A year after promising viewers a āred tsunamiā in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.
Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the stateās constitution.
The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the stateās General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkinās hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.
Remember this when any future conservative (I donāt care what party flag theyāre flying) tries to claim they are about any policy. If they ever attempt to come up with a policy again.
Theyāve been getting vauger for decades intentionally.
Anti-abortion is going to become āchilds rightsā and theyāll swear theyād never dream of outlawing abortion until they think they can get away with it.
No, probably not. That too easily leads to things theyāre against, like funding health care and education.
The āVote NO on 1ā signs littering the chudsā yards in my neighborhood were subtitled with bullshit slogans like āprotect childrenā, āprotect parentsā rightsā and, most egregiously, āprotect them bothā (complete with an illustration of a pregnant woman who is ostensibly in danger of being forced at gunpoint into an abortion?). [edit to add] I just read this morning that there were people putting out rumors that the amendment would allow minors to get gender reassignment surgery without parental consent, when all anyone needs to do is read the goddamn ballot, publicly available, to see that there is nothing there at all saying that. Theyāre craven liars.
Nothing is off the table for these psychopaths; for fuckās sake, when they tried to block the measure from the ballot back in August, some of these jamokes had the gall to put up signs that said āprotect the 2nd amendmentāā¦ but idiots will lap it up.
āChildrenās Rightsā can absolutely be their next tactic, because as long as they act in bad faith and say all kinds of shit with zero meaning behind it, why the hell not?
Hunh. Genuine question: Is that a regional word, and if so what region?
Not regional as far as I know, I just picked it up a long time ago and recently reintroduced it into my vocabulary.
As if theyāre averse to hypocrisy and double-think.
Donāt disagree with your point, just want to note itās vaguer. The u is after the g to keep the g hard despite the e, and the e which is silent in vague is there to make the a long. Without the e it would be be vag, which ironically is pronounced with a soft g because of the i in vagina, even though itās been shortened.
When I was little, before kindygarten even, I would read books with my mom. One had the word āvagueā in it, and I would pronounce it āvagh-youā because I didnāt know yet how to pronounce it. My mom would correct me, but I thought she meant that I was mispronouncing the vowel in the first syllable, and weād go back and forth until I melted down because I was 4. It wasnāt until later on when I was actually in school that I got it because she never explained the concept of silent letters. Almost 40 years later, Iām still miffed about that.
Mark my words - if the GOP manages to gain a 2/3 majority in the house and Senate through any form of shenanigans they will pass an amendment to relegalize slavery.