End of the Roe

[kpete]

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[dalton99a]

1. Expand the court.

[Celerity]

6. +10000

Also expand the Senate (by adding DC, PR, and maybe splitting my state, California into two).

If Trump wins re-election and we do not take back the Senate in 2020 or 2022 (best of the worst case scenarios), there is an 80%+ chance the court will end up 7-2 or even 8-1 hard RW. If we win the POTUS but not the Senate, there is a high probability the Rethugs will never hold hearings on any SCOTUS replacement justice we nominate, and also, if we do win the POTUS this time, our chances in 2022 will also be diminished (of taking back the Senate).

We are caught in a constitutional clusterfuck.

[maxsolomon]

30. CA should be far more than 2.

Last edited Tue May 14, 2019, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)

WY has 2 senators for 500,000 residents.

40 million/500K = 80. 80 states, 160 senators to have equivalent representation as WY.

The imbalance in power is unsustainable.

[erronis]

35. I believe all states have two senators. It does have one rep as do other small states.

Of course the devil's spawn of Evil Dick Cheney is the current rep.

[maxsolomon]

37. Yes, I'm saying if CA's residents were as equally represented in the Senate as WY's,

they'd need to split into 80 States. The Senate gives underpopulated states disproportionate power, and that is unfair to populated states. Equal representation.

Sorry if that was unclear.

[More_Cowbell]

43. The House is also not proportional. It would need many more states to be fair.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-population-keeps-growing-but-house-of-representatives-is-same-size-as-in-taft-era/

[Celerity]

45. the House (and thus the Electoral College) is a an easy fix, no Constitutional Amendment needed

Expand it to 1001, maybe 1,501 and much more fairly distribute the numbers of seats. All it takes is an Act of Congress.

If we had proportional representation in terms of number of people per representative equal to the UK House of Commons, there would be 3,250 members of the US House. If we were equal to Sweden, around 11,500 in the US House. 435 for a nation of 330,000,000 is madness.

[erronis]

47. Imagine paying all those salaries! To say nothing about having to bribe thousands of reps.

It might bankrupt Putin and the Plutocrats (sounds like an old rock band.)

[Celerity]

48. ONE Lockheed Martin F-35C's cost would cover ALL the yearly salaries of the extra Reps (if 1001 was

the targeted size.)

Just the helmet is over 400,000 USD (2 Rep's annual salaries plus 50K USD left over)

Link to tweet

[jmowreader]

44. I'm going to be very blunt here

If Trump wins reelection and he has a Republican Senate to deal with, I predict there will be at least one assassination of a liberal Supreme Court justice. I wouldn't put it past them to try to kill every liberal federal judge in the country. These guys aren't going to wait around and HOPE a liberal judge or justice steps down; they will shoot enough of them to tip the courts so far to the right (and filled up with hard-right-wingers in their 30s and 40s who'll be there for decades) we'll never get them back in any of our lifetimes.

Trump is an evil, evil man. The sick part is, the people who claim to be Christians are all on his side.

[Grown2Hate]

50. I mean, if Trump wins reelection and has a Republican Senate, why even deal with reality?

They'll just do whatever they want, change rules to just throw people off the court willy-nilly (they won't bother with assassination; they'll just start doing whatever). They're not following the rule of law NOW; imagine if he basically gets codified with another election.

I guess I just mean that it's literally the end of the Republic if he wins again. The Last President indeed. We HAVE to win. HAVE TO.

[NurseJackie]

13. That's the only way.

VP Kamala Harris should use that one of her campaign issues when she runs for president in 2024.

[pdsimdars]

21. That's one of Pete's ideas.

[KPN]

22. THIS!

F*** relationships with the party that has been waging all out war against liberals for the past 40+ years at the behest of southern aristocrats and billionaires.

Only a fool courts those who would erase them.

[TygrBright]

28. CONTRACT the Court. Save costs. Seven Justices. Last on, first off. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

38. That would result in 7 conservative asshole, 4 appointed by Gropenfuhrer.

[Lucky Luciano]

40. My sig line!

[SoCalDem]

51. Supreme court should be 21.

takes 9 to accept a case, and after acceptance, a random draw of 9 to hear/decide the case.

That would END all the bullshit cases..A coalition might accept a case and then end up NOT deciding it..karma !

Justices should be no younger than 60 and have maximum terms of 10 years..Mandatory retirement at 75..

That would make it an apolitical body with a reliable turnover that reflects the nation

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

[ismnotwasm]

3. Yeah well

It was clear to anyone actually paying attention.

[enough]

11. Which is the point of the cartoon. NT

[ismnotwasm]

32. I got that.

[Buckeyeblue]

4. It's a great cartoon

It illustrates the irony of waiting to late to really care. And while Roe is a women's reproductive rights issue, it is also a major civil rights issue for everyone.

Let's predict the general reaction?

[StarfishSaver]

9. It also illustrates something wlse

Many people didn't care about or bother to fight against minority voter suppression because, after all, it didn't affect THEIR ability to vote. So what's the big deal?

But what they didn't realize or care enough to think about is that most of the people who were prevented from getting to the polls and whose votes were suppressed would have voted for the same people they did and would have helped ensure pro-choice politicians were elected and prevent anti-choice Neanderthals from taking control of state legislatures and governorships across the country, where these laws are being enacted and signed into law.

This is a perfect example of how fighting for the right of others is in your own best interest.

[misanthrope]

39. Agreed

It's a nice encapsulation of human behavior. We are highly reactive creatures but not so good with proactivity, even when we have every warning.

It's also an illustration of why we are in for a world of hurt regarding environmental disaster and climate change. We're always looking for the path of least resistance.

[AlexSFCA]

5. Question

If RGB announces planned retirement in 2021 a month before 2020 election, will that help dem turnout? or will that help gop turnout more?

[Ohiogal]

7. Too much of

“It’s just a women’s issue.” (shrug). As if something that greatly affects 50% of the population isn’t that important.

And a lack of candidates willing to go to the mat on this.

I’m surprised that guy in the last panel is even upset.

[Lars39]

10. I'm surprised she stayed with him all those years.

[Wounded Bear]

8. How'd we let that happen, indeed...

[lunasun]

12. + a bazillion

[Cold War Spook]

14. I don't think that The Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade.

It will be easier for them to just turn it into a states' rights issue.

[Danmel]

17. Overturning Roe makes it a state's rights issue

The whole point of Roe is to restrain the states, especially the ones that want to jail women and their physicians. The point is a persons constitutional right to privacy and autonomy.

[StarfishSaver]

26. This exactly

Abortion was a state's rights issue before Roe.

If it returns to that, women will suffer as their reproductive rights are left to state legislatures.

[yardwork]

29. They would have to overturn it to give the decision to the states.

That's how it works. Roe v Wade decided that every woman in the U.S. has the right to decide to have an abortion (within lots of restrictions), no matter where she lives.

[LanternWaste]

33. JFC... to become a state right issue it *has* to (by definition) be overturned by the USSC.

JFC... to become a state right issue, its current incarnation *has* to (by definition) be overturned by the USSC.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Easy does it! There are nicer ways to educate! nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

52. Uhhhhh....

Newsflash buddy.

[Snake Plissken]

15. Of the roughly 108 million females who are eligible to vote only 37.5 million voted for Hillary

That is why Republicans continue their war on women's issues, they aren't being given a reason to stop it.

[calimary]

18. Good point. I wonder how many women didn't or wouldn't vote for Hillary

because whatever-the-fuck, and now wish to God we could have a do-over.

[leftofcool]

25. Yep

Because emails and a couple of Goldman Sachs speeches.

[maxsolomon]

31. The white women who voted for Trump would do it again and again.

It is a prime motivating issue for Catholic Women.

I am related to several. They WANT to overturn RvW and will vote for ANY Republican over ANY Democrat because of it. They have no regrets. It is the prime political crusade of their lives.

[Dan]

34. Always wondered...

What’s the plan for the unwanted and unsupported children that will be born - in a country that loves the fetus and hates the child?

[maxsolomon]

36. Stop thinking logically about consequences.

The RCC says liberals are killing babies and that's all you need to know.

[Nay]

42. The plan is for those children to be further abused and be used as cannon fodder/inmates for

for-profit jails/prostitutes. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU ARE BORN.

[maxsolomon]

55. That's not the plan.

The only plan is "End Abortion, stop murder, save the innocent".

The planning stops at that point. They don't THINK about what happens when unwanted children are born, or all the hypothetical scenarios we propose - "give the baby up for adoption if you don't want it" is probably the closest thing there is to a plan.

[calimary]

54. I have a friend like that.

Sigh... I love her like the sister I never had. But she turned to the Dark Side years ago, and refuses to climb back out of it.

Makes me so sad, sometimes. I’m still trying to reach her and pull her away from that. Failing utterly, so far.

[StarfishSaver]

27. Oh, come on. There was something about her they just didn't like

That's all that matters, isn't it?

[Solly Mack]

16. Yep.

[FakeNoose]

19. K & R

[Chin music]

20. There was a huge Womens Movement in the 1970's.

Changed a lot of things. Women got out in the streets and stuff changed relatively quickly.
Spring and Summer is the best time to protest.
After Roe is overturned, they will dig in, and it's a done deal. NOW is the time to be heard. They not only want to ban abortions, they want women to go to jail for up to 99 years for it. We've come too far to let this continue. imho.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. I distinctly remember

In the 60's and early 70's I distinctly remember a number of girls with rich parents who suddenly went to Sweden or Denmark to "study abroad" for a semester. I am sure there were many others who went to their Rich parents Dr.'s for a "D & C" procedure.........

[certainot]

23. 2 ways to punish GOP - starting with 3 universities in GA that helped do this and can be protested

those schools broadcast sports on 14 limbaugh stations. they give them cred and help them attract advertisers. all those stations follow the limbaugh lead. the local blowhards on those stations have to be pro republican and anti choice or they lose their jobs.

from republiconradio.org

GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

if GA anti choice cons paid $1000/hr to support and elect republicans those stations would be worth $1,050,000/WEEK FREE to them (1000x15hrs/dayx5 =$75,000/ station)

and think about what difference that made in the stacey abrams 'defeat' - how many points was that worth? and in the next election?

students at those universities can protest right on campus - those schools have no excuse to keep supporting trump, global warming denial, and anti-choice motherfuckers. local GOP will freak out. all their pols know the importance of being able to ride limbaugh's/talk radio's trail of lies as well as RWTRs invisibility to the left.

anyone anywhere can record programs and podcasts on those stations and can use artificial intelligence-enhanced transcription such as at sonix.ai for $5/hr, and list advertisers with contact info with very little listening required. the companies that are helping republicans with this shit can be associated directly with the crap they sponsor.

when the ad industry realizes they're going to have to stop bundling advertisers onto those huge stations and start asking them all if they actually want to support anti-choice, trump, global warming denial they'll have to start applying actual market demand and it will kill the 20-1 monopoly. the ad industry will kill trump putin talk radio to be able to get their clients onto those huge radio stations without getting trashed. it's stoprush x 100.

from republiconradio.org

Artificial intelligence now makes it very easy to list talk radio advertisers
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[Drunken Irishman]

46. This comic is way too optimistic...

The age gap between the 4th and 6th panel suggests decades - Roe will be overturned in the next half-decade, unfortunately.

[corbettkroehler]

49. Yep, There's Too Little Outrage Every Time Rights Are Narrowed

In the short term, this will cost lives, I have no doubt. I am equally certain that the other side doesn't care.

In the long term, this enormous, worst ever, overreach finally will galvanize the entire nation and we can move to a permanent fix, rendering all of these state-level myopic disasters moot.

[no_hypocrisy]

53. I was yelling that Roe was on the way to being overturned in 1992 when Casey

was decided, and that decision was just to place "safe limits" on abortion.