit class can blissfully ignore the metastasizing threat of the Republican authoritarianism.  And act as though bad faith Republican arguments had merit and Republicans really did have a Healthcare Option to replace Socialist Obamacare, for instance.

Instead of pointing out the festering cancer which grew slowly at first and now has accelerated to warp speed the savvy pundit class engaged in bad faith Both Sides Do It rhetoric and there is no difference between the parties hand-wringing.  But, despite the media's worst efforts election after election constantly demonstrates the simple fact: Republicans Hate You.
  • Kacsmaryk's ruling was not even a joke but, a QAnon blog post.  It took blog comments as evidence and the 5th Circuit Court's deeply disingenuous save attempt was little better. 
  • This April and actions of petulant Republicans in Wisconsin, in Tennessee, in Idaho and everywhere else in this great Nation demonstrate the abject, visceral hatred Republicans have for America and humanity in general.
  • After losing the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, basically on the issue of his draconian support of the 1849 Abortion Law, petulant dishonorable Dan Kelly, gave an unprofessional concession speech
  • Florida passed a near-complete Abortion ban.
  • Missouri Republican Mike Moon got mad when confronted about his position of parents marrying off 12 year olds.
  • Idaho passed the first step in restricting women's freedom of movement, under the guise of protecting the girls.

They pass these laws because they know, like the Comstock Act, that even 150 years later they can call upon them again when needed.  Republicans have passed the Event Horizon and now a fully-fascist organization.  At this point the physical violence is barely constrained but, they have no problem with bureaucratic violence, as we witnessed in Tennessee where Bigoted Racist White Republicans threw two young black male Representatives out of the Congress for the crime of Uppityness.  Of course, in the spotlight all manner of ethical violations, rank bigotry, and crimes by those self-same Republicans have been revealed but they face no prospect of being expelled from the Congress.

But, understand right now Republicans are barely able to constrain their violent impulses and desires by these lawless "judicial nullifications" and state laws but, the time is coming soon when such pale fair won't satiate the blood lust that every Republican is aching to sate by rounding up and murdering millions of Americans.

Fascism is Here.

Friday, March 27, 2015

There's more than corn in Indiana, there's also the Right-to-Discriminate and be a Christian Bigot (Updated)

Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me,
Get him up against the wall! - In the Flesh , Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979). Adopted by the Indiana Republicans as marching orders.
Republicans are going to force you to become christians. Not "Papists" mind you, because as Sarah Palin elucidated, Pope Francis sounds "too liberal" and the Republicans in Congress cancelled a Ceremonial Bill honoring the Pontiff because his Papal pronouncements too closely aligned with President Obama.

Now, we've listened to Phil Robertson fantasize about a horrific torture/murder spree he'd like to unleash on atheists which included raping little girls, beheading women and cutting dicks off now we have the Indiana Republicans and Republican Governor Mike Pence ramming through a Religious Discrimination Bill.

98 of the 103 Republicans in the Indiana State Legislature voted to allow Christian Bigots to discriminate against you because they feel like it. Like all illegal shameful laws passed, Governor Pence could not do this in the light of day but, had to slink into a secret room to affix his signature to the euphemistically titled Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

We've seen the Hobby Lobby Scotus decision empower business owners to dictate what you can and can not do with your healthcare, opening the floodgates for religious bigots to be able to tell you that you can not use your salary, your pay, or your benefits as you see fit.

This isn't about restoring the free exercise of religion or what a person does in the privacy of their own home or the practices of their church but, another step towards allowing businesses to discriminate.

The unfortunate truth is if you wish to operate a company in America you need to accept each and every customer regardless of whether you agree or disagree with their personal beliefs. You recall all the onerous regulations stifling business according to republicans? The Civil Rights Act of 1968 which outlawed Discrimination is what Republicans and Conservatives find onerous.

And what the Republicans are doing through the passage of these Unconstitutional and Illegal Laws is to build a case brick by bigoted brick to eliminate The Civil Rights Act.

As more laws are passed its getting closer and closer to the day when the political system which comes wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross triumphantly lays claim to the United States.

Update:
Fortunately, there has been a strong push back on Twitter/Facebook and On-line. Unfortunately, what the Clicktavists don't understand is Republicans Do. Not. Care. because they know most people don't vote and even if one Republican (Mike Pence, for instance) loses his position in Government a whole cadre of Republican stand ready to use the Awesome Power of Government to enforce their Bigotry.

Update 2:
So, a Right-Winger in Arizona pushed for mandatory church attendence across the Nation. Big Deal, you might think, until you realize the Right-Winger is an elected State Congresswoman who is willing to use the Power of Government to force you to attend a church.

Then again you might shrug and dismiss it as some local po-dunk backwater Teabagger with little power until Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and 2016 Presidential Aspirant has called for a Big christian Tent Revival to regain America's lost morality.