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“Gilead” of Handmaids Tale, an authoritarian straight white patriarchal society of Christian professed faith, grab the pussy power and control everything. Dominion. 7 Mountains. Q. Anti-government as in anti-democracy, tyranny control by a minority over all. Gilead. Hopefully this is waking up the “electronically distracted” youth and also, looking back to 2016, the purists “oh, I don’t like this and that HRC so I’m not voting or I am switching around”. I am not a huge HRC fan, just pragmatic, was either her or off the charts narcissist/possible sociopath. Then 2020, Biden got 80+ million votes, the other got 70+ million votes, and here is the big time shame of a democracy totally taken for granted, 100+ million did not vote at all. I hope by now they see much more importance of a single vote added to a stack. I know “shoulda woulda coulda” 2016, but just imagine how much better off this nation would be right now, in terms of fewer COVID deaths and different Supreme Court appointments for just two items. Vlad the Pooty Poot knew he would have a much harder time going up against HRC’s experience, smarts and firm line. He wanted and groomed “the other”, likely for a decade+ Vlad was on the lookout for the type of personality to promote that his KGB 15 years of foreign intelligence psychology could manipulate in the palm of his hand. The 100M+ unmotivated, distracted and purists, I really hope by now see the weight of just one vote added to the stack. Take pride in the world’s oldest democracy, take part. Vote.

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022Liked by Michelangelo Signorile

There’s two issues here and you kind of hit on them, does the women have a right to decide in reference to her own body, the other is when does life start.

The religious people want to force upon everybody else, via the government, the concept that a sperm in an egg is a baby, that’s the argument you should take to them. If they try to change the subject to an embryo ask them if life starts at conception? That’s what they claim. Make them talk about a sperm and an egg being a baby, they’d rather talk about near birth abortion, that isn’t really a thing except in horrible cases of Pregnancies gone wrong. They want to talk about things to drive emotions not logic.

We compromised with them 50 years ago and set it at 20 weeks the problem with religion, it never has enough, it will never compromise. If they compromise they’re planning to cheat or they’re lying. “ We’ll agree to 20 weeks! (until we can put a corrupt pig in the White House that will give us three corrupt judges)“

The idea that a sperm in an egg as a baby is absurd, it’s downright stupid, the question is, is from that point on when does a person start, I’m still perfectly happy with 20 weeks.

I also get tired with the states rights things never understood why tyranny of the federal government is any different than tyranny of a state government. If a state knows better than why can’t a county know better? States rights is a tactic of liars and crooks. Like the slave states that wanted states rights to keep their slaves, but didn’t want states rights when they wanted to force other states to return their slaves.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Michelangelo Signorile

Now that the die is seemingly cast, can we move on to how to dismantle the Right Terrorist Party? Former usa has persued in other nations regime change because they wouldn't voluntarily acceed to our wishes. We were told since the Raygun years where Roe was headed and signs were ignored. We were given a gift of a leak and additional time to compose midterm strategies to thwart a possible November catastrophe. Dirty little secret: More white women obtain abortions than minority women, they are the bloc of voters to target for now. Even cursory reading of the leak shows just how much contempt Alito has for this country which is the reason he had to tell us that Roe was "egregiously decided president" which translates to chipping away all these years has paid off for us white menfolk who want women to be put back in their place...

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May 6, 2022Liked by Michelangelo Signorile

I heard this guy live and kept thinking how would he like having to drive to Arizona to buy his AR-15. Or whether he believes in a right to privacy, or he wants regulation over what he does in the bedroom or what he discusses with his doctor. What if he has terminal cancer and decides to forego treatment and the Christian Taliban says no, you have to promote “life” at all costs and you are mandated in Wyoming to get treatment whether you want it or not. I mean these people just are not thinking this shit through. What if one state turns red? Then it becomes illegal? Then that same state turns back to blue? Then it’s legal again for 4 years? I mean these idiots don’t get that we are going to be living in two completely different countries now where civil rights of everyone can be at the whim of the states. On a PS Mike I read something today by gay rights lawyer telling same sex couples they should get married asap because the court will not be able to undo the marriage even if they start eroding or abolishing the right for future couples. Thought that was interesting since the Christian Taliban have said that’s next on their agenda.

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Maybe use this or something similar:

I'm NOT pro-murdering babies.

I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.

I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.

I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.

I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11-year-old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.

I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her.

I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.

I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.

I'm pro-Christina who doesn't want to be a mother, but birth control methods sometimes fail.

I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child.

I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.

I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.

I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding.

You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is:

I'm pro-life.

Their lives.

Women's lives.

You don't get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.

Women's rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022

Every sperm is sacred... Every sperm is great... If a sperm is wasted... God gets quite irate.

Good job, Mike!

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It is so infuriating. Soon this disgusting extremist conservative evangelical Supreme Court is going to place everything in the hands of individual state legislators meaning there will be GOP run states without abortion, without contraception, without interracial marriage, without same sex marriages, and what is most horrific to me, they will not honor other states with different laws, so my marriage will be invalid perhaps in the state where I am currently a homeowner. Unbelievable. Life in total chaos. 2022 in the USA. What a nightmare.

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Also, he said abortion is “killing a baby,” but I doubt he cares about born and living children who have died due to poverty/lack of access to affordable health care, Covid, or gun violence.

Those deaths are unfortunate, but necessary sacrifices for “freedom.”

Also, what is it about white men who have this idea that women are their property, no matter how much they try to protest those charges?

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Dustin needs to realize his “rights” were to be made BEFORE he engaged in sex; protected or not. After that, it’s up to the one carrying the fetus.

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The government has no say-so on what women do with their bodies. We have right-wing Catholic Judges on the Supreme Court bench who are legislating their religious beliefs. We are not all part of their religion. After this, anything not named in the Constitution will be made a crime (i.e. gay rights, minority rights). The only thing they care about is their !@#$%!! right to carry guns and shoot who they please. If people don't wake up soon, the country is gone and the right-wing freaks will be in power permanently.

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I personally would like to see a ban on the Supreme Court. If this isn’t evidence of it political hackery and incompetence I don’t know what is.

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The nan is a fool and a good example of why our democracy is hanging by a thread! There are too many Americans who won’t wake up till their rights are taken away and then it will be too late!

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Precedent

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Yes, #AllMen

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Disgusting old men telling me what I can do with my body! No! Nope. PROTEST! Speak up!

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I’m just getting to this clip, and this dude’s anger about “contraception being banned being false” aged like milk! Also, McConnell talking about the possibility of a federal abortion ban if GOP takes back control. News cycles just keep destroying this guy’s arguments.

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