Women's Issuesr/lgbt knows exactly who is responsible for losing Roe v Wade

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[–]JulienMayfair 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

With apologies to anyone in this demographic in this group, this week has been, "Are young people really this stupid?" week for me. People freaked out about "the rights of the unborn" have been trying to overturn Roe v. Wade since it was passed, and it really went into high gear during the 1980s. And then we have this weird system of nominating Supreme Court justices that relies on who happens to be POTUS at the time and who happens to die.

For example, looking back, as good as RBG was, she should have had the sense to retire in the 3rd year of Obama's second term rather than trying to run the clock out and dying at the most inopportune moment.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I believe RBG said she wanted to retire under Hillary Clinton so she tried to hang on for more time. The expectation was Clinton was going to win in 2008 but Obama won and was still a Democrat so she could have easily retired but the expectation was then that Clinton was going to win in 2016. The entire government and media dismissed Trump so much that they didn't even consider it possible that he could win.

Then Scalia died and it opened up the chance for democrats to permanently shift the court in a liberal direction. Democrats then sat back and refused to do anything over republicans doing a procedural block on the replacement because they all kept thinking Clinton was an automatic win.

RBG had this weird fetishistic following and they all thought it would be some amazing thing for RBG to retire under the first female president. Their annoying liberal obsession with tokenism actually ruined the outcome that they ultimately wanted.

[–]JulienMayfair 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Obama's failure to push harder to replace Scalia is one of those things about his character as POTUS that I don't understand. I know he wanted to be someone who played by the rules, but I think he could have been a LOT more aggressive in terms of finding some way to force the issue.

And Mitch McConnell . . . the embodiment of a sleazy player. He knows 100% what Trump is, but still wouldn't vote to impeach.

[–]GreykittymommaMagical lady 💜 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly this. Some fucking hero of women (both of them honestly)

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So true