Slippery slope: the rationale - that life begins at fertilization - what about pregnant women who drink, smoke, take drugs, or engage in other behaviors that might endanger that fetus?
Are they guilty of assault?
Should they be locked up in order to stop that assault?
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY!
FETAL PROTECTION CENTERS
A new market/revenue stream now opening for #GOPFascists and their dark money donors -
Lucrative government contracts available from the new Czar of Life at DHS who is now accepting resumes for ‘Aunt Lydias’ nation wide.
FETAL PROTECTION CENTERS where pregnant women are detained and/or monitored for behaviors that might endanger the fetus are a whole new revenue stream for beleaguered #GOPFascists. A sanitized version of the chain gangs sheriffs rent out to local farmers.
Invest now!
I was in house counsel for a hospital system specializing in risk management/mental hygiene and was often asked by providers whether a pregnant woman could be ‘confined’ against her will if she takes drugs or drinks to excess. Pre-Alito, my answer was a definitive ‘no’. . .
A SCOTUS opinion that reduces pregnant women to little more than fetal vessels is truly dystopian.
Just think of the myriad ways women of child bearing age will be monitored by the state and, if pregnant, have their autonomy/rights subsumed by the needs of the fetus. . .
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1/ Euphemisms help normalize these men!
Trump isn’t just ‘uniquely bad’; Trump is a fascist’.
A president who uses his pulpit to mislead the electorate isn’t just ‘dishonest’; he’s propagandist!
The press better show some guts before these GOP fascists steal the next election
2/GOP FASCISTS hide in plain sight behind sham elections that provide them with a ‘fig leaf’ of democratic legitimacy.
They exploit our ‘civility’ and ‘sense of fair play’;
Bend the law until it breaks; and
Hide behind euphemisms that normalize their treachery.
3/Today’s fascists know that outright censorship is unnecessary, that their flood of fake news so pollutes the media that facts/truth become virtually irrelevant.Scapegoats,wealth inequality, race, and religion are weaponized to rally/divide an increasingly desperate electorate.
”Below is a potential Lawfare piece from New Year’s Day 2021, following a not-quite-worst-case scenario of election interference using real vulnerabilities in U.S. electoral systems, as well as social media, traditional media and the political sphere.” lawfareblog.com/op-ed-future-e…
1/This is a chilling prediction of what could happen in 2021 if we don’t secure our ballot ahead of the 2020 elections, written by one of the researchers who contributed to the 2019 Stanford University study/Report on “Securing American Elctions”
2/In this fictionalized piece, Mr. Stamos delineates in excruciating detail what could go wrong in the lead up to, and on, Election Day 2020.
You really have to read that for yourself.
The question he leaves us with is this -
What will happen after?
Here are his thoughts👇
Alabama Sharpiegate! “If Trump went (this) far over a weather forecast, how far do you think he will go to remain President of the United States, and by extension, avoid the criminal prosecution that awaits him as soon as he is not?” thekingsnecktie.com/2019/09/19/kni…
1/“My fear is that while we sit here . . . treating this like a normal election. . . within the bounds of what we have always thought of as an orthodox American presidential contest-Trump and the GOP are . . .approaching it like a gang of armed robbers walking into a bank.”
2/The GOP will contest vote counts-sow chaos-rig the actual vote-falsify the numbers so it appears Trump won in places where he didn’t, and dispute the results in places where he lost. (For a sneak preview, see how Putin behaved in the Russian elections earlier this month.)
1/The GOP is setting the stage to help Trump steal or derail the 2020 elections.
So there are really only two questions left:
1/How far will Trump go in order to stay in office and avoid indictment; and
2/How far will the GOP go to help him?
Here are my answers 👇
2/It is only common sense that when you tell a man who meets secretly w/dictators and owes his fortune to money laundering oligarchs, that the only way he can avoid prison is by staying in office, he will do anything to stay there. Absolutely anything.
3/Trump has ALREADY ABUSED his EMERGENCY POWERS TWICE to CIRCUMVENT CONGRESS:1/to fund his border wall (a scam blessed by his SCOTUS) and 2/to sell arms to the Saudis. So let’s take a moment to think about how TRUMP could use his emergency powers to sabotage the 2020 elections.
1/Heres the question: why didn’t the Dem leadership challenge the constitutionality of that DOJ policy Trump is hiding behind to avoid indictment? And, worse, why did they mislead us by acting as if that policy is settled law- a policy that endangers all life on this planet?👇
2/The DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president creates a moral hazard of catastrophic proportions -it INCENTIVIZES a criminal president to abuse his power in order to remain in office and it allows a criminal president to hide behind his office and run for re-election!
3/And although @ewarren made this part of her policy platform stating “If Donald Trump were anyone other than the President . . . he would be in handcuffs and indicted.”she and her colleagues did nothing to challenge this dangerous policy right now👇
1/Very few people realize that our nuclear deterrence protocol,enacted by Congress during the Cold War, gives a president the unilateral power to not only respond to a nuclear attack BUT to launch a nuclear attack WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYONE AT ALL and FOR ANY REASON AT ALL
2/In 2018 bipartisan bills to check this unlimited presidential power were blocked by McConnell-so the man who dozens of psychiatrists say has a dangerous mental illness and who is facing criminal indictment the moment he leaves office, has the power to launch a nuclear war.
3/interactions with family, friends, and co-workers tells me that people just don’t know how this First Strike Protocol works; that it literally gives one man the power to start a nuclear war. Clearly, no man or woman should have that power, let alone this man.