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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 03:37 PM Jun 2022

Burn It All Down. Wonkette

Burn It All Down.
Wonkette
By Robyn Pennacchia June 24, 2022 12:22

Roe was overturned this morning.

It feels so quiet. It's not that there's not any noise. I can hear birds and cars and other general noises, but somehow it's still just so fucking quiet. It's very hard to not feel hopeless and hard not to wish horrible things on those who made this happen, to wish that they personally get fucked by this ruling in a thousand ways they had not previously considered, all because they were so busy getting excited about getting to force people they don't even know to give birth against their will like chattel. I am giving myself five minutes to consider these vindictive fantasies before I slap myself and remember that these horrible things will be happening to other people and that as furious as I am, I actually don't want people I despise to be forced to give birth against their will.

We knew it was coming. Not just because of the leak, we've known it's been coming for years. We've been warning about it. Screaming it from the rooftops…This morning, people in the 13 states with "trigger laws" (to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade) were lined up outside of abortion clinics, waiting for their appointments, hoping to exercise their right (yes it is still a right) to control their reproductive futures, and the workers had to turn them away as soon as the ruling hit. The terror they must have felt is unimaginable.

The reason I am only giving myself five minutes of vindictiveness is because this means we have to work. We have to work to ensure those people in those lines are not forced to give birth. We have to work to get people out of these states. In the meantime, however — fuck Kavanaugh, fuck Barrett, fuck Alito, fuck Thomas, fuck Gorsuch, fuck Roberts, and especially fuck Susan Collins.

The assholes who wanted this have remained under the impression that the only people who are going to be affected by this are selfish bitches they don't know, who so rudely want more for themselves than a life of being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, who will be "cured" of this evil desire by being forced to give birth. They're going to find that they are very wrong…

More here
https://www.wonkette.com/burn-it-all-down

And let’s not forget Clarence Thomas is coming for all birth control too. Don’t say it can’t happen because we saw what happened today.

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Burn It All Down. Wonkette (Original Post) bronxiteforever Jun 2022 OP
we will defy scotus til the end.. samnsara Jun 2022 #1
Ty, Bronxite, for sharing youf wise perspective. SheltieLover Jun 2022 #2
Hey SheltieLover! Thanks Wonkette Spoke for me today. bronxiteforever Jun 2022 #5
I'm in. Scrivener7 Jun 2022 #3
Watch The Janes documentary on HBO. We can do it again, if we need to. BlueBloodedAmerican Jun 2022 #4
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2022 #6

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. Ty, Bronxite, for sharing youf wise perspective.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 03:50 PM
Jun 2022

I'm so angry!

Time to transmute the anger energy into ACTION! Writing post cards, texting, calling to get the vote out for Dems!



bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
5. Hey SheltieLover! Thanks Wonkette Spoke for me today.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 04:43 PM
Jun 2022

So angry but this gave me something else to focus on.
Have a peaceful weekend to recharge for the battle.

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