Saturday, September 17, 2022

We Need to Talk About Lady G

     So there Lindsey Graham was last Tuesday, surrounded by oodles of beautiful female flesh and trying admirably to tamp down his gag reflex that never seems to be triggered while fellating Donald Trump. It came at a time when other Republicans that actually have survival instincts know enough to skirt the SCOTUS' extremely unpopular Dobbs decision that coat-hangered Roe v Wade.
     For months, Republicans have been running with the speed of Olympic sprinters at the sight of anyone who even remotely looks like a reporter, especially one who might ask them about Roe. They literally run away, whip out cell phones and instantly manufacture calls with Very Important People or refuse to answer the questions. Dr. Oz (R-Ten houses in NJ PA) refuses to answer whether he'll support a total abortion ban in Congress, prompting John Fetterman to start a countdown clock.
     Basically, Roe v Wade hasn't turned out to be the infallible hood ornament issue like the type that had served them so well in past elections. Instead, abortion had quickly turned into Coleridge's albatross out of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Voters, voters, everywhere, indeed.
     So, into the limelight minces Lady G at this exact moment in time, madly thinking, "Just think of them as twinks, just think of them as twinks" while using female human wallpaper in a pathetic attempt to manufacture consensus on his latest scheme- A nationwide abortion ban after 15 weeks and states' rights, in contravention of his previous position, can suddenly go fuck itself.
     Just as the Supreme Court had decided stare decisis, or respect for legal precedent, can also go fuck itself while dooming millions of women to having risky back alley abortions, traveling out of state, raped children to go full term or forced to endure miscarriages that could kill them.
     So after Lady G and the Hangerettes had their turn at the mic, Republicans secretly wanted to throttle Graham on the spot. It's not that they think abortion bans are wrong. They're privately on board with all this Handmaid's Tale crap. It was just an inopportune time to bring this shit up, especially as Republicans retaking the Senate and most likely the House is about as likely as Mizz Lindsey prancing out of the closet.
     But the abandonment of states' rights and stare decisis in the face of extreme political opportunism even when that opportunism doesn't exist seems to be the way of Graham and other assholes like Gym Jordan who told other Republicans to "lean into" Dobbs as if it was the most popular thing to come out of the government since Social Security (Or a gym team doctor leaning into a student in the shower).
     So all those right wing mealy-mouthed platitudes about stare decisis? Forget it. The right wing fetish for states' rights (at least when it doesn't pertain to racism and racist policies)? Pfft. Unlike the culture war hood ornament issues of the last couple of dozen election cycles, radical Republican scum like Graham and Jordan will quickly shove that baby carriage before them even as the semi bears down on them.
    But Republicans up for reelection this year have long since realized to their horror that, far from Roe's destruction being the Trojan Horse that was supposed to barrel them into Capitol Hill en masse, it's, instead, turned into the Third Rail of US politics of this election cycle. And to just graze against it means instant political death.
     This was why over 400 Republicans both past and present signed and sent to the US Senate a letter actually begging it to safeguard same sex marriage. It seemed ready to pass in the Senate until less fascist Republicans told Chuck Schumer they lacked the Republican votes to pass it, prompting Schumer to cancel the vote until after the midterms.
     But in this, too, Republicans are just trying to avoid that other potential Third Rail- Gay marriage rights, especially after Clarence Thomas idiotically tipped the right wing's hand in his concurring opinion on Dobbs that the Nazis on the SCOTUS were then going to gun for your other rights.

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