Moonfall: A movie about an angry robot that can make a frappucino in 35 seconds, probably. Courtesy of Lionsgate

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1

Ken Starr did the first decent thing in his entire miserable life by dropping dead.

The Republinazis can shove Clintonā€™s cigar straight up his dead a$$.

2

Is the assumption here that if the fed does nothing to interest rates inflation will come down on its own? Or should we just live with 7-8% inflation on an ongoing basis? In either case lower wage workers are going to get screwed.

As for Starbucks, the history of industry has been once you can automate something and do it cheaper than using human labor than that becomes the preferred method. That is true both in capitalist and socialist countries. This of course was one of the downsides of the min wage debate that we pretend to ignore. There will be some winners who will get higher wages but there will also be those who are now unemployed. Most fast food restaurants have already deployed self serve kiosks and now Starbucks is following suit.

Honest question here as I haven't heard it raised just yet. Is there any limit on abortion that is acceptable to the Dems/Progressives? Most of the world has some limits around week 18-20 with exclusions for medical, criminal or economic issues. Roe allowed abortion up to the moment of birth. Is anything less than that considered an abortion ban? That is what it seems like it listening to the conversation around the issue.

3

@ 2,

If the Republinazis were passing laws that ended straight white menā€™s rights to control their own bodies, theyā€™d be aborted in under thirty seconds.

7

@4 and@5 yes and yes

8

Abort early and abort often. Slightest doubt? Cut it out.

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@6: Ditto @9. (But without the crass of @8).

Plus I take issue with the state taking away bodily autonomy period, female or male. So really, it isn't a difficult issue at all.

11

I see that most all the people commenting on abortion here are male. Shut the fuck up all y'all.

12

@4/5 thanks for the info. I find it frustrating the
Dems havenā€™t pushed forward a proposal on this considering 60% of the population supports abortions with some limitations. By doing nothing they allow nut jobs like Graham to drive the convo.

13

but whatabout
the Patriarchy
RB?

it yields
rather Reluctantly
and seldom sans Blood.

End Stockholm Syndrome:
free the Handmaids!

14

@6, youā€™re not on the ā€œside of life,ā€ youā€™re on the side of making life worse for women.

15

I don't think McConnell is lying in this instance. He's never been gung-ho on the culture war, being laser-focused on lowering taxes for the one percent and deregulating fossil fuels. Forcing swing-state Republicans into a politically damaging vote on abortion is not on his to-do list and probably never will be. (But that doesn't mean a national ban couldn't happen on his watch. A Senate majority willing to jettison the filibuster can do whatever it wants, whether the leadership is on board or not.)

16

We need a ban on RepubliKKKans. Men should NOT be making all the decisions on women's health issues--PERIOD! I would personally like to see forced castration on all RepubliKKKan men. May their punishment aptly fit their willful crimes against humanity. Mitch McConnell just turned 80 and has mismanaged as a U.S. Senator for 37 years too long. McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and their ilk need to be ousted, never to return ASAP.
And now the Orange Turd is proclaiming that it will pardon all insurrectionists who stormed D.C. on January 6, 2021 if re-elected a second term of global disaster in 2024!
When is this shit going to STOP?

17

@1 and @3 Original Andrew and @14 schmacky for the WIN!! The world needs more guys like you!

@6 oldwhitesupremacistpig: BULLSHIT! You are erring on the side of controlling women and sending half the population of the U.S. back 1, 000 years. We are not farm animals forced to give birth! Eat my shit and choke on it, you shameless misogynist turd.

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@6: ā€œā€¦ about 16 weeks, the human fetus looks like a human beingā€¦ā€

So do you, Iā€™m guessing, but that does not entitle you to an organ transplant from a teenaged gang-rape victim, even if sheā€™s your only match and you need it to survive.

@2, @12: Are you really that ignorant on the topic youā€™ve freely chosen to address, or are you lying to attack liberal Democrats? Because either way, you sound like CM Sawant and her crowd, albeit from the opposite direction. States could and did restrict abortion under Roe, and itā€™s unclear what you think the Democrats should or can do. The US federal system doesnā€™t allow Congress to wave a magic wand and restore Roe.

19

@1: Monica Lewinsky, who might be expected to express similar sentiments, is spectacularly gracious:

"as iā€™m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelingsā€¦ but of more importance, is that i imagine itā€™s a painful loss for those who love him."

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1569804404928258049?s=20&t=cPWuNnCn0QycEPJjzo9HPg

Wow

21

you'd think the Starbucks employees would welcome a little assistance for those time-consuming drinks.
you know how many tik toks there are of Starbucks employees bitching about how long it makes to make X drink? at least...several. several tik toks.

22

Moonfall came out over 6 months ago; it's not a new movie.

There was a patch of time where I would catch a ride home from work once a week with a guy whose car was missing a muffler. It was a bit embarrassing riding in that car due to the noise it made. He was try to drive only on small sidestreets so cops wouldn't notice him on the main roads. I still wonder if he ever got that car fixed.

23

@18 of course Congress can wave a magic wand and restore Roe, that's the whole point. Roe was never enshrined into law. It was a loose decision based on a right to privacy between doctor and a patient. Even RBG recognized this and warned Roe could easily be overturned due to the flimsy legal foundation upon which it was built (https://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade-abortion-scotus-1702948)

At any time in the last 50 years when the Dems controlled Congress and the presidency they could have passed legislation to enshrine Roe into law or some version of it. Even now they could put forth a proposal and put moderate Republicans on the defensive, much the same way moderate Dems are fighting back against the defund the police narrative, but for whatever reason have chosen not too. I'm not sure why you think that is Sawantesque.

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@23: Ok, you donā€™t understand what Roe did, you donā€™t understand how the US federal system of government works, and you throw out anti-choice propaganda, including that flat-out lie about what Roe meant. So thereā€™s no real reason to believe youā€™re arguing in good faith.

Hereā€™s a hint: voters in Washington state codified Roe at the state level, when we voted for I-120 in 1991. Why did we do that? Because if Roe ever fell, as it has, Washington stateā€™s laws would not change. Thatā€™s what needs to be done now, in every state, because Congress does not have the power to legislate in this matter. (Until every state is health-friendly, Congress can ensure any citizen of any misogynist state can travel freely to a health-friendly state for her medical procedure.)

29

@28 If congress does not have the power to reinstitute Roe or some version of it you might want to tell Patty Murray and the rest of the Dems because they are campaigning hard on that issue. I'd actually be interested to hear why you think the fed has no power in this matter and its solely a states rights issue.

30

@23: ā€œAt any time in the last 50 years when the Dems controlled Congress and the presidency they could have passed legislation to enshrine Roe into law or some version of it. [ā€¦] I'm not sure why you think that is Sawantesque.ā€

Because CM Sawant has aggressively pushed exactly that same lie:

ā€œI am bringing a resolution for a vote TODAY by City Council, urging Congressional Democrats to codify Roe v. Wade, in solidarity w/ thousands who'll protest this week.ā€
(https://mobile.twitter.com/cmkshama/status/1524098932929748992)

Congratulations, I guess: youā€™ve been pushing the same lie as CM Sawant.

@29: As you did not supply any quote or citation to support your claim that Senator Murray or any other Democrat at the federal level has campaigned on codifying Roe at the national level, Iā€™ll here just assume youā€™ve confused CM Sawantā€™s lie with actual truth.

ā€œ I'd actually be interested to hear why you think the fed has no power in this matter and its solely a states rights issue.ā€

Itā€™s not a stateā€™s rights issue, because states have no rights. Misogynistic states long defined abortion as murder. Murder and other intra-state, interpersonal crimes of assault have always fallen under the authority of the states. Thatā€™s been American jurisprudence for as long as the United States have existed. Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution defines the topics upon which Congress can legislate, and several Amendments give Congress other powers, but none of those allow it to define crimes such as murder.

31

@25 blip joins Original Andrew and schmacky for the WIN!!!

32

@31: Agreed, blip absolutely nailed it @25. Luckily, we have @23 and his bestie, CM Sawant, to remind us itā€™s really all the fault of the Democrats.

33

@32: No, it is NOT The fault of the Democrats! I suggest you read blip's spot on comment @25 again, and more thoroughly than just a yeah-whatever skim-through. Blip is aptly stating that Democrats shouldn't be making compromises with the RepubliKKKans. The GOP will only steamroller anyone who compromises. RepubliKKKans are heartless, self-serving, bullying criminal masterminds who will stop at nothing to get their way. They don't care about the cost. FFS, The Party of Orange Turd is willing to destroy the Earth to forever stay in power! It is THEIR fault that our country has lost its democracy and Constitutional rights.
Word up, tensy: anything Elmer and his trolling pal, District 13 post should be taken with a grain of salt or, better yet, a scroll down.

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@33: ā€œI suggest you read blip's spot on comment @25 again,ā€

I suggest you learn about a concept known as ā€˜sarcasm,ā€™ and also re-read my comment @30, wherein I repeatedly use the word ā€œlieā€ to describe exactly such blaming of Democrats.

Youā€™re welcome!


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