after the god-bothering zealots of the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that microscopic clumps of frozen cells were legally children — causing every IVF facility in the state to shut down — Republicans across the nation fell all the fuck over each other in a mad dash to openly declare how much they looooooooove them some IVF.
put a fucking sock in it, you weasel-mouthed hypocrites.
Republicans are now trying to have it both ways.
“yes, life begins at conception and frozen embryos are babies and killing babies is murder,” they’re saying — but also that “it’s totally cool to kill embryo-babies during the IVF process because…” oh fuck, my head hurts from just trying to type out this sentence.
check out Holy Mike Johnson trying desperately to thread that needle.
reporter: “do you believe discarding embryos is murder?”
Johnson: “look, I believe in the sanctity of every human life — I always have — and because of that I support IVF.”
that’s not an answer, fuck-knuckle, and you know it.
fact: the IVF process pretty much requires that some embryos end up destroyed.
If an embryo is inserted into the uterus and implants to the uterine wall, pregnancy occurs—but the chance of IVF being successful on the first couple of attempts stands at just around 50 percent. Embryos that don’t implant are destroyed in the process.
so what’s going in this scenario, Holy Mike? are babies being murdered during IVF or not? answer the question, Mr. Sanctity of Life.
Mike won’t say, but we already know the answer: killing embryo-babies is cool, as long as it’s in the service of wealthy Republican voters — but if you’re a ten-year-old child who’s been raped by your degenerate father, then it’s fuck you, little girl, carry that rape-baby to term.
sanctity of life, my ass.
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth just called the Republicans’ IVF bluff.
she was all “ok, hombres, if you’re so hot to protect IVF from god-mad zealots and their embryos-are-children bullshit, then you’ll support the bill I just introduced that does exactly that, right?”
The legislation states that people have a right to “access assisted reproductive technology” — and that doctors have the right to provide it and insurers the right to cover it — without fear of prosecution.
you’ll never guess what happened next.
A Republican senator on Wednesday blocked quick passage of a bill that would establish federal protections for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments.
it was actually a brilliant bit of mindfuckery on Duckworth’s part.
Democrats orchestrated the attempt to pass the bill as they sought to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans who have rushed to voice support for I.V.F. after the Alabama ruling, even though many of them have sponsored legislation that declares that life begins at the moment of fertilization.
so now Republicans have to explain to their constituents why they killed legislation that would have protected IVF.
excellent move, Senator. more like this, please.
and now the forced-birth fascists are coming for medication abortion.
Nearly 150 Republican lawmakers asked the Supreme Court Thursday to restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone—citing a law from 1873—when it hears a case on March 26. In a legal filing known as an amicus brief, 26 Senators and 119 Representatives argue that not only did the Food and Drug Administration not follow proper procedure when it updated the pill’s labeling in 2016 and then allowed telemedicine prescriptions in 2021, but they claim the agency “blatantly disregard[ed] the federal law’s prohibition on the mailing and interstate shipment of abortion-inducing drugs.”
the roster of Republicans who put their names on this brief reads like a who’s who of the most-useless shitstains in Congress.
The list of Republicans who signed on to this filing includes prominent lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
the “abortion should be left up to the states” crowd is now openly rooting for a national ban on mifepristone, even in states where abortion is legal — because of course they are.
once again, for Republicans, hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug.
what will they come for next?
Donny Demento was down at the border for a photo-op yesterday, trying to make everyone forget that it’s his fault that we don’t have border security — and if you were expecting to hear some world-class incoherence, Sundowning Grandpa Stumblefuck did not disappoint.
“…because everybody who has pictures says how horrible it is. nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages. we have languages coming into our country. we have nobody that even speaks those languages. they’re truly foreign languages. nobody even speaks them.”
oh my god, we have languages coming into our country — as well as people who don’t speak languages.
Christ on a pogo stick, Donny, what fucking language are you speaking? because it sure as shit isn’t English.
The Dear Leader says: "…because everybody who has pictures says how horrible it is. nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages. we have languages coming into our country. we have nobody that even speaks those languages. they’re truly foreign languages. nobody even speaks them.”
The following appeared today in Jennifer Rubin's column in the Washington Post:
"Salon interviewed John Gartner, a psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
Gartner was analytic, specific and frank. He pointed to “‘phonemic paraphasias’ — the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar.” He spelled out his observations:
"Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal.” Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.” …
"Trump also engages in what we call “tangential speech.” He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that’s a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step ... but of severe cognitive deterioration."
"What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over and over in the mainstream media. Isn’t Trump babbling incoherently the most newsworthy part of his rally? You can be sure it would be if it were Biden.
"Perhaps outlets and figures such as Gartner who responsibly discuss Trump’s mental and emotional condition will shame the rest of the media into covering what should be a major story."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/01/newsletter-race-trump/
Women are going to destroy the Republicans in November. They are evil idiots.
Trump clearly has dementia.
Please write to the Supreme Court at supremecourt.gov/contact
I unloaded on them and it felt so good.