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Republicans Debate Executing Women Over Abortion

https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article259670215.html  (video at the link)

Should Texas punish abortions by putting teenage girls and women to death?

Or not?

That’s the current debate in the Republican Party of Texas, where outlawing abortion is no longer a question of “if” or “when” but a question of whether to kill women for getting one.

North Richland Hills Republican David Lowe swears his campaign in the May 24 runoff election has nothing to do with killing women.

“I’m not even a fan of the death penalty,” he told a Republican women’s club luncheon last week in downtown Fort Worth.

But then he went on to praise a House bill last session that would have made ending a pregnancy a potential capital crime..

In other words, Texas could kill the woman, along with anyone who encouraged her or helped.

Lowe’s final comment was chilling.

“Do we all agree that abortion is murder?” he asked the crowd.

“Absolutely. There should be consequences for it.”

Of all the opponents, Lowe — an Afghanistan war veteran and longtiime Dallas County party volunteer — chose to run against District 91 state Rep. Stephanie Klick, a five-term House member from the Haltom City-North Richland Hills-Watauga district.

Klick, a 35-year nurse, has been a low-key House leader in Texas’ one-step-at-a-time effort to end abortion.

So far, Texas has reduced abortions by about 10%.

“Abolishing abortion is important, but we can do that without giving women the death penalty,” Klick told the luncheon.

She talked about how pregnancy clinics counsel many teenage girls. At 18, they’d be eligible for the death penalty.

“Do we want to give those young girls the death penalty?” Klick asked.

“ ... I don’t think it’s necessary to sentence women to death that had an abortion.”

If you’re wondering how killing women became a pivotal Republican issue, that just shows how extreme this Texas primary and runoff have become.

Strong, steady, rock-solid conservatives are up against outlandish challengers accusing them of fixing elections, mutilating children or enabling abortions..

Some other runoffs statewide match faith-and-values candidates who both want Texas governed by the Bible.

They just can’t agree on whether to use the Old or New Testament.

Lowe has said he filed against Klick mainly not over abortion, but because Texas has failed to outlaw using hormones or rarely used medical procedures to affect children’s or teenagers’ gender.

In an interview with a political website, Lowe’s message to LGBT Texans — an estimated population of 1.1 million — was: “Keep your hands off our children.”

Lowe is also aligned with a Texas affiliate of Abolish Human Abortion, which calls for an immediate halt to abortion regardless of court decisions or law.

Arlington Republican state Rep. Tony Tinderholt filed Texas’ first such bill in 2017.

The more recent 2021 version by Royse City Republican state Rep. Bryan Slaton would make ending a pregnancy anytime after fertilization a potential capital crime.

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Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project Puts the Ginny Thomas Scandal in Perspective.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/25/2088163/-Rick-Wilson-puts-the-Ginny-Thomas-scandal-in-perspective

So Rick Wilson of the Lincoln project has basically demonstrated in a pretty nice Twitter rant, the hollowness and hypocrisy of the Republican party regarding the Ginny Thomas scandal, but also how Republicans have really become masters at working the referees and how outrageous that has become.   To save time I’ve consolidated the thread in a quote below: 

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Imagine for a moment what the Republicans would say if the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice nominated by a Democrat joined in a conspiracy..to overthrow a free and fair American election. Imagine she or he was part of a conspiracy to launch a violent, shock-and-awe attack on the Capitol in its furtherance. An attack that led to lives lost, our Capitol desecrated.

 

Imagine their response as she was discovered in the days leading up to the attack to be texting and emailing a Democratic White House Chief of Staff, encouraging him to illegally overturn the election and promote lurid conspiracy nonsense. Imagine she promoted the idea Republicans were "being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”

 

Now imagine her husband was the sole vote to protect the losing President from scrutiny. I'll tell you what they'd do.They'd burn Washington to the damn ground.They'd salt the earth.They'd call for sanctions, impeachment, removal.

Their powerful media apparatus would turn it into a 24/7 scandal story that would never ever disappear. Facebook would amplify (and monetize!) a million pages calling for the removal of said Justice.

 

They'd hold hearings and drag every person involved before them...in a televised Great Spectacle.  It would become a centerpiece of their messaging for ages. It would be a drumbeat about the corruption of the opposing party.It would motivate no end of earnest op-eds from the gentry media.

 

The GOP silence now is telling. They've become masters are working the media refs. This isn't a trivial little scandal. It's real, it stinks, and it's outrageous.

 

One of the reasons I wanted to post this is because right now, Democrat's in the Senate are demanding Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any cases involving Jan 6th or Trump’s election.

To me that seems about 1/1000th as strong as it should be.  Democrats should be demanding Thomas recuse himself permanently from the Supreme Court! They should be calling for hearings They should be asking their colleagues during the current confirmation fight why they are not speaking out about this outrage?  They should be talking about the corruption of past decisions. This isn’t even the first time with the Thomas's.  Democrats should be loudly pointing out if you don’t Believe in Free elections or Democracy itself, how can you be trusted to serve on the highest court in the land? 

In my opinion we can learn from Republicans on messaging.  They would salt the earth as Rick Wilson has stated. I realize we don’t have talk radio and our own news network but that doesn’t mean we can’t do something. We need bring the kind outrage Republicans would to this issue. We need to call on our elected officials and ask for hearings ask for resignations We need to embrace the power of spectacle. 

MAKE THIS WOMAN TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS!!!!  PUT IT ON TELEVISION!! Don’t say things like “This is disturbing!” call it an attack on our Democracy. IT IS! Call it Corruption. IT IS! Say that this has placed  the entire legitimacy of the Supreme Court in question. IT HAS!!  Just don’t be mild in your response. 

 

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insanity reigns

at this rate the yanks are careening towards a civil war

 

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Based 

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This is #Bucha. The outskirt of #Kyiv. Russians were killing people with their hands tied behind their backs and left the bodies near the road. I am shaking. #StopPutinNOW

 

 

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insane amount of war crimes being done by the Russians and Putin in Ukraine

thousands upon thousands of civilians, many women and children, being slaughtered in cold blood and left in the streets like dogs or buried in mass graves with bulldozers

or burnt alive, mass shooting, rapes

thousands of residential buildings bombed and shot up

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Rick Scott's midterm plan is nuts

It would trash the economy and dismantle the federal government

 

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Srebrenica massacre

The Srebrenica massacre (Serbo-Croatian: Masakr u Srebrenici / Масакр у Сребреници), also known as the Srebrenica genocide (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid u Srebrenici / Геноцид у Сребреници), was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War.

The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre.

Edited April 3, 2022 by Vesper

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Don Winslow - #PutinsWarCrimes

 

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There Is No Hate Like Christian Love

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On 23/03/2022 at 13:43, Fernando said:

I think Israel should jump in Ukraine and help. 

Since no one will help Ukraine. They have no choice because Russia next target is Israel. So might as well jump at it before they get attack by Russia, Iran and others. 

Israel accuses Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine

Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid, has strongly condemned Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine in a statement intensifying Israel’s criticism of Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian foreign minister says Ukrainians are Nazis because they won’t share their borscht recipes. Famous for her drinking habits, she’s also shitfaced.

At this speech the official representative of @MID_RF Maria Zakharova declared that the reason for war was Ukrainians didn't want to share borscht with her. Also she is apparently absolutely drunk

 

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by Vesper

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just wow 😮

 

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Such a deficit in trustworthy, competent heads of state everywhere.

We've been sold the concept of 'leaders' gas lighted into a disastrous sheep mentality. Fuck them all 😀